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Google’s Street View Tour of El Capitan Is Epic

Google’s Street View gets everywhere these days, but rarely does it manage to scale sheer slabs of rock. Now, with the help of acclaimed climbers Lynn Hill, Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell, you can take a trip up El Capitan from the comfort of a computer. The views are astonishing. Perhaps understandably, Google found it…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Ford’s New Full-Size Electric Bike Tells You Where to Avoid Potholes

For many people, cycling all the way into the city is impractical—so instead a combination of car and bike can be useful. At least, that’s what Ford thinks, because it’s the motivation behind this new full-size electric bike that can be folded up to fit inside the trunk of a car. The Mode: Flex smart…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Facial Discrimination: What It’s Like to Live With Disfigurement

In a world obsessed with beauty, living with a facial disfigurement can be hard. Neil Steinberg explores the past and present to find out what it’s like to look different. “Take your ear off for me, please,” Rosie Seelaus says to Randy James, who is sitting on a black exam chair in a special room…

Tech News Neil Steinberg

This $300 Palm-Sized Bug Wirelessly Steals Laptop Crypto Keys

This self-contained snooping device can steal data from laptops within 19 inches of it, sniffing out information based on the radio waves that leak from processors as a result of their variations in power use. And, as its designers point out, it’s small enough to fit inside a pita. Developed by researchers from Tel Aviv…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe

Lenovo’s Ideacenter Stick 300 Is a Windows PC on a Stick for $140

The computer-on-a-stick is not a new—nor always terribly successful—idea. But that hasn’t stopped Lenovo, which has announced its own stab at the concept: the Ideacenter Stick 300. The new device comes in several spec levels, featuring an Intel Baytrail CPU, up to 2GB of RAM, up to 32GB of storage, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0,…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Samsung Disables Windows Updates to Favor Its Own Crappy Bloatware

Windows updates are simultaneously very boring and incredibly important: they have a habit of shutting down your computer at the wrong moment, but also patch critical security flaws with alarming regularity. So if a manufacturer decided to disable Windows Update to favor its own crappy bloatware, that would be incredibly fucked. Oh hey there, Samsung!…

Tech News Chris Mills

You Can Jump Start Your Car With 12 AA Batteries (But Maybe Shouldn’t)

Although you should probably just keep a set of jump leads and a spare $20 in your car, it turns out there’s a non-conventional way to revive a dead battery, using a dozen AAs, a little soldering, and some firmly-crossed fingers. As YouTuber ElectroBoom (auspicious name!) demonstrates, you can actually jump a dead car (or,…

Tech News Chris Mills

iOS 9 Will Delete Apps to Make Room for Updates

When iOS 8 was unleashed on the general public, the size of the update — 4.6 GB — caused many users’ iPhones to cower in fear and shame. In an attempt to avoid a repeat of the problem, iOS 9 will free up space by deleting third-party apps before downloading (and then reinstalling afterwards). The…

Tech News Chris Mills

This Crazy Vertical Turntable Is the Best Way to Show Off Your Records

Thanks to the growth of Urban Outfitters and independent local free-trade coffee shops, vinyl records are back on the rise. But this is still the 21st century: why settle for a pedestrian, boring, flat record player, when your vinyl could be proudly spinning vertically? This is the founding principle behind ‘Floating Record’, a Kickstarter campaign…

Tech News Chris Mills

Astronaut Scott Kelly Had The Best View of Last Night’s Bonkers Aurora

An ultra-rare, ultra-gigantic geomagnetic storm last night had people seeing Northern Lights as far south as Georgia. But from his perch at the International Space Station, astronaut Scott Kelly captured pretty much the most amazing aurora borealis shots ever. Kelly is spending the year on the ISS while his twin brother Mark stays behind on…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Google Wants to Help Bring NYC’s New Public Wi-Fi Hotspots to Your City

Last year, New York City introduced LinkNYC, its innovative plan to turn the city’s ailing payphone infrastructure into a network of 10,000 gigabit Wi-Fi hotspots. Google just bought into the key players behind the plan, and hopes to help scale the model to more cities. OK, brace yourself, you’re about to hear a lot of…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Watch a F-35 fighter jet take off from a ski jump

Here’s the first time an F-35B has taken off from a ski jump. The little boost not only looks cool, like a stunt ramp, but helps the fighter jet take off with a more upward flight path. These type of ski ramps are actually installed on aircraft carriers so it’s important for the, um, troubled…

Sploid Casey Chan

Hackers May Have Personal Data of 18 Million US Government Workers

The data breach that siphoned off the private information of over 4 million US government employees may actually be far larger, with some estimating that it actually affected 18 million people. CNN has an exclusive report on what is shaping up to be the biggest digital crime against the US government ever. According to the…

Tech News Annalee Newitz

Meet the Truthers Who Think There’s a Taylor Swift/Apple Conspiracy

After streaming music nemesis Taylor Swift published an open letter to Apple on Sunday asking the company to pay artists during Apple Music’s free three month trial period, Apple quickly changed its policy to line up with Swift’s wishes. Almost TOO quickly… Apple exec Eddy Cue told Billboard that the abrupt change went down after…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

Wait a Minute, Did Lexus Actually Make a Working Hoverboard?

The latest video in Lexus’ Amazing in Motion series reveals what the company is claiming is a working hoverboard that manages to float about an inch off the ground. It’s a far cry from what we saw in Back to the Future 2, but has the carmaker brought us one step closer to our dreams?…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Honest trailer for Terminator 2 shows how it ruined sequels forever

Terminator 2: Judgement Day was a masterful sequel that blended special effects, a movie star at his most blockbuster-y prime and sick action sequences to make a movie that will be remembered forever. The problem with it though? It was too good. It ruined all action movie sequels after it. In trying to reach the…

Sploid Casey Chan

The Superstitious Murderer Who Turned Her Victims Into Cake And Soap

If you search Leonarda Cianciulli on the website for Rome’s Museo Criminologico, you’ll see that her nickname was “la Saponificatrice di Correggio.” What’s so sinister about a soap maker? Well, because she crafted it out of at least one of her murder victims … and then gifted the bars to her friends. That’s right: victims.…

Tech News Cheryl Eddy

Tip of the Day: Don’t Commit a Crime While Wearing a Fitbit

I mean, if you want to get caught committing a crime, please do wear your Fitbit. That’s what a Florida woman learned when she told police she’d been assaulted in March — only to have them examine her Fitbit and discover that the truth was a lot uglier and more awkward. Jeannine M. Risley was…

Tech News Annalee Newitz

What Futuristic Tech Do You Want Right Now?

Many ideas that were once the staple of speculative fiction have come into existence. VR, robot companions, advanced AIs, self-driving cars—these are now realities. But what kind of technology is still a dream, and most importantly, your dream? There was a time when I would have answered teleportation without pause. I have a lot of…

Tech News Kaila Hale-Stern

This Is The Coolest Vintage Radio Ever

If you were a radio nerd in the 1940s, this was your dream set. Built by Kluge Electronics in Los Angeles, the “California Kilowatt” could not only send and receive messages, but it came with all the bells and whistles — including built-in speakers and an illuminated map of the world, all housed in a…

Tech News Matt Novak

Google’s Street View Tour of El Capitan Is Epic

Ford’s New Full-Size Electric Bike Tells You Where to Avoid Potholes

Facial Discrimination: What It’s Like to Live With Disfigurement

This $300 Palm-Sized Bug Wirelessly Steals Laptop Crypto Keys

Lenovo’s Ideacenter Stick 300 Is a Windows PC on a Stick for $140

Samsung Disables Windows Updates to Favor Its Own Crappy Bloatware

You Can Jump Start Your Car With 12 AA Batteries (But Maybe Shouldn’t)

iOS 9 Will Delete Apps to Make Room for Updates

This Crazy Vertical Turntable Is the Best Way to Show Off Your Records

Astronaut Scott Kelly Had The Best View of Last Night’s Bonkers Aurora

Google Wants to Help Bring NYC’s New Public Wi-Fi Hotspots to Your City

Watch a F-35 fighter jet take off from a ski jump

Hackers May Have Personal Data of 18 Million US Government Workers

Meet the Truthers Who Think There’s a Taylor Swift/Apple Conspiracy

Wait a Minute, Did Lexus Actually Make a Working Hoverboard?

Honest trailer for Terminator 2 shows how it ruined sequels forever

The Superstitious Murderer Who Turned Her Victims Into Cake And Soap

Tip of the Day: Don’t Commit a Crime While Wearing a Fitbit

What Futuristic Tech Do You Want Right Now?

This Is The Coolest Vintage Radio Ever

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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VR Just Took Another Massive Body Blow

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Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

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