This picture holds 1.2 million galaxies

Something like 68% of the universe is made up of dark energy, a mysterious force thought to fuel the expansion of the universe. Another 27% is dark matter, which – as CERN explains – “does not absorb, reflect or emit light,” even though it seems to pull at the things in the universe we can…

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Leaked iPhone 7 Plus pictures show Smart Connector and no Mute switch

The industry-standard 3.5mm headphone jack may not be the only widely-used feature that is thought to be on the chopping block for the next iPhone. A new batch of high-resolution photographs that surfaced last evening appear to show off a larger 5.5-inch iPhone 7 Plus model that doesn’t seem to have the Mute switch on…

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Scientists genetically 3D printed a biohybrid being, lifelike robots

Like most disruption, it started with a simple idea. Kit Kevin Parker, PhD, a Harvard professor researching how to build a human heart, saw his daughter entranced by watching stingrays at the New England Aquarium in Boston. He wondered if he could engineer a muscle that could move in the same sinuous, undulating fashion. The…

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What Happens When A Black Hole Meets An Antimatter Black Hole

Destroying a black hole with rockets, shooting lasers at it, smashing planets into it, is not gonna work. Nothing like that would work, more interestingly whatever you throw at it will just make it bigger and angrier. So the only way to destroy a black hole is to sit back and wait for it to…

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Video: Star Wars Theme Played on Floppy Drives

The Star Wars Theme Played on Floppy Drives is Glorious In 2011, a university student in Poland named Paweł Zadrożniak hooked up two floppy disk drives and started making music. Five years later, he’s assembled a full symphony. In a video posted to his blog on Wednesday, Zadrożniak shows off what he calls the “Floppotron,”…

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New Leaked iPhone 7 Picture

We’re less than two months away from the iPhone 7’s public unveiling, and yet another image has surfaced online that purports to showcase Apple’s next-gen smartphone in all its (relatively unchanged) glory. Check it out below. The new 4.7-inch handset will look relatively similar to the iPhone 6 and 6s, but with a few modifications…

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Video: Real-Life Thor’s hammer

Electric engineer build’s Thor’s weapon, Mjolnir which can only be lifted by him A replica of Thor’s hammer Mjolnir build by an electric engineer using powerful electromagnets and a fingerprint scanner Only the ones who are worthy can hold and use Thor’s famous and legendary hammer Mjolnir in Marvel comics. For the ones who are…

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Apollo 11’s Source Code Is Available On Github RIGHTNOW

When programmers at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory set out to develop the flight software for the Apollo 11 space program in the mid-1960s, the necessary technology did not exist. They had to invent it. They came up with a new way to store computer programs, called “rope memory,” and created a special version of the…

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Someone Used a Drone to Catch Pokémon

Pokemon GO is a game that relies on its players going on long walks, meaning that some will eventually find any way to get around that system. Tumblr user Perchbird is one of those people. He posted a photo set that showed his phone running the app while mounted on a drone. The caption just…

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Hackers Hacked An Offline Laptop In Another Room Easily

In recent times, hackers are aggressively targeting the air-gapped machines, which are considered super-secure. These systems are disconnected from the internet so that a hacker is unable to deploy any attack remotely via internet or any network. researchers from Tel Aviv University and Technion have showcased a way (PDF) to squeeze data from such “safe” air-gapped machines….

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The war between Tesla and Fortune

A real-life drama unfolded in Silicon Valley on Wednesday night and the aftermath continues to spill out across the media on Thursday morning. In a war of words that could have far-reaching implications, Tesla and business news publication Fortune Magazine are at odds over a series of events that took place earlier this year. Fortune made…

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New Dangerous Mac malware affects OS X

Apple’s Mac systems have been exposed to a dangerous new piece of malware that allows attackers to take full control of OS X. The new malware, dubbed Backdoor.MAC.Eleanor by security researchers, provides attackers with a backdoor into OS X systems by embedding a script into a fake file converter application that’s found on many reputable…

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