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These Concept Notes Make Money So Beautiful
US currency does change from time to time, but the basic design — green/black background, a portrait on one side, and a pretty picture on the other — has stayed boring for decades. These concept designs for currency, though, are anything but boring.
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This Is How The Trinity Supercomputer Will Keep Its Cool
Dayshot: We love it when things are organised neatly. This tidy pile of warm-water cooling components is at the Strategic Computing Center of Los Alamos National Laboratory, where installation of an energy-saving cooling infrastructure to support the Trinity Platform is well underway.
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The Fastest Way To Solve A Rubik’s Cube Is To Set It On Fire
Video: We’ve cooled a bit on the once-beloved antics of a certain Red Hot Nickel Ball here at Gizmodo, but man, this one feels good. Everyone’s spent at least some time with the six-sided blight on the human nervous system known as the Rubik’s Cube, which means that everyone’s also spent some time throwing the…
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Stop Motion Video Makes Marbles Look Like They Have A Mind Of Their Own
Video: This music video directed by Christophe Thockler for Victoria+Jean’s song Firecracker reminds me a little bit of staring inside a kaleidoscope. Only if the inside of that kaleidoscope was filled with mini-drones in the shape of marbles that move around as if they were controlled by one hive mind. My imagination aside, it’s pretty…