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Chinese lesbian couple 'marries' in push to legalize same-sex marriage
Mashable - 2 Jul 2015 20:48
Love knows no legal boundaries. Teresa Xu and Li TingTing, a lesbian couple, held a simple, unofficial ceremony in Beijing on Thursday to make a push for same-sex marriage legalization in China. See also: Same-sex marria...
Casio to release smartwatch in early 2016
Slash Gear - 2 Jul 2015 18:22
Casio, the Japanese watchmaker and undisputed originator of "old school smartwatches" like those seen above, has announced that it's jumping back into the high-tech wearables market currently dominated by Apple and Googl...
Researchers find the macroscopic Brownian motion phenomena of self-powered liquid metal motors
EurekAlert! - 2 Jul 2015 06:00
(Science China Press) The classical Brownian motion, resulted from microscopic molecule collisions, has been found for more than one hundred years. Recently, researchers disclosed the macroscopic Brownian motion phenomen...
Large 10 Person Family Cabin Tent w/Front Porch
The Gadget Flow - 2 Jul 2015 23:00
Heading for a family camping trip sometime soon? What you could do with in that case is one of these Large 10 Person Family Cabin Tent w/Front Porch. It boasts a 200 sq. ft. of space and can fit up to 10 people at one ti...
Snapchat update gives your finger a rest
CNET - 2 Jul 2015 22:44North Korea Cracks Down On Use Of Internet
The Huffington Post - 2 Jul 2015 16:53
TOKYO (AP) -- North Korea, already one of the least-wired places in the world, appears to be cracking down on the use of the Internet by even the small number of foreigners who can access it with relative freedom by blac...
Uncover turns MacBooks into engraved works of art
Digital Trends - 2 Jul 2015 22:45
As iconic as the Apple logo is on MacBook laptops, those wanting something a bit more unique will appreciate the custom designs from Uncover, ranging from simple engraved shapes to elaborate tattoo-like art. The post Unc...
America challenges Japan to real-life battle of giant robots
CNET - 2 Jul 2015 22:25Nanospiked bacteria are the brightest hard X-ray emitters
EurekAlert! - 2 Jul 2015 06:00
(Tata Institute of Fundamental Research) In a scientific breakthrough, researchers at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai and Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhi Nagar have fashioned bacteria to emit int...
Garmin Edge 520 bike computer offers Strava Live Segments
Slash Gear - 2 Jul 2015 01:27
Garmin, which recently introduced its new Edge 20 and Edge 25 devices, has just taken the wraps off yet another model in the lineup, the Edge 520. As with the other models, Garmin hails this as a "bike computer" with GPS...
Watch people from miles away with Nikon's astonishing 83-- 2000mm superzoom camera
Ars Technica - 2 Jul 2015 01:09
Now anyone can be a paparazzo.
Assembly line robot fatally injures a worker in Volkswagen factory
Digital Trends - 2 Jul 2015 22:17
A 21-year-old car factory worker in Baunatal, Germany, was fatally injured by an assembly line robot on Tuesday. He was installing the machine, whereupon the robot grabbed him and forced him against a metal plate. The po...
AT&T pushes out small update for the Samsung Galaxy S5
Android Central - 2 Jul 2015 17:22
AT&T is currently pushing out an update for the Samsung Galaxy S5, which bumps the device from version OC4 to OF2. Unfortunately, AT&T has not provided a list of changes that are made in this update, but we do know that ...
California's "kill switch" law is now in full swing
Slash Gear - 2 Jul 2015 07:30
Starting this month, any smartphone made after July 1 that will be sold in the State of California is legally required not only to have a kill switch feature but must also have it turned on by default. But considering th...
Facebook starts sharing video ad revenue, but there's a catch
Slash Gear - 2 Jul 2015 05:00
For the first time ever, Facebook has decided that it will share as much as 55 percent of ad revenue to video creators whose content will have some video ads attached to it. While this seems like a move to encourage more...
NSA's spying on UN and others detailed in newly published documents
CNET - 2 Jul 2015 04:35NSA's hacking tool is apparently as easy to use as a Google search
Engadget - 2 Jul 2015 03:46
It's been a couple of years since Edward Snowden and The Guardian introduced us to the NSA's spying tool called XKeyscore. Now, The Intercept has published new details about it from 48 documents Snowden provided, reveali...
PayPal Acquires Xoom for Stake in Digital Money Transfers
The New York Times - 2 Jul 2015 02:55
PayPal, the online payments company weeks away from an expected spinoff from eBay, will end up paying about $890 million for Xoom.
Could your smartphone one day tell you you're pregnant?
Phys.org - 2 Jul 2015 00:43
Researchers at the Hanover Centre for Optical Technologies (HOT), University of Hanover, Germany, have developed a self-contained fiber optic sensor for smartphones with the potential for use in a wide variety of biomole...
What's This All Abooot, Eh? 10 Funny Things Canadians Say That Americans Don't Understand
BGR - 2 Jul 2015 23:55
Here in America, we love our friendly neighbors to the north. We don’t always understand everything they say, but we still love them. Canada is a vast and beautiful country full of gorgeous landscapes and forests as fa...
Marisa Tomei is going to play a lesbian billionaire on 'Empire' Season 2
Mashable - 2 Jul 2015 22:57
Cookie, meet your new BFF — or your new nemesis. Mashable has confirmed that Marisa Tomei is joining the cast of Empire next season in the role of Mimi Whiteman, a "demanding venture capitalist who becomes involved in...
Skimmer on Santander Bank ATM vestibule door leads to fraud
SC Magazine - 2 Jul 2015 17:26
A magnetic stripe skimming device had been placed on the ATM vestibule door at a Santander Bank location in Woburn, Mass.