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According to rumors that have been floating around the web the new basic Kindle Fire is going to be last years Kindle Fire HD. What does this mean? Well, and we emphasize that this is rumor only at this point, the new Kindle Fire will be exactly the same as last year's Kindle Fire HD with one exception - the operating system.

According to one of Steve's most recent posts Neil deGrass Tyson goes down as noting that the 2008 bank bailout was "larger than the total 50 year history of NASA'S budget." This prompted Steve to go looking at how the tax dollars of the people of the United States are prioritized. Steve came up with this table to help to show the difference between science and military spending.

YouTube has set up a 360 degree camera designed to allow non-concert goers to control their concert going experience. YouTube will be offering their 360 degree user controlled camera for tonights live stream of the King Of Leon concert. The webcast show, directed by Fred Armisen will be viewable via YouTube’s webcast.

When it comes to pitstops in Formula One racing, most of us have our minds blown just watching the regular guys but the Red Bull team is truly something amazing. Watch this clip of their 2.05 second pitstop in slow motion and marvel.

Not long ago we featured an article on the all electric BMW i3 and today the upcoming plug-in hybrid i8 is making news as well with the announcement that BMW will be utilizing gorilla glass. According to reports, the all new BMW i8 is going to be the first car to utilize gorilla glass in place of the more traditional glass. The i8 windows will use gorilla glass to keep excess weight off the car. Currently, gorilla glass is more well known for its implementation in smart phones and smart phone cases but BMW is taking its use in to a whole new realm.

Down at their headquarters in the UK, PayPal employees have decided that they need an easier way to pay for their purchases. Of course, being PayPal employees they want a method that utilizes PayPal. In an effort to promote easier purchasing, PayPal UK are pushing local Rochmond Upon Thames retailers to act as guinea pigs for their new PayPal based photo authentication system. The system works in participating businesses only and works utilizing photo identification.

Designers Kanupriya Goel and Gautam Goel have put together a medication packaging that indicates to the user when the drug is no longer valid to take. The packaging utilizes a layer of ink that slowly seeps through the packaging material over time until it indicates when the medication can no longer be taken safely.

We have all heard about how incredibly powerful the human brain is, but a group of Japanese and German scientists wanted to see just how powerful it truly is. They did this using an 83,000 processor super computer...

The image above is taken from a video of the white blood cell magnet in action. The magnet, developed by researchers at MIT separates the white blood cells from blood samples - a process that can have very significant implications in terms of the future of disease diagnosis.

When it comes to going green, people are always doing their very best to take things in a new and more eco-friendly direction. For Qiyun Deng that means making the cutlery you eat with more Earth friendly...