We Suck at Coming Up With Good Android Lock Patterns
We’re pretty terrible at coming up with good passwords, but if you thought we were better when it comes to Android lock patterns, you’d be wrong.
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We’re pretty terrible at coming up with good passwords, but if you thought we were better when it comes to Android lock patterns, you’d be wrong.
Beer never comes in plastic bottles because it affects the brew’s quality. But a major Japanese beer company has new plans to make a better beer bottle.
But researchers say that for most Middle Eastern cities, the clearer air is actually a symptom of conflict, not a sign of progress.
It sounds like Star Trek, and while we won’t be zapping humans across the universe anytime soon.
Why we aren’t seeing platoons of Iron Man-style super soldiers being deployed already?
In a nutshell, a large solar storm would cause all kinds of shit here on Earth. But there's more to these more-likely-than-we-humans-would-probably-care-to-imagine Sun-borne mega-events.
The team put together to make the lenses have just been spun off into their own Alphabet-owned company.
These ghostly little flecks of matter could hold the key to some of the deepest mysteries of the cosmos.
There are some very attractive ideas being shown off here.
Carbon nanofibres are difficult and expensive to make, but now a team of engineers says it figured out a way to make them by sucking CO2 from the atmosphere.
Never mind mobile phones, you should be more worried about that banana you're eating.
Warning: Do not try this at your local library.
But don't worry, it can't be used to control humans...yet.
Keeping Hawking talking.
Scientists might have the fuel of the future, but it could get smelly.
The sun’s harsh rays don’t just turn metal surfaces into frying pans, they can also accelerate deterioration and corrosion, and make it harder to keep structures cool. So researchers have created a new type of paint made of glass that reflects those rays away. See more >>
