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Why your smartphone battery hates Twitter and Facebook
To paraphrase the saying about paranoia: just because you’re obsessed with battery life doesn’t mean that data-hungry apps aren’t out to drain you. In my case, I decided to put my foot down on the issue of having to charge my phone at 2 p.m. every, single, day. I looked into the services running on my Android phone (a Galaxy Nexus), and noticed that those using up the most memory, and probably demanding a data connection most often, were Facebo…
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We lost the knowledge of concrete for the better part of a millenium after the fall of the Roman Empire and we've only recently begun to understand how the rockets that sent astronauts to the moon worked less than 50 years ago.
http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/04/how-nasa-brought-the-monstrous-f-1-moon-rocket-back-to-life/
Secrets of ancient Roman concrete could make modern structures more durable, cut emissions
It’s no secret that the Romans were better at producing concrete than we are today. Modern concrete begins to deteriorate after 50 years or so of facing the elements, whereas structures engineered…
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I've been around the auto industry for close to three decades now including my time as an engineering co-op student. Like Angus MacKenzie I've seen a great many weird things happen. Very early in my career I even played an ever so small part in the abbreviated life cycle of M100 Lotus Elan that Angus writes about. Hopefully someday I'll have the opportunity to tell some of these stories.
Modern Times: Secret Business – Motor Trend Blog
Modern Times: Secret Business from Angus MacKenzie on January 9, 2013 at Motor Trend Blog. One of the advantages of having now clocked almost three decades as an auto writer is that the designers and engineers who were starting their careers the …
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Just a taste of what I deal with on a per-video basis~
Welcome to being a woman on the internet (especially if you make videos on YouTube). Guys get the same shit, too, but women get it way worse.
I'm not gonna enable comments, because I don't need people's sympathy — but I will say this:
Just be a decent human being. If you've ever considered posting something like this, don't. And if you see your friends pulling this shit, do not let them get away with it. Unfortunately, silence is often perceived as approval by people like this.
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