something to see here

The world’s largest 4-sided screen was installed by a @UTK_COE alum! --> https://t.co/Yxi9CkIOk0 #BattleAtBristol pic.twitter.com/oIsZSB4V65

— UT Knoxville Alumni (@tennalum) September 8, 2016

save the turtles! next they are all going to be wanting designer shells

This tortoise lost her shell in a bushfire—but thanks to 3D printing, it was soon revived. pic.twitter.com/HieTtHcoGq

— National Geographic (@NatGeo) May 26, 2016

it's here!!!!!!11111

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Tennessee is planning to play football with Virgina Tech at Bristol Motor Speedway in 2016

this shows what Neyland Stadium would look like inside the Bristol Motor Speedway. I still can't believe that many people go watch cars drive in circles. twerk.

a dress that came out of a 3D printer

Dita Von Teese (of course) debuted the first ever wholly 3D printed gown at the Ace Hotel on Monday, designed by Michael Schmidt. Looks like a Zaha project.

  The dress is made of powdered nylon, a flexible, fabric-like substance that's most often used for architectural modeling (and -- who knew? -- is comfy enough to wear). The dress was then polished and lacquered black and covered with 12,000 black Swarovski crystals.

nytimes gossip about japanese people

Hey Liz, is it true that Japanese people are obsessed with fax machines?

nerd alert

This is such a bad ass idea! 36 cameras in a foam ball that takes spherical panaramic images that are standard so that it sticthes it on it's own. via

moms, right ;)

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congratulations, watson!

that robot schooled ken and brad. this article has a lot of extra watson info, including some possible real-life applications of the language-recognition technology developed during his creation.

“I had a great time and I would do it again in a heartbeat,” said Mr. Jennings. “It’s not about the results; this is about being part of the future.” 

For I.B.M., the future will happen very quickly, company executives said. On Thursday it plans to announce that it will collaborate with Columbia University and the University of Maryland to create a physician’s assistant service that will allow doctors to query a cybernetic assistant. The company also plans to work with Nuance Communications Inc. to add voice recognition to the physician’s assistant, possibly making the service available in as little as 18 months.

“I have been in medical education for 40 years and we’re still a very memory-based curriculum,” said Dr. Herbert Chase, a professor of clinical medicine at Columbia University who is working with I.B.M. on the physician’s assistant. “The power of Watson- like tools will cause us to reconsider what it is we want students to do.” (via)

omf what an idiot.

check out watson. he's such a dummy.

should you buy verizon's iphone?

by most accounts, yes! this review is the most helpful one i've read, breaking down the differences between the iphones on at+t and verizon without getting all nerdy and boring.

I took the Verizon iPhone to five cities, including the two Bermuda Triangles of AT&T reception: San Francisco and New York. Holding AT&T and Verizon iPhones side by side in the passenger seat of a car, I dialed 777-FILM simultaneously, and then rode around until a call dropped. (Why that number? Because I wanted to call a landline, eliminating the other person’s cell reception from the equation. Also, Mr. Moviefone can carry the entire conversation by himself, so I could concentrate on the testing.)

In San Francisco, the AT&T phone dropped the call four times in 30 minutes of driving; the Verizon phone never did. The Verizon iPhone also held its line in several Manhattan intersections where the AT&T call died. At a Kennedy airport gate, the AT&T phone couldn’t even find a signal; the Verizon dialed with a smug yawn. (via)

i'm gonna wait for the iphone5, in case you were wondering.

nErD aLeRt! (f)art(z) edition!

you're going to want to take a peek at this.

Google Art Project, the brainchild of a small group of art-happy Google employees, brings the Street View technology of Google Earth and Google Maps inside 17 museums around the world. The roster includes The Uffizi, the Tate Britain, The Met, MoMA, and the Van Gogh Museum. (via)

thx lilly!

Shiba Inu answer the phone!

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oh brother!

we've all been here. am i right ladies!?!?!

my bberry won't let me type SEC. it changes it so "SECOND" no matter what i do.

iphone auto-correct FAILS.

i think its cute.

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harnessing the power of the internet...

...to make telephone calls.

Google entered a new business beyond Internet search on Wednesday with a service within Gmail to make phone calls over the Web to landlines or cellphones.

The service will thrust Google into direct competition with Skype, the Internet telephone company, and with telecommunications providers. It could also make Google a more ubiquitous part of people’s social interactions by uniting the service for phone calls with e-mail, text messages and video chats.

“It’s one place where you can get in touch with the people that you care about, and how that happens from a network perspective is less important,” said Charles S. Golvin, a telecommunications analyst at Forrester Research.

Gmail has offered voice and video chat for two years, but both parties must be at their computers. Google said the new service would work well for people in a spot with poor cellphone reception or for those making a quick call from their desk. (via)

thx googz!

steve jobs live blog

steve jobs is giving the keynote speech at some conference, and revealing a bunch of new iphone shit.

netflix! farmville! guitar hero! read along here!

do you like computers?

do you know how to use bit torrents to get hot jams on your discman?

if you click right here, you can get a torrent of all the mp3s that are on the SXSW website, which totals 1038 songs.

why would you even WANT to be up that high?

a few images from the world's highest observation deck at the burj dubai.

pew! pew pew!

and check out these interiors. so graphic!

the inaugural fireworks show...isn't dubai supposed to be broke or something?

pew! pew pew!

boeing's hot new shit, the dreamliner 787, took its maiden flight yesterday. she's made out of a plastic-titanium material, reducing overall weight, so the greedy airlines won't have to spend so much money on gas. also, she's got some pretty hot2death interiors. some renderings show sexy lounges, private bedrooms, and even places to park your bmw!

yesterday's flight kicks off what will be a 9-month testing process. boeing has already sold 840 of these babies, which are expected to hit the skies commercially late next year. i hope i get to go on one!!