Fossils, Yahoo, and Rod Serling - 90 seconds on The Verge
Fossils, Yahoo, and Rod Serling - 90 seconds on The Verge
2013-06-05
it's wednesday june fifth 2013 i'm evan
rodgers and I once build a computer out
of cotton candy bubble gum and an NES
light gun this is 90 seconds on the
verge an international team of
researchers has uncovered what is now
the oldest known primate fossil
researchers believe the 55 million year
old animal would have weighed about one
ounce measuring under 3 inches long and
have quotes surprisingly small eyes the
team has created a 3d reconstruction
which they say will quote chart the
course of the earliest phases of primate
and human evolution they look like the
gap between humans and primates is
closing in yeah who is getting a fresh
coat of paint the company has overhauled
its search page with a goal of quote
putting your results front and center in
a nutshell that means a cleaner design
in the new top nav bar yeah who is also
promising some under the hood
performance improvements yahoo promised
that today's changes are just our first
step in continuing towards the goal of
combining utility with beauty and of
course the acquisition came with plenty
of gifts after all that's exactly what
the tumblr acquisition was for and
finally it looks like we'll be entering
another dimension not just of sight and
sound but of lens flare JJ Abrams the
team at bad robot have acquired the
rights to twilight zone creator Rod
Serling's final script with plans to
turn it into a mini series entitled the
stops along the way the script was never
produced certainly had expressed
excitement about the story calling it a
quote lovely script but alas it was
never meant to be with Abrams adding yet
another sci-fi horse was barn we at the
verge are holding out for a water world
reboot that's it for today's top stories
coming up tomorrow cryo molecular hair
gel a little dab will do you
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