Reblogged from isthatyouchoking-deactivated201
yeah, that happened :o
happy birthday to freddie mercury! have a cake!
also…i should not be on ace of cakes…
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Slicing an Apple
APPLE doesn’t make the iPhone itself. It neither manufactures the components nor assembles them into a finished product. The components come from a variety of suppliers and the assembly is done by Foxconn, a Taiwanese firm, at its plant in Shenzhen, China. The “teardown” graphic below, based on data from iSuppli, a market-research firm, shows who makes what inside the iPhone, and how much the various bits cost.
Full Story: The Economist
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How an argument with Hawking suggested the Universe is a hologram
The proponents of string theory seem to think they can provide a more elegant description of the Universe by adding additional dimensions. But some other theoreticians think they’ve found a way to view the Universe as having one less dimension
Full Story: Ars Technica