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Suppose that you want to as hard as possible, but it should be cheap and unobtrusive. Check out these 12 options. In the Netherlands, do we have the name Sleeper, acquired from the Americans. The British use an even better word: Q-car. That is as a result of the term ‘Q-Ships’. That comes out of…

Screengrab: Delta/YouTube When privacy finally dies, it will be, if nothing else, extremely convenient for travelers. This summer, Delta is launching a $600,000 face recognition pilot program, introducing four face-scanning machines at the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport. Called “biometric bag drop,” the machines “will be equipped to test facial recognition technology to match customers with…

Photo: AP Microsoft overhauled its fading corporate image nearly three years ago with that announcement of a its powerful new operating system, Windows 10. The most surprising facet of this rebranding effort was a promising augmented reality headset, HoloLens, shown off at a press conference in January 2015. When it debuted, HoloLens felt like it…

Image: Brian Fagan/Flickr Creative Commons The common ladybug is easily recognized by its signature red and black spotted shell. But when researchers at the University of Tokyo used a creative trick to make its carapace transparent, it revealed insect wing secrets that could impact development of robotics, satellite antennas, and microscopic medical instruments—perhaps even a…

This 110 million year old fossil of an armored nodosaur is now on display at a natural history museum in Alberta, Canada. Image Credit and Copyright: Robert Clark/National Geographic An arresting image of a “mummified” dinosaur went viral this weekend after National Geographic broke the story of the 110-million-year-old armored plant-eater, a newfound species of…

GIF Have you ever dreamed about impressing the people around your neighborhood with preachy Banksy-inspired graffiti? SketchAR is an augmented reality drawing app that uses a smartphone and its camera to let you trace images. And when used with a device that supports Google’s Project Tango technology, suddenly anyone can become a tagger who doesn’t…

President Trump with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Russian ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak. It’s unclear if Trump shared the highly classified information with them before or after this photo was taken. (Russian Foreign Ministry/ Flickr) This won’t come as a surprise, but Trump fucked up again. Last week, the day after the…

More molecules imaged by the researchers (Kawai et al) Water’s got some special properties you’ve surely heard about in high school chemistry. Most notably, it sticks to itself really well. It beads together, looks like this in space, and climbs up plants’ vascular systems, all thanks to hydrogen bonds. Now, scientists have figured out exactly…

Photo: Getty As President Trump continues to weigh a replacement for former FBI Director James Comey—whom Trump abruptly fired last week—the lawmakers who oversee the bureau’s authority are growing increasingly concerned that a White House sycophant might top the list. On Monday, Trump said that he was “moving rapidly” to replace Comey, and the Associates…

GIF GIF by Andrew Liszewski from Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man Tell No Tales (Disney) It’s been a dizzying few days for news about hackers demanding ransom. It’s hard to tell which events are connected. But according to multiple reports, hackers are threatening to leak a major film owned by Disney, and sources tell…