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7 things you probably didn’t know about Ghostbusters

Ghostbusters is an absolute classic. Hilarious and inventive and so much fun, it’s everything you want to see in a movie. But like any movie, there were a lot of moving parts involved and things could have been a lot different: like how John Candy was supposed to be in it, how Slimer was based…

Sploid Casey Chan

Benghazi Committee Leaks CIA Source Trying to Prove Clinton Emails Could’ve Led to Leaking CIA Source

When you’re trying to destroy a politician by insisting that their careless email habits endangered national security, it’s best to make sure your own email security practices are on point. House Benghazi Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy learned that the hard way this week. Gowdy accidentally released the name of a CIA source when he published…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

Life May Have Gotten Started On Earth Almost Immediately

The ancient Earth was a pretty miserable place. But from this eruptive, radiation-blasted, asteroid-pummeled wasteland, life did arise. Now, scientists have uncovered a tantalizing clue that Earth’s first hardy colonizers appeared much earlier than we thought. A team of geochemists has uncovered a piece of what appears to be biogenic graphite — carbon produced by…

Tech News Maddie Stone

This Plug-In Puts Google Drive Inside Microsoft Office

The office suite wars continue apace. If you use Microsoft Office on the desktop, you’ll know Redmond’s engineers are very keen for you to turn to OneDrive for all your cloud storage and syncing needs. But a new plug-in brings Google Drive into the mix, too. Here’s how to get it up and running on…

Gadgets David Nield

Buffeting Propellers with Supersonic Winds is Better with Lasers

1985: Adding lasers makes even a supersonic wind tunnel more awesome. In the 1980s, NASA engineers at the Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio (now the John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field) developed all sorts of propeller prototypes. In this particular test run, they bounced lasers off the blades to measure deflection while…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

Will Microsoft’s Hololens Also Get Some Imitators?

Microsoft has decreed that its Hololens AR faceputer is “the future of computing.” So you’d think PC makers would be rushing to create something similar. But many tech companies focused on VR, Microsoft’s been alone in its AR pursuits—until now. Rumors suggest Taiwanese company Asus may make a version of Microsoft’s PC future. Technology is…

Tech News Darren Orf

This Desk Is a Also a Playable Pipe Organ

This wooden desk doubles as a playable pipe organ: push in the various drawers and air flows into the wooden pipes. And if you play one particular song, it unlocks a secret compartment. Clues as to the secret tune can be deciphered by solving more than 20 puzzles incorporated into the desk’s design. It’s the…

Tech News Jennifer Ouellette

Table Tennis Notebooks Will Lead to Impromptu Office Ping Pong Throwdowns

If you weren’t lucky enough to land your dream job at a hip startup with free lunches and ping pong tables on every floor, Suck UK has your consolation prize with a set of three notebooks that double as a pair of paddles and a net for spontaneous table tennis matches. Each notebook is filled…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Here Is The Crowdfunded Film About Technoviking, One of The Most Popular Memes

The muscled figure of Technoviking is a significant part of the 21st century history of the Internet, you have seen him probably a thousand times, and you may wonder why only his blackened shape can be seen in the animated gif above. Here is why. The unknown German who was filmed in Berlin at the…

Tech News Attila Nagy

New York Times to Send Subscribers More Paper—Cardboard, In Fact

If you subscribe to The New York Times print edition, you can expect a special surprise the weekend of November 7. The paper is sending over a million subscribers their very own Google Cardboard so they can experience the Times’s new virtual reality new app. Welcome to 2015, folks. The paper announced the futuristic promo…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

You Won’t Immediately Toss Christmas Cards That Magically Stick To Any Surface (Update)

There’s a good chance that all those Christmas cards you’re getting ready to mail out will end up in the trash shortly after being delivered. But the novelty of a holiday card that magically sticks to any flat surface—without glue or tape—is sure to save your good tidings from a garbage bin fate. A company…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

The Third Edition of the World’s Most Beautiful Scrabble Game Introduces new Fonts

What started as a concept design by Andrew Capener some four years ago is already at its third official release as Winning Solutions has once again worked with the artist to create a new version of Scrabble Typography Edition. At just $50, Scrabble Typography 3rd Edition isn’t as opulent as the original or second edition…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Smart LED Bulbs Learn Your Routines, and Automatically Turn On When You Go on Vacation

One of the most effective ways to protect your home while you’re traveling is to simply make it look like you’re not actually away. But instead of wrangling timers, or having the neighbors stop by, these new BeON smart bulbs will automatically learn your daily routines and keep turning lights on and off in your…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Indian Uber Driver Found Guilty of Raping Female Passenger

A court in Delhi has found Uber driver Shiv Kumar Yadav guilty of raping a 25-year-old woman in his taxi. Yadav was arrested last December for allegedly raping one of his passengers. Now, reports The Times of India, Judge Kaveri Baweja has convicted him for a number of offences, including rape, causing grievous bodily harm…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

1Password’s Changing Its Data Format Following Metadata Criticism

1Password has announced that it’s switching the format it uses to store its users’ data, so that less of the metadata it holds is left unencrypted. Over the weekend, Microsoft software engineer Dale Myers wrote a blog post highlighting the fact that 1Password’s AgileKeychain data format left some important metadata unencrypted. As 1Password points out,…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe

How Will We Even Know New Lifeforms When We See Them?

If we met new life – on this planet or the next – would we know it when we saw it? Matthew Francis investigates. “Why would NASA want to study a lake in Canada?” Three different border guards asked me variations on that question, and while they ultimately let me pass, it was obvious they…

Tech News Matthew Francis - Mosaic

Polar Now Puts Heart Rate Monitoring On Your Wrist With Its New A360 Fitness Tracker

Earlier this year we weren’t exactly enamored with Polar’s A300 fitness tracking watch that gave up the M400’s GPS for a slightly cheaper price tag. And while the new A360 doesn’t have GPS either, it makes up for it with a built-in optical heart rate monitor, a color touchscreen display, and a sleeker design. At…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Uber Now Has Its Own Fleet of Mapping Vehicles

Uber has already been testing autonomous vehicles on the roads of Pittsburgh, and now it’s rolled out a separate fleet of mapping vehicles, too. After an image appeared on Facebook of an Uber car rigged up with some exotic sensing equipment, the on-demand taxi company admitted to TechCrunch that it’s running a fleet of mapping…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

UE Speakers Now Let Three People DJ at Once

Ultimate Ears make some of the best Bluetooth speakers you can buy and now they’ve just added a neat feature which makes them even more sociable: you can now have up to three people sharing songs trough the same speaker at once. UE’s updated its apps today to include a new feature called Block Party,…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

The New Apple TV is Coming Next Week

We knew Apple’s new TV set-top box would be coming soon, but now we’ve got a date. On stage at the WSJ Live event, CEO Tim Cook said that Apple will be taking orders for the box on Monday, in time for shipping by the end of the week. https://gizmodo.com/new-apple-tv-meta-hands-on-touching-and-talking-takes-1729804705 The new TV packs a…

Tech News Chris Mills

7 things you probably didn’t know about Ghostbusters

Benghazi Committee Leaks CIA Source Trying to Prove Clinton Emails Could’ve Led to Leaking CIA Source

Life May Have Gotten Started On Earth Almost Immediately

This Plug-In Puts Google Drive Inside Microsoft Office

Buffeting Propellers with Supersonic Winds is Better with Lasers

Will Microsoft’s Hololens Also Get Some Imitators?

This Desk Is a Also a Playable Pipe Organ

Table Tennis Notebooks Will Lead to Impromptu Office Ping Pong Throwdowns

Here Is The Crowdfunded Film About Technoviking, One of The Most Popular Memes

New York Times to Send Subscribers More Paper—Cardboard, In Fact

You Won’t Immediately Toss Christmas Cards That Magically Stick To Any Surface (Update)

The Third Edition of the World’s Most Beautiful Scrabble Game Introduces new Fonts

Smart LED Bulbs Learn Your Routines, and Automatically Turn On When You Go on Vacation

Indian Uber Driver Found Guilty of Raping Female Passenger

1Password’s Changing Its Data Format Following Metadata Criticism

How Will We Even Know New Lifeforms When We See Them?

Polar Now Puts Heart Rate Monitoring On Your Wrist With Its New A360 Fitness Tracker

Uber Now Has Its Own Fleet of Mapping Vehicles

UE Speakers Now Let Three People DJ at Once

The New Apple TV is Coming Next Week

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

‘Scream 7’ Just Won’t Stop Making Money as ‘Scream 8’ Gets Started

The Curtain Has Closed on Meta’s Movie Rating-Inspired Content Filters

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ExpressVPN Just Launched ExpressAI: Your Prompts Are Now Invisible

VR Just Took Another Massive Body Blow

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Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

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