FUNKY GREEN: 05/10/14

Saturday, 10 May 2014

Native bees increase blueberry crop yields

How much is a healthy native bee population worth? About $311 per acre for blueberries.

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5 Can't-Miss Apps: Instapaper's Redesign and More

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Disney's Pixelbots Turn a Flat Surface Into a Moving Dot-Matrix Display

When you think of Disney animation, you probably envision cartoons drawn either by hand or computer. You probably don't think of little light-up robots that zip around a tabletop to make dot-matrix designs. But that's exactly what Disney Research came up with in Display Swarm, a research project that makes an animated display out of mini robotic pixels.

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Weekends with Engadget: OnePlus One review, Apple eyes Beats for $3.2 billion and more!

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Audi’s R8 LMX will be the first to light up public roads with lasers

Audi unveiled a limited-edition supercar called the R8 LMX, which will become the world’s first production car to offer laser headlights as standard. This comes as bit of a surprise, as BMW’s i8 was slated to be the world’s first laser headlight production car.

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This week in Tech Reads: DIY electronic brain stimulation, a chat with the man who invented the brow

This week in Tech Reads: DIY electronic brain stimulation, a chat with the man who invented the browser tab, the strange hi-caffeine soda that fuels Germany's hackers, and so much more!

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Geek.com seems to have spotted an experimental new web Gmail layout that replaces the left-side cont

Geek.com seems to have spotted an experimental new web Gmail layout that replaces the left-side control panel with a slide-in menu, uses pins instead of stars, and adds a "reminder" feature—all within a heavily-redesigned layout. No word if this test setup will ever roll out to users. [Geek.com]

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Police finds priceless Van Gogh taken by Nazis hidden in bank vault

Agents from the Agencia Tributaria—the Spanish IRS—announced the find of a priceless Van Gogh which disappeared from the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Vienna, Austria. Dated in 1889, the painting "Cypress, sky and field" was discovered in a safe deposit box that belonged to a Spanish fraudster.