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Tech NewsThis DIY Mini NES Console Is What Nintendo Should Have Made
When Nintendo announced the pint-sized NES Classic, people rightly got super excited about the little guy. Although its hardware limitations became more known over time, the gadget is just so tiny, cute, and cheap that it’s easy to look past its faults. But one hardware hacker named daftmike crafted the mini NES Nintendo should have … Continued
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Tech NewsSony Pictures Sued Over Hack (Again)
Nearly 18 months after (supposedly) North Korean hackers gained access to a huge amount of data from Sony Pictures Entertainment, including emails, unreleased scripts, and full-length films, the creators of To Write Love on Her Arms are suing Sony over its failure to protect the film from piracy. They want $8.7 million in damages. First … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidAn Artist Creates a Renaissance-Style Portrait With Just String
Artist Petros Vrellis works comfortably in that strange medium where technology meets classical art. In 2012, he created an interactive van Gogh painting that we wish was an app (he made it an app a month later). For his latest piece, Vrellis uses a computer algorithm and a circular loom to create stunning El Greco-inspired … Continued
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Tech News
This Incredible Collection of 400 Vintage Boomboxes Is Up For Sale
If you happen to be in the market for 400 vintage boomboxes, then it’s your lucky da. Craig Kenton, a New Zealander who’s collected boomboxes for fifteen years is auctioning off his entire collection, and it’s huge. According to Kenton, he’s starting the bid at $20,000 but says he could easily just sell the top … Continued
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Tech NewsThis Robotic Crawler Helps Babies at Risk for Cerebral Palsy
Robotics and AI often get a bad rap for the whole destroyer of the human race thing. But when you watch a motorized machine help a baby crawl, you can’t help put feel like robots aren’t so bad after all. And that’s exactly the kind of machine that researchers at the University of Oklahoma built. … Continued
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Tech NewsAppleApple’s Original Programming Isn’t Very Original
Apple’s first big “original” content announcement was the upcoming new advertisement original series Planet of the Apps. Now, Apple is snatching up “Carpool Karaoke,” the creative work of James Corden and The Late Late Show, to become a new 16-episode weekly Apple Music exclusive. If you haven’t seen it, the entire idea is getting a … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy and SecurityMillions of Wireless Keyboards Can Let Hackers See What You’re Typing
A newly discovered set of wireless keyboard vulnerabilities can let hachers take over your keyboard and secretly record what you type. It’s called KeySniffer, and it spells death for millions of wireless, radio-based keyboards. According to security researchers at Bastille, the so-called KeySniffer vulnerability affects wireless keyboards that use a less secure, radio-based communication protocol … Continued
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Tech NewsDesign
The Best and Worst Stuff in the New Ikea Catalog
In the last few years, Ikea has shrugged off its false perception of a purveyor of cheap furniture and started selling some truly stunning stuff. For 2017, the Swedish flatpack furniture maker mixes classic and modern designs. But for every good-looking piece, there’s a terrible one that some poor college student is going to get … Continued
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Tech NewsAppleThis Guy Set Every Generation of iPhone on Fire With Gasoline
Phone makers have gotten pretty good at defying water’s electronic-destroying tendencies. But when it comes to fire, iPhones have a long way to go. Zach Straley’s latest YouTube video tests how well each generation of iPhone handles being doused in gasoline and set ablaze. Turns out, the older the phone the better the results. I … Continued
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Tech NewsMicrosoft
Windows 10 Anniversary Update Proves Why PCs Aren’t Dead
Microsoft released Windows 10 in the summer of 2015, but unlike previous versions of the operating system, it was meant to be the “final” version of Windows, updated into perpetuity. Now, the company is preparing its first major update available to everyone on August 2. We spent a few days messing around with all the … Continued
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ScienceBiology
Swarm of Bees Attempts to Consume Pickup Truck
When bees swarm, a natural process when looking for a place to set up a new colony, they have the tendency to pick some strange locations as a temporary home. Case in point, this truck just chilling near a hotel in downtown Winnipeg. According to CBC News, bees tend to swarm when their current hives … Continued
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Tech NewsMicrosoft
For the Love of God Upgrade to Windows 10 Before You Have to Pay $120
For the past year, Microsoft has been annoyingly aggressive about getting people on board with Windows 10. If you’ve some how come this far without upgrading,. the time has come to cast your die. The software is getting a big price hike starting July 30th, from $0 to $120. SO UPDATE DAMMIT. On August 2nd, … Continued
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Tech NewsAppleA Single Text Can Give Hackers Access to Your iPhone
Last year’s Stagefright vulnerability, which could let someone control your Android phone with just a text, was a terrifying security hole that affected 95 percent of all Android devices. It seems Apple caught a similar bug. According to security research outfit Cisco Talos, Apple devices including the iPhone, Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Watch, can … Continued
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Tech News
Verizon to Data Hogs: Pay Up or We’ll Cut You (Off)
First reported by Droid Life and confirmed by Ars Technica, Verizon will be shutting off the data hose for unlimited data customers who use more than 100GB a month. Although this will only affect people who have been grandfathered into these plans, since Verizon hasn’t offered them for years, it’s the next step in a … Continued
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Tech NewsSploid
Simple Lines Explain Why Your Brain Loves Great Cinematography
It’s easy to pinpoint certain things you love about a movie. I love Total Recall because of Arnold Schwarzenegger and scenes with exploding eyeballs. But in a great film, there is much more going on unconsciously that makes your brain love certain moments over others. Composition Camera walks through some of film’s most memorable scenes … Continued
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ReviewsMoto Z Review: Too Much Gadget, Not Enough Phone
It’s been nearly ten years since Apple got wacky with a tiny slab of glass and metal that begged to be touched. Now every phone looks the same, and consequently bores us all to tears. Motorola’s Moto Z, with its array of modules and crazy thin profile, isn’t like the other guys. It’s an audacious … Continued
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Tech News
Firefox Will Start Aggressively Blocking Pointless Flash
Flash is an lingering remnant of an older internet that’s basically been on life support for years now. It’s buggy, insecure, sucks the soul out of your battery, and honestly you should’ve disabled Flash by now anyway. But Firefox will soon be pulling the plug for you. In a new post detailing the future of … Continued
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Reviews
Acer’s Liquid-Cooled Hybrid Packs a Lot of Power for Not a Lot of Money
It’s a lot to ask a machine to be both a laptop and a tablet, but Acer comes damn close to nailing it with its new Switch Alpha 12. To make it work, Acer had to get weird with design. Acer’s not the first to try something unusual to make a hybrid that combines the … Continued
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Tech NewsThe 9 Weirdest Data Storage Devices Ever Created
Storage devices have taken many strange forms over history. We’ve seen everything from an old 19th-century loom to massive data centers that power companies like Facebook and Google. But along the way, some truly weird devices tried to change how we save our precious data bits. These technologies were either wonderfully weird, woefully misguided, or … Continued
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Tech NewsScientists Found Even More of These Crazy-Looking Peacock Spiders
Most people wouldn’t describe spiders as “beautiful.” But have you ever seen a peacock spider? Scientists just found seven new species of these exotic, multi-colored arachnids. Australian scientist Jürgen Otto, known on YouTube as Peacockspiderman, found all seven species along the coast of Western Australia with help of Australian naturalist David Knowles and American spider … Continued
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