Myfitnesspal was a startup that offered Internet of Shit-based fitness and diet tracking; they were purchased by Under Armor for $475,000,0...
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This speaker looks like the '50s but sounds like the future
There are plenty of us out there who enjoy the look of vintage speakers, but using them today isn't necessarily practical. However, tha...
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Hey small business owners! You can save the Internet
Josh from Fight for the Future writes: "The death of net neutrality will hurt small businesses the most. But mobilizing businesses and...
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Dutch panic over infiltration of an apostate Scientology-alike into education and government
Avatar is a self-actualization "technique" created by an ex-Scientologist named Harry Palmer, who defected from the "church...
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Concert: Kíla - Live at Vicar Street
I got my first Kíla album in the mid-1990s while I was going to university in Halifax, Canada. It was a big deal. Lemme give you some bac...
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A basket full of revolting EasterFools' Day 'treats'
For the first time in over 60 years, Easter and April Fools' Day are on the same day, creating the rare EasterFools' Day holiday. ...
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Georgia criminalizes routine security research
Georgia is a hub for cybersecurity research, with leading university computer science and security programs and a new $35m state cybersecur...
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Mac OS update adds support for fancy external video cards
Matt Burns at TechCrunch : "The additional horsepower isn’t needed for general use, but the added graphics cards supercharge Macs for...
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'The Unbitten Elbow' by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Reader recommended , and absolutely delightful, The Unbitten Elbow depicts the fervor and zelotry of the Soviet state as it rots from the ...
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California coffee cups to get cancer warning
The National Coffee Association failed to demonstrate that a known-carcinogen produced during the coffee brewing process is not harmful. A ...
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Trump administration will require every visitor to the USA to divulge all social media identities
Today, the US State Department published a notice in the Federal Register seeking comment on a plan to require 15,000,000+ foreigners who g...
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What do you call someone who derives pleasure from the bread of affliction?
What do you call someone who derives pleasure from the bread of affliction? A matzochist. ### Why do we have a Haggadah at Passover? So...
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How to fold World Record-setting paper airplanes
John "The Paper Airplane Guy" Collins shows us how to fold "Suzanne," the aircraft that set a 2012 world record for fly...
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Facebook deathwatch: a decade ago, it was impossible to imagine the fall of Myspace
In 2007, the Guardian's Victor Keegan published "Will MySpace ever lose its monopoly?" in which he enumerated the unbridgeabl...
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Referendums and low-engagement voters produce catastrophic outcomes (but what about corruption?)
The idea of representative democracy is that we pay lawmakers to give serious attention to the nuances of policy questions and cast votes o...
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This is the first 3D visualization of a melting snowflake
Developed by Jussi Leinonen of NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, this is a visualization of the first ever 3D model of a snowflake melting in ...
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Oklahoma teachers walk out, sensing weakness from GOP legislators who caved on taxing the oil industry
Oklahoma teachers will walk out en masse this coming Monday, despite a historic agreement from the ailing state legislature to give them a ...
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Five years after Google conquered and abandoned RSS, the news-reader ecosystem is showing green shoots
RSS was a revelation for blogging and online media; we got our first RSS feed in 2001 and I have relied heavily on RSS feeds to write this...
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"Kingpin: The Hunt for El Chapo": Game designers review the CIA's declassified tabletop training game
Douglas Palmer got wind of a classified CIA program to create board games to train spies, so he used a series of Freedom of Information Ac...
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Learn Python for a price that works for you
Hailed for its versatility and user-friendly design, Python is one of the best first languages for aspiring programmers to learn. However, ...
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When Joan Rivers and Martha Stewart decorated matzo houses for Passover
The late-great comedienne Joan Rivers was a frequent guest on Martha Stewart's daytime show. One year for Passover, they built gingerb...
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Confession: You can't trust a junkie with a new laptop
There's still plenty of life left in my 2015 MacBook Pro. But sooner or later, I'll ditch my computer in favor something new. The ...
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Earthworm jerky exists, unfortunately
Today on "WTH is Walmart trying to sell my friend Terry through a Facebook ad"**: Earthworm Jerky . (Last time it was funeral pot...
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People from 70 countries imitate the sounds cats and dogs make
Not everyone around the world agrees that cats say "meow" and that dogs "woof." Watch in this Conde Nast Traveler vide...
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Patti Smith 'Horses' concert documentary announced
In 2015, Patti Smith went on tour with her band to celebrate the 40th anniversary of her debut album, Horses . Now it's been announced ...
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Will Smith gets friendzoned by Sophia the human-like robot
Sophia is an advanced social robot in her second year of development by Hanson Robotics . In this video, she's on a date in the Cayman...
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Watch Carrie Fisher slap the pretty right off of Oscar Issac's face
A lot of Star Wars fans were butt hurt over the Last Jedi's treatment of iconic Star Wars characters. Others, not so much--I'm one ...
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Pope won't apologize for brutal treatment of Indigenous Canadians
For more than a century, the Canadian government was responsible for perpetuating horrendous abuses against native peoples who were unfortu...
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Adnan Sayed of the Serial podcast wins right to a new trial
As listeners of the Serial podcast know, Adnan Syed was a Baltimore, Maryland high school student sentenced to life in prison for the 1999...
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Watch a cheetah jump into vehicle during a safari
"A cheetah decided to explore our vehicle on a safari I was leading for Grand Ruaha Safaris (in the Serengeti National Park," wro...
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Help crowdfund the Harlem Cryptoparty and 100 unlimited, privacy-protecting wifi hotspots for Puerto Rico
https://ift.tt/2Ieb9I2 Calyx is an amazing nonprofit, privacy-oriented activist ISP (they were the first ISP to successfully resist a secr...
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Watch this bizarre Komputer Tutor supercut of the phrase "floppy diskette"
An absurd and wonderful example of semantic satiation , starring the "Komputer Tutor" Kim Komando , best known for her bestsellin...
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Hacking particle accelerators for unexpected science
As advanced atom smashers like the Large Hadron Collider come online, older ones are sometimes abandoned or, better, used for unexpected sc...
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Science determines mysterious source of that knuckle cracking sound
There are bubbles in your joint fluid that POP! when a joint is "cracked." Via Phys.org Using a mathematical model alongside a...
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Timely video about "dark patterns" the tricks websites use to manipulate you
If you've tried to delete your Facebook account and found yourself mysteriously lost and frustrated, welcome to the world of Dark Patte...
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Throw out metal grill brushes, say doctors
The sharp, thin metal bristles of grill brushes end up in your food and then in your throat, from where there is "no surefire way of r...
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Make your WordPress site stand out with 170+ themes
The web may be vast, but competition to get noticed is still fierce. That's why it's essential to ensure your site is responsive, s...
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Paypal blacklists payments for a World Socialists pamphlet about the Iranian opposition
The Struggle Against Imperialism and for Workers' Power in Iran is a $3.50 pamphlet by Keith Jones of the Socialist Equality Party of ...
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Private equity killed big box retailers, leaving empty big boxes across America, and architects have plans
The traditional explanation for the retail apocalypse is that Walmart and Amazon killed malls and big-box stores, but that account is inco...
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There's a notorious Nazi concentration camp guard living in New York City and ICE won't deport him
Jakiw Palij is a convicted Nazi war-criminal who helped train the force charged with murdering every Jew in Poland, guarded the Trawniki fo...
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The idea behind Cambridge Analytica's Facebook data-harvesting app came from a Palantir employee, with support from Eric Schmidt's daughter
Palantir is the surveillance company founded by authoritarian "libertarian" Peter Thiel; their business-development employee Alf...
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Sinks that look like turntables
Check out these groovy turntable sinks. The collection is called " Vinyl " and it's the creation of Italian designer Gianluca...
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