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Respect the Chemistry Beaker Mug - Inspired by Breaking Bad
The Gadget Flow - 3 Oct 2015 08:00
If you have been watching the Breaking Bad series, you can surely connect with this Respect the Chemistry Beaker Mug. They are made out of 100% borosilicate laboratory glass and have been designed to be heat proof, oven ...
This man-made private island has a penthouse, helipad, and shark-feeding station
Digital Trends - 3 Oct 2015 22:15
If you've been wondering what to do with your billions, maybe you should splurge on a moveable, man-made private island from Migaloo. It has a helipad, spa, and shark-feeding station. The post This man-made private islan...
Imgur Introduces Winston Searchhill: Android App Brings Back Search, Improves GIFs
Tech Times - 3 Oct 2015 14:13
Imgur released an update for its Android app, with the changes detailed on a blog post. The post was accompanied by a GIF that featured a character named Winston Searchhill.
Skreens
The Gadget Flow - 3 Oct 2015 08:01
Skreens is a revolutionary way to experience all of your entertainment. Your PS4, XBox, PCs, cable box, Roku, Apple TV and anything else you're switching between -- now all of it can come online at once, on one display a...
Who Will Step Up To Secure The Internet Of Things?
TechCrunch - 3 Oct 2015 03:00
The Internet of Things (IoT) presents a significant mix of opportunity and risk. Compared to the connected devices of the past, the gazillions of new IoT devices that are being predicted for our homes, transportation, ...
Apple Secretly Made The iPhone 6s Nearly Waterproof
Tech Times - 3 Oct 2015 01:47
Apple equipped the iPhone 6s with a adhesive around the display and silicone seals around everything located on the board to make the device ultra water-resistant.
Weisman: Beware of new smart chip credit card scams
USA Today - 3 Oct 2015 15:02
Scammers are contacting people by email posing as their credit card company.
Facebook Experiments With Ways To Bring Your Profile To Life: Here Are The Changes
Tech Times - 3 Oct 2015 09:42
Facebook has started to roll out new features to bring user profiles to life and tell a better story about the users' life. Better layout for mobile viewing will also be implemented.
Google's 'Don't Be Evil' Becomes Alphabet's 'Do the Right Thing'
Wall Street Journal - 3 Oct 2015 02:20
The code of conduct for Alphabet, the renamed Google, drops the famous "Don't be evil" phrase.
Listen to a 'CD' made from fool's gold, powered by a Raspberry Pi
Engadget - 3 Oct 2015 09:04
What's music to some is noise to others. And that's perhaps most apparent with Ra the latest piece from the creator of an 8-bit camera gun, ::vtol::. As the artist writes in the demo's Vimeo description, the project uses...
That Buzzfeed Article About Autonomous Cars Is Stupid Trolling Bullshit And Here's Why
Gizmodo - 3 Oct 2015 00:40
A couple of days ago, a Buzzfeed writer got a ride in one of Google's autonomous koala-cars and got an erection so powerful that it drew enough blood from his brain to cause him to have a mild stroke that turned him into...
Google updates Photos for iOS, but no Chromecast support just yet
Engadget - 3 Oct 2015 22:33
Waiting for the revamped Google Photos app to arrive on iOS? Well, the company has just rolled out an update on iTunes, but we're afraid it doesn't come with all the new features Mountain View promised at its Nexus event...
Our Favorite Images From NASA's Incredible New Apollo Gallery
Gizmodo - 3 Oct 2015 22:30
Earlier this week, NASA uploaded an incredible treasure trove of images to a new gallery on Flickr: unprocessed photographs from all of the manned Apollo missions. They represent an incredible look into what the astronau...
Edward Snowden may have garnered himself 1.3 million followers during his first week on Twitter, but
Gizmodo - 3 Oct 2015 21:30
Edward Snowden may have garnered himself 1.3 million followers during his first week on Twitter , but even instant celebrities make rookie mistakes. Snowden's? Forgetting to turn off email notifications. 47 GB of follow,...
An Online Dictionary Plans to Catalog a Million Emerging English Words
Gizmodo - 3 Oct 2015 21:00
With viral memes and hashtags sweeping the internet on the daily, language is evolving faster than conventional dictionaries can keep up. You may have been "procrastatweeting" about the "popepocalypse" last week, but the...
Aetho's 'Aeon' GoPro stabilizer looks slick, and so will your video
Engadget - 3 Oct 2015 21:00
"Shoot video that's worth watching" reads one of the straplines for Aetho's "Aeon" handheld GoPro stabilizer. It sounds kinda obvious, right? But, if you've ever walked/ran/danced/dived/whatever with a GoPro in your hand...
What I learned from spending a week with the first big Apple Watch update
Engadget - 3 Oct 2015 19:30
By Jared Newman This article originally appeared on Fast Company and is reprinted with permission. As the first Apple Watch update big enough to merit its own official web page, WatchOS 2 is supposed to be a big deal.
The Windows logo according to Apple
The Verge - 3 Oct 2015 19:18
If you've been scouring Apple's support pages lately, you might have come across this rather curious representation of Microsoft's Windows OS. Sitting alongside Apple's official logos for iOS 8, OS X Yosemite, and iCloud...
The interfaces that bridge the human-machine divide
Engadget - 3 Oct 2015 18:00
First it was toggle switches. And then keyboards, the mouse and other standard interface devices gave us control of computers and the digital world. From the tangible, to hands-free and beyond, the ways in which we contr...
Steve Wozniak: "Steve Jobs and I Were Once Robbed at Gunpoint Outside a Pizza Parlor"
Gizmodo - 3 Oct 2015 18:00
Were Apple's co-founders robbed at gunpoint outside a pizza parlor? That, at least, is what Steve Wozniak told Jimmy Fallon and Seth Rogen during a game of "True Confessions" on Friday's episode of The Tonight Show.
This Life-Sized Hulkbuster Cosplay Will Blow Your Mind
Gizmodo - 3 Oct 2015 18:00
Prop builders have created some awesome costumes in the recent past, but this might be one of the coolest: a life-sized Hulkbuster.
How 4chan Trolled Two of Its Friends by Framing Them for the Oregon Mass Shooting
Gizmodo - 3 Oct 2015 17:12
In the hours between the shooting spree at Umpqua Community College and the moment news networks were able to name Chris Harper Mercer as the alleged gunman, crowds on social media clamored for a name to fill the informa...