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A Tiny Video Game-Playing Business Card You Can Smuggle In Your Wallet

A year ago Kevin Bates singlehandedly justified the antiquated tradition of swapping business cards with a thin and tiny handheld console that could even play video games. He originally created the Arduboy as the ultimate business card to show off his electronics skills to potential employers, but now anyone can finally buy one through Kevin’s…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

A Familiar Weapon Makes A Gory Return On The Lizzie Borden Chronicles

From episode six’s title, “The Fugitive Kind,” we have a good idea that Pinkerton detective turned (wrongfully) convicted murderer Siringo is not going to end up at the gallows. But his legal troubles get him out of Lizzie’s hair long enough for her to turn her attentions to other matters, like sabotaging her sister’s wedding.…

Tech News Cheryl Eddy

How long can you keep different types of food in the freezer?

My freezer sometimes acts as an inescapable frozen pit where food goes to disappear. If I don’t want to think about it, just toss it in the freezer. It’s a convenient time stopper. But it’s not forever. Here’s a useful infographic that shows you just how long you can stick different types of food inside…

Sploid Casey Chan

You need 10,000 pieces to build a Minifig-scale Lego Millennium Falcon

Lego’s Millennium Falcons are some of the toymaker’s largest and most impressive sets, but to keep the price tags reasonable there are some comprises made when it comes to size, scale, and detailing. As the Lego fans at Titans Creations discovered, to build a Millennium Falcon that’s actually perfectly sized for minifigs you’ll need some…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Self-Driving Cars Are Already Getting Into Accidents [Updated]

Update 06/21: Google has emphasized that none of the accidents its cars were involved with were the fault of its self-driving vehicles, and has updated its recorded miles to nearly a million. With that information, the accident rate for self-driving cars looks less unsettling and a lot more reassuring. Self-driving cars have been hailed as…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

In A Snake Orgy, Ejaculate Can Get Expensive

Every spring, male red-sided garter snakes enter the mother of all meat-markets. While mature males can breed every year, females are only fertile once every three years, which puts them in very short supply. The result? Snake orgy, obviously. But for male snakes, this sexual free-for-all comes at a surprisingly high cost. More specifically, males…

Tech News Diane Kelly

Uber’s $3 Billion Google Snub, And Everything Else You Missed

Technology is filled with all kinds of rumors, real and fabricated. It gives us a look at what might be and will be. BitStream gathers the whispers all in one place to divine what the future has in store. Nokia, which recently staunchly said it’s out of the smartphone business for good, is now tightening…

Social Media Bryan Lufkin

Watching these guys climb a 2165-foot tall tower made my nerves go crazy

God almighty, I can’t feel a damn thing in my body anymore because watching these two maniacs climb the still under construction 2165-foot tall Ping An Finance Center in Shenzhen, China is the most blood halting thing. When completed it’ll be the 2nd tallest building in the world and the tallest building in China. SPLOID…

Sploid Casey Chan

Lego Dimensions instruction manuals reveal Portal and Doctor Who sets

Although Lego Dimensions won’t be out until September, we’ve already had a pretty good look at some of the game’s extra expansion packs. But an instruction manual uploaded to Lego’s website has given us even more news: our first look at Lego Doctor Who, and confirmation of Lego Portal! The pictures come from the instruction…

Tech News James Whitbrook

This Is the World’s First 6TB 2.5-Inch SSD

If you need masses of storage but like your laptop’s performance super-fast, then this new SSD may scratch your itch. With 6 terabytes of storage, this is the world’s largest capacity 2.5-inch SSD (for now). The Fixstars SSD measures just 9.5 millimeters in thickness, and offers read speeds of up to 540 MB/s and write…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Where the Male and Female Symbols Came From

Representing two planets, iron, copper and a couple of Olympian gods, the classical symbols for male and female pack a lot of meaning into a few squiggly lines. The symbols themselves are ancient, and the associations they make date back to the dawn of civilization. The ancients, after observing how the movements of heavenly bodies…

Tech News Melissa - TodayIFoundOut.com

Could a Medieval Law Help Govern the Internet?

Algorithms increasingly work together to help automate our digital lives—but not every result is perfect, positive or even predicted by their creators. Now, researchers are wondering if the revival of Medieval law could help work out who pays up when things go wrong. New Scientist reportsthat Kate Crawford from Microsoft Research wants revive something known…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Apple’s Teaming Up With World Wildlife Fund to Save Chinese Forests

In its ongoing quest to do good—or at least, better—Apple has announced that it’s joining forces with the World Wildlife Fund to help protect and create sustainable forests that produce the paper used in its product packaging. With the WWF (sadly not that one), Apple plans to protect and build capacity in up to one…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Where to Find the Best Live Streams on Meerkat and Periscope

Meerkat and Periscope are two apps with a similar purpose: To let you broadcast live video over the web for anyone who wants to tune in. But what if your circle of friends aren’t live streaming enthusiasts? Here’s how you can find some streams of note on both networks. In the apps Inside the apps…

Gadgets David Nield

Fully-Functional TRON Lightcycle Sold For $77,000

If you’ve always had your heart set on a TRON Lightcycle — a working one, not a matchbox toy — you’d better start saving. The going rate (as much as there is a going rate for one-off movie-replica collectibles) is $77,000. The bike was sold at auction by RM Sotheby’s, as part of a wider…

Tech News Chris Mills

Appeals Court Rules That Your Electronics Can Stay Turned On In Flight

Back in 2013, the FAA saw sense, and ruled that passengers can use their electronic fondleslabs during takeoff and landing. And, shortly after, the Association of Flight Attendants sued, claiming the FAA had overstepped its bounds. An appeals court just ruled against the AFA, meaning takeoff Candy Crush is here to stay. The AFA argued…

Tech News Chris Mills

Happy Birthday To Betamax, Sony’s Next Big Thing

On May 10, 1975, Sony took out full-page ads in a bunch of newspapers to proudly announce the arrival of a new product, “The Next Thing”: Betamax. At the time of launch, Betamax was the first home video recorder to hit the market. But as everyone knows, JVC released a recorder that used VHS soon…

Tech News Chris Mills

An Interactive Map Of Murder Rates Around The World

The interactive Homicide Monitor allows you to click on a country and see its murder count in a specific recent year, and the rate the number represents per 100,000 people. For some countries, you can also see the weapon most commonly used. (No surprise, the good ol’ USA has some of the more terrifying stats.)…

Tech News Cheryl Eddy

Some SSDs Can Lose Data After Just A Few Days In Storage

Solid-state drives outclass hard drives as a storage medium in almost every way: they’re faster, less fragile, and can store more data per square inch. But according to some experts, SSDs suck at long-term storage of information, thanks to one particular problem: temperature. Under optimal conditions, consumer-grade SSDs — the ones you’d find in most…

Tech News Chris Mills

Drone Vandalism Is Now A Thing

By this point, drones have been co-opted into most human activities: proposals, religion, and yep, porn. As of Wednesday morning, you can also add vandalising a gigantic NYC billboard to that list. As Wiredreports, well-known graffiti artist KATSU has been working on his plan to scribble on billboards for a while. The benefits are obvious:…

Tech News Chris Mills

A Tiny Video Game-Playing Business Card You Can Smuggle In Your Wallet

A Familiar Weapon Makes A Gory Return On The Lizzie Borden Chronicles

How long can you keep different types of food in the freezer?

You need 10,000 pieces to build a Minifig-scale Lego Millennium Falcon

Self-Driving Cars Are Already Getting Into Accidents [Updated]

In A Snake Orgy, Ejaculate Can Get Expensive

Uber’s $3 Billion Google Snub, And Everything Else You Missed

Watching these guys climb a 2165-foot tall tower made my nerves go crazy

Lego Dimensions instruction manuals reveal Portal and Doctor Who sets

This Is the World’s First 6TB 2.5-Inch SSD

Where the Male and Female Symbols Came From

Could a Medieval Law Help Govern the Internet?

Apple’s Teaming Up With World Wildlife Fund to Save Chinese Forests

Where to Find the Best Live Streams on Meerkat and Periscope

Fully-Functional TRON Lightcycle Sold For $77,000

Appeals Court Rules That Your Electronics Can Stay Turned On In Flight

Happy Birthday To Betamax, Sony’s Next Big Thing

An Interactive Map Of Murder Rates Around The World

Some SSDs Can Lose Data After Just A Few Days In Storage

Drone Vandalism Is Now A Thing

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This Is the Way to Lego’s April Releases

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