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26 May ' 02:34
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25 May ' 19:47
Brent RoseMay 25, 2012 5:00 PM13 Ways to Smuggle Your Booze
Three day weekends were made for booze, but there's a catch. Baseball games, parks, concerts, and bars: none of them allow you to bring in your own booze. We're not saying you should break the rules and bring clandestine beverages into such locations, but if you wanted to, here are some great ways to do it. -
25 May ' 13:30
May 25, 2012 3:00 PMUse Facebook to Throw a Party Without Making Everyone Hate You
BBQ season is about to unleash its smokey, greasy, beer-y vibes all over you. Are you ready for a summer of meat and day drinking? Good—but first, here's how to get everyone together online without offending anyone. -
Dad Creates Fake Porn Site Profile for Principal Who Confiscated Son’s iPod
When an assistant principal confiscated his 13-year-old son's iPod, Robert Dale Esparza Jr. did what any responsible parent would: He started a fake profile under the principal's name on a hardcore porn site, and impersonated him via email. Yep!
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How Kickstarter Hides Its Failures from the Internet
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Watch Space X Dragon Make Its Historic ISS Dock Live (Updating)
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25 May ' 06:06
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24 May ' 17:05
Thursday, May 24, 2012
May 24, 2012 5:01 PMFacebook Camera vs. Instagram: Ultimate Mobile Photo Sharing Smackdown
A new challenger appears! Facebook is now beginning to eat up its children, releasing a Camera app that competes directly with its recently purchased Instagram. Is it any good? Should you use both? Which one is better? Let's dig in. -
Meth Labs and Dead Dogs: How the Founder of McAfee Antivirus Went on the Run in Belize
It's been a while since I've posted anything. "I've been busy" is everyone's excuse for laziness, but I can't come up with a better one. For those of you who follow the news in Central America, you will know that I am in hiding in an undisclosed location in Belize.
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The Best Lightweight Portable Headphones
We, the smartphone-and-MP3-addicted people, wear headphones from dusk till dawn. That means they've got to be comfortable for hours on end. Forget the bulk of fashion-forward full-sized cans and the irritation of earbuds—for headphones that go the distance, three qualities trump everything...
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The 6 Best Toys to Keep Your Dog Really Busy
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Being Deaf: How Different the World Is Without Hearing
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Women Entrepreneurs, Meet Your Angel
5:40 PMHow Earth Got Its Oxygen
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23 May ' 13:51
Sam BiddleMay 23, 2012 1:00 PMHow to Destroy the Internet
Remember when Anonymous threatened to destroy the entire internet? We laughed, and ultimately their words were just hacker hubris. But it got us thinking—could someone actually destroy the Internet?We did some digging, and guess what: With enough effort, the entire thing can be shattered. Physically. Completely. Here's how to kill the net.
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Run Like You’re on the Moon
What if you only weighed a fraction of what you actually do? You could run so fast. You could take an immense amount of pressure off your knees while still getting a workout.
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10 Gadgets You’d Be a Fool to Buy Right Now
The problem with buying gadgets is that they're bound to be obsolete at some point. But, as Laptop Mag's Avram Piltch explains, that point is way sooner for some things than others. Here are 10 gadgets you should avoid like the plague right now, however tempting they might seem:
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What Jony Ive Wishes He Could Say About Apple’s User Interfaces
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Bigup to Brent Rose, The Crime-Fighting Tech Writer
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See the No-Stick Ketchup Bottle of the Future in Action
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23 May ' 02:19
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22 May ' 15:11
Casey Chan May 22, 2012 5:40 PMPresented byBingHow One Man Faked His Own Internet Death
Death is scary. Suicide is scary. And when you're a valued member of a long-standing community who supports and helps one another, you don't fake awful stories about either to sadden and embarrass your friends. You don't ruin years of relationships to pull a stupid gag that demeans true tragedies. You don't create a fake account—pretending to be your wife—and post on Metafilter that you killed yourself.Which is to say: You don't do exactly what Marc, aka holdkris99, did last week.
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The Curious Case of the Upside Down Apple Logo
Joe Moreno spent nine years working at Apple during the Steve Jobs era. Today, he writes about something that bothered Steve Jobs for a long time: the problem of the upside down Apple logo.
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This Giant Ship Ships Ships
When the USS Cole was disabled by an Al-Qaeda attack in 2000, the US Navy faced a serious dilemma: How do you sail a 500-foot warship from Yemen to Mississippi when it's got a 40-foot wide gash in its hull?
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The 12 Biggest Missed Opportunities in Tech
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25 Beautiful Photos of Unicorn Puke
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Meet a Guy Who Started a Startup from His Smartphone
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22 May ' 03:46
Tuesday, May 22, 2012-
Eugene Polley, Inventor of the First Wireless TV Remote Control, Has Died
Eugene J. Polley, a man best known for inventing the first wireless television remote control, died of natural causes on Sunday at Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove, Illinois.
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SpaceX Finally Takes Off
First it was on, then it was off. Then on, then off. Then it had a little wobble. Now, SpaceX has finally launched, making its NASA's first successful involvement with the world of private space flight.
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21 May ' 16:59
Brett Martin May 21, 2012 5:00 PM12 Ways to Rid Your House of Bad Smells
Exhaust fans and open windows only go so far toward eliminating foul odors. Making your sniffer happy oftentimes requires something extra, like baking powder, vinegar or special charcoal. For smells that make you run out of the room holding your nose, try these tricks: -
The Religious Extremists Who Want to Ban the Internet
The average home attendance for the New York Mets this year has been 27,683. On Sunday, Citi Field drew 40,000—almost full capacity. Why? Not baseball, but religious radicals who think the internet is a dangerous, mortal evil.
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Gesture control as we know it is rudimentary at best. But a new San Francisco startup called Leap Motion has just announced a new 3D motion control system that its claims is 200 times more accurate than anything else on the market—and it's set to cost just $70. CNET reports that Leap...
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