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Tech NewsThis Week’s Top Comedy Video: Mary Kate Olsen Using Instagram
As silly as it may be, there are unwritten rules of Instagram. Don’t cheat and use pictures you took with your DSLR. Don’t post too many pictures of food. Don’t hashtag bomb every single picture. Don’t take it too seriously. Etcetera, etcetera. But you can totally imagine celebrities on their last minute of fame breaking … Continued
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Tech NewsWatch How All Those Streets Signs Are Made
I’ve always wanted to steal a street sign but they’re always bigger than you think. Where would I put it? How annoying is it for the city to fix? Wait, how are street signs even made? This video shows the street sign magic factory of New York City and reveals the true anatomy and process … Continued
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The Trillion Dollar F-35 Is Grounded Yet Again
In what is becoming almost as consistent as the sun rising in the east and setting in the west, the F-35—America’s trillion dollar joke of a fighter jet—has been grounded again. I don’t even know how many times the fighter jet has been grounded now, I’ve lost count. This time, it’s because of a crack … Continued
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Tech NewsDesign
Most Beautiful Items: February 16-22, 2013
The weekend is just minutes away at this point, but instead of going into an excited frenzy, relax and take a moment to recall all the beautiful things we feasted our eyes upon this week. We may be looking forward to the days of freedom ahead, but don’t forget to enjoy what you have in … Continued
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Tech NewsDavid Bowie: Young Americans
Have you heard the news today, oh boy? Good, because I didn’t yesterday—February 21 was the anniversary of the release of David Bowie’s Young Americans, the first single of the album of the same name. The year was 1975. Young Americans was one of Bowie’s many reinventions, breaking with his previous sound and creating a … Continued
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Microsoft Says It Got Hacked Like Apple and Facebook
Microsoft just revealed that “a small number” of its computers, which includes its Mac business unit, have been hacked in a similar attack to what happened with Apple and Facebook earlier this week. The computers were infected with malware using techniques similar to the Apple and Facebook hacks. Luckily, Microsoft says that there is no … Continued
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Google Is in Talks to Create Its Own Spotify-like Streaming Music Service
According to the Financial Times, Google is currently in talks with “big music labels to launch a streaming service to compete with companies such as Spotify.” Google previously launched its own digital music store over a year ago but this service will be different than the digital tunes shop, Google’s streaming music service will offer … Continued
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SwiftKey 4, Vector, and More
You probably won’t do a backflip over a flight of stairs in real life, but you’ll do it on your Android phone. And you’ll stay organized. And you’ll send lewd pictures that expire in three seconds to your friends. Or at least you will if you’re checking out this round of the apps of the … Continued
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Worm Run, Solve the Outbreak, and More
Evade space worms, diagnosis an outbreak in a rural village, and read a little Charles Dickens. Nope, not retelling your dream from last night, just previewing a few of the things you can do with this round of the week’s best iPad apps. Worm Run: Here’s another game you might get addicted to—in Worm Run, … Continued
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MLB at Bat 13, Timbre, and More
Apps are supposed to make your life easier, though they don’t always live up to that. However, here are five that actually will, whether you’re organizing your schedule, following baseball, or trying to find new music. Zero Motorcycles: Zero’s 2013 line of electric bikes now work with Bluetooth, so now you can communicate with it … Continued
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Tech NewsGoogle
New Googleplex First Look: A 1.1 Million-Square-Foot Monster Optimized By Nerds
Vanity Fair has a nice look at the new Google headquarters, including a rendering of the mammoth 1.1 million-square-foot campus. The new campus is called “Bay View.” At first, you think you’re just looking at a bunch of boring identical buildings. But it’s designed like a search algorithm to get employees from start to finish … Continued
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Guam’s Solving Its Snake Problem With a Horrifying Rain of Poisoned Mouse Paratroopers
Guam has a problem with brown tree snakes. Specifically, it has two million brown tree snakes, and they’re slowly decimating other native species. So scientists have come up with a solution, the only logical one really: fill a bunch of dead mice with painkillers, give each corpse a tiny parachute, and throw them all out … Continued
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What Happens To Your Brain When You Get Black-Out Drunk?
You wake up in an unfamiliar room, missing a button or two, with a few stains on your shirt that you’re hoping are food-related. The last thing you remember from the night before was downing that fourth shot of Cuervo. Okay, so you blacked out. But what exactly does that mean? What did alcohol do … Continued
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Tech NewsThis Gorgeous Timelapse of Australia’s Outback Isn’t Just Monochrome—It’s Infra-Red
Australia’s Canberra region is as beautiful as it is rugged. While the area may explode in color and life after seasonal rains, it is equally inhospitable during droughts. To capture this dichotomy, acrylic artist Phil Ryan teamed with photographer Glen Ryan in Karst Country. Karst topography, with its dramatically eroded limestone formations, is found throughout … Continued
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Let’s Talk About Whatever You Want for the Next Hour
Hey, guess what? It’s Friday! We’re sure you’re feeling just as restless as we are, so to help the day fly by, we’ll be hanging around this thread to talk about anything you want for the next hour. No more work no more! Unless you’re Wagner, in which case you’re on a plane to Barcelona … Continued
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Watch This Hypnotizing Footage Of a Rainbow Mercury Spinning Through Space
While Curiosity’s off drilling into the surface of Mars, plenty of other man-made, space-bound machines are surveying the rest of the solar system, and coming with some pretty cool stuff. NASA’s MESSENGER, for instance, put together quite the mesmerizing footage of Mercury’s spin. Stitched together out of over 1,000 shots, the little movie shows roughly … Continued
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The Best Possible Use For All Your Mismatched Socks
As cliche as the problem sounds, socks really do have a way of going missing in the wash. But why resort to just throwing single socks away, or suffering the embarassment of wearing a mismatched pair, when you can just stitch them all together into a eye-catching throw rug? Or, if you can’t sew worth … Continued
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Is It Okayyyyyy To Say Heyyyyyyyyyy?
There’s a virus we need to talk about. It’s spread between our brains, fingers, and keyboards, we rarely think about it, and we almost all do it. Maybe it’s harmless. Or maybe it’s corroding our entire language. Ughhhhhhhhhhh! We’ve been typing like some horrible mix between Bravo reality TV star, child, and moaning animal for … Continued
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This Aeropress Coffee Maker Is Your Deal of the Day
The Aeropress is a cult coffee maker that is absolutely adored by its devotees. In fact, there’s an annual international competition to see who can make the best cup of coffee using an Aeropress. (This year it’s in Melbourne, Australia.) Coffee snobs love the Aeropress because it is perfect for experimentation and has a superfast … Continued
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