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Using your cell phone while driving? Dumb and dangerous. Driving while drunk? Real dumb and dangerous. Using your cell phone to livestream yourself drunk driving? That’s truly next-level stupidity.23-year-old Florida woman Whitney Marie Beallyeah is facing charges of driving under the influence on Saturday evening after she decided to use Twitter’s Periscope livesteaming service to broadcast her entire drive home, despite admitting at several points in the video that she is “really, really drunk,” and “I’m driving home drunk....

Forget the iOS App Store. Forget Apple Pay. Forget TouchID. Forget everything else. The best feature about iOS is iMessage—when it works, anyway. iMessage lets you text people from your phone, tablet, or Macbook with ease, syncing every conversation on every device you own. It’s seamless the way messaging should be. And now you can get the same experience on Android, thanks to Pushbullet. Pushbullet started as an app for quickly sending files from one device to another: from a phone to a computer, or a tablet to a phone, whatever you need....

Media Platforms Design TeamAs stationary tools go, scroll saws don’t look like much. Even the biggest seem anemic alongside the average band saw. There’s no fence or miter gauge–how accurate can they be? And forget about power–most only draw half the juice of a 3/8-in. drill. Turn one on and it doesn’t even make that much noise. A real power tool that doesn’t require a dedicated 20-amp circuit and ear protection?...

Stripping a wire is about as basic as mechanical work gets, but it’s surprisingly easy to damage a conductor as you remove its insulation or the sheathing over the insulation. Doing so creates a vulnerable point in a home’s electrical system – and a fire hazard. When a branch circuit gets knocked out, a light fails, or a recently installed switch or outlet doesn’t work, it’s not unusual to find a damaged wire at the root of the problem – once you’ve tediously checked every connection....

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – In the back of his Freightliner van, Derek McLeish tips a nondescript gray powder into a thick-sided metal flask. “This is the kind of particulate we can get from mine slimes,” he says, referring to calcium-heavy mine waste. McLeish, the CEO of Carbon Sciences, pours in a little water from a plastic bottle, screws the top of the flask shut, and opens a valve to let in pure carbon dioxide....

Media Platforms Design TeamMichigan-based artist Shannon Goff created a life-sized model of her grandfather’s 1979 Lincoln Continental Mark V for a new exhibition called “Miles to Empty.” The detailed recreation includes everything from the classic Lincoln hood ornament to the spare tire storage in the trunk. The beautiful replica even includes an intricately carved steering wheel and all the dashboard controls. Media Platforms Design Team"I always loved my grandfather’s car. I grew up with it from about age 5 until I left for college," Goff says....

The bane of homeowners at Halloween could be the boon of research into superconductors. Solid hydrogen sulfide—the same chemicals that make old eggs smell like rotten death—works as an excellent superconductor at a remarkably warm temperature of -94F. That’s a step towards all kinds of great future tech, including hoverboards.Hydrogen sulfide is produced, among other things, by bacteria eating and digesting organic matter in anaerobic environments. At room temperature, it’s nasty stuff, and not just because it makes rotten eggs smell like rotten eggs....

Media Platforms Design TeamYou know that supernatural feeling that a ghost, angel, or spirit is nearby? A robot can now create that, according to the neuroscientists behind a new study, who hope their findings could help researchers discover why people experience these “presences.“The scientists investigated 12 patients with neurological disorders such as epilepsy, strokes, tumors or migraines, and who experienced these invisible presences for anywhere from seconds to minutes. Brain scans revealed this feeling to be linked to damage in any of three brain regions: the temporoparietal, insular, and especially the frontoparietal cortex....

Everything’s Big in Texas - Including Wind PowerIn the U.S. energy game, Texas is clearly winning. With the lowest residential energy price (DOE, 2002) an efficient, nearly autonomous power grid and swimming pools filled with oil (no diving), Texas has one of the most robust energy markets in the country. And now they have a lock on the green market. Texas is currently the largest producer of wind power, according to the American Wind Energy Association’s Second Quarter Market Report released on July 25....

PSO J318.5-22 is a weird, weird object. And that’s kind of an understatement. The … object is around the size of Jupiter, and sits about 75 light years from Earth. It seems to still be burning hot, even though it has no host star. It may be a planet. It may be part of a mostly-unknown class of very strange failed stars called L-dwarfs, a very, very low mass brown dwarf....

Audi is launching two new coupes at the New York auto show: the 2008 model A5 and S5. Both use essentially the same body and chassis, but there are major differences in drivetrain and performance features, the S5 being the more aggressive.2008 Audi A5Media Platforms Design Team Here’s a quick look at the A5’s basics:A 3.2-liter direct fuel injection engine rated at 265 hp;Six-speed manual or automatic transmission;All-wheel drive;Zero-to-60 mph acceleration of 6....

Media Platforms Design TeamChevrolet predicts that small SUV sales will grow 80 percent from 2013 to 2016. So the bringing the Trax to the U.S. market (it’s already sold in Canada, Mexico, and a number of other countries) is a no-brainer, especially considering the success of the Buick Encore, which shares the same platform.Like in the Buick, the Chevy’s power comes from a 1.4-liter turbocharged four making 138 hp, and the Trax will be available in front- or all-wheel-drive ....

On-Sale Date: May 2013Base Price: $52,000 to $95,000 (est.)Competitors: Audi A6, BMW 5 Series, Lexus GS, Infiniti MPowertrains: 2.1-liter I-4, 190 hp, 369 lb-ft; seven-speed automatic; 3.5-liter V-6, 302 hp, 273 lb-ft; 3.5-liter V-6 with electric motor, 329 hp, 457 lb-ft; 5.5-liter turbocharged V-8, 402 hp, 443 lb-ft; 5.5-liter turbocharged V-8, 550 or 577 hp, 531 or 590 lb-ft; seven-speed automatic, RWD or AWDEPA Fuel Economy (city/hwy): 15–24/23–32 (est.)What’s New: While the E-Class wears reshaped sheetmetal and the choice of two “faces”—Luxury or the more aggressive Sport—the most notable additions to the tried-and-true Benz sedan are advanced safety features that will eventually find their way to the upcoming S-Class, including Active Lanekeeping Assist, a cross-traffic sensor with brake boosting, and Distronic Plus With Steering Assist, which semiautonomously follows traffic ahead....

Media Platforms Design TeamThis afternoon, former vice president turned environmental activist Al Gore stopped bythe Hearst Tower2—headquarters of Popular Mechanics and a Gold-certified green building—to promote his Live Earth concert series. Jumpstarting what officials are calling “the echo effect” of the climate change-focused musical extravaganza on July 7, Gore announced a seven-point pledge for concert-goers and concert-watchers alike to sign. The points include a range of actions such as pressuring politicians and reducing individual CO emissions....

View full post on YoutubeThe hawk zips through the forest, moving through dense trees, foliage, and debris. With incredible navigational skills and precise movements, the bird of prey finds its way around all the obstacles.DARPA created this amazing video, and it didn’t do so just to remind us how cool hawks are. The Department of Defense’s mad scientists are testing small, autonomous drones, and they want them to be just as capable and maneuverable as a hawk zipping through a forest in search of prey....

UPDATE 6:15PM: Pao’s resignation letter thanks Reddit for the “adventure” while condemning “the ugly” side of the Reddit community. She also claims she left the company because “the board asked me to demonstrate higher user growth in the next six months than I believe I can deliver while maintaining reddit’s core principles.“UPDATE 5:54PM: Reddit investor and former CEO Sam Altman posted this message to Redditors officially announcing Pao’s resignation and Huffman’s succession....

Media Platforms Design TeamTwenty-five teams are officially in the running for the Google Lunar X PRIZE (GLXP), the $30 million prize for soft-landing a privately funded unmanned spacecraft on the moon. As the 2015 deadline approaches, however, it has become clear which teams are the early leaders in the chase to pull off a feat achieved only by two world superpowers, and not since the 1970s.“This is really a predictable watershed year for the competition,” says Bob Richards, co-founder and CEO of Moon Express, one of the top contenders in the competition....

Media Platforms Design TeamWhen Peter Bishop stumbles upon six mysterious disappearances in the small town of Lansdale, Pa., he thinks he may have found a pattern: Could these people be disappearing the same way Olivia Dunham did? So he, Dunham and mad scientist Walter head down to Lansdale to check it out–and find an already-in-progress investigation of a seventh disappearance. Found on the scene was a puddle of goo that paralyzes Walter’s hand....

iPod ShuffleMedia Platforms Design TeamPrice: $50 (2GB)Size: 1.14 x 1.24 x .34 inchesCracker Comparison: Cheez-ItWhat We Love: On-board controls are back (the previous Shuffle required in-line controls on the earphone cord), which actually made this tiny player a bit bigger than its predecessor. But at .44 ounces, it’s still virtually unnoticeable clipped to a shirt while jogging. No screen, but VoiceOver reads out songs and artist info to help you navigate....

• KIA SEDONA EX • INFINITI M35 • TOYOTA HIGHLANDER HYBRID • JEEP LIBERTY SPORT CRD • CHEVROLET COBALT SSFIRST REPORTHyundai Azera LimitedA five-passenger entry-luxury sedan complete with wood trim, a leather-swathed interior and all the expected essentials for under $30,000? Pshaw, you say? No really, we say. Well, how good could it be, you ask? That’s exactly what we intend to find out.Cars with the Hyundai name on them have come a long way from those less than excellent Excels of 20 years ago....