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Bitcoin-Stealing DEA Agent Sentenced to Over Six Years in Jail

Carl Force, a DEA agent who helped bring down online black market The Silk Road whilst also plundering hundreds of thousands of dollars in Bitcoin will be spending the next 78 months in prison, a judge decided today. https://gizmodo.com/dea-agent-who-stole-bitcoin-during-silk-road-investigat-1715282980 Force was an undercover DEA agent working on the investigation into Ross Ulbricht and online black…

Tech News Chris Mills

Here’s Google’s Delivery Drone Delivering Things

Amazon isn’t the only company that’s serious about delivering you stuff via the medium of drone: Google’s skunkworks X division has been working on ‘Project Wing’ for a few years now, and the research is starting to bear fruit. In a video posted by Aaref Hilaly, a partner at VC firm Sequoia Capital, you can…

Tech News Chris Mills

10 mistakes in the Star Wars movies that you might have missed

I know, the only mistake of the Star Wars movies is the prequels. Ha ha. Oh and we can’t forget all the crap that George Lucas went back in to ruin in the original trilogy too. Yes. But there are actual legitimate mistakes that leaked into the good movies too. Here’s a list of 10…

Sploid Casey Chan

Traditional Japanese instruments playing Michael Jackson songs is pretty cool

The music of Michael Jackson is so popular that it’s pretty much universal and probably timeless and can even transcend instruments. I mean, just watch Yoshimi Tsujimoto play Michael Jackson’s Smooth Criminal on a shakuhachi (a bamboo flute) with the help of two backup koto instrument players. It’s Michael Jackson across different cultures and traditional…

Sploid Casey Chan

Could You Save Money By Commuting to San Francisco From Las Vegas?

Many of San Francisco workers are being priced far out of the city due to the housing shortage. But how far? According to one person’s calculations, rents are so high, it would be worth it to move to Las Vegas and fly back to San Francisco for work. Supercommuters—people who live in one city and…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Waze Is Missing a Huge Opportunity to Actually Help People Improve Their Commutes

There was a frightening message waiting for many Angelenos last Friday as they fired up Waze for their evening commute. Two freeways were closed—one covered in a mudslide—and for many, the app warned of drive times that were doubled or more. The entire city of LA simultaneously canceled its dinner plans. A group of my…

Tech News Alissa Walker

The First Ever Samples From the Global Seed Vault Have Been Retrieved

Deep in the arctic, inside over 400 feet of rock, a huge cache of seeds is stored in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, in case of some global emergency. Today, the first of the seeds from that supply have arrived to replenish a collection sent away for safe keeping during Syria’s Civil War. The plan…

Tech News Ria Misra

How many people has Darth Vader killed in the Star War movies?

Darth Vader is the ultimate villain, the personification of evil, and the baddest of bad guys. But how much of a killer is he? Surprisingly, not that much as Darth Vader. He’s only responsible for less than a dozen kills as Darth Vader but he definitely racks up the kills as moody teen Anakin though.…

Sploid Casey Chan

How to Watch All the Beautiful New Apple TV Screensavers

The new Apple TV includes a litany of overdue updates and a few neat little surprises. Chief amongst them: Brilliant, slow-moving screensavers that will turn your TV screen into a dynamic work of art. Developer recently found the new Apple TV screensavers hard-coded into the company’s website. It’s apparently online because Apple will be uploading…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Your Family DNA Could Be Used Against You by the Law

Five years after privacy advocates warned about the potential risks to privacy posed by massive genetics databases, they are, indeed, causing problems. Two popular geneology websites, Ancestry.com and 23andMe, both maintain such databases on behalf of private citizens. Now there’s at least one case on record of Ancestry’s data being used in a murder case,…

Tech News Leah Becerra

Autoblow2 Creator Brian Sloan Is Now Crowdfunding an Awkward 4-Pound Masturbation Sleeve

The designer of the somewhat terrifying robotic masturbator, the Autoblow, is running a new Indiegogo crowdfunding project to make a 3-orifice-in-one masturbation toy for men. It looks like it will be….awkward to use. The product is called the 3Fap because apparently Sloan can’t come up with a name that’s not crudely literal. It combines 3…

Tech News Diane Kelly

Law Enforcement to Logic Games: The Surprising Significance of the Checkerboard Pattern

Like an undercover spy, the black-and-white checkerboard pattern goes by many work names. Among police the world over, it’s known as Sillitoe tartan. Named for one Sir Percy Sillitoe, a Glasgow police chief who rose to director of Britain’s elite MI5 secret service, Sillitoe tartan trims the uniforms of coppers throughout the former British Commonwealth.…

Tech News Jude Stewart

Fake Cowboy Uses Real Bullets, Injures Two In Wild West Re-Enactment Gone Awry

Next week is the 134th anniversary of Tombstone, Arizona’s famed moment in Wild West history, the shootout at the O.K. Corral involving Wyatt Earp and other legends of the era. The annual celebration got off to a rocky start, however, when an actor fired a loaded gun during a show. Oops! Fortunately, nobody was killed,…

Tech News Cheryl Eddy

Get an “Instant Invite” to Google’s Project Fi For the Next 24 Hours

Back in April, Google announced Project Fi, its very own wireless network that requires no contract, has no termination fees, and even refunds unused data. Well, according to the official Project Fi Twitter, free instant invites are available for the next 24 hours to celebrate the shipment of the new Nexus 5X. You’ll need a…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin

This Glitch Art Building Looks Like an Apple Maps Fail on a Sucky Internet Connection

Do not refresh your browser. This is an architectural optical illusion that makes an entire building look like a bad Street View capture reloading over dialup. This glitch art architecture (glitchitecture?) named H3333333K is the work of the artists Domagoj Smoljo and Carmen Weisskop, who you’ll know best for building a bot which bought hundreds…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Thomas Jefferson’s Lost Chemistry Lab Found Hidden Behind Wall

Conservators working at the University of Virginia’s Rotunda have inadvertently uncovered a chemical hearth designed by Thomas Jefferson. The discovery is offering fresh insights into how chemistry was taught over 200 years ago. The iconic Rotunda, constructed in 1826, is located on The Lawn of the original grounds of the University of Virginia and is…

Tech News George Dvorsky

This is the Latest Hole Punched into Mars by a Science-Obsessed Rover

Hey, look at that! The Curiosity rover drilled a 9th hole in Mars, just 18 sols after the last hole. That’s a new record for speed-drilling on the red planet! Or, as the powdered rock dust so clearly shows, the red planet with a grey center. The Curiosity rover team is obeying a directive to…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

14 Things You Can Do in Android Marshmallow That You Couldn’t Do in Lollipop

Whether you’ve put in an order for a Nexus 6P or you’re patiently waiting for Android version 6.0 to reach your Galaxy S6, you’ll want to know what Marshmallow can do for you. It’s not a dramatic leap forward for Google’s mobile OS, but there are still a number of useful new features you’re going…

Gadgets David Nield

Lenovo’s Best Yoga Laptop Gets the Powerful Guts It Needs

Crafting the perfect lap-friendly computing companion is a delicate balance between weight and performance. Add powerful processors, expect hefty returns. If lightweight is what you want, packing in the best processors, along with cooling systems, can be a challenge. For the new Yoga 900 Series, Lenovo decided to rethink the formula. With last year’s Yoga…

Gadgets Darren Orf

Apple Suspends Hundreds of Apps For Stealing Personal Data From a Million Users

More than 250 iOS apps were found in violation of Apple’s App Store privacy policy, scooping up data from one millions users estimated to have downloaded the offending apps. SourceDNA, an analytics service that uncovered this seedy app behavior, found that the apps were gathering email addresses associated with the user’s Apple ID, plus a…

Tech News Chelsea Scherer

Bitcoin-Stealing DEA Agent Sentenced to Over Six Years in Jail

Here’s Google’s Delivery Drone Delivering Things

10 mistakes in the Star Wars movies that you might have missed

Traditional Japanese instruments playing Michael Jackson songs is pretty cool

Could You Save Money By Commuting to San Francisco From Las Vegas?

Waze Is Missing a Huge Opportunity to Actually Help People Improve Their Commutes

The First Ever Samples From the Global Seed Vault Have Been Retrieved

How many people has Darth Vader killed in the Star War movies?

How to Watch All the Beautiful New Apple TV Screensavers

Your Family DNA Could Be Used Against You by the Law

Autoblow2 Creator Brian Sloan Is Now Crowdfunding an Awkward 4-Pound Masturbation Sleeve

Law Enforcement to Logic Games: The Surprising Significance of the Checkerboard Pattern

Fake Cowboy Uses Real Bullets, Injures Two In Wild West Re-Enactment Gone Awry

Get an “Instant Invite” to Google’s Project Fi For the Next 24 Hours

This Glitch Art Building Looks Like an Apple Maps Fail on a Sucky Internet Connection

Thomas Jefferson’s Lost Chemistry Lab Found Hidden Behind Wall

This is the Latest Hole Punched into Mars by a Science-Obsessed Rover

14 Things You Can Do in Android Marshmallow That You Couldn’t Do in Lollipop

Lenovo’s Best Yoga Laptop Gets the Powerful Guts It Needs

Apple Suspends Hundreds of Apps For Stealing Personal Data From a Million Users

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