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After Hours: Apps To Never Lose Your Friends On A Night Out

Where the heck is that bar you’re supposed to be at? And what about that restaurant everyone’s gathering near? Make sure you never get lost again on a night out with these awesome apps.

Computing

Intel Says Haswell Will Extend Laptop Battery Life By 50%

Intel has just made one very, very big claim: it reckons that its new Haswell chip will boost the battery life of laptops by a staggering 50 per cent.

Science

It Sure Looks Beautiful Inside The Ring Nebula

The Ring Nebula is a common image in astronomy, but new images from Hubble reveal something rather strange inside the cloud of swirling gas. These new images, captured by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3, reveal that the glowing gas shroud is actually a rather different shape to what’s previously been observed.

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This Chair Is Also A Table

This is a clever little concept design by New York-based Jaklitsch/Gardner Architects: a perfectly normal chair with a tiny little table top, that turns a functional piece of furniture into something rather more sociable.

Science

Why The Googolplex Number Is Insanely Difficult To Visualise, In Song

You might know that a googol — the digit 1 followed by 100 zeroes — is a very large number indeed. You might even know that a googolplex — a 1 followed by a googol of zeros — is an even bigger number. But this video helps explain why it’s such an insane concept to get your head round.

Online

Google’s New Trend Visualiser Is A Truly Beautiful Thing

Google has been logging data about hot trends ever since you started tip-tapping search terms into its front page, but now it’s gone and made it look damn pretty with it. The new full-screen visualisation shows off the data that’s been available as a staid list for a long time, but in glorious technicolor.

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Why The HTC One Lacks A Micro SD Slot

According to technical reasons we are not clever enough to be able to argue with, the version of the HTC One sold in Australia and the US lacks an SD card slot due to internal space restrictions. Because of something to do with our mobile radio frequencies. That’s what HTC says, and we’re powerless to argue.

Computing

This Is HP’s Take On The Retina Display MacBook Pro

HP has just announced a big overhaul of its Envy and Pavilion ranges. Most of the updates are fairly uninspiring — apart from the company’s take on Apple’s Retina MacBook Pro.

Online

Kim Dotcom Claims He Invented Two-Factor Authentication

Yesterday, Twitter finally implemented two-factor authentication. It was enough to prompt Kim Dotcom to claim that he invented the security technique.

Science

How A 3D Printer Helped A Child Breathe Again

When Kaiba Gionfriddo was born, his parents never expected to have to look on, helpless, as his windpipe collapsed daily and stopped him from breathing. They were desperate — so when a team of researchers suggested that a 3D printer could help, they leapt at the chance.

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This Train Map Is Not An Image, Just Pure Code

This version of London’s iconic tube map looks just like the official PDF of the transport network. In fact, it is created entirely from HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

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