Want to get money out of an ATM? You’ll need need both a PIN number and your debit card. In many stores, credit card purchases require an I.D. Both of these are well-accepted forms of two-factor authentication that people use without issue. But when it comes to the Internet, many users would rather rely on a simple password than deal with the hassle of needing an extra code either written on a piece of paper or sent to their phones via text message....
Media Platforms Design TeamThe Expert: Staff Sgt. Brandon Cain, U.S. Army Air Assault School The Air Assault School is located in Fort Campbell, Ky., home of the 101st Airborne Division. “We’re the best at what we do,” Cain says. He came to the school following a deployment with an infantry unit in Afghanistan and is now an instructor in the Rappel Master program. “Everybody that comes here, regardless of rank, starts off as what we call a gray shirt,” he says....
View full post on YoutubeYard equipment requires regular maintenance to keep clean, but over time rust can just take over. This shovel makeover from granworks requires a bit of patience and an angle grinder, but when finished you’ll have a tool that’s better than new.A tempered steel shovel can outlast almost any tool in your workshop and provide the most bang for your buck. To maintain its edge and effectiveness, you need to fight back against rust and spend some time filing the tip....
Japan has formally entered the competition to build Australia’s next generation of attack submarines, the first time the country will attempt to sell arms to a foreign country in 70 years. The country is offering up a modified version of its Soryu-class attack submarine, regarded by many as the best non-nuclear submarine in the world. Australia is set on replacing six locally made Collins-class diesel electric submarines. Built by an alliance of Swedish sub manufacturer Kockums and the Australian Shipbuilding Corporation, the Collins-class submarines have been beset with problems....
Media Platforms Design TeamEveryone needs something audacious on their wish list. NASA’s is a space station not 200 miles about the Earth, as the International Space Station is, but an installation 277,000 miles away, on the far side of the moon. Over the weekend, the Orlando Sentinel reported that NASA administrator Charles Bolden had briefed the Obama administration on a plan to build such an outpost that would travel to the Earth-moon Lagrange Point 2, or L2....
Takaaki Kajita of Japan and Arthur B. McDonald of Canada won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics this morning for their work showing that neutrinos, some of the strangest particles we’ve ever discovered, actually have mass, despite their ghostly nature.Tiny, subatomic neutrinos are the second most abundant particle in the universe, after the photons that make up light. But they rarely interact with ordinary matter. Tens of thousands of them are passing right through your body right now, with no effect....
Media Platforms Design TeamWe are gathered here to mourn the loss of the stethoscope. Once the very emblem of a physician, stethoscopes served healthcare professionals for almost 200 years before handheld ultrasound devices supplanted them. The stethoscope is survived by the long, white lab coat, and the old leather doctor’s bag, which isn’t doing so well itself these days.Despite the stethescope’s iconic status, use of the instrument has been on the wane for years....
Discovery: Inside the Launch Pad (above), Cloudy Launch Prospects (below) After finding water on Mars and planning to launch a Moon base, NASA is looking to cap off a big week tonight with Discovery’s scheduled 9:35 p.m. EST launch to the International Space Station—if Mother Nature doesn’t get in the way. The lights are on at the pad with four hours left before the space agency’s 29th nighttime shuttle launch—the first since 2002—but low-hanging clouds in Cape Canaveral, Fla....
Media Platforms Design TeamOn Sale Date: NowPrice: $999I listen to music seriously. Most of my albums are 256-bit encoded. My daily in-ears are custom-molded Ultimate Ears Personal Reference Monitors, an expensive piece of tech at $2000. So I’m used to quality audio at a premium price. The SE846s, this new pair of earbuds from Shure, clearly fall within this category. Yes, the thousand-dollar price tag may be too steep for the casual listener....
LOS ANGELES — Some of the most impressive games that we saw at E3 were third-party titles for Sony’s PlayStation 3, but two unveilings for the console here really set themselves apart. PixelJunk’s Eden and TGC’s Flower are far from the FPSs and MPOs that dominated a lot of attention at the show—they’re far-out, not to mention two of the most relaxing and beautiful games we’ve seen of late. EdenWith it’s trancey music and soft, glowing color pallet, Eden is a psychedelic adventure that’s really hard to explain....
Media Platforms Design TeamThree years after Jack Peter Keenan, the 10-year-old referenced in the title of Keith Donohue’s engrossing new novel, almost drowns off the coast of Maine, he develops a near-crippling fear of leaving his house. Narratively speaking, this is a risky wager. Donohue has essentially put his characters—and thus his readers—under house arrest, and yet the bet pays off again and again. The novel is a pressure cooker, an airtight room with limited oxygen, and an astute study of the mysterious demons that loss breeds....
My sense that our political leaders lack both the vision and courage to help us combat global warming was sadly confirmed this weekend by an article in the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/03/science/03climate.html). For those who’d rather not wade through the whole thing, it pretty much boils down to this: The Bush administration now estimates that emissions of the greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming will rise just as much in the decade from 2002 to 2012 (11%) as they did in the previous decade (11....
Our versatile Highlander has gone back to Toyota. We seriously miss its combo of comfort, utility and available scoot, not to mention its absolute lack of thirst for gas.We had only two complaints. One was an intermittent rattle inside the driver’s door. (If we owned this Highlander, we’d have taken off the door panel and silenced it for good.) The other was a dashboard woofer that buzzed when we got too deep into the volume....
Media Platforms Design TeamGamers used to be content with sitting on their couches, leaving the action to on-screen avatars and any real feeling to early-onset arthritis. No longer. With the phenomenon that is the motion-capturing Nintendo Wii and games like the get-up-and-rock Guitar Hero franchise, button-pushers are demanding more than just a passive stay in a virtual world. Add the TN Games 3rd Space Force Feedback Vest to the docket as further evidence of this certifiable trend....
Media Platforms Design TeamSuddenly, the idea of asteroid mining is everywhere. As a here in noted, asteroid mining has gone from a “someday” idea to a business plan for more than one company. As a professor who’s been writing, teaching, and practicing space law since the 1980s, I say, why not? Asteroids are valuable, they’re out there, and they are free for the taking. recent featurePopular MechanicsOr are they?Asteroids are certainly available, and they’re valuable....
Media Platforms Design TeamThe oil light on my 2000 Chevy Cavalier comes on at low rpm and then shuts off as I start driving. I checked the oil level and it’s fine. Is this something I should be worried about?Media Platforms Design TeamAny time the oil light goes on, it’s cause for concern. Many newer and high-feature cars have oil-life monitors that determine when the oil needs to be changed, but the glowing red oil light in your Cavalier indicates the oil pressure is low....
Media Platforms Design TeamFlying is now safer than ever. In 2013 only 265 people died in airplane accidents—out of 31 million commercial flights worldwide. It’s a record low, proving once again that you’re safer on a plane than a car, a boat, or a . (Business jets had just 14 accidents in 2013, a drop from 34 in 2012, though fatalities increased by one.) With a of dying during your next red-eye, flying should be the least of your worries....
A B-29 Superfortress dropped both of the atomic bombs over Japan in 1945. It was one of the most iconic bombers of its era. But today, just one of these legends is still flying, and this week it carried a group of World War II veterans on a flight back in time.Several veterans who flew on B-29s during the war, all of whom are now around 90 years in age, boarded “Fifi” for a Thursday flight to New Orleans where this weekend’s World War II AirPower Expo is happening....
Luton, England—As GM emerges from bankruptcy today, the new General Motors will be composed of four major brands: Cadillac, GMC, Buick and, of course, Chevrolet. Chevy will be GM’s volume brand as it has been. And as we edge closer to a fuel-economy-focused future of smaller cars, GM must launch compact sedans that are competitive with the leaders in the class from Honda and Toyota. The Chevy Cruze will replace the Cobalt as GM’s Civic and Corolla competitor for the 2011 model year....
Media Platforms Design Team1. Use Rigid VentWherever possible, use a rigid aluminum dryer vent instead of a flexible aluminum vent because it won’t restrict airflow as much, and it’s less likely to clog with lint.2. Raise The Dryer Raise the dryer on a sturdy plywood platform to make it easier to load and unload.3. Support The Washer and Dryer Fasten a sheet of 3/4-in.-thick plywood to the floor below the washer and dryer using 1 5/8-in....
