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Snapchat leak checker ID's hacked accounts
Slash Gear - 2 Jan 2014 21:22
A new tool to allow Snapchat users to check whether their username and cellphone number have been compromised in the recent database hack has been launched, with an estimated 4.6m …
How the Circumference of Earth Was Accurately Estimated 2000 Years Ago
Gizmodo - 2 Jan 2014 10:57
Born around 276 B.C. in Cyrene, Libya, Eratosthenes soon became one of the most famous mathematicians of his time. He is best known for making the first recorded measurement of the Earth's circumference, which was also r...
Moto G comes to Boost Mobile prepaid plans for as low as $100
Engadget - 2 Jan 2014 21:24
Motorola is starting off the new year right. Yesterday we got word that the Moto G is coming to Verizon as a $100 prepaid device, and today Boost Mobile announced that it's also going to be selling the budget-friendly sm...
Power Button Silver Ring - $49
The Gadget Flow - 2 Jan 2014 08:00
The Power Button Silver Ring from Smiling-SilverSmith is a power button in more ways than one. Handmade from pure sterling silver, this beautiful ring is shaped like a computer power button. Like the ring from the Lord o...
Gus Modern Acrylic Wine Rack - $155
The Gadget Flow - 2 Jan 2014 08:00
The Acrylic Wine Rack from Gus Modern is a simple yet highly efficient and visually appealing wine rack1. The rack is made from one-inch thick acrylic with openings for up to eight wine bottles. You mount the back panel ...
The splooge of making Pop-Tarts is so very hypnotic
Gizmodo - 2 Jan 2014 22:59
Splooge, fold, press. Splooge, fold, press. Splooge, fold, press. The machines making Pop-Tarts are so mesmerizing. You just can't take your eyes off the black magic that is creating addictive processed food. My brain in...
All Together Now: Chris Ware Nails It With This New Yorker Cover
Gizmodo - 2 Jan 2014 04:00
"All Together Now" is Chris Ware's latest cover for The New Yorker and it offers, yet again , a pretty pitch-perfect perspective on our collective obsession with handheld tech; four years on, and we're still seeing the w...
PS4 Owners Watch Three Times As Much Porn As Xbox One Owners
Gizmodo - 2 Jan 2014 22:05
You may be familiar with the Pandora of porn , but did you know that there's also a Netflix of porn? Probably! Assuming you're the proud owner of a Playstation 4, that is. Because according to online porn rental service ...
Marvel Superhero Family Car Decals - $4
The Gadget Flow - 2 Jan 2014 08:00
The Marvel Superhero Family Car Decals are brought to you courtesy of a partnership between ThinkGeek and Marvel. It's meant for a family of super heroes aka super-nerds. Ordinary car decals showing birds and trees or su...
Polaroid debuting $1,000 4K TV at CES
Engadget - 2 Jan 2014 22:28
Polaroid's been struggling with a bit of an identity crisis since the halcyon days of instant photography. Did you know, for example, that the company's been putting its name on TVs? Polaroid's celebrating CES with the r...
Surface Pro 2 gets sly upgrade as Microsoft swaps CPU
Slash Gear - 2 Jan 2014 22:18
Microsoft has quietly upgraded the Surface Pro 2, with new hardware including faster processors being sent out to those who returned their Windows 8 tablets after the December firmware update …
Jedi scientists make things fly around in space using sound waves
Gizmodo - 2 Jan 2014 06:09
Looking at this video, it seems like scientists at the University of Tokyo have mastered the Force and they're now able to make things levitate and move in space. But magic this is not, young Skywalker--it's the first ti...
Dubai had the world's largest fireworks show and it was amazing
Gizmodo - 2 Jan 2014 23:53
To celebrate the New Year, Dubai decided to break the Guinness World Record for world's largest fireworks show. Because of course the world's largest fireworks show would be in Dubai. They put the best show on every year...
Surface Pro 2 tablet gets a quiet speed bump to 1.9GHz
Engadget - 2 Jan 2014 23:47
Sometimes, it pays to avoid the bleeding edge of technology. Microsoft has confirmed to The Verge that newer Surface Pro 2 tablets are shipping with a faster 1.9GHz Core i5 inside instead of the 1.6GHz chip that came wit...
The NSA's Trying to Build a Quantum Computer That Cracks All Encryption
Gizmodo - 2 Jan 2014 23:39
You will not be surprised to learn that the NSA is spending nearly $80 million trying to build "a cryptologically useful quantum computer." The Washington Post just published details of the program, codenamed "Penetratin...
CoinYe West is the newest Bitcoin, destroyed in one day
Slash Gear - 2 Jan 2014 23:06
Users of the crypto-currency called Bitcoin have some competition out in the wild this week in the artist-inspired CoinYe West. This currency, while lovely to look at, will likely never …
ZTE comes to CES with voice-savvy Grand S II smartphone, fitness-ready BlueWatch
Engadget - 2 Jan 2014 23:03Your Next Soda Could Come With Internet Access
Gizmodo - 2 Jan 2014 23:00
Looks like the way we drink soda is about to get a whole lot smarter--or, at the very least, more connected. OpenStack Engineering Manager Alavaro Lopez Ortega stumbled across the fact that The Coca Cola Company recently...
Samsung refreshes Galaxy Camera and Galaxy NX30
Ars Technica - 2 Jan 2014 22:51
The best camera is the one you have with you (especially if it has LTE).
17 High-Tech Gizmos From 1927's Version of CES
Gizmodo - 2 Jan 2014 22:34
Back in the 1920s, the New York Electrical Show was a bit like the Consumer Electronics Show of its day. New Yorkers could head down to Grand Central Palace to check out the latest in high-tech gadgets -- gadgets that we...
When Tech Culture And Urbanism Collide
Gizmodo - 2 Jan 2014 22:30
The city is the most complex machine ever invented. Running optimally, the city generates opportunity and provides a platform for interaction, ideas, and improvement. As a concept, the city has been iterated-upon, smashe...
Anyone can take a tour of this waste treatment plant in Valencia, Spain, to check out its automatize
Gizmodo - 2 Jan 2014 22:15
Anyone can take a tour of this waste treatment plant in Valencia, Spain, to check out its automatized trash-sorting systems. The Israeli architects who designed the 759,600-square-foot system describe it as a public obse...