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The good fight for freedom and democracy against Beijing’s dictatorial regime continues in Hong Kong, where protesters keep flooding the streets in massive demonstrations. This photo published by Hong Kong Democracy Now is an impressive look into one. Here are some more from the ground. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us…
It only took a few decades for us to realize that spending all our time in front of computers wasn’t the most healthiest way to live. That’s why the market is now flooded with fitness tracking wearables encouraging us to exercise. The Brite R450 sets its sights a little lower, though. It encourages more achievable…
Astronauts Reid Wiseman and Alex Gerst continue enacting the real-life space buddy-movie we never knew we always wanted. From sticking a video camera inside a water bubble in microgravity to carefully measuring out their living quarters, they supply a steady stream of surreal reality from the space station. SpaceX seems to be a source of…
It doesn’t come as much of a surprise that Disney has a whole division at its theme parks dedicated to making fairy tale weddings a reality. But what is surprising is the awesome technology those wedding planners have at their disposal, like wonderful projection-mapped cakes that make it look as if the frosting is magically…
Yesterday, the CDC confirmed the first Ebola case diagnosed in the US. The patient, who recently traveled to Liberia, is now isolated in a Dallas hospital. With containment efforts challenging West Africa, and US officials searching for anyone who came in contact with the Dallas patient, where is the Ebola vaccine? The good news is,…
I’ve been spooked by dogs in parked cars plenty of times, but I never teased them. Unlike the guy in this short created by London-based animation house Birdbox Studios. At the end, he learns his lesson the hard way. Karma, people. It’s a bitch. The short was showen at the Encounters Film festival in Bristol…
Even though most of us never even notice it, Apple has a fantastic history of sound design, from the ping of the text message to the decades-old powering up noise. That legacy runs through Apple’s new era of product design too, right down to the sound of the new Apple Watch clicking open. In an…
The United States is almost ready to join the rest of the world in the chip-and-pin credit card future. But in the meantime hackers have been stealing all our numbers left and right. Wired took a deep dive into the software that lets it happen, and the process is both clever and simple. The programs…
With all the excitement bubbling up around the Windows 10 announcement, now is as good a time as any to take a look at the state of Internet Explorer . And, as has been the case since the dawn of time, more people use IE than every other browser combined. Just as they will continue…
Despite rumors of its demise, Popcorn Time is alive and thriving. So much so that you can now install the torrent surfing app on your iPhone. Of course, you’ll have to jailbreak it first. Popcorn Time for iOS arrives as demand for the possibly illegal service continues to soar. The developers behind the app say…
It’s not exactly going to disrupt the furniture industry as we know it, but designer Christian Sjöström might be onto something with this unique flexible chair inspired by saddles that facilitates several different seating positions. If it’s good enough for a cowboy, it has to be good enough for a desk jockey, right? The Camou’s…
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At some point in your life, you’ve used PowerPoint. Whether for a class project or a meeting of some sort, you’ve click and dragged text boxes, dropped in photos, and awkwardly presented a slideshow. Now imagine doing that on a phone or tablet. Nightmare! Microsoft thinks its new app, Sway, can help make it less…
It’s not uncommon for people to shell out $200 or more for a pair of headphones that aren’t even good, which is why a set of $40 cans from a company we actually trust sounds pretty darn good. Shure’s new SRH on-ear headphones come in two sonic flavors. The SRH144 offer “extended range.” That basically…
Spanish filmmaker Francisco Montoro shows in this beautiful video that communication goes beyond words. Nowadays, thanks to the Internet, we can connect with each other in many ways, but we are certainly missing the most important one. The one that creates the strongest bonds: Physical contact. This is the translation from the words at the…
Microsoft fans around the world cheered when the company revealed the return of the Start Menu to Windows 10 yesterday, so why not mark the special occasion with a stylish backpack that celebrates the operating system where it all started: Windows 95. Available for pre-order for $52 with a promised delivery of two to five…
Let’s cross our fingers and hope that we never experience this, but what would happen if every human on the planet was eradicated? This video by Earth Unplugged ponders that exact question. From head lice losing their source of nutrition to cities crumbling and rivers overflowing, a lack of human presence would have some pretty…
Surprisingly, despite all the websites and apps dedicated to absolutely nothing but GIFs, there really aren’t that many that let you turn yourself into your own ever-looping bit of internet infamy. But today, JibJab’s new custom GIF messaging app is filing a void in our hearts we didn’t even know existed in the first place.…
Head swaps aren’t new but they are an unlimited source of fun. This video for the song On & On—by DUM—takes footage from Never Ending Story and superimposes the faces of the members of the band on the ones from the characters in the movie—they change some other things too. (NSFW-ish.) It’s not the first…
Stormtroopers Sailors stand by to move an imperial starfighter E-2C Hawkeye in the hangar bay of the Galactic Empire’s Star Destroyer aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). [U.S. Navy]
