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Use your TV as a computer monitor: Everything you need to know. You’re not the first person who’s wondered what it would be like to have a giant desktop monitor.

Use your TV as a computer monitor: Everything you need to know

Think of all the multi-tasking and immersive gaming you could manage if you had a 50- or 60-inch monitor instead of a standard 24-inch monitor! But you’ve probably noticed that as monitors get bigger, they also tend to get prohibitively expensive. You’ve probably already got a big screen in your house, though—a TV. At the end of the day, isn’t an HDTV just a giant, living-room-oriented computer monitor? Not exactly. Wall-size, million-dollar MicroLED TVs point to the future of television. There's a new TV tech on the horizon, and it promises incredible picture quality and even more incredible sizes.

Wall-size, million-dollar MicroLED TVs point to the future of television

You can buy one right now if you've got deep pockets. Singularity Hub - News and Insights from Singularity University. Welcome to the Orion's Arm Universe Project. Mayflower 400: First Crewless Ship Run By AI To Sail Across The Atlantic. Cosmic Perspective (@cosmicperspective) Cosmic Perspective (@cosmicperspective) Launches Starship SN15 rocket and sticks the landing in high-altitude test flight. SpaceX's SN15 stuck the landing.

launches Starship SN15 rocket and sticks the landing in high-altitude test flight

The private spaceflight company's latest Starship prototype aced a high-altitude test flight today (May 5), checking every box from takeoff to touchdown for the first time. "We are down! The Starship has landed," John Insprucker, SpaceX's principal integration engineer, said during live commentary. Today's uncrewed test came on the 60th anniversary of the United States' first-ever crewed spaceflight, the suborbital jaunt of NASA astronaut Alan Shepard. - The Story of Terra Nova. This is the story of the star system known as Terra Nova.

- The Story of Terra Nova

The star system also known as Earth is located in the Milky Way Galaxy of the 7th Great Central Sun within the Cosmic Diamond Sun Body of Creation. Millions of years ago, as the gaseous formations of this planet began to give way to physical structure, it was decided that this star would be seeded to experience life as Pure Consciousness evolving from the lowest dimensions of Creation into full remembrance of itself/our-self as Source. That the planet and the souls incarnated here throughout it’s evolution would eventually complete the full ascension and construction/resurrection of the Diamond Sun Architecture originally seeded at the origins of this planet to become a fully embodied Diamond Sun of God.

Traveling through Cosmic stargates as rays of Light, we came to this planet to seed the original Diamond Sun Architecture that is the foundation or Cosmic blueprint of all of Creation. Milky Way, 12 years, 1250 hours of exposures and 125 x 22 degrees of sky. Milky Way, 12 years, 1250 hours of exposures and 125 x 22 degrees of sky THIS IS A PERMANENT POST, NEW POSTS ARE AFTER THIS POST You can buy prints by using the contact form at right It took nearly twelve years to collect enough data for this high resolution gigapixel class mosaic image of the Milky Way.

Milky Way, 12 years, 1250 hours of exposures and 125 x 22 degrees of sky

Total exposure time used is around 1250 hours between 2009 and 2021. " I can hear music in this composition, from the high sounds of sparcs and bubbles at left all the way to a deep and massive sounds at right. " The final photo is about 100 000 pixels wide, it has 234 individual mosaic panels stitched together and 1,7 gigapixels. E. E. Smith. Biography[edit] Family and education[edit] Smith worked primarily as a manual laborer until he injured his wrist, at the age of 19, while escaping from a fire.

E. E. Smith

He attended the University of Idaho. Relativity Space. Ship and Museum Tours in Downtown Baton Rouge. The New Ocean Explorers. On January 19, 2019, an unmanned surface vehicle going by the name SD 1020 left Bluff, New Zealand, heavily tasked.

The New Ocean Explorers

SD 1020 had to cover 22,000 kilometers (11,879 nautical miles) around the Antarctic (Southern) Ocean, ​where colossal waves occasionally soar to nearly 24 meters, gusting winds exceed 65 knots, and titanium icebergs emerge out of nowhere, as the neophyte ocean envelops Antarctica like the iciest blanket ever—the Earth’s coldest, most remote, and most hostile water mass. (160) Anton Petrov. (160) The BIGGEST Galaxy in the Universe - IC 1101 - Space Engine. (160) LOST IN SPACE 2 - Finding Earth Visually - NO TOOLS! - Space Engine - Challenge Extreme.

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Space Habitat. A.I., Superintelligence & Singularity. Ted Talks. (151) LOST IN SPACE 2 - Finding Earth Visually - NO TOOLS! - Space Engine - Challenge Extreme. (151) Anton Petrov. Show Blog. A Floating Artificial Reef Would Let You Walk Down Into the Ocean Deep. JetSurf. Memory Alpha. Multiple realities(covers information from several alternate timelines) "They say gossip travels faster than warp speed.

Memory Alpha

" Warp factor was the primary means of measuring speeds attained using warp drive. The term was often shortened to warp when followed by its value, so that saying "warp six" was the same as saying "warp factor six. " An alternative term time-warp factor was also used. (TOS: "The Cage") Light speed travel began at warp one, whereas lower fractional values sometimes measured sublight speeds or sublight factors.

By the mid-24th century, warp ten became infinite velocity and thus unattainable by conventional means. Hypersonic Air Force One - How a Combined Cycle Engine Works. The U.S.

Hypersonic Air Force One - How a Combined Cycle Engine Works

Air Force is funding an aviation startup working on a combined cycle engine.Hermeus’s combined cycle engine can work like a regular turbofan or ramjet engine, reaching a speed of Mach 5. The Air Force thinks the best application for the engine, oddly enough, is a future Air Force One. Hermeus, a Georgia-based aviation startup, has announced a contract with the U.S. Air Force to develop its idea for a hypersonic aircraft engine.

HDMI 2.1: What you need to know. OK, let's get this done up front.

HDMI 2.1: What you need to know

Yes, there's a new cable with HDMI 2.1, but you don't need to upgrade. At least not yet. Learn to think. 3 On-Sale Espresso Machines For Anyone Who Misses Their Daily Latte. If you’re a cafe regular or have a daily latte habit, the past few months may have shaken up your caffeine routine a bit. And even if your favorite coffee shop is up and running, you may have decided that getting your own espresso machine is an idea worth considering. Of course, an espresso machine is a big investment — after all, these appliances don’t typically come cheap. Which is why it’s so exciting when they’re on sale. And, right now, upscale kitchen retailer Sur La Table has three different espresso makers on clearance.

Heavily marked down — one is more than $1,000 off — these machines offer something for everyone, from an espresso maker that uses specialized capsules to dispense your drink to a luxury one-touch machine that grinds beans fresh and froths milk directly into the same cup. Illy X1 Anniversary Espresso Machine. How to Eavesdrop With a Light Bulb. Wongsaphat Suknachon / EyeEmGetty Images At Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, researchers have discovered it's possible to recover full conversations or sounds just by observing a light bulb.

You can see the vibrations created when sound hits the surface of the bulb by looking at slight fluctuations in the bulb's light.They call the attack "lamphone," and it's outlined in a new paper the team plans to present at this summer's BlackHat USA security conference. Wavejet Powered Surfboard Technology. WaveJet is a revolutionary, one-of-a-kind Personal Water Propulsion system that will change the way you interact with water. The WaveJet System includes the board of your choice, a WaveJet Power Pod, a Blank Pod for non-powered use, a Seatooth®-enabled Wrist Controller and a Charging Station. Patents Attachment Ring Ring secures pod to the board for surfing in any conditions. Release Keyhole. Python. SputniksOrbit C.StuartHardwick Blog. Gallery: How networks help us understand the world. As designer Manuel Lima points out in his TED Talk, A visual history of human knowledge, the network has become a powerful way to visualize much of what is going on in the world around us.

“Networks really embody notions of decentralization, of interconnectedness, of interdependence,” says Lima. “This way of thinking is critical for us to solve many of the complex problems we are facing nowadays, from decoding the human brain to understanding the vast universe out there.” Here, Lima shares a few of his favorite network graphics.

The Strengths of Nations This image shows the connections between scientific disciplines such as astrophysics, math and biochemistry. Pascal's Triangle. Patterns Within the Triangle. Opentree. Quest for a Superbee. What are the weirdest science paradoxes that are mathematically true but counter-intuitive? Could any city in the world successfully defend against a U.S. air strike? Why are Silicon Valley companies located where they are? The Chevrolet FNR concept is impossible to describe — seriously, just look at it. If you currently have a username with "@" in it, please email support@voxmedia.com. Forgot password? We'll email you a reset link. If you signed up using a 3rd party account like Facebook or Twitter, please login with it instead.

Forgot username? We'll email it to you. Try another email? Those puppy-dog eyes trigger chemical connection with humans. BioDigitalPC 6. This is the FIRST and ONLY mass produced computer made in the United States. SteelSeries MERC Stealth Gaming Keyboard 64049. Make Cool Stuff: Concealing Your Secret Lair. Live Webcams - Free, public web cams found online. The Ultimate Guide to the Invisible Web. The complete list of all the text emoticons in the world : Cool Smileys. Hronoya: The Noosphere.