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Quadrocopter fleet stuns Londoners with giant hovering Star Trek logo (video)

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As reported on Engadget. By Jamie Rigg Before quadrocopters become Skynet’s roaming recon fleet, they’ll begrudginglyentertain us, and in a recent promotional enterprise, a swarm braved the London “spring” to remind us of the imminent launch of Star Trek: Into Darkness. Over the weekend, drone masters Ars Electronica Futurelab sent a party of 30 LED-tagged AscTec Hummingbirds halfway to Hoth, and used the relative darkness ofEarth Hour to set an approximately 300-foot high Star Trek logo twinkling over Tower Bridge. A video of the event can be found below, complete…

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Porn Site Breaks Down Searches By Country, Surprising No One

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As reported on TechCrunch. by JOHN BIGGS In what amounts to either a breathtaking breach of privacy or one of the most fascinating sex research artifacts of the year, PornMD(acceptably SFW as long as you don’t search), a porn search engine, has broken down porn searches by country and U.S. state. The system offers a fairly complete view into the fapping habits of people worldwide and suggests that while the people of Minnesota are into “college,” the…

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University of Michigan makes silicon from liquid metal, aims for low-cost chips Alt

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As reported on Engadget. by Jon Fingas Forming silicon normally requires extreme temperatures of more than 2,000F, with the expensive energy to match. The University of Michigan has developed a technique involving liquid metal that could shed most of the heat — and cost. By coating a liquid gallium electrode with silicon tetrachloride, researchers can generate pure silicon crystals through the gallium’s electrons at a comparatively cool 180F. While the crystals are currently small, bigger examples are at least…

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How a 40-Year-Old Skater Is Bringing the Punk Credo to Digital Music

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As reported on Wired. BY BRIAN RAFTERY Forty-year-old skater Ian Rogers has a message for the record labels: Get the fuck out of the way. Photo: Eric Ray Davidson It’s a cool, early spring night in Santa Monica, California, and Ian Rogers is sitting cross-legged on the floor of his house, a glass of red wine at his side, a Minor Threat record on the stereo. The lean-framed Rogers, a few months shy of 40, is dressed…

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Fringe Art Show Celebrates Finale With Fan Masterpieces

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As reported on Wired. BY HUGH HART   Paranoia Blooms in “White Tulips”   Inspiration: Professor Alistair Peck in Episode 218 experiments on his own body to convert himself into a time machine so he can travel back in time to see his fiancée. Artist: Anthony Petrie   Time Travel Stacks Up “The Plateau”   Inspiration: In Episode 303, a pedestrian gets run over by a bus, nearly duplicating events of another accident the day before. Olivia finds a…

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Why Hackers Are So Much Funnier Than You Are

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As reported on Wired. BY CADE METZ Bob Nystrom, the brain behind a new programming language known as Vigil. Photo: Bob Nystrom   Bob Nystrom is the author of the first programming language that automatically deletes your code if it doesn’t behave the way it’s supposed to. He calls his creation Vigil because it exhibits “supreme moral vigilance.” “When a Vigil program is executed, Vigil itself will monitor all oaths,” Nystrom writes in his description of the new…

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Hands-On With The Apex HD+ Goggles: Simple Video Streaming For Snowbunnies

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As reported on TechCrunch. by CHRIS VELAZCO Now I’m hardly what you’d call an athlete, but I’ve often been sucked into a sport because of some of the gadgets involved (don’t ask me how many fitness trackers I’ve bought since I started running). The recently released Apex HD+ goggles, which California-based Liquid Image was keen to show off here at CES Unveiled, is one of those gadgets — skiers and snowboarders can use them to record video on…

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