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Giz Explains: How Earthquake And Tsunami Warning Systems Work Yesterday was February 29, that weird occasion that only comes round once every four years and has deprived poor folks like Ja Rule of so many official birthdays. You probably know that its existence is something to do with the Earth orbiting the sun, but why exactly do we have leap years? And isn’t there a better solution?
For me, dry cleaning has always belonged in a category of miracles, along with colour-safe bleach, dry shampoo and acupuncture. They seem to work, but is it only because we’d like to believe they do? So we decided to take a look past the counter and 1980s-style decals to figure out, what is dry cleaning, anyway?
The shocking news of the day — Nokia is making a phone with a 41MP camera — is shocking for all the wrong reasons. It may shoot higher-res than most DSLRs, but that won’t help you at all. Why? After a certain point, megapixels don’t matter.
Anonymous is on a destruction spree lately — after Megaupload was killed, their reaction was swift and powerful. They made it look easy — and that’s because thanks to the HOIC (High Orbit Ion Cannon), it is. Here’s the newest hacker superweapon.
The only person you can rely on to keep your password secure is yourself. And let me tell you, you’re probably not doing enough to keep number one safe. The reason: your special lump of letters, numbers and symbols are likely spread over too many sites, not long enough and probably too personal. Most of our passwords suck. And it’s kind of a big problem.
CES was more than just a Grand Canyon filled with eye candy — the sci-fi-beautiful TVs we saw are real, and you’re gonna want them. But OLED? 8k? Crystal Display? What’s all this mean? We’ll explain the pretty new things.
With all the exuberant resolutions and New Year’s exercising, there’s going to be a lot of sweat — or sweating it — this month. The anxiety got us wondering, why do we sweat? Is it different in smell and texture depending on the cause? Does it sometimes maybe even smell good?
Look, we know the world is confusing, so we try to help you understand the science behind the craziness a little better. Whether it’s how all your new iPhone features work, or the truly pressing questions like how exactly ScarJo’s phone got hacked. We got you covered
You have some sense of what the wires going to and from your computer do. Some bring power; others transmit information from one device to another. But some of these cables look a bit…off.
