Seagate plans to push new magnetic hard drive technologies to market in the next 5-7 years, culminating with magnetic drives capable of storing as much as 100TB of data. That would be a marked improvement from the present day — current top-end spinning drives hold 14TB, and capacities haven’t grown …
Read More »High-Tech Vision Care: Is It Time to Upgrade Your Glasses or Contacts?
It’s an unfortunate fact that a large percentage of people have some sort of trouble with their vision. Even if you don’t at the moment, every human eventually has enough trouble focusing both near and far that they’ll need glasses for one or the other as they age. Our pupils …
Read More »Fluidity Promises a Better Way to Fly Your Drone
Unless you’ve spent a big chunk of your youth playing video games, or perhaps flying R/C planes, the two joysticks of a game-like controller aren’t the most intuitive way to fly a drone. I got an interesting demo of the Shift controller at CES in 2016 that looked promising, …
Read More »Amazon May Split HQ2: One in Virginia, One Maybe in New York
Amazon’s search for a second headquarters, far from Seattle, took a surprise twist over the weekend: That second HQ might actually be two headquarters, not one. One would most likely be in Crystal City section of Arlington, VA (main photo), just across the Potomac River from Washington. The other site …
Read More »Scientists Are About to Redefine the Kilogram
The kilogram is one of the most important and widely used units of measure in the world — unless you live in the US. For everyone else, having an accurate reading on what a kilogram is can be vitally important in fields like manufacturing, engineering, and transportation. Of course, a …
Read More »Harvard Researchers: ‘Oumuamua Could Be an Alien Probe After All
Our first confirmed interstellar visitor was a tough nut to crack. Scientists puzzled over ‘Oumuamua when it appeared in the sky last year. The classification flipped back and forth a few times before eventually landing on “comet,” but it’s a weird comet. Now, researchers from the Harvard Smithsonian Center for …
Read More »Healthy Homemade Graham Crackers
I made whole wheat graham crackers and then I made gluten-free graham crackers, so it was finally time to make vegan and gluten free graham crackers! I based this recipe off the gluten-free version but made a few substitutions to make it vegan as well. To my surprise, they were just as sturdy as the …
Read More »Healthy Homemade Nutter Butters
Just as delicious as the store-bought kinds but made without the corn syrup and trans fats, these healthy Homemade Nutter Butters will blow your mind! This DIY recipe is sugar free, high protein, gluten free, dairy free, and vegan too. To celebrate such a baking feat, I am posting the …
Read More »Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough
This delicious and secretly HEALTHY Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough is safe to eat raw! No eggs, no butter, no white flour, and no white sugar. Plus, it’s high protein, high fiber, gluten free, vegan, with no sugar added! I should start off my saying welcome and I’m glad you’re here! …
Read More »Birthplace of Cacao Identified in Amazon Region
An international team of scientists has found that the upper Amazon region gave birth to the domesticated Theobroma cacao, the plant from which chocolate is made. Zarrillo et al report the earliest evidence of cacao use in the Americas and the first archaeological example of its pre-Columbian use in South …
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