This week we had some bad tidings : glaciers disappearing at a shameful charge per unit and reports that the FBI can spy on anyone ’s laptop television camera without the indicant light coming on . On the lustrous side , we also learned that someday you ’ll never have to worry about enclose a USB upside - down . So that evens out , right ?
Step Inside the U.S. Military’s Advanced Weapons R&D Mini-City
Picatinny Arsenal is study its own municipality by the New Jersey State government — which makes sensory faculty , give its 6,500 Akko belongings . The difference between it and a normal town is that , inside Picatinny , well-nigh 2,500 technologist and scientists process with ripe arm systems , military - grade 3D printer , and enough ammo for multiple branches of the U.S. military . Gizmodo got inside .
This Incredible Portrait of Morgan Freeman Was Painted on an iPad
Remember iPad art ? Like those New Yorker cover that look , well , basically just okay ? Or the hobby that David Hockney had for like ten seconds ? Well British artist Kyle Lambert ’s been practicing , and he ’s gotten good . Like , photorealism good .
The Last Days of the DSLR
The DSLR is everywhere . You see it around the necks of holidaymaker , against the faces of pro photographers . Since Canon introduce the Digital Rebel in 2003 , the DSLR has come to master picture taking outright . That ubiquitousness is about to come to an death so abrupt , you might not even have time to notice it .
Grand Canyon completely flooded by clouds in “once-in-a-lifetime” event
You ’re attend at the Grand Canyon completely flood by cloud , “ aonce in a lifetimeevent , ” according to park commando Erin Whittaker . It did n’t only take place once , she says , but two times in only three days .
FBI can secretly turn on laptop cameras without the indicator light
shuddery . Insane . Ridiculous . invading . amiss . The Washington Post report that the FBI has had the ability to secretly activate a figurer ’s camera “ without triggering the visible light that lets users know it is read ” for long time now . What in the Scheol is going on ? What kind of world do we live in ?
Those Mexican Cobalt-60 Thieves Will Die of Radiation Exposure
Those Mexican thieves that steal a truckload of cobalt-60 ? They ’re nearly indisputable to die , according to experts .
Revealed: Pentagon’s new superspy plane hiding in secret Area 51 hangar
This is the RQ-180 , the Pentagon ’s new tops - spy plane , which has been on the QT developed for years . Unlike Lockheed Martin ’s SR-72 Son of Blackbird , Aviation Week & Space Technology report that this stealth beast is already flying across the restricted air space over Area 51 .
Shocking before and after photos show the effects of climate change
This is the Muir Glacier in Alaska , shot in August , 1941 and August , 2004 . It ’s only one model in NASA ’s new Images of Change app . Seeing the unlikely effect of just a few ten of clime change in the following before and after photograph is a sad and sobering experience .
I want to dip everything in this magic hydrocoating water paint
Everything I own , everything I will purchase , every fiber of my body , everything in this world should be dipped into water supply paint . The hydrocoating process is popular in weapons and helmet but really deserves to be shmeared all over the world . We might have to get up with better designs but I never desire to use a paint brush to paint again .
There’s Going To Be a New, Reversible USB Plug
Holy mother of all thing long delinquent . After long time of subjecting us to fumbling and splay cables blindly behind equipment around the creation , the powers that ( US ) be have decided to make a Universal Serial Bus plug that is reversible .
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