‘Facebook Dead’: How Anybody Can ‘Kill’ Their Friends
Rusty Foster discovered he was dead last week, at least according to Facebook. He had been locked out of his account, which had been turned into a “memorial page,” because someone had reported the Maine man as deceased to the social media site. He tweeted… Read More »
Email
Video: Superman Soars Over Calif. Beach
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Superman! A life-size, radio-controlled model of the caped crusader was spotted flying over a beach in Carlsbad, Calif., last week. Footage of Superman soaring over the water has since gone viral after a stunned onlooker took cell phone… Read More »
Polaroid’s Fotobars Turn Digital Images Into Physical Art
Tired of storing all those edited photos on your Smartphone? What to share your favorite photo on your friend’s physical wall versus just their Facebook wall? Polaroid is offering a solution in Fotobars–the photo giant’s latest venture to make the photo-sharing process easier and more accessible. “The… Read More »
Bringing Sunlight to Light an Underground Garden
Imagine an inviting green park with tall, shady trees and wide swaths of grassy lawn where you can hear live music or see theater or simply sit quietly soaking up the noonday sun. Now, imagine that all underground in an old disused parking garage …… Read More »
Frost Flowers Bloom Beautifully in Arctic Ocean
In just a few hours, Jeff Bowman, a doctoral candidate at the University of Washington, watched the Arctic Ocean transform from heavy ice to a meadow of frost flowers. “It was amazing,” said Bowman, who witnessed the bloom during an expedition in 2009. “I had… Read More »
Golden Eagle Snatches Baby, Students Claim Credit for Viral Video
The viral debate over whether a YouTube video showing an eagle swooping down and picking up a baby was real or fake ended today when a group of students claimed credit for the digital mastery. Four students in the 3D animation and digital design program… Read More »
Not Happening: NASA Debunks Mayan Doomsday Prophecy
We’ll never know if they were wrong. NASA has quietly published a web video explaining why the world did not come to an end “yesterday,” Dec. 21, 2012. The date of its release, December 11, was no mistake, even if doomsayers would likely call it… Read More »
Discovery to Air First Video of Giant Squid
On Jan. 27, the world will finally see footage of an animal that’s captured people’s imaginations for centuries, but which has been seen alive only once, and never previously captured on film – the giant squid. The Discovery Channel, along with Japanese partner NHK, will… Read More »
Texas Students Get Asteroid Named for Their School
Madisonville, Texas, is not big sky country. Mushrooms are a major crop in the surrounding countryside, 90 miles up Interstate 45 from Houston. At Madisonville High School, a fair number of students are from low-income families and qualify for subsidized lunches. But Madisonville is a… Read More »
‘Black Marble’: Earth at Night
Earth-watching scientists over at NASA today rolled out what they call the “Black Marble,” a series of new images and video featuring Earth as seen from space at night. The images come from a new sensor on board the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite (NPP)… Read More »
RSS
Twitter
Facebook