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The 73-year-old Chinese immigrant behind $80 million in art forgeries
The Verge - 18 Aug 2013 07:32
Pei-Shen Qian was a quiet, unassuming neighbor -- but according to a recent New York Times article, he was responsible for dozens of modernist forgeries that, together, netted more than $80 million. In his youth, Qian ha...
The Death of the American Drive-in
Slashdot - 18 Aug 2013 14:28
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "Claire Suddath writes in Businessweek that the number of drive-ins in America has dwindled from over 4,000 in the 1960s to about 360 today. Since Hollywood distributors are expected to stop p...
Why are you so afraid of MSG?
The Verge - 18 Aug 2013 03:41
How did monosodium glutamate get such a bad rap? After a consumer crusade in the 60s, the compound has become synonymous with bad Chinese food, Doritos and processed cheese powder -- but a new longform piece from Buzzfee...
Poll: Are restaurants and bars too loud?
CNET - 18 Aug 2013 17:36
Loud conversation and music are good for business because tables turn over faster and people drink more, but does the noise turn you off?
How Underwater Drones Are Searching For the Lost Pilots of WWII
Gizmodo - 18 Aug 2013 02:07
Deep below the Pacific Ocean, dozens of WWII pilots are lying in watery graves, still inside the aircraft took them across the sky decades ago. It's far to late for a rescue, but as Popular Science explains, the people b...
AirCast for Android sends local or cloud videos to Chromecast, test it out now
Engadget - 18 Aug 2013 23:47
ClockworkMod dev Koushik Dutta has teased us with a few interesting ways to get our own media streaming on Chromecast, but now he's actually releasing one to the public. AirCast runs on your Android device and streams vi...
Biiwatch: A Wireless Smartphone Camera Remote for Your Wrist
PetaPixel - 18 Aug 2013 23:39
Categories: Equipment News Technology Tags: accessorybiiwatchcameraremoteiphoneremoteshutterwatchwirelesswrist French smartphone device startup SmartMobilAccessoire is working on a new product called the Biiwatch. It's a...
Why Unpaid Interns Are Hitting the Streets
Mashable - 18 Aug 2013 23:30
In today's working world, unpaid internships are just another stepping stone to landing your dream job And while the unfair circumstances around unpaid internships are starting to be recognized, there are still droves of...
Partner of Guardian's Snowden Reporter Detained Under Terrorism Act
Slashdot - 18 Aug 2013 23:08
hydrofix writes "The partner of the Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, who has written a series of stories revealing mass surveillance programs by the National Security Agency (NSA), was held for almost nine hours on S...
Can e-tailer Zappos demolish the brick-and-mortar model?
CNET - 18 Aug 2013 13:00
Making a play to attract fashionistas, the Amazon-owned online retailer tries its hand at social experiments in a bid to convince shoppers to abandon brick-and-mortar outlets for the Internet.
CrunchBase Analysis Of Investment Activity By Season
TechCrunch - 18 Aug 2013 08:00
Many people in tech believe that VCs slow the pace of their investing during the summer, especially in August. We wanted to verify this using the CrunchBase dataset by comparing deals over the past few years.
What Games Are: Something's Adrift With Oculus Rift
TechCrunch - 18 Aug 2013 23:00
Take a step back from what Rift does and consider where it does it. What do you see? A hulking PC at a desk powering it and its games. Oculus Rift's problem is essentially that it's a peripheral for a device category whi...
Top 10 Tech This Week
Mashable - 18 Aug 2013 23:00
The technology world never stops innovating. Come rain or shine, there are new developments each week -- and we're here to keep you up to speed with the most important ones On Monday, Elon Musk revealed his plans for the...
15 Creative Ways to Repurpose Your Old Beer Cans
Mashable - 18 Aug 2013 22:30
Got leftover beer cans? Of course you do Whether you hoarded them as a physical record of collegiate imbibing or just forgot to toss your leftovers in the recycle bin, now is time to do something useful with all that alu...
Missing The Beautiful Perseid Meteor Shower Was Dumb Of You
Gizmodo - 18 Aug 2013 22:25
Look there were a lot of options. NASA streamed the shower with commentary, local astronomer associations were posting pictures, and there's always . . . what's that place? Oh right. Outside. You could have gone and watc...
Zealous Internet filter blocks Hamlet as 'violent content'
PC World - 18 Aug 2013 22:25
The unreliability of internet filters has been demonstrated at the British Library, where its Wi-Fi network blocked an author from reading an online version of Shakespeare's Hamlet, as it was deemed to contain "violent c...
Should Cops Wear Google Glass?
Slashdot - 18 Aug 2013 22:05
Nerval's Lobster writes "Over at The Kernel, staff writer Greg Stevens wonders whether police departments around the world should outfit their officers with Google Glass. There's some logic behind the idea. A cop with we...
Making Too Many Choices Drains Your Willpower, so Plan Ahead
Life Hacker - 18 Aug 2013 22:00
Picture this: You have a long day at work where you had to make tough decisions left and right. Once you get home, do you stick to your diet, or do you reach for a hamburger and beer?
This Virus Creates Fake Followers on Instagram
Mashable - 18 Aug 2013 21:50
President Obama has them. So do many of the Fortune 500 CEOs. We're talking about fake social media followers, and it's no surprise that some of the Internet's most popular social media accounts are bolstered by a less-t...
Google Services, battery usage and other areas of confusion
Android Central - 18 Aug 2013 21:44
Google Services uses more battery as it encompasses more things, but that doesn't help with the confusion factor Jonathan wrote in with a concern: Battery drain since 4.3 and/or new PlayStore Am I the only one to have th...
Revisit the amazing Internet the cool kids used in 1997
CNET - 18 Aug 2013 21:43
Watch this hilariously dated instructional video from an era when Netscape and "cyber" meant something and everything was just waiting to be "surfed."
The New Tools That Let You Build a Personal GIF Library
The Atlantic - 18 Aug 2013 21:30
Archiving! Annotating! Anthologizing! Assembling your own GIF Alexandria