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Tech NewsHow LIVR Fooled the World (And Why the World Probably Deserved It)
One of the hottest new apps set to debut this week at SXSW, that annual intermingling of tenuous ideas and easy money, was LIVR, a social network exclusively for drunk people. Media and investors alike lined up to laud it. The only problem? As we first reported yesterday, LIVR was an elaborate hoax. Now it’s … Continued
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Tech NewsTomorrow’s Cosmos Debut Kicks Off With President Obama
The first thing you’ll see tomorrow night when you tune in to Cosmos won’t be Carl Sagan, or even Neil deGrasse Tyson. It’ll be President Obama, kicking off the series premiere with a statement that “invites a new generation to embrace the spirit of discovery and inspires viewers to explore new frontiers and imagine limitless … Continued
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This week in Tech Reads: bandwidth on the battlefield, making a chart-topping app without ever learning to code, how glowing screens are messing with our sleep, and much more. Don’t forget to change your clocks! Brendan Koerner shows how the next development in warfare will be controlling and commandeering bandwidth for communications and more. [Wired] … Continued
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Tech NewsFake LIVR App, Fake Hoverboard, The New Cosmos, and More
This week, we blew the lid off a hoax drinking app that everyone thought was totally real. We also broke down which streaming TV device is best for you, investigated that fake hoverboard, and reviewed the new Cosmos reboot. Let’s look back at the best week we had this week! The LIVR Hoax: Everybody’s Favorite … Continued
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You Must Read This Test Pilot’s Story of an SR-71 Disintegrating Midair
This story has been kicking around the internet for awhile, but man oh man oh man is it worth a read. Test pilot Bill Weaver was flying an SR-71 Blackbird on an experimental evaluation flight when a malfunction at Mach 3.18 caused the plane to literally tear apart. Yet somehow, Weaver survived. Here’s the moment … Continued
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Tech NewsHow to Tell Real Diamonds From Fake
The jewelry market has been flooded with synthetic stones over the last several years; not just lab-grown gems but flat-out fakes. Here’s how to tell if your rock is the real McCoy and not just a shiny bauble. Real Diamonds: Natural vs Lab-Grown Until the mid-1950s, the only way to get your hands on a … Continued
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1940s Computer-Power
For International Women’s Day, flashback to the early days of NASA. Fundamental research in aerodynamics using wind tunnels and the very earliest push into supersonic flight are piling up stacks of data. All that data went through computers, the women who performed data transcription and reduction. Computers of the NACA Muroc Flight Test Unit. Standing … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy and Security
Hackers Can Use the Labels On Your Snail Mail to Mess You Up Online
Think hacking starts and ends online? Think again. Forbes took a look at the damage an identity thief can do using just the address label on the magazines you subscribe to, and the answer ain’t pretty. Forbes’ Kashmir Hill reports that, up until last week, New Yorker subscribers’ passwords to the magazine’s subscription management website … Continued
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Tech NewsScience: Less-Attractive People Get The Most Online Dating Attention
If you’ve stuck a toe in the online dating pool, you’ve probably come across some total hottie and thought “oh great, that lucky so-and-so is gonna steal away all the attention from my profile.” Not so, says science—in fact, it’s the controversial-looking people, not the smokin’ specimens, who get the most attention. Here’s Head Squeeze’s … Continued
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Highlights from #spaceprom
Last night was the 57th annual National Space Club Goddard Memorial Dinner, a celebration of the first successful flight by Dr. Goddard of a liquid-fuelled rocket, otherwise known as #spaceprom. A few highlights from the evening*: The keynote speaker was Emily Briere, a student at Duke University and winner of the Goddard Memorial Dinner Keynote … Continued
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Tech NewsDesign
Terrify Your Dinner Party Guests With These Thudding T-Rex Ice Cubes
The number one rule for hosting a successful dinner party? Make sure your guests fear gruesome death by dinosaur at least once during the evening. The best way to achieve the effect? These ice ripples that mimic that scene—you know the one—from the original Jurassic Park. No T-Rex needed! Slip one into someone’s glass then … Continued
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Behold the New 3,296-piece Lego Star Wars Sandcrawler!
This is definitely the Lego Star Wars Sandcrawler I was looking for. It’s not as massive as the fan built vehicle that every Lego and Star Wars nerd in the world wanted, but with all its moving mechanism and seven minifigs, it’s a must have. Its character and construction seems well resolved. Check out the … Continued
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Tech NewsThis is the 3,296-piece Lego Star Wars Sandcrawler you were looking for
It’s not the massive Sandcrawler Ultimate Collector Edition every Star Wars and Lego nerd in the world were claiming for, but it’s pretty damn good. 3,296 pieces! It’s pretty damn big. Here we got all the official images. It really looks fantastic. It includes seven minifigures: Luke Skywalker, Uncle Owen, C-3PO and four Jawas, plus … Continued
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Tech NewsSploid
What if Game of Thrones characters couldn’t remember other characters?
Game of Thrones is a complicated show with a never ending cast of characters and families and sigils and bannermen and animals and politics and power and maps and magic and breasts that it’s sometimes hard to keep up with who is fighting who and for what. This hilarious parody of Game of Thrones by … Continued
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