Is a Spring Still Springy After It Gets Crushed by a Hydraulic Press?

It's time to check in with the best thing on YouTube, the Hydraulic Press Channel. Over the weekend the proprietors staged a fascinating test, subjecting a spring from a car's suspension to the death crush of the press. Could it spring back to shape after taking such a beating? Pretty cool, right? Even after the press compacts the spring down into a flat ring...

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A Gear-Whip Is Perfect for Steampunk Indiana Jones

Whether they're circles, or a stranger shape, gears can do all sorts of weird things from turning pumps to doing calculus. Puzzlemaster Oskar van Deventer—who posts his geared contraptions to YouTube on the channel OskarPuzzle—knows this well and has revealed a new, geared contraption that's as amusing as it is useless. By attaching a series of gears together in a line,...

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No data, no problem: Use Google Maps offline

Get your Google Maps to work everywhere. Photo: Ste Smith/Cult of Mac (original image: Jordan McQueen/Unsplash CC) When you’re out in the sticks somewhere, you might get to a place where there’s no signal. How will you ever find your way home (or to the next party) without your trusty Google Maps app? Well, with a little foresight, you can make sure Google Maps continues...

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Ultra-widescreen iPhone could be the best, craziest concept ever

Oh, you were happy with a 5.5-inch iPhone were you? Cute.  Unless your name is Timothy Donald Cook, or you could get away with calling him T.C. to his face, chances are you don’t know exactly what Apple’s got planned for its next-gen iPhone 7. Apple probably doesn’t have the idea of a “widescreen” iPhone 7 — complete with magically expanding display — in mind,...

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‘Leaked’ iPhone 7 confirms what we all feared

The iPhone 7 is on its way. But a major redesign apparently isn't. Photo: Ste Smith/Cult of Mac The iPhone 7 is still four months away from debuting, but a new picture “leaked” online appears to give us another early glimpse of the next-gen handset — suggesting once again that this might not be a significant redesign from the current iPhone 6s. Check it out below. Apple’s...

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11 facts about technology that might surprise you (11 Photos)

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Samsung Unpacked 2017: All You Need To Know

Samsung’s Unpacked event for 2017 was filled with a lot of excitement and anticipation. The tech giant gave us many treats today and not all of them start with the word ‘Galaxy’. After the spectacular unveiling of this year’s flagship smartphones, the tech giant moved on to something different. Partners, products and services, the Korean firm said were the three pillars...

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Apple Pay’s proposal to enter Taiwan to be sent to the Cabinet before May 20

aiwan’s top financial regulator Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) is scheduled to gather opinions about Apple Pay’s planned entry into Taiwan from all sides and submit the information to the Executive Yuan before May 20, when the new administration will be inaugurated.  The FSC recently met with representatives from the Ministry of Finance, the Central Bank, the...

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Oculus Says Over a Million People Used Gear VR Headsets in April

Consumer virtual reality is still so new that we don’t know much about how it’s being used. But Oculus is sharing some details about the smartphone-dependent Gear VR headset it developed with Samsung—including the statistic that over a million people used it in April. During a small media briefing Tuesday meant in part to show off some new content that will be coming...

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Robots Learn How to Make Friends and Influence People

If robots are going to take over the world, they could at least have the courtesy not to bump into us while they’re at it. That’s not as easy as it sounds, though, especially when a robot is trying to make its way through a bustling space like a mall, hospital, or crowded city street. Thankfully, researchers have developed an algorithm that could give robots the ability...

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