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Police Claim Elderly Protester ‘Tripped and Fell’ Before Viral Video Exposed the Lie

Police in Buffalo, New York released a statement on Thursday claiming that an elderly man who was protesting police brutality had “tripped and fell” in front of Buffalo City Hall before being taken to the hospital. But that all changed when video went viral on social media showing the 75-year-old man had been pushed by … Continued

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Why Buffalo’s Dirty Snow Pile Still Hasn’t Melted Yet

Over the winter, the Eastern US was blanketed in blizzard after blizzard. As a stark reminder of Mother Nature’s bitchiness, two snow-plowed piles of that record snowfall in two different cities lingered well into summer. One of them is still frozen—a mud-caked sno-cone slowly oozing in the sun. The giant snow piles which have managed … Continued

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There’s Still A Giant Pile of Unmelted Snow In the Middle of Buffalo 

We’d been tracking the slow demise of Boston’s Tide Street pile: A glacier of trash and black snow that served as a reminder of the worst winter in recent memory. Sadly Boston’s snow melted last week, RIP. But there’s a rival pile in Buffalo that’s just as big, nasty, and, yes, still frozen. Boston’s pile … Continued

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There’s 10 Drives and 80TB of Storage Hiding Inside This Tower

By now, most of us have made the transition from a bulky desktop computer to a sleek laptop. But Buffalo makes a strong case for making room for a non-descript tower on your desk again with its Thunderbolt 2 DriveStation Ultra that’s filled to the brim with hard drives and storage. Inside the DAS—or direct … Continued

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The Truth Behind That Video of Black Bears “Chasing” Tourists

It turns out that the video of black bears chasing tourists in Yellowstone National Park is less a case of a protective mother and her cubs and more a case of a frightened bear trying to get away from gawking tourists who trapped them. National Geographic contacted an expert to explain: [I]t started with what’s … Continued

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Snowy Yellowstone Footage Shows Geyser, Buffalo, And Bigfoot?

Because every time there’s a new viral Bigfoot video, we can’t stop ourselves from watching it, skepticism be damned. This one, at least, contains some lovely views of Yellowstone National Park, where the geysers are majestic and the buffalo roam … and maybe Sasquatch (keep your eyes on the trees) do, too. Depending on what … Continued

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How Treating One Disease Can Unleash Another

Buffalo live a long time, and they live together in big social groups. This makes them surprisingly good models for human diseases. When researchers treated one malady in buffalo, they discovered a surprising downside — they made them worse, but in a totally different way. Helminths are unpleasant little worms that live in mammalian hosts. … Continued

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The Most Confusing Sentence in the World Uses Just One Word

Take a guess at what this sentence means – “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.” It really has a proper meaning. And it’s part of a whole group of one-word sentences. The sentence (Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.) has been the talk of grammarians since 1972. According to William Rapaport, … Continued

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This Video of Lion Hunting is Killer

Last month we brought you footage of an African painted dog pack taking down a pregnant impala. Today, we bring you lions hunting a baby buffalo. Here’s the thing: you can’t plan this. When wildlife film documentaries go out into the bush trying to get good footage of something like lion hunting, it can take … Continued

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Buffalo Is Not The Only Place That Has Ever Received Epic Snow

Predictably, in the wake of the massive snowstorm burying Buffalo, we’re getting a lot of mislabelled photos floating around of other, not-Buffalo places buried in snow some time in the past. Here’s a few fakes we’ve spotted. Top image: Austria, February 2013. With social media, we all end up being content curators. When you see … Continued

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Impressive time-lapse of the snow wall that swallowed Buffalo, NY

Meteorologist said that they have never seen radar images like the ones from yesterday’s snow wall that swallowed Buffalo, NY. The snow lake effect was caused by low temperatures now affecting the big lakes, part of a record-breaking blanket of freezing temperatures that covered 85% of the continental US. Here is the radar time-lapse that … Continued

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Holy mother of God, check out the giant snow wall swallowing Buffalo

A wall of snow has swallowed Buffalo, New York, this morning. NOAA meteorologists say it’s a heavy snow lake effect. Check out the videos, plus the aerial photos (like the above posted by WBEN NewsRadio’s Facebook) and satellite images. Good luck everyone. Developing… [Update 14] Note: Check out this amazing map of the blanket of … Continued

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This Dongle Lets You Use Your Laptop’s Keyboard With Your Phone

There are almost as many wireless Bluetooth keyboards on the market as there are Bluetooth speakers. But why spend money on yet another keyboard for your mobile devices when there’s probably already a perfectly good one on your laptop? With this Bluetooth USB transmitter dongle from Buffalo, the keyboards you already have can also work … Continued

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An Itty Bitty Card Reader That Doesn’t Care Which USB End Is Up

If you’re rocking a classic laptop that hails from the time before SD card readers were a standard feature, Buffalo’s got you covered with an incredibly petite flash card reader that promises to handle up to 45 different formats. Of coure, that’s taking into account the endless varieties of SD, miniSD, and microSD cards on … Continued

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The 15 Minute Phone Charger You Don’t Actually Want

Buffalo has just announced a new backup battery called the Voltissimo that makes the bold claim of being able to fully charge an iPhone in just 15 minutes. While there’s no technical reason it shouldn’t be able to deliver on that claim, it’s not the best idea for your phone in the long run. Available … Continued

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Hustle in Style With Dice Carved From Buffalo Bone

While there’s no way these would fly by Vegas standards, this set of antique, buffalo bone dice would be an incredibly cool—if not mildly creepy—way to add some character to any newfound gambling connoisseur’s bag of tricks. According to the seller’s eBay page, these dice were discovered in an old barn in Montana and would … Continued

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Here’s the New Fastest Wireless Router You Can Buy For Your House

Buffalo just put a new Wi-Fi router on store shelves, and it’s so fast you can’t really use it with anything. But on paper it is so great and fast. The AirStation WZR-D1800H (sexy!) router uses the brand new 802.11ac spec, which is a big technical step beyond 802.11n, the current obscurely named wireless champion … Continued

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Think Inside the Box: The Ultimate NAS Showdown

The NAS box. It’s not particularly sexy or groundbreaking, but network-attached storage is an obvious solution for a common need. And here’s the very best of the bunch. A modern NAS, as the hub of your home network, can offer many advantages. Its terabytes of storage can provide not only easy backup for your devices, … Continued

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The Ultimate Router Battle

You’ve been getting by with the cheapie router you bought two years ago, so why should you upgrade now? Performance. And features. We asked seven manufacturers to send us the best consumer routers in their stables regardless of price tags. In most cases, that meant a simultaneous dual-band router capable of running 802.11n wireless networks … Continued

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Play 3D Blu-rays (If You Can Find Any!) on Buffalo’s Portable Drive

Most of Buffalo’s products wind up Stateside after their initial Japanese launch, so it’s fairly safe to say this portable 3D Blu-ray drive can be added to your wishlist—if you have a 3D-supporting monitor, that is. There are a few 3D monitors already available, but with 3D being a big theme for companies now, we … Continued