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Are Tablets Really PCs?

Microsoft insists tablets are Windows-powered mobile PCs. Even Windows Phone president Andy Lee, who should be pushing for a WP7 tablet, said, “We view a tablet as a PC.” Since the early days of the Origami project, Microsoft has looked at the tablet as a desktop replacement. Slates ran Windows XP or Windows 7; never…

Tech News Kelly

Dreaming in Color Is Only For The Young

Whether your dreams are exciting or scary, most of them are in bright, vivid colors. By the time you are pushing 60 though, most of your dreams will be a bland black and white. This depressing possibility was recently published in the psychology journal Dreaming. The researchers asked a group of over 1,300 people twice…

Television Kelly

Ugandan Teachers Use a Live Bomb For a School Bell

Oh my, teachers in a rural Ugandan school were unknowingly using a live bomb as a bell. They would bang the bomb with stones to call the school’s 700 students to class. It was a miracle nobody caused it to detonate. The bomb was discovered by several shocked members of the Anti-Mine Network. Ironically, the…

Tech News Kelly

Is Facebook Planning an Online Music Service?

It’s a circus with Amazon, Google, Apple and possibly Facebook launching an online music service. Software Engineer Jeff Rose peered into the code of the app required for the new Facebook video chat and discovered a reference to Vibes and a MusicDownloadDialog. Here’s the code he found: if(paramString.equals(“com.facebook.peep”)) return this.window.getMember(“VideoChatPlugin”); if (paramString.equals(“com.facebook.vibes”)) { return this.window.getMember(“MusicDownloadDialog”);…

Social Media Kelly

Someday You Could Say Goodbye To Sunburn Pain

You learn very quickly that most over the counter medicines only mask the agonizing pain of a sunburn for a short time. Medicines can’t remove this terrible discomfort, because, until now, scientists didn’t what caused it. In a significant discovery, researchers from Kings College London may have identified one protein responsible for this searing pain.…

Tech News Kelly

7 Tools to Help Your #AntiSec Hacking Antics Remain Anonymous

Lulzsec has vanished into the ether. Anonymous is lost in Orlando City. And, I don’t know what you’re doing on the internet. Don’t wanna know. But if someone were to step up in their place and expose corruption or shoddy corporate IT security, they should prepare for the oh-so-dramatic moment when the FBI rolls in…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Tools That Will Let You Read Someone’s Emotions

Imagine how much easier life would be if we knew when we were being a jerk or annoying someone with our idle conversation. It’s sounds like something out of Star Trek, but this technology is right around the corner. Rosalind Picard of MIT and Rana el Kaliouby at the University of Cambridge, UK worked together…

Gadgets Kelly

Getting Paid Could Kill You

Better watch out, a study from University of Notre Dame suggests your chance of dying increases after you receive a windfall of cash. It doesn’t matter if you are young or old, rich or poor, married or single. The study examined millions of death records from four major groups of people over a three-year period.…

Tech News Kelly

Most Hipsters Don’t Know Why They Celebrate the Fourth of July

In case you didn’t know, the Fourth of July isn’t about booze and explosives. It has a historic meaning that celebrates one of the biggest events in the life of this country. Yes, I am looking at you — Mr. Twenty-something hipster with your skinny jeans and tumblr blog. You may know your way around…

Tech News Kelly

Love Is The Ultimate Painkiller

Don’t bother with morphine the next time you are in pain. All you need is a healthy dose of love to make yourself feel better in an instant. A group of 17 women lined up at UCLA to have their brains scanned while they received brief, stinging shocks. They endured this form of medical torture…

Tech News Kelly

Mark Zuckerberg Is Rich, Filthy Rich

Mark Zuckerberg is so rich, he could carpet his house with $100 bills and still have more money than all the readers of this post combined. His net worth is now estimated at $18 billion, a figure that makes him the third richest tech leader in the world. On the rich guy scale, the Facebook…

Social Media Kelly

Is LSD a Treatment For Suicide Headaches?

Who knew hallucinogens were actually good for you? In a recent study, two psychiatrists discovered that patients suffering from agonizing cluster headaches found relief while taking LSD or other hallucinogenic drugs. The psychiatrists noticed reports of people using hallucinogens to self-treat their headaches and decided to do a follow-up study. Cluster headaches, also known as…

Tech News Kelly

People Get Paid to Track Down Panda Doo Doo in China

It’s 2011 and that means it’s time for something you have no idea about so i’ll tell you: PANDA CENSUS. There are around 1500 Pandas alive these days, and the Chinese want to know exactly how many there are. So what do they do? Hire Panda trackers, of course. The Panda Census, which began in…

Biology Adrian Covert

Why Are New York Bagels the Greatest? It’s Not the Water

New York bagels are the best. Deal with it. The legend, according to old city folk, including Larry King, is that there’s just something in the water. But Slate’s Brian Palmer claims they’re wrong. Water chemistry is only a tiny factor in producing a deliciously crisp and chewy bagel, though the Big Apple’s water supply…

Tech News Alyssa Bereznak

Why Old Gadgets Look Like Your Dog Peed on Them

Your Commodore 64 may be aging like a fine wine, but it probably doesn’t look like it. And that weird brownish-yellow hue it’s taken on over the years isn’t from all the Marlboros you went through in the 80s. As Tested explains, The plastic used in most old electronics, acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), is flammable…

Gadgets Lily Hay Newman

Store Your Grenade in a Sewing Machine for Safekeeping

If you’re a shell-shocked World War I veteran with a few spare grenades lying around, you may start to hide them in some crazy places like a sewing machine. A couple from Goldsboro, NC were shocked when they discovered such a grenade inside the drawer of an antique sewing machine. The grenade was identified as…

Tech News Kelly

Memrise Is a Viva Pinata For Language Students

Memrise is an online farming game similar to Viva Pinata. It’s built on words, not some silly buzzlegums and mixes addictive gaming with mnemonics to make learning a new language fun. The concept is brilliant but so obvious you’ll kick yourself for not thinking of it first. Each foreign word you learn is planted in…

Tech News Kelly

7 Tools to Help Prevent Getting Hacked

The #AntiSec lulzcapades are in full effect right now, and it seems like anyone is a candidate to be hacked, infiltrated, or compromised in some way. So what about you? We figured we’d offer up a few tools to fend off hackers, trackers, and invaders from all angles. https://gizmodo.com/lulzsec-and-anonymous-declare-open-war-against-all-gove-5813560 Image via Shutterstock/John David Bigi III…

Tech News Adrian Covert

This Ramen-Making Machine Can Feed an Entire City

Manna may have come from heaven, but ramen comes from machines. In eight hours, Bullex’s Bigger Automatic Instant Noodle Production Line produces nearly a quarter million bags of noodles. Enough to feed the citizens of Springfield, Illinois two (literal) squares a day—just like instant ramen’s creator intended. https://gizmodo.com/the-humble-origins-of-instant-ramen-from-ending-world-5814099 Wheat flour, salt, water and kansui—a combination…

Tech News Max Behrman

Who Keeps Leaving 35-Pound Bags of Vomit Outside Bed Bath & Beyond?

We all have our hobbies. Fishing, golf, coin collection. Leaving 35-pound bags of vomit in the parking lot of a Pennsylvania Bed Bath & Beyond. Wait, what? It seems the good people of Radnor Township, PA have fallen victim to a vomit spree. On June 5th an unfortunate BB&B employee discovered a package containing 35…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Are Tablets Really PCs?

Dreaming in Color Is Only For The Young

Ugandan Teachers Use a Live Bomb For a School Bell

Is Facebook Planning an Online Music Service?

Someday You Could Say Goodbye To Sunburn Pain

7 Tools to Help Your #AntiSec Hacking Antics Remain Anonymous

Tools That Will Let You Read Someone’s Emotions

Getting Paid Could Kill You

Most Hipsters Don’t Know Why They Celebrate the Fourth of July

Love Is The Ultimate Painkiller

Mark Zuckerberg Is Rich, Filthy Rich

Is LSD a Treatment For Suicide Headaches?

People Get Paid to Track Down Panda Doo Doo in China

Why Are New York Bagels the Greatest? It’s Not the Water

Why Old Gadgets Look Like Your Dog Peed on Them

Store Your Grenade in a Sewing Machine for Safekeeping

Memrise Is a Viva Pinata For Language Students

7 Tools to Help Prevent Getting Hacked

This Ramen-Making Machine Can Feed an Entire City

Who Keeps Leaving 35-Pound Bags of Vomit Outside Bed Bath & Beyond?

Should We Be Hyped—or Freaked Out—About Nuclear Microreactors?

Roku’s 2025 Streaming Stick HD Is 40% Off to Compete With Amazon Fire TV Stick During Spring Sale

Epstein Victims Sue Google, Claim AI Mode Exposed Personal Information

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