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Just in time for the holidays, Best Buy has slashed the price of the Apple Watch. The store is cutting $100 from the price of every model of the wearable, which means you can buy a 38 millimeter Apple Watch Sport for just $250. The retailer cut the price of the Apple Watch for Black…
Just a day after AT&T announced that it’s bringing gigabit fiber internet to the L.A. metro area, Google has announced that it’s exploring L.A. and Chicago as the next possible locations for the expansion of its Fiber network. Google Fiber is currently available in some form or another in 18 metro areas, although only Salt…
The Guardian and Reuters are reporting that police have raided the home of Craig Wright, an Australian CEO who was identified today in investigations by Gizmodo and Wired as a likely candidate for the secret identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the elusive creator of Bitcoin. https://gizmodo.com/this-australian-says-he-and-his-dead-friend-invented-bi-1746958692 Hours after the publication of the stories, more than 10…
Hyperloop Technologies, one of the companies vying to build Elon Musk’s (other) vision of future transportation, is planning on building a test track in North Las Vegas. Here’s what the company thinks it will look like. https://gizmodo.com/las-vegas-is-getting-a-hyperloop-test-track-1746911385 The track will be open to the air rather than in a tube, a big departure from the…
With each new mode of transportation, Santa Claus has gotten an upgrade. In the 1890s, Santa got an automobile. Then in the 1900s he got flying machines. In the 1950s he even got a rocket ship. Today, Santa gets around on a hoverboard. Below, we see Santa’s latest version of the sleigh: Yes, it’s not…
HTC Vive, HTC and Valve’s VR headset collab, was supposed to be the first major headset release, followed by the Oculus Rift and PlayStation VR in early 2016. But HTC just posted via Facebook an update stating the commercial headset will be delayed until April. No reason as to why, but regardless, the wait continues.
Here is footage showing a Russian Navy submarine attacking ISIS positions in Raqqa, Syria by launching missiles from the submarine itself. The Kalibr cruise missiles were launched from the Rostov-on-Don submarine, a Kilo-class diesel electric submarine, in the Mediterranean. It’s the first time Russia had launched strikes in Syria from a submarine in the Mediterranean.…
Spotify’s freemium pay structure has always been an amazing deal. All the music you could want as long as you have patience for the occasional commercial. All for free. But according to the Wall Street Journal, Spotify might let artists choose whether albums live behind a Premium subscription paywall. Currently, talks seem to be in…
I love Apple’s new accessories new. The Magic Keyboard is a beautiful work of industrial design and surprisingly fun for typing. The Magic Mouse 2 looks the same as its predecessor, but it’s rechargeable. And that, I’m afraid, is a blessing and a curse. After nearly two months of fun, my Magic Mouse 2 finally…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared the use of the XSTAT 30—an innovative sponge-filled gunshot wound dressing device—for use in the general population. Approved last year for battlefield use, the device can plug a gunshot wound in just 15 seconds. The XSTAT Rapid Hemostasis System is an expandable, multi-sponge dressing that’s used to…
Apple pushed an update for the new Apple TV today that finally lets you use the Remote app to control the device. Additionally, Apple Music gets Siri support so get ready to sing into your remote. Or something. Contact the author at [email protected]. Public PGP key PGP fingerprint: 91CF B387 7B38 148C DDD6 38D2 6CBC…
If you want to treat a delicious hunk of meat in the best most perfectest way possible, you shouldn’t just throw it on a pan. Instead, you should utilize all the techniques used in this video by How To You: make sure you get a good, thick cut, salt and pepper the hell out of…
A pterosaur fossil has been discovered in Texas. It has a relative that is close genetically but not geographically—meaning ancient pterosaurs could have made very, very long journeys. Cimoliopterus dunni lived around the Cretaceous period, in what is now Texas. Paleontologists studying it saw that it had teeth, a relatively rare feature for that part…
Perhaps in your daily internet wanderings you’ve stumbled across photos of this building and wondered, what the hell is that thing? Well, it’s a museum for cars, and I assure you: It’s perfect. The overhauled Petersen Automotive Museum, which opened yesterday in Los Angeles, has become LA’s most contentious piece of urban design. It’s already…
As the second week of global climate negotiations gets underway, the world waits for national leaders to make meaningful commitments to save the planet. But it’s become clear that cities, not countries, are leading the way in the fight against climate change. There’s a good reason for that: the world’s cities account for 70 percent…
Wow. Here’s the first footage of the US Navy’s brand new Zumwalt-class destroyer at sea. It’s the most advanced warship that the US Navy has ever made and it totally looks the part, completely bad ass like an Imperial Star Destroyer for the ocean. Just watching it cut through the sea is so damn cool…
In the weird world of vaping research, it’s hard to find a scientist who isn’t funded by a tobacco company or an anti-smoking organization. However, in a government-funded study, a team of Harvard scientists made a grisly discovery. Candy-flavored e-cig liquid contains chemicals that cause a horrible condition called “popcorn lung.” The study revealed that…
Hyperloop Technologies plans to build a hyperloop test track for in North Las Vegas—and it wants to start testing early next year. The AP talked to the California company (which takes its name from Elon Musk’s proposed invention, but isn’t associated with him) about its plans to create a testing ground for the transit technology.…
That iPhone 6c rumor just got a little more real with a report from 9to5Mac’s Mark Gurman. Sources tell Gurman that Apple is planning their next-gen Watch event for March, but the kicker here is that a new iPhone could also be appearing. The next generation of the Apple Watch has the potential to make…
Google threw a bit of a curveball at its Nexus event earlier this year: A 100 percent Google-made tablet brandishing the company’s well-known Chromebook moniker. It was called the Pixel C. It was all Google hardware, like the Pixels that came before it, and its software was pure Android Marshmallow. The only thing that remained…
