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The world's most patient science experiment finally gets a webcam, a very stylish argument for USB cufflinks, and the case for a 3D printer that outputs cupcakes.

An introduction to Tasker, Android's most powerful automation app — covering Actions, Tasks, Contexts, and Profiles, with a walk-through of building your first automated Profile.

A London club installs pee-controlled gaming urinals, Philips creates a lamp powered by living bacteria, and a Skyrim enthusiast liberates every book in Tamriel for your commute.

Part 2 of the Ultimate Tasker Guide: how to use variables and if/else flow control to make your automated Tasks smarter and more context-aware.

Part 3 of the Ultimate Tasker Guide: how to pull live web data using HTTP Get, parse XML with Variable Split, and act on it within Tasker — illustrated with a weather forecast automation.

Two new elements join the periodic table, a Minecraft-themed wedding complete with Mojang-designed drinks labels, and how Chinese gamers outsmarted government censorship with a large tropical fruit.

Scientists confirm a real-life Tatooine orbiting two suns, Super Mario Bros shrunk to 64 pixels, and an 82-kilogram LEGO Star Destroyer built entirely from photographs.

Password managers not only increase security but make life easier — here's how to use KeePass across all your devices, including Dropbox sync for fully portable access.

Tetris played on a scale measured in microns, a LEGO model of the Large Hadron Collider built from 9500 pieces, and Isaac Newton's notebooks digitised for the internet.

Disney turns houseplants into touch controllers, NASA captures the highest-resolution images ever taken of the sun's corona, and Twitter predicts personal illness eight days in advance.

IBM creates a chip from 10,000 carbon nanotube transistors, a programmer recreates the Myst linking book with a real PC inside, and a rocking chair that charges your iPad via kinetic energy.

UNSW researchers achieve a crucial milestone in quantum computing, a man spends US$3 million to save every book ever published, and Lego meets Minecraft.

The first year of 2600 magazine released as a DRM-free e-book, the Las Vegas Star Trek attraction that nearly happened, and the computing challenge of processing an exabyte of data per day.

A robot lawnmower you control from your iPhone, a neural network that develops schizophrenia and confesses to terrorism, and a miniaturised Atari drive for the retro-computing faithful.

An iPhone-controlled beer cannon, the Popeye origins story that Nintendo didn't want you to know, and a man who has spent his life collecting every sealed PS2 game ever released.

NASA starts work on a real tractor beam, a lovingly recreated NES-themed cake that puts home bakers to shame, and why 3D printers could be printing circuit boards within two years.