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Eesha Khare, an 18-year-old California student, just created a supercapacitor that could recharge a cellphone battery in 30 seconds. What have you done lately? The invention won her $50,000 in the Society for Science & the Public’s huge international science fair, beating out more than 1,600 others from over 70 countries. “To improve supercapacitor energy [read more]

Yahoo is desperate to buy some cool and made it official today: They have just acquires Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash. An unlike Flickr or web-hosting service GeoCities, Yahoo promised “not to screw it up” this time around. To preserve the quirkiness that Tumblr users fear will be lost with the acquisition, Tumblr will [read more]

The war for streaming music has begun… Google Play Music All Access has been officially announced, the streaming music service for smartphones, tablets and desktops will launch in the U.S. on Wednesday and it will allow users to stream “millions” of songs, create personalized radio stations and discover music based on their music preferences, according [read more]

Women make up a meager 12% of all computer science grads, but that didn’t stop 17-year-old Jennie Lamere from kicking ass at the Boston hackathon last month. She was the only girl there and the only of 80 coders who competed solo. The New Hampshire native took 10 hours and 150 lines of code to [read more]

Check out “A Boy And His Atom”, the world’s smallest film. IBM created the miniature masterpiece by manipulating thousands of carbon monoxide molecules into an animated stop-motion short. The film, which features a boy playing with an atom, was shot under a two-ton scanning tunneling microscope at -450 degrees, using an extremely sharp needle to [read more]

Apple shareholders must be all wet after news surfaced of the company opening the doors to its bank vault… and distributing $100 billion in cash by the end of 2015. The news came as the company released its fiscal second-quarter earnings after the stock market closed. Results beat analysts’ estimates, though Apple posted its first [read more]

Nasa’s $800 million machines are supposed to be looking for signs of life on the red planet… but they decided to do draw a penis instead: Go home Mars rover… you’re drunk [read more]

Hacker collective Anonymous is turning the tables and trying to start its own media outlet, raising tens of thousands of dollars online to fund the project. “Your Anon News” has raised $54,668 on Indiegogo to start a site. The group currently mans the popular @YourAnonNews Twitter feed. Dedicated to reporting what the mainstream media doesn’t, [read more]