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Where New York City’s Most Notorious Speeding Ticket Cameras Are Hiding

New York City obviously doesn’t tell citizens where its speed cameras are, but using data on the tickets police issued last year, WNYC tracked down the location of the most absurd traps, including the city’s $2.75 million cash machine. The data shows that about half on New York’s 51 cameras sit in fixed spots, whereas…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

RC Hulk Does Exactly What Kids Want Him To: Smash Stuff

As Marvel’s most wantonly destructive character, there’s only one feature kids are really looking for when they ask their parents for a Hulk toy. It has to smash stuff, and it has to smash stuff repeatedly until they get tired of smashing stuff. It’s a simple list of demands, and JAKKS Pacific has met every…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Cops Are Using Stingray Surveillance for Minor Crimes Like 911 Hangups

Florida police are using Stingray tracking devices—powerful surveillance tools cloaked in secrecy, capable of hoovering data from the phones of anyone in a wide search area—to catch thousands of suspects, even in low-level crimes like 911 hangups. Documents published by the ACLU this week show how widespread Stingray use is in Florida among local law…

Privacy & Security Kate Knibbs

Motorola’s Great Little Cheapo Phone Has a New Look and LTE

Right now, smartphone rumors are at a fever pitch. HTC is a leaky ship and Samsung hearsay arrives on the regular. Motorola opted out of the whole Mobile World Congress rat race that will be happening this weekend and instead shipped its new low-end champion, the Moto E, for all us gadget bloggers to gawk…

Tech News Darren Orf

This Insanely Detailed Animation Is Made From Only 4096 Bytes of Code

The demoscene is an internet subculture that has managed to stay cool for decades. And as the winning entry in a recent demo competition in Tokyo proves, the demos just keep getting better. If you’re not familiar with the term, “demos” refer to algorithms written by a programmer or group of programmers to generate graphics…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Celebrate 35 Years Of Gundam Model Kits With This Exquisite Mobile Suit

This July, Bandai celebrate 35 years of selling ‘Gunpla’ – plastic model kits of the mechs from the long running Mobile Suit Gundam franchises. They’re doing so in style too, with this ultra-fancy new version of the Gundam model that started it all. The first ever Gundam Model Kit, a 1/144 scale rendition of Amuro…

Tech News James Whitbrook

Mystery Drones Are Appearing Over Paris Landmarks

For the second night in a row, mysterious drones have appeared above Parisian landmarks. The authorities are baffled—and worried. Permission is needed to fly aircraft below 19,700 feet over Paris in the daytime, and personal drone flights are totally banned at night. That’s why the French are freaking out over the unexplained appearances. The drones…

Tech News Kaila Hale-Stern

This video made me crave coffee this morning (even more)

If you like coffee as much as I do, New York City is the place you want to be. Filmmaker James Casey shares New Yorker’s obsession with coffee and shows them talking about it in this neat video that made me crave a cup of deep black joe. While I was enjoying my good hot…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

Create an HD Fly-Through Video Tour in Google Earth Pro

In January, Google decided to make Google Earth Pro free for everyone—that means we can all make use of features that previously cost $400 a year, and one of those features is the ability to record HD video of your tours. From floating along the Grand Canyon to zooming into your local neighborhood, here’s how…

Gadgets David Nield

What Makes an Image Go Viral? Could Be as Simple as Color

Never before in human history has it been so easy to share, like, pin, reblog, images. That’s, like, totally awesome for teenage girls showing off their prom dresses but also a pretty huge boon for scientists studying what makes images shareable. And it could be something as simple as color. A paper published this month…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

Power Wheels Is Making Tiny Porsches Again

There’s some great news from Mattel for parents who like to live vicariously through their kids and long ago had to trade their sports car dreams for a practical, spacious minivan. It’s been almost a quarter century since Power Wheels offered a Porsche option, but come October kids aged three and older will be able…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Hot Toys’ Incredible New Hulk Is Suitably Massive And Angry

Like, seriously angry. That is the Hulk’s thing, but man, Hot Toys’ latest entrant into the Age of Ultron line certainly captures the rage of Bruce Banner in stunning style. This is the second Hulk figure the company have done – they of course did a big Hulk/Bruce Banner set for the character’s appearance in…

Tech News James Whitbrook

A Commodore 64 Smartphone Is What My Retrocomputing Soul Craves

The dreams of awesome retro smartphones, Google’s cleaning up the porn, and one big Sony tablet leak. Welcome to Bitstream, all the news tidbits and rumors you missed in the last 24 hours. A PC legend comes to your pocket The Commodore 64 is the highest selling single PC ever made, shipping 15 to 17…

Tech News Darren Orf

This New 17-Inch Hulk Figure Comes With Next-Level Chest Hair Detailing

With the Avengers sequel creeping closer and closer to its release date, it was only a matter of time before the talented artists at Hot Toys finally gave us a Hulk figure to top all other Hulk figures. With this new 17-inch tall version of an angry Bruce Banner they’ve certainly delivered, and with more…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Great animated short film is as sweet, fun, and sad as real love is

I read somewhere that love was invented as a cure for loneliness. I don’t know if that’s completely true but this brilliant short film—directed by Julio Pot—illustrates that thought perfectly. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

Why Gnats Swarm

A common sight in the spring and summer, the seemingly unprofitable and pointless habit of gnats to hover in a cloud is, in fact, the single most productive thing they’ll ever do with their short lives. Although there are a wide variety of non-biting, but eminently annoying, gnats and midges, their lifecycles are all pretty…

Tech News Melissa - TodayIFoundOut.com

Three Men Have Had Hands Amputated and Replaced With Bionic Versions

Three men with severe nerve damage have voluntarily had their hands amputated and replaced with prothetic versions that they’re able to control with their minds. The procedure—performed by Oskar Aszmann at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria, and now published in The Lancet—has been called “bionic reconstruction.” Each of the patients involved has suffered damage…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Watch a tornado machine rip off the roof of a minitaure house

The WindEEE Research Institute, in Ontario, Canada, has this amazing wind chamber capable of creating a tornado vortex at the touch of a button. The tornado can go up to 16 feet wide (5 meters) and move at six feet (2 meters) per second. Maryam Refan, researcher of the WindEEE institute, explained to New Scientist:…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

Apple Has to Pay $533 Million for a Patent Infringement Within iTunes

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas has ruled that Apple must pay $532.9 million because iTunes infringed three patents owned by a Texas-based patent licensing called company Smartflash. The patents—relating to digital rights management, data storage and managing access through payment systems—were said to be used by Apple without Smartflash’s permission.…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

These anamorphic drawings will screw up your brain

Italian artist Alessandro Diddi is back with more mind-boggling anamorphic drawings that seem to be popping out of the paper. Even if I know that these are plain 2D drawings, my brain keeps telling me it’s 3D. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bKVDt… This video—by another artist—shows how anamorphic drawings are made: Alessandro Diddi is an illustrator born and based…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

Where New York City’s Most Notorious Speeding Ticket Cameras Are Hiding

RC Hulk Does Exactly What Kids Want Him To: Smash Stuff

Cops Are Using Stingray Surveillance for Minor Crimes Like 911 Hangups

Motorola’s Great Little Cheapo Phone Has a New Look and LTE

This Insanely Detailed Animation Is Made From Only 4096 Bytes of Code

Celebrate 35 Years Of Gundam Model Kits With This Exquisite Mobile Suit

Mystery Drones Are Appearing Over Paris Landmarks

This video made me crave coffee this morning (even more)

Create an HD Fly-Through Video Tour in Google Earth Pro

What Makes an Image Go Viral? Could Be as Simple as Color

Power Wheels Is Making Tiny Porsches Again

Hot Toys’ Incredible New Hulk Is Suitably Massive And Angry

A Commodore 64 Smartphone Is What My Retrocomputing Soul Craves

This New 17-Inch Hulk Figure Comes With Next-Level Chest Hair Detailing

Great animated short film is as sweet, fun, and sad as real love is

Why Gnats Swarm

Three Men Have Had Hands Amputated and Replaced With Bionic Versions

Watch a tornado machine rip off the roof of a minitaure house

Apple Has to Pay $533 Million for a Patent Infringement Within iTunes

These anamorphic drawings will screw up your brain

Feds Sniffing Around Polymarket After Suspicious Bets

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

Don’t Get Too Attached to Any AI App

‘Paradise’ Writer Teases What’s Coming in Season 3 After That Huge Twist

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Bloodsucking Ticks Can Survive Inside Your Home Longer Than You Might Think

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