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John Oliver Begs You to Forgive the IRS and Its Obsolete Technology

Everybody hates the IRS. As John Oliver put it in his latest rant, “Dealing with them is obligatory. It often functions badly. And it combines two of the things we hate most in life: someone taking our money and math.” Good point. But blaming the Internal Revenue Service for taxes is like blaming a check…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Have Your Own Night at the Museum With Fully Posable Dino Skeletons

If you’ve stared in awe and jealousy at your local museum’s collection of dinosaur fossils, a Japanese toy company called Re-Ment wants you to finally be able to have your own. And with its new line of highly-articulated plastic dinosaur skeletons, you can even play museum curator and pose your prehistoric figures however you want.…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Use Hooks to Get iOS Alerts for Virtually Anything

There are all kinds of ways to get notified about what’s of interest to you: Twitter, RSS, IFTTT, Yo, specific apps, your favorite sites, your next-door neighbor and so on. Hooks is a clean and simple app for iOS that focuses on notifications and nothing else; it can prompt you with alerts for everything from…

Gadgets David Nield

Anyone Can Buy the Malware Used to Hack Sony

The Sony hack was the worst corporate cyberattack ever, and now anyone with $30,000 in Bitcoin and the ability to use Tor can buy the type of exploit used to hack Sony on underground cyberweapon websites, according to ex-hacker Jon Miller. The malware used to carry out the Sony hack wasn’t custom-made, Miller pointed out…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

Microlenses Can Help Significantly Boost the Brightness of LED Bulbs

A Taiwan-based company called Beampro Technology has come up with a clever way to boost the brightness of LED-based lights without increasing their power consumption, or over-driving the electronics which can reduce the life of the the components. While most lights redirect and focus the glow of an LED using a reflector, Beampro has instead…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

The Army’s Developing a Crash Test Dummy to Measure Explosive Shockwaves

The automotive industry has developed some of the most sophisticated crash test dummies in the world for testing and improving a vehicle’s ability to protect its passengers in the event of an accident. However, when that vehicle is designed to protect its passengers from explosions, the U.S. Military decided it needed a crash test dummy…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

ICYMI: You Can Soon Unlock Your Android Phone With Just Your Voice

DARPA announces another (crazy) project, Apple Watch sales reach a million sold, and Google continues its war against the password. All the news and rumors you missed, all on BitStream. Google isn’t a huge fan of the smartphone password. That’s why they’ve done everything imaginable to provide new ways of security that doesn’t require pins,…

Tech News Darren Orf

3DR’s New Solo Drone Promises Airborne Footage Without a Learning Curve

Flying drones isn’t easy—which is why I recommend a cheap one to start. It gets even harder if you’re trying to control a camera at the same time you’re flying around. But drone pioneer 3D Robotics believes it has a fix: the new 3DR Solo. You just show it what kind of shot you want……

Tech News Sean Hollister

Video: The mesmerizing process of making a handmade designer chair

Prepare to get hypnotized by the skills and precision of Overgaard & Dyrman, a design brand located in Copenhagen, Denmark, that makes beautiful furniture mixing traditional hand crafted techniques with modern technology. This video shows the process of making one of its gorgeous Wire Dining Chairs. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

Dispersant Used to Fight Deepwater Horizon More Toxic to Coral Than Oil

It’s almost five years since Deepwater Horizon went belly up—and now research suggeststhat a dispersant used to clear up the site of the spill is more toxic to cold water corals than the oil itself. In research carried out by scientists from Temple University and the Pennsylvania State University, it was found that cold-water coral…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Garmin VIRB X and XE: One of Our Favorite Action Cams Is Leveling Up

The Garmin Virb Elite was one of our favorite action cams a year ago, which was a big surprise from a company known more for navigation and sports watches. It had some unique features and impressively sharp optics. It was big and bulky, though, and it topped out at 1080p/30fps, so it couldn’t hang with…

Tech News Brent Rose

Why Gas Is Priced in Tenths of Cents

The practice of pricing fuel with a fraction of a penny is thought to have started around the 1930s. While we can’t be sure who was the first to price fuel this way, it seems to have become relatively commonplace across the United States all the sudden around the same time. So what happened? In…

Tech News Sarah Stone - TodayIFoundOut.com

Stunning hyperrealistic oil paintings of women floating in zero gravity

Patrick Kramer is a human camera. But instead of lens, film, or CCD he uses brushes and oil paints. This series called Gravity shows stunning hyperrealistic paintings of women floating in zero gravity. That’s right, these are paintings and not photographs. Check out these other neat hyperrealistic paintings I found in Patrick Kramer’s website and…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

Researchers Accuse China of Over 10 Years’ Cyber Espionage and Attack

China recently admitted that it has an array of cyber warfare units. Now, a team of researchers accuses the country—or at least residents of it—of conducting cyber espionage and attack operationsfor the last decade. In a report issued by the security firm FireEye, the researchers describe a long line of spying and hacking carried out…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe

This Japanese Airport Has Running Tracks For Travelers to Follow

Stepping off an airplane at Narita International airport in Japan might be even more frenetic than your usual travel experience—because you’ll be racing along a running track. A nice nod to the forthcoming 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, the airport terminal walkways use color-coded paths that look like racetrack lanes to guide people as they…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Increases in Radon Concentration Shown to Track Fracking Activity

Indoor radon levels in Pennsylvania have been slowly rising since 2004, around the time that unconventional natural gas development using hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) began in the state. In our new study published in Environmental Health Perspectives, we found three pieces of evidence that there may be a link between unconventional natural gas development and indoor…

Tech News Joan A. Casey & Brian S. Schwartz

Here’s What An Imperial Invasion Of LA Would Look Like

Call me a blaster-bolt-happy unoriginal action-sequence heathen, but my favorite 20 minutes of Star Wars remains the Imperial invasion of Hoth. Now, imagine if you took the AT-ATs and TIE fighters, and dropped them over Los Angeles instead. This two-minute short imagining an Imperial/Rebel battle over LAX, Santa Monica Pier and the Queen Mary is…

Tech News Chris Mills

Preserving Video Games: Another Thing The DMCA Is Screwing Up

The Digital Millenium Copyright Act is the most fundamental piece of US legislation underpinning digital rights. It’s also woefully broken, with its wide-reaching language being used tostrong-arm researchersand make tinkering with your own smartphone illegal. The latest trick? Screwing over anyone who wants to preserve video games. As the EFF explains on its Deeplinks blog,…

Tech News Chris Mills

Get A Sneak Peek At YouTube’s New Design

YouTube’s player design has seen us through some tough video times. It was probably sitting there on your first viewing of Friday; the inaugural playing of Gagnam Style, and countless dashcam videos since then. The player’s getting an update soon, but with a little browser trickery, you can take a look right now. The new…

Tech News Chris Mills

How Tinder Would Have Looked in the 1980s

Swipe left? What do you mean “swipe”? How’s about pressing the left arrow key to move a pixelated image of a man wearing a jean jacket to the recycling bin! Then just wait, wait, wait, and try again. Everyone’s dream partner is out there somewhere, and if no one calls the landline, maybe you’ll find…

Tech News Eric Limer

John Oliver Begs You to Forgive the IRS and Its Obsolete Technology

Have Your Own Night at the Museum With Fully Posable Dino Skeletons

Use Hooks to Get iOS Alerts for Virtually Anything

Anyone Can Buy the Malware Used to Hack Sony

Microlenses Can Help Significantly Boost the Brightness of LED Bulbs

The Army’s Developing a Crash Test Dummy to Measure Explosive Shockwaves

ICYMI: You Can Soon Unlock Your Android Phone With Just Your Voice

3DR’s New Solo Drone Promises Airborne Footage Without a Learning Curve

Video: The mesmerizing process of making a handmade designer chair

Dispersant Used to Fight Deepwater Horizon More Toxic to Coral Than Oil

Garmin VIRB X and XE: One of Our Favorite Action Cams Is Leveling Up

Why Gas Is Priced in Tenths of Cents

Stunning hyperrealistic oil paintings of women floating in zero gravity

Researchers Accuse China of Over 10 Years’ Cyber Espionage and Attack

This Japanese Airport Has Running Tracks For Travelers to Follow

Increases in Radon Concentration Shown to Track Fracking Activity

Here’s What An Imperial Invasion Of LA Would Look Like

Preserving Video Games: Another Thing The DMCA Is Screwing Up

Get A Sneak Peek At YouTube’s New Design

How Tinder Would Have Looked in the 1980s

Logitech Wireless Keyboard and Mouse Combo Falls Under $25, a Budget Bundle Deal in the Final Hours of Spring Sale

Liquids Crack With an Audible Snap, Study Finds

Dyson V15 Detect Plus Cordless Vacuum Is a Late Spring Sale Deal at a Record Low on Amazon

The New ‘Supergirl’ Trailer Is Filled With Krypto, Lobo, and ’60s Soul

Vaping Comes With a Cancer Risk, Review Finds

ASUS Eye Care Monitor Hits an All-Time Low, Only Hours Left to Grab a 27″ Screen at a 15.6″ Budget Price on Amazon

How to Watch Artemis 2, NASA’s First Crewed Mission to the Moon in 54 Years

KitchenAid 4.5-Quart Stand Mixer Is Back at Its Lowest Price, a Last-Minute Spring Sale Deal Outside Amazon Prime Day

AirPods Max 2 Review: Still Ridiculously Expensive and Ridiculously Nice

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

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