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Tech NewsSploidCarving Your Thanksgiving Feast Will Be a Lot Easier Using This Clever Life Hack
If it’s your first time preparing a bird for your Thanksgiving feast, you’ll understandably be a little nervous when it comes to time to carve it up for dinner. But there’s no reason to stress over slicing up the perfect portions if you’ve got access to a hundred thousand dollar industrial waterjet machine. As the … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgets5 Easy Ways to Protect the Family Laptop This Holiday
As the end of the year draws near, thoughts turn to family gatherings and celebrations—and the obligatory tech support session for your not-so-computer-savvy relatives. If you want to maximize the good you do and minimize the time you spend doing it, here are five steps to focus on. 1) Update everything you can Software updates … Continued
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An iPhone 4 Survived a Year at the Bottom of a Lake
If you’ve ever submerged your phone in liquid, you know the utter devastation that follows immediately afterward, during which you alternately shake your fist at yourself and the offending liquid. One guy, however, got lucky. Buzzfeed has a remarkable tale of a man, his iPhone 4, and a very cold lake. Pennsylvania resident Michael Guntrum … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy & Security
Hackers Were Stealing Credit Card Data From Madison Square Garden for Almost a Year
The Madison Square Garden Company just disclosed that someone had access to its payment processing system for almost a year. That means all data included on the magnetic stripe of your credit card—like credit card numbers, cardholder names, expiration dates, and internal verification codes—could have been stolen. The breach not only affects Madison Square Garden … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidLet’s All Laugh at How Garbage CGI Was in the ’90s
Even if there is too much CGI in movies these days (and there is), let’s be thankful that the CGI we’re bombarded with looks good. Or, at least, it looks so much better than the utter crap computers spat out back in the ‘90s. God, that era of CGI was awful. Diane Bullock edited together … Continued
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The Government Wants to Cripple Your Smartphone When You’re Driving
US regulators want to limit what you can do with your smartphone while you’re behind the wheel. Today, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) published its first safety guidelines regarding driver distraction, targeting portable and aftermarket devices (a.k.a. smartphones) or other gear you that you connect to your car. The guidelines, which are part … Continued
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Tech NewsHere’s a Livestream of President Obama Pardoning His Last Turkey
Pardoning turkeys is a White House tradition which helps remind birds that Americans can both give life and take it away. America hasn’t seen a single case of murder committed by a turkey since the tradition began. And President Obama will keep that spirit alive when he pardons his last turkeys at 2:45pm ET/11:45am PT … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidTotally Silly Animation Brings Random Objects to Life By Drawing Cute Faces on Them
Here’s a dopey animation from Sean Charmatz that imagines a world where every random object has a cute face. That means soup dumplings cling on to the paper when they get picked up, marshmallows enjoy a satisfying dip in hot chocolate, a glass pane closes its eye while getting washed, a Post-It note gets accidentally … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgets10 Ways to Trick Out Your Android Home Screen
One of the advantages of choosing a shiny new Android phone over those Apple handsets is the extra scope for home screen customization. If you’re stuck for inspiration or wondering how to get started, here are 10 ways of tricking out your home screen and other parts of the Android OS. 1) Load up a … Continued
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Amazon Is Trying to Make Black Friday a Thing in Europe For Some Reason
If you ask someone in Europe about “Black Friday,” it will likely conjure up images of a stock market crash instead of a shopping day. But that hasn’t stopped Amazon from trying to make the American shopping tradition a thing on the other side of the Atlantic. As the Wall Street Journal notes, Amazon is … Continued
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Thunderstorm Triggers Freak Asthma Outbreak in Australia, Killing Four
Four people are dead and another 1,870 people had to be treated for shortness of breath when a rare condition known as “thunderstorm asthma” struck the Australian city of Melbourne earlier this week. It sounds weird, but thunderstorm-induced asthma is actually a thing. As the Associated Press is reporting, a storm rolled through Melbourne this … Continued
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Your Dog Remembers All Those Awful Things You Did
Ever wonder if your dog recalls those times you were were a really shitty owner? The latest science shows they most certainly do. A new study published in Current Biology shows that dogs, like humans, can recall prior events, even when those events weren’t particularly important or meaningful at the time. This suggests that dogs … Continued
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Tech NewsDon’t Burn Down Your House This Thanksgiving
Are you planning on getting creative with your Thanksgiving turkey this year? The US Consumer Product Safety Commission wants to make sure you don’t burn down your house. The agency just released a new safety video showing what happens when you improperly fry a turkey. “We estimate that there’s about 1,400 cooking fires [in the … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidDon’t Leave Your Expensive Camera in the Path of a High-Powered Water Jet
If you’ve always wondered how a pre-digital SLR film camera worked, you can either spend hours painstakingly removing all its tiny screws in order to completely take it apart, or just leave it in the path of a 60,000 PSI waterjet which will reveal the camera’s guts in a manner of minutes. We’re living in … Continued
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Donald Trump: ‘The Wind Is a Very Deceiving Thing’
Donald J. Trump, businessman and president-elect, finally had his meeting with the New York Times this week. In their lengthy chat, the ascendant leader of the free world shared what appeared to be words of wisdom passed down to him by a cartoon sea captain: “The wind is a very deceiving thing.” Context does little … Continued
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Largest Water Slide in the World to Be Dismantled After Fatal Accident
A fatal accident three months ago has left a water park in Kansas City with no choice but to dismantle its star attraction. The 17-story tall Verrückt water slide has been inactive since the accident in August. “Verrückt will be decommissioned — closed permanently and the slide removed from the tower,” a statement to the … Continued
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What Donald Trump Told Tim Cook on the Phone
When he sat down with some of the editors of The New York Times on Tuesday, President-elect Donald Trump admitted that Apple CEO Tim Cook had called him. Cook and Trump haven’t always been on the best of terms—back in February, Trump (then an iPhone user), called for a boycott of Apple products during the … Continued
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Tech NewsMIT’s New Plastic Muscles Could Bring Us One Step Closer to a Real-Life Westworld
We strive to make robots in our own likeness because, as far as we can tell, humans are best adapted to deal with our world. And thanks to researchers at MIT, who’ve found a way to use cheap, nylon plastic as an artificial muscle, we’re now one step closer to creating artificial humans—and opulent fantasy … Continued
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Scientists Discover Why Diet Coke Is Probably Undermining You
Aspartame—the artificial sweetener found in drinks like Diet Coke—is probably not good for you. If you believe otherwise, I admire your commitment to self-delusion. A new study published by a team of investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital in Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism found a possible reason aspartame doesn’t help you lose weight—oh sorry, haven’t … Continued
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