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The Reason Google Glass Died, and Everything Else You Missed Yesterday

Google diagnoses its Glass problem, more iPhone 6S rumors surface, and an ultimate display of drone sadness. This is the news and rumors you missed in the last 24 hours on BitStream. Google Glass, at least right now, is dead. The little ambitious wearable just couldn’t overcome the technical and social hurdles to be a…

Tech News Darren Orf

Make Music By Solving or Scrambling This Sequencer’s Rubik Cubes

With a little custom software, a camera, and some musical know-how, you can turn sixteen customized Rubik’s Cubes into a unique interface for a music sequencer. However, unless you’re one of those Rubik’s idiot savants who can solve them in seconds, this probably isn’t the best instrument for live performances. The Rubik’s Cube Sequencer was…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

If You Break Your New One M9, HTC Will Replace It for Free for One Year

HTC is ripping a page out of Google’s Nexus 5 playbook and offering up a stellar HTC One M9 replacement deal. No matter how you destroy your phone—unfortunate tumble, washing machine nightmare, a sledgehammer mishap—HTC will replace it within the first year, no questions asked, for free. It’s all part of the company’s new UH…

Tech News Darren Orf

Microsoft Is Testing an Android-to-Windows 10 Upgrade ROM for Mobiles

Microsoft and new Chinese smartphone force Xiaomi are currently testing a clever new Windows ROM, one that could eventually be used to convert an Android mobile to one running Windows 10. Microsoft says it’s already testing such a Windows 10 install with “power users” of the existing Android powered Xiaomi Mi 4, with sources suggesting…

Tech News Gary Cutlack - Gizmodo UK

Guys perform impossible basketball trick shots using a forklift

If there is such thing as a Michael Jordan of crazy basketball trick shots, David Kalb would be it. In fact, he’d give Jordan himself a run for his money with his tricks. This time, he went to a warehouse and performed impossible shots with the basketball hoop strapped to a moving forklift. It’s true…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

Police Have Raided Uber’s Parisian HQ

French police have raided the offices of Uber in Paris as the taxi service continues to operate in the city despite officials claiming that it breaks national laws. Hot on the heels of charges being made against Uber employees in South Korea over allegations of operating illegal taxi rings, Le Monde is now reporting that…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Why Don’t We All Just Stop Staring At Each Other’s Screens?

One of the more annoying things about public transportation is that you can rarely maintain any sense of privacy when using your gadgets. It can be maddening when you have to work or communicate and someone keeps looking at your notebook’s screen. Singer-songwriter James Grande had a particularly irksome traveller sitting beside him during one…

Tech News Attila Nagy

Why Old Paper Turns Yellow

When I was a kid, my parents had a collection of historic old, yellowed newspapers. For example, I distinctly remember an oldWashington Post newspaper sitting on a bookshelf from July 21, 1969 with the headline “The Eagle Has Landed – Two Men Walk on the Moon.” Or a fading, brownish-yellow one from August 8, 1974…

Tech News Matt Blitz - TodayIFoundOut.com

This Frozen Forest Is Actually a Landscape of Diamond-Coated Nanotubes

It might look like something on the side of an Alpine mountain, but you’re actually looking at an electron microscope image of diamond-coated of carbon nanotubes. The image was captured by Paul May at the University of Bristol, who added color to the usually grey image in Photoshop. In fact it shows what these nanotubes…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

The most iconic photos in history recreated as detailed miniatures

Swiss photographers Jojakim Cortis and Adrian Sonderegger have a really cool project called Iconen (Icons) where they make detailed scale miniatures to recreate history’s most famous photos. Concorde – by Toshihiko Sato, 2000 AS11-40-5878 – by Edwin Aldrin, 1969 The Hindenburg Disaster – by Sam Shere, 1937 Nessie – by Marmaduke Wetherell, 1934 Tiananmen –…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

Windows 10 Upgrades Will Be Free—Even For Pirated Copies

Microsoft has announced that it will give be giving free upgrades of Windows 10 to anyone who uses Windows right now—even if they’re currently running pirated copies of the operating system. Speaking to Reuters, Microsoft’s operating system chief Terry Myerson explained from China that Microsoft will be “upgrading all qualified PCs, genuine and non-genuine, to…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

South Korea Has Charged Uber’s CEO With Operating Illegal Taxi Rings

Almost 30 people associated with Uber—including its CEO Travis Kalanick—have been charged in South Korea on suspicion of operating illegal taxi services in the country. The Yonhap News Agency reports that almost 30 individuals—including Uber Korea’s brand manager, heads of car rental companies, and a number of drivers— are “suspected of connecting passengers with nearby…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

The Weird And Wonderful World Of Icicle Science

Despite icicles killing chilling numbers of people per year, we know surprisingly little about the hows and whys of their formation (and no, the answer is not just ‘the cold’). The Icicle Atlas, a giant online repository of everything you could ever want to know about icicles, seeks to change that. As the New York…

Tech News Chris Mills

This Cheap Hack Shows No iPhone PIN Is Really Safe

I’ve always thought of an iPhone passcode as being fairly secure — it’s a 4-digit number, whith a lockout that prevents just mashing buttons until you find the right answer. But apparently, there’s a cheap box that can get hack your security, no matter what. According to MDSec, there’s a $300 device called an IP…

Tech News Chris Mills

Windows 10 Is Coming This Summer

Thought Windows 10 wouldn’t arrive till October? Think again. You won’t have long to wait to get rid of 8—because the operating system you deserve is coming this summer instead. In an official blog post that nearly glosses over this extremely refreshing news tidbit, Microsoft’s operating system chief Terry Myerson wrote this: “We continue to…

Tech News Sean Hollister

Premera Blue Cross Was Hacked — And Took Months To Tell Anyone

Premera Blue Cross, a health-insurance company with millions of patients in the US, has just admitted that 11 million of its customers have been victims of a wide-ranging data breach. Stolen data includes Social Security numbers, bank account information, and clinical records. Oh crap. According to a statement released today by Premera, the attack started…

Privacy & Security Chris Mills

Here Are the Water Restrictions California Should Have Passed Today

After confronting the truth that we have only one year of water left, California passed new water restrictions today which are WIMPY AS HELL. Here, California, I fixed them for you. Admittedly, the impact of these restrictions is lessened because many of the state’s cities already have their own water restrictions. But even where the…

Tech News Alissa Walker

An electric green sky for St. Patrick’s Day

St. Patrick’s Day is debaucherous and sloppy and filled with drunkards decked in green. The Northern Lights are beautiful and stunning and light up the sky in a wonderful hue of green. Naturally, they’re made for each other. Or if not, they should be. Ignore the noise today and just watch this Northern Lights time…

Sploid Casey Chan

Games Could Help Google’s 3D-Sensing Tango Tablet Become a Reality

Google’s Project Tango lets pocket-sized computers see the world in 3D, which could lead to amazing things. Augmented reality shopping. Indoor navigation. Drones that don’t crash into foreign objects. But Google project lead Johnny Lee admits that Tango hasn’t seen much interest from phonemakers yet. What might change that? Games, he says. At Nvidia’s 2015…

Tech News Sean Hollister

Video: The beauty and hard work of making handmade boots

Listening to George Ziermann talk about his life and how he got to making boots while watching him work at his craft is a true treat. Ziermann has been hand making boots for over 40 years and seeing the care that goes into each pair makes me think that his boots will last a lifetime.…

Sploid Casey Chan

The Reason Google Glass Died, and Everything Else You Missed Yesterday

Make Music By Solving or Scrambling This Sequencer’s Rubik Cubes

If You Break Your New One M9, HTC Will Replace It for Free for One Year

Microsoft Is Testing an Android-to-Windows 10 Upgrade ROM for Mobiles

Guys perform impossible basketball trick shots using a forklift

Police Have Raided Uber’s Parisian HQ

Why Don’t We All Just Stop Staring At Each Other’s Screens?

Why Old Paper Turns Yellow

This Frozen Forest Is Actually a Landscape of Diamond-Coated Nanotubes

The most iconic photos in history recreated as detailed miniatures

Windows 10 Upgrades Will Be Free—Even For Pirated Copies

South Korea Has Charged Uber’s CEO With Operating Illegal Taxi Rings

The Weird And Wonderful World Of Icicle Science

This Cheap Hack Shows No iPhone PIN Is Really Safe

Windows 10 Is Coming This Summer

Premera Blue Cross Was Hacked — And Took Months To Tell Anyone

Here Are the Water Restrictions California Should Have Passed Today

An electric green sky for St. Patrick’s Day

Games Could Help Google’s 3D-Sensing Tango Tablet Become a Reality

Video: The beauty and hard work of making handmade boots

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