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How to Shoot Live Photos Even If You Don’t Have a New iPhone

Live Photos is one of the headline features of the new iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus. But if you haven’t forked out for one of Apple’s 2015 handsets, there are ways to get the same kind of functionality on your own smartphone. All you need is the right app, and these are the best…

Explore The Private Lives Of Dungeon Monsters In Steve Lichman

Imagine a world where that Gnoll you killed in your last tabletop RPG had a life of his own. The dungeon’s just a day job—there’s a girlfriend waiting for him after a hard day’s gnolling. Want to know more about him outside of what loot he has when you whack him? Steve Lichman is the…

Taking a surfboard snowboarding is just total pure fun

Surfing and snowboarding are similar enough and attract the same people and require some of the same skills that it makes sense that surfers snowboard and snowboarders surf. This video is a combination of those worlds in that Martin Winkler uses a surfboard to snowboard. It’s like riding waves in the ocean, only if the…

All the Gear an Ultramarathon Legend Brings With Him On the Trail

Ultramarathon runner Scott Jurek ran the entire Appalachian trail last summer in 46 days, eight hours, and seven minutes, averaging 48 miles per day. So he knows what’s up with fitness gear that can withstand some brutal circumstances. I’d call him the Michael Jordan of long-distance trail running, but Michael Jordan is a noted asshole…

Recycled Urine Makes Colorful Quantum “Pee-Dots”

One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, and that includes a man’s (or woman’s) urine. Scientists have figured out how to transform your pee into tiny semiconducting nano crystals they’ve dubbed “quantum pee-dots.” Quantum dots have been around since about 1990. If you took a wafer of silicon and cut it in half over and…

Sonos Play:5 Review: Wireless Music Made Elegant

Sonos conquered wireless music years ago, before wireless music was even a thing to be conquered. With the new Play:5, the company revisits its flagship speaker with a stunning new design and powerful sound customization. The refreshed Play:5 might be the coolest speaker Sonos has ever made. What Is It? An overhauled version of the…

Stop Freaking Out About Human DNA in Hot Dogs

A startup calledClear Labs has genetically tested a bunch of hot dogs, and the results are about as weird as you’d expect. Pork DNA in the turkey dogs. Chicken DNA in the veggie dogs. But then, there was this little surprise: human DNA! Human DNA in hot dogs! And from the way the press is…

Watching this giant braiding machine weave together fiberglass is so satisfying

Even if you saw how big the machine was and knew how it worked beforehnd, the little perfectly choreographed dance that all the little parts of this giant braiding machine does to weave together fiberglass is so damn impressive that you can’t really take your eyes away from it. Each strand just falls right in…

Samsung’s Huge Galaxy View Is the Take-Anywhere TV You Never Knew You Wanted

It’s a remarkable feeling when you find a gadget that makes no sense yet feels so right. The Galaxy View, an 18.4-inch portable touchscreen TV, is one of those gadgets. And it promises remarkable things. Seemingly the size of a pizza box, the Galaxy View is difficult to place in a single category. Samsung calls…

The Wonder Woman Movie Could Have More Batman Than We Were Expecting

Elizabeth Henstridge teases the future of Simmons’ relationship with Fitz on Agents of SHIELD. Captain America: Civil War merchandise reveals details about Cap’s new costume. Plus, a tense clip from Doctor Who, a sinister image from Jessica Jones, and news about Game of Thrones’ huge battle. Spoilers Now! Wonder Woman Chris Pine has confirmed his…

GE’s New Connected Lightbulbs Automatically Adjust for Healthy Living

It’s well known that lighting affects your mood. Now, GE is launching a new line of connected LED lightbulbs aimed at healthy living. The new line, C by GE, works without a hub and automatically changes the temperature of the light based on time of day. The C by GE connected bulbs come in two…

China Is Ending Its One-Child Policy

China is to scrap its one-child policy, first implemented in 1979, according to reports from the state-run new agency Xinhua. The news emerges at the end of a four-day meeting of China’s ruling Communist Party. All Chinese couples will now be abbe to have two children, not just one, according to the news agency. The…

Huawei Now Has an Old Apple Creative Director on Staff

Huawei has a fine track record of borrowing from Apple’s designs. You can perhaps expect the Chinese manufacturer to produce even more iPhone clones though—because it now counts an old Apple Creative Director as a member of its staff. Verge notes that the former Apple employee Abigail Sarah Brody has updated her LinkedIn profile to…

This Gorgeous GPS Satellite Is Ready for Tomorrow’s Launch 

This golden slice of visual perfection is a Global Positioning System IIF-series satellite. It underwent final encapsulation inside its four-meter diameter protective payload fairing on October 21st at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The U.S. Air Force and its mission partners are scheduled to launch this satellite aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V…

Bosch Has a Pedestrian Avoidance System It Wants to Put in Real Cars By 2018

Bosch has announced that it’s been working on a system that can detect and help avoid pedestrians that step out in front of cars, and it hopes to fit it to production vehicles as soon as 2018. The Engineer reportsthat the system, developed at Bosch’s R&D centre at Renningen in Germany, isn’t fully autonomous, but…

Here’s What Public Safety Agencies Think About Automated License Plate Recognition 

Law enforcement agencies around the country have been all too eager to adopt mass surveillance technologies, but sometimes they have put little effort into ensuring the systems are secure and the sensitive data they collect on everyday people is protected. Case in point: automated license plate recognition (ALPR) systems. Earlier this year, EFF learned that…

The BBC has announced that iPlayer is headed to Apple TV “in the coming months.” That’s all we have to go on so far, but it’s certainly good news.

OnePlus X Is a $250 Phone That’s Shockingly Good-Looking

I’m a big fan of cheap phones, an obsession that’s been well documented. I’ve tried the Moto G, Nexus 5, and OnePlus One, and have loved them all. I’m completely convinced that a great smartphone and an expensive smartphone are not mutually exclusive. The new $250 OnePlus X is proof. Yes. That phone pictured above…

Restoring a Ship’s Hull Still Looks Like Something From Centuries Past

It looks like ribbons of paper peeling off the surface of the wall—but in fact Seaman Jorge Ortiz here is prying copper sheet away from the hull of the USS Constitution as he helps restore the ship. The USS Constitution, which first launched in 1797, is lined with 3,400 sheets of copper, so it’s a…

Apple TV Will Get Siri Support for Apple Music Early 2016

Apple has confirmed that the new Apple TV will support Siri for Apple Music sometime early in 2016. A report by Buzzfeed, including a conformation by Apple, reveals that you’ll be able to use Siri to sift through songs and albums when an update for the set-top box rolls out “at the beginning of next…