September 7, 2010
Didn’t see 15,000 cinema fans in Bedouin attire surround camels and 1930s British Army officers in North London on Saturday? You probably weren’t at Secret Cinema.
Following an encapsulating and extravagant screening of Blade Runner back in June, the unconventional Secret Cinema project turned its attention to David Lean’s 1962 epic, Lawrence of...
Every so often, in cities across the world, a group of digital music professionals get together for a Hack Day, where they'll cobble together hardware, software, and anything else they can get their hands on into innovative musical mashups.
London's event took place last weekend, and it was an orgy of creativity, with more than 50 different hacks created, from the tiny to the enormous. Some were only online for the...
A recent study from the University of Toronto has offered the first long-term evidence to prove that pollination is indeed on a radical decline. Plus, the results show that climate change may be to blame for the steep pollination drop.
Since the end of the twentieth century, as widespread accounts of the declining bee population were reported, researchers and scientists have tried to...
NASA foresees a future for space flight where interstellar missions are undertaken by teams of smaller, cheaper spacecrafts, instead of one giant shuttle.
A recent patent application shows exactly how the agency plans to deal with failing spaceships that could put its team members at risk, or jeopardise the entire operation: self destruction.
An architect named Daniel Andersson has created a houseboat that's inspired by icebergs, sitting predominantly below the waves with only a roof deck exposed to the sun.
From the terrace, there's a staircase which spirals down to a submerged 60-square-metre lower living space, which contains a living room, a bathroom, kitchen, dining room and a bedroom. A central atrium offers light, and there are also...
When the super-Earth COROT-7b was discovered in 2009, it was heralded as the rockiest, most truly Earth-like exoplanet yet. But a new study suggests it’s more like a comet.
In a paper to be published in the journal Icarus, an international team of astronomers led by Alessandro Mura of the Italian Institute for Interplanetary Space Physics in Rome argue that, given the planet’s likely composition and...
The “adult services” listing on Craiglist was removed late Friday from its US-based sites and replaced with the word “censored”.
Craigslist did not announce the move and its blog was not updated as of Saturday morning. Craigslist did not immediately respond to e-mail and voice mail messages seeking comment. Adult services listings continue to be available outside the United States.
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September 6, 2010
Personalised radio service Last.fm has launched a new data visualistation called Listening Clock, which tracks how much music you listen to at different times of the day.
When you play a track through any service that Last.fm has its database hooked into (like Spotify, iTunes, Windows Media player and Last.fm itself), it logs it. The company calls this process "scrobbling" and die-hard Last.fm fans will know that...
Following the merger of UK mobile giants Orange and T-Mobile earlier this year, parent company Everything Everywhere has announced the first advantage for its newly-formed, gigantic customer base.
Starting 5 October, customers on board with either brand will be able to access the combined mobile network of both companies, which should provide broader and more reliable coverage...
Health Month is a game that's good for you. On the surface, it's a clever goal-tracking system that tests whether you keep promises that you make to yourself. But on deeper inspection, it's a psychological torture tool that demands that you to choose between having a pint with friends, or scoring points over them for avoiding drinking.
To start, you sign up and then pick a few rules for yourself. They could be as...