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Every Statistic About How We View Porn In Australia [NSFW]
Here’s a quite comprehensive addition to our collection of statisticsabout how Australians consume their porn — including which devices we prefer. (No, not those sort of devices.)
A Cargo Of Birds Weighs Nothing When They Take Flight, And Then Double
If you’re driving a truck full of birds, can you bang the truck and lighten your load as the birds launch into the air? Mythbusters concluded “no” when they tackled this question several years ago — but that’s because they didn’t have equipment as high-tech as these Stanford engineers’. The real answer, it appears, is a bit more complicated.
All The World's Cows On Treadmills Could Power 6% Of Earth
When roaming open pastures, cattle can walk up to eight hours a day while grazing but they can’t always get as much exercise when confined to a barnyard. One enterprising farmer, however, has invented an ingenious means of getting his herd moving — and generate a bit of free electricity on the side.
Decay And Demolition Inside A Dying Cement Factory
The first cement factory in Hungary has reached its sorry end. The monstrous industrial complex of Lábatlan was established by Balázs Konkoly-Thege on the right bank of river Danube in 1868, and in the very beginning, Roman cement was made here in a wood-fuelled 16 chamber furnace. Today, the factory is a lovely ruin — which I visited to document before it’s demolished.
Will Windows 10 Be The New OS For Gamers? Microsoft Thinks So
Phil Spencer, Microsoft’s head of Xbox, is confident Windows 10 will be the platform for PC gamers when it hits later this year. And it has to be, given the mess that Vista was (despite the inclusion of DirectX 10) and the unpalatable, though improved, experience of Windows 8 / 8.1.
Thousands Of Fish To Be Freed From Abandoned Shopping Centre Fish Hell
Last year, we learned about Bangkok’s New World Mall, among the most dystopian places on the planet. It’s a shopping centre in the middle of one of the world’s more tumultuous cities that was abandoned nearly 20 years ago. After a roof collapse, the mall flooded, and a population of fish thrived in newly formed ponds. Now, those fish are finally being set free.
What Blackhat Gets Right: A Chat With Former Hacker Kevin Poulsen
Back in Kevin Poulsen’s hacker days, before he became writer and Wired editor, he pulled stunts like taking over the phone lines in a radio contest to win himself a Porsche, or breaking into the FBI’s computer system when he ended up on the agency’s Most Wanted list to change his physical description. He served a five-year sentence for his crimes. Now he’s consulting for Hollywood hacker films.
CASA Reinforces Drone Rules After Amateur Nearly Hits Police Officer
I personally haven’t seen any amateur drone operators doing their thing over the holidays, but given the affordability and availability of quadcopters, it’s likely many, many people received one for Christmas and have wasted little time terrorising the rest of us. Or in the case of one Melbourne man, stacking his drone in the middle of a police operation and narrowly avoiding a police officer. Some angry cops and a $850 fine later and CASA is once again trying to get the word out.
What Was Your First Avatar?
When I joined Friendster in 2003, I uploaded my first avatar. It was Chuck Close’s undeniably gritty and terrific “Big Self-Portrait” from the 1960s, dangling cigarette and all. When I joined Facebook a year later, I used the same one. Friends I hadn’t seen for ages thought my life had taken a turn.
This Is SpaceX's Rocket Crash-Landing On A Barge
Last week, SpaceX tried to land its Falcon 9 rocket on a drone bargeand failed. Now, Elon Musk has posted footage of the crash landing on Twitter. It isn’t pretty.
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