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[BorkBorkGoesTheCode]

Bugs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insectothopter

[Reelya]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboBee

EDIT: Also, there's a new type of transistor that's only 1nm across. Non-silicon however.
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/16/10/07/2138226/law-defying-transistor-smashes-industry-limit-measures-just-1nm

[TheBiggerFish]

PTW.

[Furtuka]

can't remember if I've posted in here, so ptw

[martinuzz]

RIP Samsung Galaxy Note 7. They decided to completely abandon the production line, and withdraw all deliveries.
So if you pre-ordered one, you can forget about ever getting it. If you're lucky, you will get a refund. (If Samsung doesn't go bankrupt that is)

It's expected to cost Samsung 15 billion, if not more. Maybe RIP Samsung.

[Avis-Mergulus]

That's kinda badass.
I think that an actual yearly even that showcases the advances made in prosthetic technology is a really good idea. I hope it really takes off - I'd like to spectate at one sometime, anyway.

[BorkBorkGoesTheCode]

RIP Samsung Galaxy Note 7. They decided to completely abandon the production line, and withdraw all deliveries.
So if you pre-ordered one, you can forget about ever getting it. If you're lucky, you will get a refund. (If Samsung doesn't go bankrupt that is)

It's expected to cost Samsung 15 billion, if not more. Maybe RIP Samsung.

How did that reach market?

[martinuzz]

How did that reach market?

Sales boomed

[MrRoboto75]

How did that reach market?

Sales boomed

So did the tablets

[Starver]

How did that reach market?

Sales boomed

They were hot stuff, flying off the shelves.

[TempAcc]

Masterfuly crafted !!phone!!. It menaces with spikes of HOT PLASMA.

[PTTG??]

We're going to Mars a lot now.

Like, Elon Musk, China, and the USA are all probably going to try to use the same launch window at this rate. Which would certainly be interesting.

[Starver]

You know that scene in Iron Sky just after the USS George W. Bush calls for help..?

[Max™]

Good news folks, Comcast confirms that they have no intention of trying to improve their networks to handle 4k video or anything beyond that because 1 TB is totally a lot guys.

They even put out a condescending little video talking about how "you could watch like 620 hours of video, there are only 720 in a month!" and though they offered a nod to the correct pronunciation of .gif (like the peanut butter), they immediately reverted to the incorrect one.

"Well doing nothing but watch videos for an entire month all day every day does seem excessive" you say?

That's assuming ~1.3 Gigabytes per hour, or 1920x1080 resolution. Got a larger screen? One-a-them fancy new Vee-Arr gadgets you wear on yer face that are really better with 4k or even 8k content? Well, still, it's not like you would ever need more than 1 TB/Month, right? I mean, where would you even buffer it, since nobody ever needed more than 640K of memory either?

Just for the heck of it, I put in a complaint to the FCC, the specific thing I complained about can be summed up as "Why is it ok for them to agree to a contract with me where I am paying for 1 month of 85 Mbps Down/12 Mbps Up service, when I could at most use it like that for 26 hours according to their new caps?" though I went ahead and noted that I "would be happy to shop around and see what the competitors offer, except there aren't any, which sounds kind of like a monopoly. Isn't that illegal?" and thanked them for reading.

Will it do any good, I dunno, someone in the comments claimed the FCC can't even do anything about it, but if the Federal Communications Commission exists for reasons beyond dealing with a monopolistic company deciding to state outright that they don't intend to improve their networks so if we want to use more data we gotta pay, then I'm not sure what it is there for, but oh hey, if they do decide to deliver faster service, at least now we know we better get all lubed up and bent over beforehand!

[Aklyon]

Well no one ever said  comcast had a good reason for caps. Them making it 1TB is just to sound like large numbers so they can try to hide cablecutters under bigger internet fees.