Tag: News
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Now This Is A Flustercuck: CERN Has To Untangle 9,000 Cables Before The Next LHC Upgrade
If the sight of the spaghetti tangle of cables behind your desktop gives you anxiety, consider yourself lucky you’re not one of the CERN engineers tasked to remove old cabling at the Large Hadron Collider before its next big equipment upgrade. Over the years of upgrades and maintenance, the particle accelerator has grown in complexity,…
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PCs of the Future: Mouse Box is a PC in a Mouse!
PCs can’t possibly get any smaller than this– or can they? By “this,” we mean the Mouse Box, which houses a PC inside it. Pretty impressive, considering all you’ll need is a display to get it up and running. The mouse is about the same size as your average mouse. It houses a 1.4GHz quad-core ARM…
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Restaurant Scans Faces, Lets Beautiful Folks Dine for Free
We live in a world where beautiful folks are constantly rewarded. From extra boosts to their career to special treatment, you name it, they’ve probably taken advantage of that perk– the latest being a meal on the house if you’re prettier than the average human. A restaurant in Zhengzhou, China is running a promotion where people…
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Turtle Taxi is a Car Service Where Cars Run at a Turtle’s Pace
Feeling nauseous? Have a baby on board? Oftentimes, cab drivers drive way faster than we’d like them to, and some actually get cranky if you tell them to slow down. Those in Japan are pretty lucky though, because there’s a car service called Turtle Taxi that aims to get you to your destination at the…
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Mesoloft Sends Your Ashes to Infinity and Beyond
Some people choose to have their ashes scattered out into the ocean, while others prefer to stay close to their loved ones in an urn. For those who want to take things one step farther, there’s Mesoloft. The company offers out-of-this-world services for your final departure by dropping your cremated remains 90,000 feet from the…
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Need to Get Someone’s Opinion? Get the ‘Ethan’ App and Ask Ethan!
There are just some things you just can’t ask Siri–and for that, you’ve got Ethan. Think of him as the friend you never had, only cooler, because he created this awesome app (which he aptly named after himself) that lets anyone get in touch with him, anytime, anywhere. Ethan Gliechtenstein originally made the app so his friends could send…
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Win the Sumo Wrestling Match, Get a Giant Green Macaron
Boxers get cash, but sumo wrestlers get an even better prize (subjectively speaking, that is): a giant macaron. At least, that’s what the second placer was awarded at the recent Sumo Senshuraku tournament in Japan. The giant green dessert was prepared by renowned French pastry chef Pierre Hermé, which made sense since the match was part of the France-Japan Friendship…
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Portable is a Flexible, Wearable Smartphone
You don’t have to worry about Bendgate with the Portal, because its makers let you know upfront that it bends and is definitely more flexible than your average smartphone. The Portable was designed to be a wearable phone, so it should bend to follow the natural curve of your arm. It’s also shatterproof and waterproof…
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Check Out Acer’s Selfie Hat for London Fashion Week!
In recent years, people have reached new heights when it comes to vanity. Maybe the era of selfies began when phone makers began putting a camera with each smartphone they made. It exploded when front-facing cameras were upgraded and when monopods (aka selfie sticks) made their way to Amazon. Someone already came up with the…
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Use ‘Somebody’ to Send Messages to Friends Via Strangers
If you think about it, social media takes away from actual socialization because of the lack of in-person interactions. Aiming to inject a little bit of that back into social-centric apps is Somebody. The app literally lets you use somebody (while using Somebody–get it?) to send a personal message to your intended recipient, wherever they…