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Five Ways To Use Tech To Hide What an Awful, Lazy Person You Are

At some point in your life, you’ll want to shirk any sense of obligation and propriety you might have and bury yourself in a deep, dark hole of self-loathing and Netflix. It’s OK—it happens. And your gadgets are here to help. Thankfully, humankind has evolved to a point where technology can make our excuses for…

Gadgets Ashley Feinberg

I would totally live in the world’s first carbon-positive house

According to Dwell, this is the “world’s first carbon-positive prefabricated house,” which produces more “more energy than its uses.” Its designer, ArchiBlox, claims it’s “expected to offer the same environmental benefits as 6,095 native Australian trees.” Simple, clean design—put it in a forest and I will move in. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Edward Snowden’s Reddit AMA Sure Is Going Great So Far

The man who blew the whistle on the NSA’s most intense spying schemes and opened all our eyes to a world where virtually nothing you do online goes unwatched by the Power That Be is doing a little AMA on Reddit right now, to promote his new movie CITIZENFOUR. There’s a little trouble with the…

Tech News Eric Limer

Here Are Apple’s Diverse (And Racist? Jaundiced?) Emoji

Apple just pushed the latest OS X update seed to developers and hiding inside is a nice surprise: a brand new roster of racially diverse emoji. Finally! It’s been a long time coming. People have been crowing for years about the lack of racial diversity in Apple’s emoji selection. However, Apple’s consistently passed the buck…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

The Olympic Venues of the USSR, 35 Years Later

The 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow were controversial. While its war in Afghanistan had sparked a global boycott of the games, the USSR also wanted to showcase its capacity for opulence. To this day, the architecture of the Olympic Village lives on like an undying tribute to the Soviets’ misplaced and ultimately untimely ambition. Russian-born…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Ready Your Farnsworth Jokes, Futurama Pop Vinyls Are Coming

Good news, everyone! (God dammit, me.) We’ve known for a bit that Funko had absorbed the Futurama franchise into the bulbous mass of its licensing hive mind, as it has with every other property on the planet, but now they’ve teased a first look at the actual figures. They’ve got actual noses and everything! I…

Tech News James Whitbrook

Ordering Online? Target’s Free-Shipping Minimum Is Lower Than Amazon’s

Target wants your business bad, so bad that the big box retailer is undercutting Amazon on shipping prices. Now, you can get free shipping on Target.com on all online orders of $25 or more. Your goods will arrive in three to five business days, for free. That deal undercuts Amazon’s free shipping by $10 (with…

Commerce Adam Clark Estes

Electron Microscopes Can Reveal Filed-Off Serial Numbers

To make it difficult for law enforcement to trace stolen cars or weapons, thieves will usually grind off their metal vehicle identification numbers or serial numbers. And while techniques for trying to recover those numbers do exist, they’re not as accurate as a new method developed by researchers at the National Institute of Standards and…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Google Wallet Will Be the Easiest Way to Pay on Your New Android Phone

Apple has Apple Pay. If you have an iPhone 6, your mobile payments platform of choice is pretty much set in stone. But Android has no true de facto e-wallet, but Google is now making that decision much easier by working with Softcard and mobile carriers to come standard on every smartphone sold by AT&T,…

Tech News Darren Orf

Why We Need a Right to Privacy for Brain Data

There’s still no technology in the world that lets you listen in on someone’s thoughts. But fMRI advances are making it easier than ever to measure, interpret, and even reconstruct brain activity, and a growing market of wearables with electroencephalographic (EEG) components and brain-computer interfaces means that there are more ways to map our brainwaves…

Privacy & Security Kate Knibbs

Anti-Aging Experts Made a Million-Dollar Bet on Who Dies Last

Even 10 years ago, the idea of reversing aging and conquering human mortality was still fringe science, seen as snake-oil research by most scientists, large pharmaceutical companies, and the public. What a difference a decade makes. Anti-aging science is poised to become a major industry in the biotech world. To prove its promise, the first…

Tech News Zoltan Istvan

A Dragon Egg That Hatches Into A Beautiful Game Of Thrones Ring

Want to emulate all the fun of being Khaleesi with none of the horse-heart eating or general misery that’s dogged Daenerys in Game of Thrones? This amazing gift set by Etsy user Kilroy’s Attic should get you part of the way there, with this gorgeous ring moulded to look like Dany’s baby dragons. D’aaw! The…

Tech News James Whitbrook

An Isolated Vault Could Store Our Data on DNA for 2 Million Years

A few hundred feet inside a permafrost-encrusted mountain below the Arctic circle sits the seed bank that could be humanity’s last hope during a global food crisis. This month, scientists suggested that this unassuming vault is the ideal space for preserving the world’s data on DNA. This is the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a bunker…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Great, Drones Are Spying on Cell Phone Signals Now

Right now, at least one ad company is using drones to spy on unsuspecting citizens. And it’s having a “ton of fun” doing it. AdNear is self-described as “the leading location intelligence platform.” Basically, these data-driven marketers track cell phone signals in order to throw hyper-targeted ads in your face, kind of like the profit-hungry…

Privacy & Security Adam Clark Estes

Kanye’s Making a Video Game Where You Help His Mom Get to Heaven

Noted Kanye West enthusiast Kanye West is many things. Today, that thing is grieving game developer. Because in Kanye West’s upcoming (official) video game debut, Kanye West wants you to help Kanye’s mom get to Kanye heaven. Details so far are sparse, but the rapper did reveal some of what will undoubtedly be a bizarre…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

How Creeps Will Use the Internet to Break into Your Home

Your refrigerator is sending spam. Your front door is running buggy firmware that tells you the deadbolt is locked (when it’s not). And the kid next door is pirating music over your wifi network, thanks to a backdoor in your thermostat app. All the internet-enabled things that make your home “smart” are also turning it…

Privacy & Security Darren Orf

The Best Thing About This Joker Action Figure Is The Box

I mean sure, Medicom’s new Dark Knight Joker is a wonderful little toy in and of itself – but even with that, it’s the spot-on packaging really sells it. The latest in Medicom’s MAFEX line sees Heath Ledger’s Joker get the 1/12th scale treatment, and he translates pretty well to the size – both headsculpts,…

Tech News James Whitbrook

How to Leave All Your Accounts to Someone Else When You Die

Here’s a sobering thought: You’re not going to be around forever. So who gets all those emails, photos and rocking tunes you’ve been amassing over the course of your life? Here’s how to prepare pass on your digital estate to your next of kin on all the major platforms before you shuffle off this mortal…

Gadgets David Nield

A Game Called Zyro Uses Flying Drones As Intelligent Tennis Balls

If you thought drones were only good for spying on people or filming incredible crashes, you’re only half-right. A new Kickstarter wants to turn quadcopters into intelligent tennis balls, badminton shuttlecocks, and even frisbees so players won’t need proper courts, line judges, or even decent skills to play a variety of games. But don’t worry,…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Looks Like Pebble’s New Smartwatch Will Have a Color Screen

Last week, Pebble started teasing a new announcement with a countdown on its homepage. And now a leak from 9to5Mac—an image hosted on Pebble’s own servers—is giving us a pretty good idea of what it is: A new, thinner, wider smartwatch with a color screen. The image, shown above, comes after previous rumors from 9to5Mac…

Tech News Eric Limer

Five Ways To Use Tech To Hide What an Awful, Lazy Person You Are

I would totally live in the world’s first carbon-positive house

Edward Snowden’s Reddit AMA Sure Is Going Great So Far

Here Are Apple’s Diverse (And Racist? Jaundiced?) Emoji

The Olympic Venues of the USSR, 35 Years Later

Ready Your Farnsworth Jokes, Futurama Pop Vinyls Are Coming

Ordering Online? Target’s Free-Shipping Minimum Is Lower Than Amazon’s

Electron Microscopes Can Reveal Filed-Off Serial Numbers

Google Wallet Will Be the Easiest Way to Pay on Your New Android Phone

Why We Need a Right to Privacy for Brain Data

Anti-Aging Experts Made a Million-Dollar Bet on Who Dies Last

A Dragon Egg That Hatches Into A Beautiful Game Of Thrones Ring

An Isolated Vault Could Store Our Data on DNA for 2 Million Years

Great, Drones Are Spying on Cell Phone Signals Now

Kanye’s Making a Video Game Where You Help His Mom Get to Heaven

How Creeps Will Use the Internet to Break into Your Home

The Best Thing About This Joker Action Figure Is The Box

How to Leave All Your Accounts to Someone Else When You Die

A Game Called Zyro Uses Flying Drones As Intelligent Tennis Balls

Looks Like Pebble’s New Smartwatch Will Have a Color Screen

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

Don’t Get Too Attached to Any AI App

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Trump’s New White House App Is Mildly Concerning and Weird for a Lot of Reasons

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