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Add a new term in the news - Waze (10 June 2013) Waze is a crowd-sourced, mobile-oriented navigation application that features turn-by-turn navigation service. Unlike other mapping applications, Waze is powered by millions of its members to populate data for its maps. Developed by the Israeli start-up Waze Mobile, the app ...
- Journey Home (28 January 2015) “Journey Home” was a GoDaddy 2015 Super Bowl commercial that was subsequently canceled due to popular outrage on social media. The commercial featured a cute puppy that was separated from its family on its journey home. However, its ending showed the owners being happy to ...
- Page Three Girls (26 January 2015) The Page Three Girls is a key feature of the British tabloid newspaper the Sun. For 45 years, the newspaper has published large photographs of topless girls on its print edition's third page. The feature was central to the turnaround success of the publication at a time ...
- egg unboiling (25 January 2015) A process to return a hard boiled egg to its original uncooked state by manipulating its protein structures. Egg whites are high in protein, and when they cook, the proteins start to unfold, and then fold back up in a tighter, more tangled structure. This is why they go ...
- Deflategate (23 January 2015) A scandal involving the New England Patriots that alleged 11 of the 12 balls they used in their 2015 AFC Championship Game win against Indianapolis Colts were inflated significantly below the NFL’s requirements. Football science says that cold weather can account for the ...
- Surface Hub (22 January 2015) Surface Hub is a Windows 10-powered digital whiteboard aimed at making business meetings more productive. Featuring an 84-inch, 4K touchscreen display, the digital whiteboard allows users to write on it using a stylus pen and an application to view and move around 3D ...
- BMW i8 (21 January 2015) The latest from BMW is this power packed combination of beauty, speed and efficiency. Yes it is the BMW i8, this beast clearly defies the ever extant rule of being green associated with being less elegant in design and lagging performance. The BMW i8 packs a punch with its ...
- Range-R (21 January 2015) A hand-held Doppler radar device that is able to see through walls of buildings. Users of the device simply hold it against a wall and then push a button to send radar pulses through the wall to detect if anyone is inside. It works by picking up human breathing and movement ...
- Solar Impulse 2 (20 January 2015) Solar Impulse 2 is a long-range plane powered by the sun. It has the weight of a family car (2,300 kg, 5,100 pounds) and a wingspan equal to that of the largest passenger airliners. Swiss psychiatrist and aEronaut Bertrand Piccard, who co-piloted the first balloon to circle ...
- WinSun (20 January 2015) WinSun is a Chinese company that has successfully printed the world's first 3D-printed apartment building. The five-storey apartment building is complete with decorative elements inside and out and was put on display in January 2015 at Suzhou Industrial Park in central ...