Science & Enviroment

NASA places 100-megapixel image of Moon
22:30 2017-11-13

Most of us spend a good portion of our lives thinking you can only get a good look at the moon through a high-powered telescope, but technology continues to prove us wrong, as NASA places stunning images from its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter for the public to view and process. Orbiting Earth’s moon since 2009, there’s …

5 cool Google Chrome hacks that you didn’t know existed
01:11 2017-11-13

If there is one thing that we cannot do without in the office, it is Google Chrome. One of the most used browser in the world, it’s simplicity and ease of operation play a key role in making it popular. However, did you know that Google Chrome offers more than just a browsing experience? Well, …

iPhone X: most expensive Apple phone is also easiest to break
22:03 2017-11-12

Apple’s most expensive smartphone, the £999 iPhone X, is also its most fragile, according to drop and tumble testing. Despite Apple’s claims of the iPhone X having “the most durable glass ever in a smartphone”, warranty provider and habitual drop-tester SquareTrade concluded after a series of 1.8-metre (6ft) drop and tumble tests that the top-end …

Why 7 of the 10 Most Valuable Companies in the World Have Engineer CEOs
21:04 2017-11-12

Conventional wisdom used to be that if you wanted to be a CEO, you should get a degree in finance. But times have changed – seven of the ten most valuable companies in the world are led by engineers. Not surprisingly, many of those companies are tech outfits in Silicon Valley: Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft and Amazon, Facebook and Tencent. Before …

Why Do We Get So Much Pleasure From Symmetry?
09:03 2017-11-11

The interior of the dome of the Capitol, the seat of the United States Congress, is a perfect example of symmetry. A pair of synchronized divers. The wings on a butterfly. The vaulted ceiling of a cathedral. These are some of the things that most people find visually very pleasing. But why? The answer has …