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Tech NewsAppleA Google For iOS Easter Egg Lets You Jumble Up the Logo
Search Engine Land’s Barry Schwartz just discovered a cheeky little Easter egg in the Google for iOS app: Drag the letters out of the Google banner and you can pinball them around your screen. Is it functional? No, but it’s fun! If you’ve got the Google for iOS search app, you may not see this … Continued
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Tech NewsBoy Scouts Made Me The Man I Am Today, Here’s How
It’s been 15 years since I was a Boy Scout and, by all accounts, I’m now a grown ass man. But, the impact the organization had on my life is still evident in my daily life. Here’s how. That’s me, turned sideways in the front row above. Boy Scouts Taught Me To Shoot: Late last … Continued
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Tech NewsSploid
Ball of fire comes alive in space, turns into flaming Tinker Bell
Astronaut Reid “Captain America” Wiseman keeps delighting us with his antics in the International Space Station. Here’s the latest: A ball of fire materializes in space and comes alive, flying away like some kind of fairy—a flaming Tinker Bell. It was made by the FLEX-2 experiment—or magics, for all we know. SPLOID is a new … Continued
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Tech NewsAirbus’s Electric Airplane Prototype Is Eerily Silent in Flight
Airbus just showed its battery-powered E-Fan 2.0 electric airplane to the public for the first time, at England’s Farnborough International Airshow. Standing still, it looks like a normal if slightly odd-shaped tiny plane. In the air, though, it seems decidedly abnormal. Where’s the noise? The E-Fan 2.0 is the second generation of Airbus’s experimental electric … Continued
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Tech News
Would You Let An App Monitor Your Mental Health?
Fitness and health tracking apps and devices are so trendy that fashion designers are set to make a killing on sparkly bracelet cases for them. We like the idea of gadgets telling us when we haven’t exercised enough, or when we need to sleep more. But what about an app to track mental health? Startup … Continued
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Tech NewsThe Fighter Jet We Could Have Built Instead of the F-35
The mid-1990s found the U.S. military in need of a low-cost, supersonic stealth fighter jet that all three armed services branches could field. Easy, right? The subsequent—and highly contentious—design competition between Boeing and Lockheed saw the winner take home a $200 billion defense contract, which in turn became the debacle we know as the F-35. … Continued
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Tech News
After 150 Years, Scientists Finally Know How Barnacle Glue Works
Over a century and a half ago, Charles Darwin first described the remarkable adhesive capabilities of barnacles. He couldn’t figure out how their natural superglue worked, though. And it took until now to finally unlock the barnacle glue’s mysteries. It’s actually surprisingly simple. The key to the super sticky cement barnacles create is actually the … Continued
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Tech News
Russia’s World Cup Is Already Outrageously Expensive
Maybe you’re still mourning Brazil’s catastrophic loss to Germany, but the rest of the world has moved on—to discussing the impact of the next series, which will take place in 11 Russian cities in 2018. And according to their reports, it’s going to be very, very expensive. Like $11,500 per seat expensive. The next World … Continued
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Tech NewsWhy You Should Be Shooting RAW In One Simple GIF
Any experienced photographer will be able to tell you the indispensable utility in shooting RAW as opposed to JPG. If you just got a new camera or haven’t heard a good explanation for why RAW is so great, just look at this one GIF, made with images by Glyn Dewis. A RAW photo contains substantially … Continued
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Tech NewsAerosol Cake Batter Is Real Now and Nothing Will Ever Be the Same
Just when you thought that mankind’s genius could stretch no further, a solid year of research has given birth to a new apex in cake innovation. Friends, say hello to Spray Cake, the Harvard-bred cake batter in a can. People have shoved a lot of weird things in aerosol cans over the years, but Harvard … Continued
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Tech News
Deals: Roku with Free Hulu, SodaStream, Smart Thermostat, Goat Sim
Rokus are, for most people, the best set top boxes you can buy, and today you can take advantage of a promotion that gives you two free months of Hulu+ with the purchase of a new streaming box or stick. That’s a $16 value, and though it’s only available to new subscribers, you could always … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidPerfect home perched on a cliff is made of dreams of quiet, food and sex
The Till House has stunning views of the Los Arcos coast, in Chile. The house is the only one built on the top of this hard to access cliff making it a very private place. Designed by the Chilean studio WMR Arquitectos, this is the perfect location for a romantic weekend. A romantic weekend meaning … Continued
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Tech News
Venus Express Isn’t Dead Yet
The Venus Express spacecraft has completed its 3,000 th orbit of the tempestuous planet, dived into the atmosphere, is on its way back out, and is somehow still transmitting. Not bad for a probe designed to last a measly 500 orbits! The European Space Agency’s Venus Express has been reporting from Venus for the past … Continued
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Tech NewsAmazon
Should You Get Amazon Kindle Unlimited?
Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited service is now available , offering access to 600,000 book titles and 8,000 audiobook titles for $10 a month. You can start a free trial today, but if you’d like to know immediately whether this is the digital borrowing service for you, we’ve got the answer: Probably not… Books are marvelous. Reading … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy and Security
It’s Alarmingly Easy for Hackers to Control Your Hotel Room
Next time you’re in Shenzhen, “the Silicon Valley of mainland China,” don’t stay at the St. Regis hotel. Sure, it looks nice and everything. And those iPad-powered “digital butlers” sound neat. But really, the system is so littered with security vulnerabilities that a hacker on the other side of the planet can easily break in … Continued
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Tech News
The Best Camera Bag Is One You Put Together Yourself
Out of all the camera bags I have either used or considered- none were comfortable and functional together. To hope for a the one bag you find to be stylish as well would be flat out impossible. Most companies try and sell a camera bag as a box with shoulder straps on it. Camera bags … Continued
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Tech NewsSculpting With Magnetic Clay Looks Fantastically Weird
When we last checked in with Jolan Van der Wiel, the Dutch designer was mixing iron filings and plastic to cast gravity-shaped furniture. This spring Van der Wiel returned, with an exhibition showing the process of sculpting with clay mixed with iron filings. And it’s bizarre. The project is called Dragonstone—yes, just like the Game … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgets
Use Google Now’s Location Reminders To Power Through Your To Dos
One way to deal with tasks that you never get around to or are always forgetting is to attach a location to them. Google Now has had the ability to display reminders based on a place for a while now, and they only take a few seconds to set up. Launch the Google Search app … Continued
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Tech NewsDesign101 Years of Tour de France Bikes Map the Evolution of Cycling
This year marks the 101st riding of the Tour de France, one of the most brutal sporting events ever created by man. In fact, plenty of us are so focused on the madness that we overlook how incredible the technology that powers it has become—and how it’s evolved over more than a century. We ran … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidLunatic leaps on top of moving metro train as it emerges from tunnel
Watch a madman leap on to a moving train as it emerges from a tunnel in France. The idiot then tells the camera that he will try again soon because it didn’t work out how he had planned—as if it’s not easy enough to get yourself killed these days. SPLOID is a new blog about … Continued
By James Baker