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A new air-to-ground missile developed by Norway successfully completed a flight test over Utah. The missile is designed to be carried internally by the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, preserving its stealthy profile for high-risk missions.The Joint Strike Missile (JSM) is a new long range anti-ship and anti-surface missile. Derived from Norwegian defense contractor Kongsberg’s Naval Strike Missile, JSM is capable of being carried in the internal weapons bays of the F-35 fighter....

Media Platforms Design TeamAs far as free Slurpees go, 7/11’s free Slurpee cup offers top-tier specs when it comes to free Slurpees—friendly to the environment, made with durable paper material, easy snap-on lid—but does it beat out the competition?Yes, it does, as it is the only cup offering a free Slurpee today. From 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. anyone and everyone can get a free Slurpee at a participating 7/11 near you....

Media Platforms Design TeamView full post on YoutubeIf you’ve watched the heart-pounding trailer for Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity, out today, then there’s no spoiling the film’s essential plot line: Astronauts Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) and Matt Kowalski (George Clooney) fight to stabilize and survive in orbit after a barrage of space junk rips apart their spacecraft and all weightless hell breaks loose. The story is sparse, elegant, and simple—it’s a disaster movie in the void....

Philip FriedmanI noticed my friend beaming a video from his phone to another friend’s phone, but neither device was connected to a wireless router. How is this possible?Your friends are probably using Wi-Fi Direct, a relatively new standard from the Wi-Fi Alliance that allows you to share contentincluding big files such as movieswithout an Internet connection. Unlike conventional Wi-Fi, which is primarily used for getting online, Wi-Fi Direct is intended for sharing media across platforms and doesn’t require routers or access points....

In the wee hours of Wednesday morning, a host of prominent Twitter accounts were compromised and, as a result, began spouting swastika-laden propaganda in support of Turkey’s president Recep Erdoğan ahead of a referendum next month which could consolidate his power. So yeah: Now’s a good time to check your own accounts and make sure you close the backdoor that let this happen to other people. These professional and verified accounts, including Duke University, Forbes, and Amnesty Inernational, were likely protected by pretty robust security measures such as two-factor authentication and strong passwords....

A new study proposes that aging may impact the genome of dogs and humans in similar ways.Researchers analyzed the genomes of 104 labrador retrievers between the ages of 4 weeks and 16 years old.Break out your graphing calculator: The team also came up with a new formula to calculate a dog’s age.Scientists have gained new insight into the epigenetic clock that controls how dogs age and have devised a new formula to pinpoint exactly how old that good boy or girl in your life is....

I have a fireplace, a cord of split, seasoned wood, and a cold family. So I make a lot of fires. There are many resources for building fires that promise successful fire-building. Many. So, so many. I urge you to review them. There’s the lean-to method. The teepee method. The pyramid method. The top-down method.But, for me, nothing about a fire is ever consistent—not the tinder or kindling or logs. So, I always adapt the methods....

In honor of the 50th anniversary of NASA’s historic Apollo 11 mission to the Moon, the Agency has refurbished the historic mission control center at Johnson Space Center in Houston, where engineers guided astronauts to their one small step.“Apollo captured the world’s attention and demonstrated the power of America’s vision and technology, which has inspired generations of great achievements in space exploration, and scientific discovery,” said Johnson’s Director Mark Geyer in a press statement....

Welcome back to the island of knights and knaves. Here, there are only two types of people: knights, who always tell the truth; and knaves, who always lie. However, these knights and knaves are of a unique clan, and they do not speak English. They can understand English perfectly well, but they will only respond to questions with either “ja” or “da.” These words mean “no” and “yes,” but which is which, you’d just have to guess....

LAS VEGAS, January 6 – Sony’s been selling OLED TVs for awhile–just not the US. In fact, despite their massive price tag and puny screen size, Sony quickly sold out their entire Japanese stock. Maybe that’s what motivated them to give the product a shot over here. The XEL-1, the first OLED TV to hit America, goes on sale today. Even though it measures just 11-inches diagonally and costs a massive $2,500 (or about as much as a 50-plus-inch plasma), it is notable for what it represents: a future of extremely slim and extremely good-looking TVs....

Tomorrow, December 12, SpaceX plans to launch a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Dragon spacecraft for a resupply mission to the International Space Station. Blue Origin recently filed a Notice to Airman (NOTAM) with the FAA to clear airspace around its launch facility in West Texas this week “to provide a safe environment for rocket launch and recovery.” And Rocket Lab is in the middle of a week-long launch window for the second flight of its Electron rocket, with the next launch opportunity on Tuesday December 12 at 2:30 p....

The grass is always greener for a Super Bowl. The NFL makes sure of that.Every year, the NFL grows multiple fields at an offsite location for the Super Bowl, preparing sod specifically for the big game, and even the practice fields. It all starts nearly two years out, meaning that the grass for Sunday’s Super Bowl LIV at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, home of the NFL’s Miami Dolphins, has been under preparation for some time—and the grass for next year’s big event in Tampa, as well as the 2022 edition in Inglewood, California, is well on its way....

(Image: The U.S. Air Force’s X-37B unmanned spaceplane that orbits for hundreds of days at a time on classified missions.)Congressional leaders reconciling the differences between the House and Senate versions of the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) have omitted the Space Corps provision that would require the Defense Department to create a new military branch, according to a report provided to CNN and other media outlets. The provision, introduced by the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) and approved in the House version of the NDAA in July, was never part of the Senate’s version of the bill....

View full post on VimeoWaiting for your turn during a two-player session of Super Mario Bros. is excruciating enough, but that lag has nothing on this.Slow Games, a project by Ishac Bertran of Google Creative Lab, is a homemade take on mind-numbingly slow gameplay. His prototype, housed in an elegant wooden box with a simple 8 by 8 LED grid, demands one move per day—and no more. Note that it takes time-lapse videography just to get through a fraction of a game of Tetris....

If you’ve ever wondered about the exact mechanical workings that help deliver a Nerf dart from the barrel of a gun and into your friend’s surprised face, these new guns from a line called Doomlands will be perfect for you. The fiction behind the new line of Nerf guns is something some sort of wild-west post apocalypse that occurred a hundred years ago after an asteroid impact, but the important part is how one of the line’s defining characteristics will apparently be these transparent sections....

Media Platforms Design TeamUp in the Air (2009)Media Platforms Design TeamJason Reitman’s Up in the Air was one of last year’s most critically acclaimed films and garnered a total of six Academy Award nominations. Based on author Walter Kirn’s darkly comic novel of the same name released in 2001, Reitman adapted it to better reflect today’s economic downturn. Since the film centers around corporate downsizing, Reitman made the decision to include on camera testimonials from real people who had been let go....

The USS Lyndon Johnson, the third and final Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyer, floated out of its dry dock over the weekend. Meanwhile, the second of the class, USS Michael Monsoor, arrived at its future home port of San Diego, California. While the launching of the Johnson completes the construction of the controversial destroyers, the program—which was cut by more than 90 percent, and still lacks ammunition for the six advanced gun systems—remains deeply troubled....

When crows encounter dead crows, sometimes, they make alarm calls or gather other birds to the scene, holding a “funeral” for the dead. Other times, they have sex with the corpse. Kaeli Swift, a PhD. candidate at the University of Washington discovered crow necrophilia by accident, and decided to study why.According to The Atlantic, Swift got dozens of crow bodies from Seattle’s natural history museum, and recruited a friend to taxidermy the birds....

Media Platforms Design TeamRemember those glorious childhood days of summer spent blasting Star Destroyers? At long last, now you experience some of the magic once again.Thanks to a new partnership with Disney, Good Old Games will be re-releasing downloadable versions of Star Wars X-Wing and Tie Fighter. They cost $10 a pop, but it’s a small price to pay to revisit that CD-ROM nostalgia.Media Platforms Design TeamThe news was leaked on a gaming community forum post that has since been taken down, but was dutifully preserved by user Sir_Crocodile....

Michelin TweelUltimate Run-FlatMedia Platforms Design TeamFour years after its public unveiling, development continues on Michelin’s airless tire, the Tweel. During a recent conversation with one of the inventors, Bart Thompson, we learned that the Tweel will first be available for skid steers, ATVs and low-speed Third World cars like the Tata Nano in as little as 24 months. According to Thompson, “It’s the bottom-of-the-market-type applications, where historically disruptive technologies have transformed industries....