Month: July 2014

Bug “known for years” exposes mobile users’ accounts to hostile takeover.

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Why do chickens and turkeys have white meat and dark meat? And, like, gross, but .. do humans have the same thing? It’s all about our muscles: what they’re made of, and what they’re made for. Quick Questions has the answers! [SciShow]

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Stanford researchers have created a stable pure lithium anode. It’s a huge step towards a dramatic increase in battery capacity. We currently refer to rechargable batteries in portable devices as being “lithium ion” rather than simply lithium because today’s models only use lithium in the electrolyte and not the anode, which is usually silicon or […]

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An American-owned company that supplies meat to fast-food chains in China has pulled all its products made by a subsidiary. An expose revealed some of the products were mishandled and had expired.

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Business travel spending in China reached $225 billion last year, or 23% of the $1.1 trillion global total.

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It may not be a flying car, and it may not even be a Hoverboard. But we don’t care. A hoverbike is still incredibly awesome, and there’s now a chance to bring just such a device to the real world thanks to Kickstarter.

Designed by an Kiwi bloke in London named Chris Malloy and seen on these very pages three years ago in prototype form, the would-be hoverbike is a sort of combination between a motorcycle and a helicopter, relying on spinning rotors front and rear to generate lift. Past versions of the machine used two rotors, powered by a a 1,170cc boxer engine from BMW, but what you’re helping build is rather different entirely.

Since we last featured that Hoverbike prototype, Malloy has further refined the design, changing from two rotors to four, but it’s still far from being ready for production. That’s the bad news. The good news is that small-scale testing has proven this new design, and third-scale models, powered by electric motors and controlled remotely, are now ready for those with a bit of expendable income to get their grubby mitts on.

As much as we’d love to see a Kickstarter campaign for the fullsize Hoverbike, we think these radio-controlled, unmanned drones are pretty darn cool in their own right, and Malloy says this project will help fund the real thing in true human-scale. Check out the Kickstarter campaign here, and scroll down below for some video.

Continue reading Of course we’d like to Kickstart a hoverbike [w/video]

Of course we’d like to Kickstart a hoverbike [w/video] originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 26 Jul 2014 16:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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House gives in, passes the Senate version that unlocking activists preferred.

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