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Facebook Groups: Another New App You Don’t Want or Need
Facebook’s Great Unbundling isn’t stopping anytime soon. And the latest little birdie pushed from the nest is none other than Groups. Because someone somewhere has to want a standalone Groups app somewhere. Probably? The good thing here, though, is that unlike Messenger (for iOS, at least), Groups is at least not disappearing from the Faceobook … Continued
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ScienceHealth
Every Walgreens Is About to Offer Cheap, Painless Blood Tests
As part of Walgreens’ recent initiative to be a “leader in healthcare technology,” the company is teaming up with Silicon Valley health startup Theranos to offer cheap, needle-free blood tests. What’s more, the service will soon be coming to a drugstore near you, as they’re planning to expand it to all 8,200 locations. The revolutionary … Continued
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Tech NewsApple
Harsh Dating App Bans the Creeps Who Keep Striking Out
Do you love the low-risk emotional distancing of Tinder but hate having to swipe through all the riffraff to get there? A new dating app called The Grade is here to help, giving you the same Facebook-powered swiping but without all the undesirables. Because it bans anyone who doesn’t make the cut. Just like Tinder, … Continued
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Intel Mica Hands-On: A Fancy, High-Fashion Beeper For $500
Early this fall, Intel announced its first “luxury smart bracelet” built in conjunction with Opening Ceremony and aimed specifically at the ladiez. Today, we finally got to spend some time with the device and can say with total confidence: Yep, that is one pretty… beeper? The most important thing to note here is that Intel’s … Continued
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Tech News
The 110 Year-Old Light Bulb That’s Never Been Turned Off
The oldest lightbulb in continuous use was installed before the Wright Brothers took flight, is 110 years old, and is still as beautiful as the day she was born. In fact, it’s likely the oldest electrical device in continuous use period. Take a moment and consider just how much the world has changed around this … Continued
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Even the 19th Century Had Needy Nigerian Prince Scams
We’ve all received that email at least once before. A kind prince/princess/spambot in Nigeria has millions of dollars, and better yet, they want to split it with you. Just hand over your social security code and wait for them to arrive on American soil. As the above newspaper clipping shows, these types of scams were … Continued
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Tech News
The Bedpan Whisperer
How many bedpans is too many? 10? 50? Try 250. That’s about how many bedpans and items of bedpan memorabiliaEric Eakin has collected thus far. “I have bedpan greeting cards, bedpan poems, bedpan jewelry, and bedpan salt-and-pepper shakers,” he says. Eakin’s also got plenty of vintage and antique bedpans, each one clean enough to eat … Continued
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The Most Horrifying Texting App Shares Everything You Type in Real-Time
There’s a reason kids these days have a tendency to text whenever possible—not being able to meticulously craft your every last word is the worst. But now, a new messaging app called Beam wants to take all that hard-earned neuroticism away from us. It shows people exactly what you type, as you type it. We’re … Continued
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Networked Guns Are a Smarter Attempt to Keep Cops In Check
It seems insane that it’s taken this long to get here, but at long last, people are finally using the myriad tech at our disposal to hold cops accountable for their actions. Most recently, its a simple, relatively tiny chip being put to one massively important job—telling headquarters every time a police officer fires a … Continued
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Tech News
Amazon Pilot or 30 Rock Parody?
According to our count, Amazon has put out roughly 30 distinct TV pilots since 2012. Thirty! And only six of those actually managed to make it to the big time (read: multiple episodes). As for the rest, well, it’s just too bad 30 Rock’s off the air—because Amazon’s pilots would have been a hilariously bad … Continued
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Tech NewsApple
Of Course You Can Track Domino’s Pizza On Your Smartwatch Now
In a move that fulfills every basement-dwelling tech nerd stereotype out there, Domino’s and Pebble are finally letting you use your wrist computer to watch as your pizza inches ever-closer to your gaping maw. Wipe away those tears and/or meat sweats, and behold the Domino’s Tracker smartwatch app. This is Domino’s first foray in smartwatch … Continued
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The FBI’s Most Wanted Cybercriminal’s Password? His Cat Chewy
Back in 2012, the FBI nabbed Jeremy Hammond, the most wanted cybercriminal in the country, at his home in Chicago. And until now, no one had any idea how the feds actually managed to decrypt the hard drive they found there. Turns out, it’s pretty easy to break into a hacker’s computer when your password … Continued
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Could We Have Built a Computer in the 18th Century?
So you want to build a computer in the 18th century. Is it even possible? Probably not. Most people don’t think about the actual amount of money and tools needed to produce exactly one transistor-based computer, power it, and program it, to say nothing of the social challenges you’d face trying to build this high-tech … Continued
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Another Reason Not to Trust Everything in Peer-Reviewed Journals
We’re already well aware that the esteemed peer-review can only do so much in the way of thwarting (to use the technical term) complete and utter bullshit. But this newest little slip-up is particularly embarrassing—especially if you happen to be, as she will unfortunately be known for at least the next few weeks, the Crappy … Continued
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Tech NewsMicrosoft
Windows Has a Huge Vulnerabilty, Get the Patch Now
As scary as Heartbleed was this past spring, it looks like virtually every Microsoft Windows user is in for a little deja vu. Microsoft just released a critical patch for a huge server vulnerability—one that affects quite a few current versions of Windows out there. As of now, Microsoft isn’t aware of anyone actually taking … Continued
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Tech News
It’s Time to Kill the Phone Call
The phone call isn’t dead. Despite what many a journalist/blogger/paranoid internet commenter might have you believe, smartphones can indeed still dial out. Of course, that doesn’t mean it’s not in the process of dying. And if you have even a shred of decency about you, you’ll help take it out back Old-Yeller-style and put everyone … Continued
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Tech NewsDesign
This Bizarre High-Security Lock Is Every Drunk Person’s Nightmare
While some people are trying to reinvent the lock by eliminating keys altogether, others solutions, like the XPUZMAG from Taiwan, are going in decidedly different direction—by taking a traditional lock-and-key mechanism and just making it a thousand times more complicated. Warning to the belligerent drunk about town: This lock is not your friend. Not only … Continued
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Apple Finally Has a Tool to Escape From iMessage Purgatory
If you’ve ever switched from an iPhone to absolutely any other phone at all, you know that getting your texts out of the infuriating black hole of dead iMessage numbers can be hell. At long last, Apple’s heard our prayers (and hours upon hours of customer service calls) andreleased an online tool that makes the … Continued
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ScienceSpace
What Actually Goes Down on the International Space Station
The main purpose of the International Space Station is to provide an international laboratory for experiments within the space environment. Which, despite all our technological advances, is nearly impossible to replicate here on Earth. Because for many of those experiments, the key parameter is—you guessed it—weightlessness. While we do have a vacuum chamber tower facility … Continued
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Reader’s Digest Will Pay to Retweet You in Print
You there! Hooligan! How much to retweet that tweet about butts in our weekly print periodical? Twenty-five dollars, you say? Sold! At least, that’s how we’d like to imagine it went down. Because as more and more traditional newspapers are being forced to shutter their doors in favor of their internet-based brethren, the ones that … Continued