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Pink Floyd's trippy 'Louder Than Words' video floats a boat in clouds
Mashable - 10 Nov 2014 21:46
Pink Floyd, sans Roger Waters, unleashed new music for the first time in two decades on Monday with the release of its primarily instrumental album, The Endless River, and a surreal music video for "Louder Than Words." "...
11 MTV EMA performances you missed, including Nicki Minaj's Scottish rap
Mashable - 10 Nov 2014 09:14
"Anaconda" hitmaker Nicki Minaj rapped about redheads and rallied the crowd for a sing-along of The Proclaimers' "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" during her dedication to host country Scotland at Sunday's MTV Europe Music Awar...
My Neighbor Totoro Bed
The Gadget Flow - 10 Nov 2014 09:00
Give you kids a giant sized Totoro in an eco-friendly way by replacing their current beds with this My Neighbor Totoro Bed. The bed has been stuffed with 100% PP cotton that's both comfortable and relaxing for rest with ...
Announcing Crash Course Astronomy!
Bad Astronomy - 10 Nov 2014 14:00
I've been hinting for some time about a secret project I've been working on, and the time has finally come to announce it: I'm writing and hosting an online astronomy video series! The series will air on the PBS Digital ...
Three Space Station Crewmen Return Safely To Earth In Kazakhstan
IBTimes - 10 Nov 2014 09:34
(Reuters) - A veteran Russian cosmonaut and two International Space Station crewmates, one from the United States and one from Germany, returned safely to Earth on Sunday with a parachute landing of their Soyuz capsule i...
APEC fashion at its finest: which world leader wore it best?
Mashable - 10 Nov 2014 23:32
Observers of the 2014 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders' Meeting wouldn't be blamed for thinking they stumbled on an elite Star Trek convention The elaborate outfits that President Obama and other...
Google Genomics is a cloud service just for DNA data
Mashable - 10 Nov 2014 23:15
Google is approaching hospitals and universities with a new pitch: Have genomes? Store them with us. The search giant's first product for the DNA age is Google Genomics, a cloud computing service that it launched last Ma...
17 derpy elephants that will stampede into your heart
Mashable - 10 Nov 2014 12:30
Much like human babies, some young animals look a little funny — especially elephants Maybe it's the big ears, maybe it's the long nose or maybe it's the fact that they always look so happy and love to play in the mud....
Countermeasure in Home Depot Data Breach: MacBooks, iPhones For Execs
The Mac Observer - 10 Nov 2014 17:00
One of the countermeasures taken during Home Depot's data breach was for all the executives to get MacBook Pros and iPhones as they had better security than Windows, which was actually the attack vector. The Mac Observer...
BMW's new street lights will charge your electric car
Engadget - 10 Nov 2014 07:10
Street lights are already brimming with electricity, so it stands to reason that they'd make great charging points for electric cars, doesn't it? BMW certainly thinks so. It has developed Light and Charge LED street ligh...
Peter Thiel: Don't Blame Technology For Drop In Middle Class Wages
Forbes - 10 Nov 2014 06:15
Peter Thiel acknowledges that the middle class has faced tough times over recent decades -- but thinks that technology is unfairly blamed for it.
Buy your cat a robot: Mousr acts like real prey
CNET - 10 Nov 2014 23:43Pirate Bay Co-Founder Peter Sunde Released from Prison
Forbes - 10 Nov 2014 22:32
Pirate Bay cofounder Peter Sunde has been released from a Swedish prison after serving a five-month sentence for assisting in copyright infringement. Pirate Bay, which calls itself “the galaxy’s most resilient bittor...
Amazon Echo parody shows smart-mouthed side of the 'talking cylinder'
Tech Times - 10 Nov 2014 14:41
Amazon Echo has just been announced a few days ago, but the Internet is already laughing its socks off over a new viral video that parodies Amazon's new product.
Apple finally offers an easy solution to its missing text message problem
Engadget - 10 Nov 2014 04:33
If you're still being plagued by missing text messages after leaving iOS for another platform, then the time has come to rejoice. Apple has quietly launched a tool that will let you deregister your phone number from iMes...
Tor Project mulls how Feds took down hidden websites
PC World - 10 Nov 2014 04:10
Little is known about how U.S. and European law enforcement shut down more than 400 websites, including Silk Road 2.0, which used technology that hides their true IP addresses. The websites were set up using a special fe...
3D Robotics is building the drones that just about anyone can fly
Engadget - 10 Nov 2014 00:02
The FAA might not know what to do with drones, but UAV technology is moving so fast we're thinking more when not if the skies will be filled with quadrocopters. To help more people jump into the future, 3D Robotics SVP o...
Google Takes Over Operations Of Moffett Airfield From NASA, Will Invest $200M Into The Site
TechCrunch - 10 Nov 2014 22:59
After years of using Moffett Field as the home and launch pad for its fleet of private jets, Google has agreed to a deal in which it will lease the airfield from NASA for the next 60 years. As part of the lease, Google...
AT&T backs out of in-flight wireless game
Slash Gear - 10 Nov 2014 22:31
Challenging GoGo in-flight wireless was going to be no small feat, but AT&T was poised to offer LTE service while we coasted above the clouds. A new report suggests AT&T is no longer interested in air travel and LTE serv...
Why Walmart may never accept Apple Pay
TUAW - 10 Nov 2014 21:00Hackers hit US Postal Service networks, employee data grabbed
ZDNet - 10 Nov 2014 17:34
China is high on the list of suspects as President Obama meets with the Chinese premier to discuss, among other things, cybersecurity.
LG's working on bendy, rolly, flexy P-OLED screens for every gadget you can imagine
Digital Trends - 10 Nov 2014 17:24
LG Display has laid out plans for the future of its P-OLED touchscreens, indicating it wants to take them beyond smartwatches, and introduce the technology on phones, tablets, computers, and even televisions over the nex...