I am in almost exactly the same position. The digitizer on my iphone 5 was broken, and I went ahead and upgraded the day the 6 came out. But I went and got the digitizer fixed the other day, in preparation for passing it along to somebody else, and just carrying it around that afternoon, I realized HOW MUCH NICER the…

Or you could make your tea in the cup and skip the pot, as most people do when they're making a single cuppa.

Vertical touchscreens are a crap interface in a car; this is an unbelievably bad idea. Buttons and knobs are eyes-free way of dealing with controlling interfaces, and we certainly don't want to be getting rid of them, unless it's for comprehensive and functional voice control.

Agreed. I watched at least the beginning of almost all their pilots on the last go-round and was really unimpressed. There is one very watchable Amazon show, although it didn't come out of the Amazon Pilots: Alpha House is pretty consistently funny, well written, and well acted. The showrunner is Gary Trudeau, of all…

Moreover, as I noted elsewhere here, 41 percent of people who start college drop out, so this tiny, not really statistically significant group of billionaires, is actually 1.78 times MORE LIKELY to FINISH college than your average american.

Shows how country I am, I guess, that I didn't even know that. Where I grew up hunting licenses and all that crap are pretty optional.

Here's a simple statistic that Bloomberg should have bothered to look up but didn't. 41 percent of people in the US who start studying at a four-year college don't complete their degree. So another, somewhat less sensationalist headline/hook/narrative would be that "Self-made American billionaires are 1.78 times MORE…

The real bait-and-switch were all of the GTAT executives who reportedly sold millions of dollars in their own stock while talking up the deal, after it was already clear that they were not going to be able to live up to their end. My prediction is that several GTAT executives are going to jail in the next couple of…

This is just moving the gun-barrel inside the bullet, effectively. Not sure what the purpose would be, if the ammo is not readily/universally available. Kind of an interesting concept though.

Yes, actually.

First hunting rifle for anybody should probably be a bolt action .22 LR with a telescopic sight mounted so you can use the iron sights for close range. .22 LR is not a 'serious' hunting rifle but it's the only thing to learn on; you can shoot wild turkeys, and even deer. If a beginner tries to learn on something that…

Meh, Slate has slid awfully far in the last couple of years. After Weisberg fired all of their best writers to save money a couple of years ago, it turned into a slightly higher-brow version of Buzzfeed anyway.

Actually it's a slight paraphrasing of an actual Ben Franklin quote, made in the context of the so-called "French and Indian War" before the revolution.

nope. water pressure is all height of the column. narrow just to save water.

Great if you live in a third world city where there are no building codes requiring fire escapes. (Are there Southern 'anti-regulation' cities where multistory buildings don't need fire escapes too?) Otherwise kind of useless.

My graduate school had tech like this in all the classrooms a few years back. It was hideously hideously awful. The delay for drawing stuff on the screen was like waiting for molasses to pour. When I had to do presentations or teach a class I would feel like ripping it all out of the wall and smashing it with a nice…

Lots of Canadian jihadis killing people over in North Africa though. That doesn't show up on this map, although it kind of suggests that we'll see more splashes on the top left of this map eventually.

Actually @hiddencash is even WORSE than the write-up here. It's a publicity scam by a REALLY shady real estate investor, a guy who has definitely skated the edge of defrauding people before.

Obviously not digging marks: they are caused by water flow from above the lip of the crater. Probably water from melted permafrost, possibly from the heat of the explosive event.

Excellent interview, with lots of good information. Sounds like a 10x10 meter room is big enough for an infinitely huge holodeck, if the environment subtly directs you to walk in circles. Also, these guys farm their holodeck out for researchers to do psychology research in virtual environments