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The DOJ Is Sneaking in a Policy That’d Crap All Over the 4th Amendment

The rules for how the Department of Justice tracks down criminals in the digital age are woefully arcane, but the DoJ’s recent proposed changes to update those rules go way too far, using vague terms to grant sweeping remote search powers that would take a torrential horse piss on the Fourth Amendment. Under the auspices…

Privacy & Security Kate Knibbs

America Voted and Pierre, South Dakota, Is Monopoly’s New Boardwalk

To help celebrate Monopoly’s 80th birthday, Hasbro invited fans of the game in the U.S., and all over the world, to vote and choose their favorite cities to be included as property spaces on the new Monopoly Here & Now versions of the game. Some four million people voted, and for the U.S. version of…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Watch Your Dead Tech Get Demolished at an E-Waste Recycling Plant

When we stepped inside the facility, you could almost smell the circuitboard. All around us conveyor belts were transporting staggering heaps of electronics to and from shredders and sorters—from hard drives to old TVs, to medical devices, Macbooks, and printers. So many printers. It’s called e-waste, and it’s made of millions of broken, dead, and…

Gadgets Michael Hession

These incredible aerial views of San Francisco are just jaw dropping

My God, take a look at these photos. Master photographer Vincent LaForet captured San Francisco in such incredible detail and in such a fascinating perspective that it’s truly breathtaking. You can see the entire city—all 7 miles by 7 miles—stamped on the Earth with its beautiful bridges stretched across the sea. Click on the magnifying…

Sploid Casey Chan

A Locking Knife Block Keeps Your Blades Inaccessible to Kids

When you’re bustling in the kitchen prepping a meal, quickly grabbing a knife out of a storage block is easier than digging through a drawer to find one. Storing them in a block is also just a better way to keep your knives sharp and in good shape, but it unfortunately means they’re easily accessible…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

This is the cutest (and possibly smallest) 3D printed drill in the world

Lance Abernethy, a maintenance engineer from Auckland, New Zealand, 3D printed a cordless drill that measures 0.67 inches (17mm) tall, 0.27 inches (7.5mm) wide, and 0.5 inches (13mm) long and holds a 0.02 inches (0.5mm) twist drill. Not happy with that, he is already working on a smaller version. Lance told 3Dprint.com: It took me…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

Watch Out Apple Watch, There’s a Swiss-Made Android Wear Watch Coming

Swiss watchmaker TAG Heuer is teaming up with both Google and Intel are going to team up to make a luxury Android Wear watch to do battle with the upcoming (and expensive) Apple Watch. Sounds interesting! But unfortunately that’s about all we’ve got in the way of details so far. Rumors have been swirling, and…

Tech News Eric Limer

This Transforming Scooter Is the Ultimate Mobility Aid for Any Age

It’s assumed that electric scooters are a tool designed for those with mobility issues or the elderly, but the creators of the transforming ILY-A concept see it as the perfect solution for commuters, travelers, or anyone who occasionally just doesn’t feel like walking. The scooter—which is the best way to describe the ILY-A—can transform into…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

The Chillest Thing at SXSW, and Everything Else You Missed Yesterday

Apple’s retail plans for the Apple Watch, a bigger M9 may be coming soon, and one chill guy at SXSW. This is all the news and rumors you’ve missed in the last 24 hours on BitStream. This guy’s name is Michinobu Uda. He’s not particularly famous in tech circles. He doesn’t own some startup and…

Tech News Darren Orf

Raiders of The Lost Ark’s boulder scene was inspired by Uncle Scrooge

Cinefix dissects the iconic opening scene of Raiders of The Lost Ark showing how it was made. From the planning to the practical effects and sound design. It also talks about George Lucas’ obsession with Disney comic books and how Uncle Scrooge’s The Seven Cities of Cibola influenced the boulder scene. SPLOID is delicious brain…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

Pencil Lines Can Turn a Piece of Paper Into a Simple Sensor

The graphite that slips from the point of your pencil onto a page may be of more use than simply writing and drawing. A team of researchers has shown that simple pencil lines can be used as an accurate sensor to measure the deformation of objects. The team, from the University of Science and Technology…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

I wish all robotic insects were as cool as these

Robot bugs will surely live around us in the near future. Unfortunately, judging by what we are seeing so far, they are not going to look anywhere as cool as these retro-futuristic designs by Andrew Serkin. Andrew Serkin is a motion graphic designer and art director based in Moscow, Russia. You can follow his work…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

Can You Tell What This Is?

This may look like finely crafted sculpture, but you’re actually looking at an award-winning photograph of a biological sample. The question is: can you work out exactly what it depicts? The winner of the 2015 Wellcome Image Awards, the image is a shot of a specimen held at the Royal Veterinary College in London, captured…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

These Portraits Are Drawn Only With Eye-Tracking Software

Graham Fink is an artist with an incredible ability to concentrate. He must be: he manages to draw images like these by subtly shifting his gaze around a screen, recording those movements using eye-tracking software. It’s quite amazing, then, that the results are perhaps better than most of could do with a pencil and pad…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

“Carolina Butcher” Was a Massive Croc That Hunted on its Hind Legs

The fearsome “Carolina Butcher” isn’t a legendary serial killer. It’s a 9-foot-long ancestral crocodile that stomped about the southeastern U.S. during the Late Triassic, eating smaller armored reptiles and competing with dinosaurs for top-predator status. Oh, and it walked on its hind legs. Carnufex carolinensis, fondly nicknamed the Carolina Butcher, is clearly a badass addition…

Tech News Maddie Stone

Tag Heuer and Intel Are to Challenge the Apple Watch

“Apple will get young people used to wearing a watch,” Tag Heuer CEO CEO Jean-Claude Biver recently told Reuters, “and later maybe they will want to buy themselves a real watch.” Could today be the day we see Tag Heuer’s “real watch” answer to the rise of the smartwatch? Reuters is reporting that the luxury…

Tech News Gerald Lynch - Gizmodo UK

Target’s Data Breach Settlement Could Pay Victims Up to $10,000 Each

Back in 2013, Target suffered an incredibly embarrassing data breach where 40 million customer credit cards were compromised. Now, following lengthy discussions with the lawyers of those affected by the hack, the retailer has agreed to pay up a $10 million settlement. https://gizmodo.com/target-confirms-up-to-40-million-credit-and-debit-cards-1486419257 CBS News reports that the sum could see individuals affected by the…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

A Combo 3-D Printer, CNC Machine And Laser Etcher Makes A Lot Of Sense

3-D printers are powerful but limited tools: you can make anything you want, but only out of a specific kind of plastic. But combine that with a CNC machine that shapes metal, and a laser etcher for fine detail, and you have an all-in-one workshop that doesn’t require you getting your hands dirty. BoXZY is…

Tech News Chris Mills

Chrome and Firefox Users Make Better Employees

Have you ever griped at your company’s IT department for forcing you to use Internet Explorer? Chances are, you weren’t being difficult: you were just trying to be a better employee. According to research published by Cornerstone OnDemand, people who use Firefox or Chrome make better employees. It gathered the data from customers who used…

Tech News Chris Mills

Video About Newt Sex Shows Just How Boring Human Sex Really Is

Sure, humans have invented fancy sex toys and internet sexbots, but we have nothing on newts when it comes to humping. That’s because getting horny doesn’t cause our bodies to change shape and grow fins so that we can make babies underwater. Newts do that and more. This video is part of KQED’s awesome series…

Tech News Annalee Newitz

The DOJ Is Sneaking in a Policy That’d Crap All Over the 4th Amendment

America Voted and Pierre, South Dakota, Is Monopoly’s New Boardwalk

Watch Your Dead Tech Get Demolished at an E-Waste Recycling Plant

These incredible aerial views of San Francisco are just jaw dropping

A Locking Knife Block Keeps Your Blades Inaccessible to Kids

This is the cutest (and possibly smallest) 3D printed drill in the world

Watch Out Apple Watch, There’s a Swiss-Made Android Wear Watch Coming

This Transforming Scooter Is the Ultimate Mobility Aid for Any Age

The Chillest Thing at SXSW, and Everything Else You Missed Yesterday

Raiders of The Lost Ark’s boulder scene was inspired by Uncle Scrooge

Pencil Lines Can Turn a Piece of Paper Into a Simple Sensor

I wish all robotic insects were as cool as these

Can You Tell What This Is?

These Portraits Are Drawn Only With Eye-Tracking Software

“Carolina Butcher” Was a Massive Croc That Hunted on its Hind Legs

Tag Heuer and Intel Are to Challenge the Apple Watch

Target’s Data Breach Settlement Could Pay Victims Up to $10,000 Each

A Combo 3-D Printer, CNC Machine And Laser Etcher Makes A Lot Of Sense

Chrome and Firefox Users Make Better Employees

Video About Newt Sex Shows Just How Boring Human Sex Really Is

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Your Devices Are Targets. Bitdefender Shields Them All — For Less Than You Think

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