The first-ever ‘space hurricane’ has been spotted above Earth

The first-ever ‘space hurricane’ has been spotted above Earth You are… like a space hurricane… Hurricanes form when warm, wet air over oceans rise, creating a low-pressure system over thewater. Air rushes in to fill the low-pressure region, resulting in high winds and clouds, which often results in heavy rains. “A hurricane is clearly associated with strong energy and mass transportation, so a hurricane in Earth’s upper atmosphere must be violent and efficiently transfer solar wind/magnetosphere energy and momentum into the Earth’s ionosphere,” researchers describe in an article published inNature Communications....

2 min · 299 words · Michael Mcintyre

The fix for bricked Samsung Omnia 7 WP7 handsets

Do you have a Samsung Omnia 7 WP7 handset that is having serious problems after the most recent update? We might have a fix. According to themagicians at WinRumors, the following is a method that you can follow to salvage your device. Before we let you go on, the normal rules apply: we take no responsibility in case something goes wrong; proceed at your own risk. That aside, execute the following steps and youshouldbe right as rain:...

2 min · 269 words · Alyssa Thornton

The Flair 58 espresso maker is a coffee-lover’s dream machine

The best money I ever spent on coffee was buying myself the originalFlair Espresso Maker. The Flair has a cult following among espresso aficionados for making it easy to make espresso at coffee-shop quality in a compact, affordable design that requires no electricity. The roughly 6-9 bars of pressure necessary for a proper espresso are created with your own arm strength, rather than any fancy machinery. But while the original Flair (and theFlair Profollow-up) were capable of delivering incredible shots, there was a bit of a learning curve, and the process of actually pulling a shot was a little finicky, involving the assembly of a multitude of components with each shot....

5 min · 885 words · Peter Bass

The Flawed Premise of “Facebook for the Enterprise”

With consumer startups getting most of the press, it’s easy to forget that there exists an enormous enterprise software market prime for disruption. How enormous? Gartner estimated that the overall size of the 2010 enterprise software spend wasa whopping $245B. Hoping to get ahead of the curve, clever entrepreneurs and investors are looking to the consumer markets for clues as to what the next big enterprise software wave will look like....

7 min · 1414 words · Haley Santos

The Flight Card iPhone app is a beautiful way of checking your flight details

Flight Cardwants to keep you, your family and your friends’ travel plans up to date on flight day. So you’re taking a flight from SFO to JFK, and it probably won’t be on time because of the fog. You fumble around for your flight number which looks something like this: XOWDJW. You can look it up on an another flight tracking app by confirmation number or go to the Airline’s website....

3 min · 515 words · John Hood
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