The people of 's-Hertogenbosch beg to differ.

I was hoping they would make sequels with titles like The Vector, The Determinant, The Jacobian, and The Gaussian Elimination.

The news here in Finland was that the project was already abandoned back in November: https://www.epv.fi/en/project/...

The summary quotes TFA as saying "As a greenhouse gas, methane is about 28 times more potent in terms of global warming potential than carbon dioxide and lasts much longer in the atmosphere," but the "and lasts match longer in the atmosphere" part is not actually there in the linked article. It is also not true, at least if you are to believe the Wikipedia article titled "Atmospheric methane" which says methane has an atmospheric half life of 9.1 years vs. more than 100 years for CO2.

The music for the video game "ballblazer" from 1984 was algorithmically generated, according to http://www.langston.com/Papers....

What the heck is a "price collision", anyway? Googling it got me "did you mean: price collusion". I think google may be onto something there...

Whenever my MacBook Pro is sitting on my desk, it's connected to a pair of decent PC speakers, through the headphone jack. Except when I'm in a teleconference, then I'm using a pair of headphones from an iPhone 5, also through the headphone jack.

Noise canceling aside, military superhuman hearing devices have been around for a long time, and the old ones look cooler, too.

116 MWh of battery capacity is still a drop in the ocean compared to the total electricity use. In the 2016, the US consumed 4,686,400,000 MWh of electricity. If we could run the entire country on those 116 MWh of batteries, they would run out in 0.78 seconds.

Saturn's moon Hyperion is also known to tumble chaotically.

That's what I call a leapfrog technology, going straight from the telegraph to G.fast and not bothering with that silly 100 year telephone era inbetween.

I though maybe he was the guy behind Ricochet, but then I figured it probably wasn't created by a two year old...

I have been designing and 3D printing objects for my own use a couple of years now, and I still don't own a 3D printer. I just upload my files to Shapeways and the finished pieces are delivered to my door.

Back in the day before digital cameras, I also used to take photos on film, but I didn't have my own darkroom. Same thing.

Here's a rough comparison of the price to a variety of other offerings: http://www.araneus.fi/bwcost/?highlight=71

If you type "recession" into Google Correlate, it tells you there is a correlation factor of 0.9059 with "microsoft word 2008".