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Hacker Turns Westboro Baptist Church Hate Page Into Donation Site
Mashable - 25 May 2013 18:55
The Westboro Baptist Church can add another group to its "hate" list: hackers. The Christian fundamentalist group, notorious for its "God Hates Fags" protests, launched a website on Monday called GodHatesOklahoma.com, ju...
Rocky Alien Planets: What The Heck Is On Their Surfaces?
Universe Today - 25 May 2013 15:25
We don't have the budget yet to send Star Trek's U.S.S. Enterprise to probe the surface of strange new worlds, but luckily for humanity, astronomers are figuring out techniques to do that without even needing to leave Ea...
Beware the coming of the Google Glass photographer
CNET - 25 May 2013 15:00
The folks at Grovo paint a terrifying picture of a future dominated by obnoxious, Glass-wearing photophiles.
Opportunity Discovers Clays Favorable to Martian Biology and Sets Sail for Motherlode of New Clues
Universe Today - 25 May 2013 23:59
Now nearly a decade into her planned 3 month only expedition to Mars, NASA's longest living rover Opportunity, struck gold and has just discovered the strongest evidence to date for an environment favorable to ancient Ma...
Handmade Diorama Maps Created Using Thousands of Printed Photos
PetaPixel - 25 May 2013 23:39
Categories: Ideas Inspiration Tags: artbirdseyeviewcitiescollagecreativedioramamapssoheinishino What you see above is a "map" of Paris created by collaging thousands of photographs shot in the city. It's just one of the ...
Misfit Wearables Drops Android Support For Its Shine Activity Tracker Ahead Of Summer Launch
TechCrunch - 25 May 2013 23:27
Heads up, Android fans. If you took the plunge and backed the rather sleek Shine wearable activity tracker from Misfit Wearables, you may want to get your money back. According to a recent update posted to the project's ...
Top 10 Tech This Week
Mashable - 25 May 2013 23:26
As we enjoy Memorial Weekend, we look back to another great week in the world of technology. And if you're wondering what happened in the last seven days, worry not -- Top 10 Tech brings you a list of the most important ...
Students' robots to race in mock Mars rover challenge
NBC News - 25 May 2013 23:13
SALT LAKE CITY -- What does it take to build and command a vehicle capable of exploring Mars? Ninety students from around the world are about to find out. Next week, in a remote desert in southern Utah, 10 teams from the...
How Hackers Stole $45 Million in Two Days
Mashable - 25 May 2013 23:01
It was a bank heist for the digital era: No masks, no weapons, no standoffs with police -- just a few keyboards and an elaborate hacking plan. In two sprightly operations, on December 12, 2012, and February 19, 2013, an ...
Functional Apple 1 auctioned off for $671.4K, sets new Sotheby's record
Engadget - 25 May 2013 23:00
With $671,400, you could buy roughly 2,040.7 base-model iPad minis before taxes. One unnamed buyer, however, just laid that amount out for a single Apple 1 from 1976. Auctioned through a Germany-based Sotheby's, The New ...
Thicken Up Your Smoothies with Chia Seeds
Life Hacker - 25 May 2013 23:00
Bananas are usually the go-to ingredient to for thickening up a smoothie, but chia seeds are a great alternative if you don't have any bananas handy, or just don't like how they taste.
Hackers That Were Barely Even Trying Stole 44 Million Records Last Year
Gizmodo - 25 May 2013 23:00
When you think of hackers, your mind might jump to something like a Boris Grishenko (aka "that dude from Goldeneye") typing away on a keyboard one-handedly with virtuosic skill. A criminal mastermind. Verizon's annual Da...
How the Facebook Developer Platform Has Changed How We Use the Web
Mashable - 25 May 2013 22:46
To say the Facebook Developer Platform changed the web as we know it would be a dramatic understatement. Originally launching in 2007 as a tool for developers to build apps for the social network, six years later it has ...
Apps of the Week: Wag.com, SphereShare.net, Blip Blup and more!
Android Central - 25 May 2013 22:37
A couple tools, a game and a few odds and ends to keep you busy this weekend We all love to discover new apps, but no matter how much the Play Store tries to highlight the quality ones, with hundreds of thousands to choo...
Will The Xbox One Rule The Living Room? Price Will Determine The Size Of Its Kingdom
TechCrunch - 25 May 2013 22:30
Price and ship date are always the biggest concerns when new gadgets or hardware hits the market, but in the case of the Xbox One, it's likely to help determine whether the "home entertainment system," as Microsoft is ch...
Mars Society Proposes A Year-Long Arctic Mission To Better Prepare for the Red Planet
Universe Today - 25 May 2013 22:27
The Arctic's a lot like Mars, according to the Mars Society. It's cold, it's isolated, and it's kind of dangerous. And, the society says, it's ready to bring humans to the Arctic for a year to make a mission there even m...
More sources say Intel Atom to power Samsung's Galaxy Tab 3
GigaOM - 25 May 2013 22:17
Sources at VentureBeat have confirmed that Samsung has chosen Intel's Atom to power at least one Samsung Galaxy Tab device, giving the chip-maker a desperately needed design win in the Android tablet market.
The complex and fickle science of taste
The Verge - 25 May 2013 22:12
Salt, sugar, and fat: these three components can make a food that's palatable to just about anyone. But inside the food industry, researchers struggle to balance universal likes with the strange specificity of human tast...
Google Buzz Is About to Finally Buzz Off
Mashable - 25 May 2013 22:11
More than 18 months after announcing that it was shutting down Google Buzz, Google is taking the final steps in snuffing out the platform. According to an email sent to Buzz users, as of July 17, 2013, Google will remove...
What's the First Thing You Can Remember Doing on the Internet?
Gizmodo - 25 May 2013 22:01
There's no denying the global connectivity literally changed the world, and most of are lucky enough to have been alive and conscious when that paradigm shift was rolling out. You might not remember your first real inter...
Organize Laundry with Kitchen Cabinets
Life Hacker - 25 May 2013 22:00
It you're having trouble keeping your laundry room organized, you can repurpose an old wall-mounted kitchen cabinet into a great laundry organizer.
Photoshop Chimeras: Fantasy Creatures Created by Splicing Photos
PetaPixel - 25 May 2013 21:59
Categories: Culture Finds Ideas Tags: arneolavhumorhumorousphotoshopphotoshoppedsplice Want to have some fun as you're learning how to use Photoshop for image editing? Try creating a "Photoshop Chimera." In Greek mytholo...