For example, another name for New York City is the big apple

Our planet is a dynamic place. The surface of the Earth is constantly changing, and sometimes, these changes aren't even our fault. NASA, having no shuttles to play with anymore, has been keeping track of the spots where these changes are the most obvious, and it's got a website dedicated to satellite images showing differences over time

The camera for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope just got its approval for a final design phase this week, which is exiting news for all you space fans out there. When it's finished, the LSST camera will be the largest digital camera ever made, and it'll be able to image the entire visible sky every single week.

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The United States Patent and Trademark office recently published details surrounding a patent from Samsung regarding a technology that strategically implants electrodes into the human brain called Implantable Medical Devices (IMDs). The South Korea-based company states that an IMD may be implanted into a human body and be used to help monitor primary organs such as the heart and brain itself, PatentBolt reported on Wednesday

This prototype robot hand is uses eight double-acting pneumatic actuators on each finger that can simulate an almost perfect range of human finger movement.

Before all the Instagram and Pintrest users start to panic, let's clarify. This camera doesn't do away with your images — it is a device that sends your captured image to humans who then describe your photo in words.

The use of biometric scans as a security measure is on the rise. We've recently talked about palm print scan enabled ATMs, and now there is a prototype door handle with a built in finger scanner.

Those Chinese iPhone smugglers just don't know how to take a hint, do they? After one guy was caught with 30 iPhones taped to his body , another Chinese smuggler was caught trying to pass customs with 215 iPhones hidden inside empty beer bottles.

Later today a group of high profile billionaires will be officially announcing the formation of a new company called Planetary Resources. Their mission? To mine near-Earth asteroids for whatever resources they may hold