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There is no mindless pleasure better than snacking. And there is no better tribute to the crunchy, sweet, and cheesy creations that make it possible than these saliva-inducing photos. Winner: The Perfect Tile I was drawing tiles while playing a game with my girlfriend in which you draw something based on two colors you pick…
Construction crews in Indiana were shocked to discover a time capsule from 1958 at a former mental hospital. The most exciting part? It contains a film with a message to the future–a message about electroshock therapy and psychiatric drugs. Frustratingly, much of the audio from the film has been lost. What were they saying in…
Sport photography isn’t shot from the sidelines anymore, it’s made by athletes as they do their thing. But before they can do that, they have to learn to shoot like a pro. We went inside the camp where they’re trained. The GoPro athlete camp I attended was geared specifically towards the company’s adventure athletes: rock…
If you went to Hawaii during World War II, you probably noticed something a little funny about the money. Every greenback had a big bold “HAWAII” plastered across it. Why? In case of a Japanese invasion, of course. In the months after Pearl Harbor, the United States government issued a set of special Hawaii-specific banknotes.…
If your laptop is running out of juice more often than you’re finding yourself near a power source, you’ve got yourself a problem. While there are no new features in Apple’s new desktop operating system designed specifically to improve battery life, there are some tried and trusted methods you can use. Disable Bluetooth Bluetooth glitches…
Everybody’s favorite music website to love/hate/complain-about-and-secretly read-anyway is selling out big time to Condé Nast, a lumbering behemoth of old media that’s desperately trying to make its comeback in digital. The New York Times reports the sale of the venerable tastemaker for an unspecified amount. Pitchfork was founded in 1996, and helped define a new…
Sick of paying for Spotify? Hate how hard it is to use Apple Music? Then you’re going to love what renegade developer and lover of beer Andrew Simpson has built. It’s called Aurous, and it’s basically Popcorn Time for music. The spartan desktop app operates on the BitTorrent network and ostensibly grants you free access…
This animation teaser for the upcoming return of The X-Files is so good that it totally should be the title sequence. It’s perfect because nothing is as it first seems, things change depending on how close or far you’re looking and what you think is going to happen, doesn’t always happen. SPLOID is delicious brain…
This year’s winter “will definitely not be normal,” NASA has said. It is, however, awfully familiar. It’s not just the sea surface heights, like those above, that look alike—NOAA and NASA both confirm that they’re also seeing wind patterns and water temperatures that look eerily similar to the ‘97 conditions. Researchers have been noting the…
The year was 1972; the place, suburban Springfield, New Jersey. One September day, a bizarre murder shattered the town’s sense of safety, and set in motion a cult-tinged mystery that’s become a local legend—and now, the subject of a new true-crime book. Was 16-year-old Jeannette DePalma killed as part of a Satanic ritual—or was she…
One of the big benefits of strapping an Android Wear watch to your wrist is customizing your timepiece to suit your personality, current mood or sartorial taste. As Google’s wearable platform has grown, we’ve seen more and more Android Wear watch faces show up on Google Play—here are some of our favorites. 1. UsTwo Smart…
It’s the end of an era, folks. Playboy, the magazine famous for its nude photos, will stop publishing nude photos because there are already plenty of those on the internet. Playboy will still feature sexy “PG-13” content, but you can kiss the nipples goodbye. Funnily enough, Playboy.com has been nudie free for months. The company…
When you got one of the biggest guns in the world, you can’t just pop in a new magazine and start firing again. Well, you can but the new ‘magazine’ for the GAU-8 Avenger is so ginormous it needs to be trucked in and requires multiple Air Force guys to get the gun reloaded. It…
Connected States is a new series from Brent Rose about living a truly mobile life.
Google likes to keep all of your voice searches on its servers so it can more easily learn to recognize your voice, understand what you might be looking for in the future, and, of course, serve you ads. If you want to review this archive of Google Now searches and clear it out, here’s what…
Sentinel Prime, the Autobot head honcho before Optimus, usually transforms into a big ol’ Cybertronian truck when in vehicle mode: but not the new Sentinel. He turns into two vehicles: one of which is a big, weapon-packed space train to the cosmos. The new Sentinel Prime is being released as part of “Titans Return”, a…
Rumors are quickly circulating about Oneplus’ upcoming smartphone—the second one of the year, currently thought to be called the OnePlus Mini. Now, we may even have one of the first pictures of the rumored smartphone. Technology is filled with all kinds of rumors and speculation — real and fabricated.BitStream collects all those whispers into one…
The next time a pillow fight breaks out at a sleepover, don’t bother reaching for a heavy feather-filled cushion. No, if you truly want to dominate the battle, make sure you have this Street Fighter Ryu Hadoken Fire Ball cushion in your stuffed arsenal. Throwing this 14-inch pillow at your friends or siblings is only…
Apple’s wireless accessories for its iMac line got a much-needed update today alongside the new desktops themselves. Sure—the new 21.5-inch iMac will be 4K and beautiful, but more importantly none of the peripherals will require AA batteries anymore. That’s right! When Apple redesigned the Magic Keyboard, Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad, the company decided the…
Now’s the time to finally upgrade that aging iMac sitting on your desk–because this morning Apple quietly announced an upgraded version of the popular 21.5-inch version featuring faster RAM, a beefier processor, improved graphics hardware, and a vastly-improved 4K display. The 21.5-inch iMac’s upgraded 4K display (that’s a resolution of 4096 x 2304 for those…
