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10 weirdest things that have been pulled out of people's bums
Mashable - 19 Dec 2014 07:30
Everyone has done something stupid to get themselves into trouble, but idiotic stunts that can land you in the hospital is usually not what that happens once your grown-up common sense kicks in YouTube channel AllTime10'...
Review: Lomography LCA 120
The Phoblographer - 19 Dec 2014 13:05
The Lomography LCA 120 is the most exciting camera that I've played with all year. No, it really is. I'm not kidding.
Jack wireless guitar adapter connects amps without cords
Slash Gear - 19 Dec 2014 12:30
Everything else is going wireless, and your guitar is no exception. Jack is a simple wireless adapter that connects to a guitar and pairs with an adapter for the guitar's related amp. Once connected, users can rock out w...
Colbert Report set added to Google Business View
Slash Gear - 19 Dec 2014 06:45
Most people are familiar with Google's Street View, which allows users to take virtual tours of just about anywhere. Lesser known is the company's Business View, which is exactly what it sounds like: a virtual look insid...
[AppleTell] Mac app and accessories holiday sale roundup
Technology Tell - 19 Dec 2014 20:14
[From AppleTell] Our holiday sale roundup of Mac app and accessory sales is now live, and will be updated through the holiday season. Great gift ideas up to the last minute.
Hacker Creates Custom Firmware for the Samsung NX300 That Can Auto-Encrypt Photos
PetaPixel - 19 Dec 2014 18:52In Brazil, Knorr is turning old family recipes into beautiful infographic posters
Springwise - 19 Dec 2014 18:09
Food brand Knorr has launched its Receitas de Familia scheme, which lets anyone snap a handwritten recipe to have it turned into a typographic instructional poster.
Meet the man who tracks down and shames the Internet's worst trolls
BGR - 19 Dec 2014 03:30
Trolls are a staple of Internet culture but recently some Internet users have taken to exposing some of the very worst offenders who do things that go beyond run-of-the-mill online cruelty, such as sending out rape threa...
Chimp 'Personhood' Advocates Seek New Appeal in NY
Live Science - 19 Dec 2014 00:27
Animal-rights advocates seeking "personhood" for chimpanzees want to take their case to the highest court in New York State.
FBI says North Korea hacked Sony - what's the proof?
New Scientist - 19 Dec 2014 20:14
The FBI says North Korea forced Sony to cancel the release of Seth Rogan's film The Interview. But security experts are sceptical
The Disorienting Beauty of Spiral Staircases in Old Abandoned Buildings
PetaPixel - 19 Dec 2014 20:11New iPhones, iPads to have more RAM, source claims
Slash Gear - 19 Dec 2014 20:07
Apple's iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, followed closely by the refreshed iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3, brought us some of the best hardware of 2014. Leading into the launch of those devices, we'd heard a seemingly endless rumor cycl...
Canonical's "Snappy Ubuntu" Lands On AWS
TechCrunch - 19 Dec 2014 19:36
Canonical’s stripped down “Snappy” edition of Ubuntu Core is now available on Amazon’s AWS cloud computing platform. If you’ve followed along over the last few weeks, that’s not a major surprise. Snappy fir...
15 beautiful ways to use the new Instagram filters
Mashable - 19 Dec 2014 17:30
It's time to move beyond #nofilter. This week, Instagram added new filters — Crema, Perpetua, Ludwig, Slumber and Aden — for the first time since 2012. According to Instagram's blog, the massive update was inspired b...
[GadgeTell] Micromax's Yureka could be the geekiest phone yet, with 64-bit CPU and Cyanogen OS
Technology Tell - 19 Dec 2014 17:28
[From GadgeTell] If there's one thing bound to work up hardcore Android fans even more than stock-running Nexus devices, that's without a doubt CyanogenMod.
Super Typhoon Shoved Car-Size Boulders Onto Philippine Beaches
Live Science - 19 Dec 2014 17:25
Boulders the size of stretch limousines were moved by storm waves during Super Typhoon Haiyan.
Uber is trying to patent surge pricing
Mashable - 19 Dec 2014 17:15
When Uber Technologies Inc. jacked up prices in Sydney this week to meet the demand of people fleeing a hostage crisis, critics accused the ride-sharing service of price gouging. The company, though, makes no apologies f...
Watch This Double Amputee Control Two Robotic Arms At Once
TechCrunch - 19 Dec 2014 17:10
It’s rare to see the future unfold in front of our eyes this dramatically but here it is: the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab has helped a man who lost both his arms in a “freak electrical accident” ...
Instagram is worth $35 billion, according to Citigroup
Mashable - 19 Dec 2014 17:06
When Facebook bought Instagram for $1 billion in April 2012, the price tag came as a shock to many A little more than two years later, Citigroup said Instagram is worth $35 billion, a number that the bank called "conserv...
Rocket Issues force SpaceX and NASA to Postpone Falcon 9 Rocket Launch to January 2015
Universe Today - 19 Dec 2014 06:28
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – Due to technical problems encountered during a hot fire test of the first stage engines this week with the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the planned Dec. 19 launch of the commercial rocket and NASA...
Mars' Mount Sharp Mystery -- Proof of a Lake Tens of Millions of Years Old?
The Daily Galaxy - 19 Dec 2014 06:09
"We are making headway in solving the mystery of Mount Sharp," said Curiosity Project Scientist John Grotzinger of the California Institute of Technology. "Where there's now a mountain, there may have once been a series ...
Weird sea ghost breaks record for deepest living fish
New Scientist - 19 Dec 2014 05:00
A newly-discovered species with a bizarre body has been spotted deeper down than any other living fish