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As of July 30th, Yahoo won’t let you use Facebook or Google logins to sign into Flickr—you’ll need a Yahoo account instead.

Report: Cable Cos Funding Consumer Campaigns to Attack Net Neutrality

Cable companies are rattled over public demand for net neutrality. But VICE believes that they’ve got it so bad that they’re funding consumer groups to rally against a democratic internet. The site believes that cable companies are funding astroturfing campaigns across the U.S. to parrot their views. It points to Broadband for America, for instance,…

There are two types of people in this world: those that check the weather through a window, and those that check the weather through a (browser) window. [PHD Comics]

Scientists: A mysterious animal ate an entire 9-foot great white shark

Scientists in Australia tagged a healthy 9-foot great white shark as part of program to track these animals. Four months later they found the tracking device washed up on a beach. Something—something really big—had eaten this apex predator. But what creature could dine on such ferocious prey? The recovered tracking device showed a rapid temperature…

The definitive reason why you should quit Facebook (seriously)

You’re not going to quit Facebook, and that’s ok. But still, you should know the definitive reason why would you should quit it: This 4-minute video gives a lot of strong arguments against it, but the best is the “Imagine Facebook Is Your Best Friend Argument.” If you want to delete your account permanently, Lifehacker…

Vodafone Admits It’s Been Wiretapped Across the Whole of Europe

Will we ever discover the full extent of state snooping into our private lives? A year on from the NSA / Snowden revelations, Vodafone has today admitted that government agencies use wire taps to monitor its customer calls across Europe. Though not revealing exactly which of the 29 European territories it operates in have been…

The second season of Orange Is The New Black is now available to watch on Netflix. So, that’s the weekend planned.

A 90-Year Human Life in Weeks (And How You’ll Spend Them)

Ever wondered how your life might pan out? Well, certain aspects of it are fairly predictable—as this wonderful chart, breaking down a 90-year life in weeks, demonstrates. Put together by Wait But Why, the chart on the left shows the blank canvas that is 90 years in weeks: a sea of time in which you…

Google Play Movies & TV now offers offline viewing on Chromebooks—handy, given the hardware’s other shortcomings away from an internet connection.

iOS 8 Lets You Scan Your Credit Card With Your Camera Instead of Typing

Apple’s new iOS 8 is packed with neat little features, but 9to5Mac has just discovered a new one that’s pretty neat: the latest version of Safari will let you scan a credit card with the device’s camera instead of typing. When confronted with a card details form, Safari already allowed you to choose a credit…

Watch a floating pillow somehow support the weight of a brick

How is this floating pillow supporting the weight of this brick? Magic? Some sort of invisible string? Maybe it’s an illusion to make it look like the pillow is floating and spinning but it really isn’t? CGI!? Nope. It’s magnets! Which I guess is the closest thing we have to magic here on Earth. BrussPup…

What is this?

When I saw this image appearing in my RSS I couldn’t tell what it was. It looked like a close up of the skin of some animal. Perhaps a detail of a bird or a reptile, I thought. Maybe a colorized microscopic view into some human body part. The answer couldn’t possibly be more different…

Record the Beeps of a Library — and Maybe Make Something of It

Each Thursday at the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.com a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have just over four days to upload a track in response to the assignment. Membership in the Junto is open: just join and participate. Tracks by participants will be added to this playlist as…

Woman’s hair burns during selfie, shows why we should stop being idiots

This girl burned her hair rushing to jump into frame for a selfie. Who’s to blame? Her? Or maybe it’s the uncouth cameraman taking a vertical video. We should toss some blame towards the open flame candle at a small table too. But perhaps, it’s all of us in the wrong. As in all of…

Man saves squirrel’s life by giving it CPR

This cute little squirrel has a pool repairman to thank for saving its life. When the little critter was found floating in a pool in Phoenix, Rick Gruber, the pool guy, resuscitated it back to life by performing a little bit of CPR. After a few minutes of pumping its lungs, the squirrel was breathing…

93-year-old vet just recreated his D-Day parachute jump over Normandy

This is just awesome. Jim ‘Pee Wee’ Martin, a 93-year-old WWII veteran paratrooper, just did the same jump out of a plane into Normandy that he did for D-Day 70 years ago when he was 23-years-old. But he says this jump was much easier because “there wasn’t anybody shooting at me today.” During World War…

Watch sponges breathe out neon green water like they’re smoking

There’s something completely fascinating in something so incredibly simple. Sponges—animals that can’t walk or swim—are incredibly efficient at what they do and have a super fun history to them too. Watch Jonathan Bird explain how sponges work and where they come from in this Blue World clip. To illustrate how sponges work in filtering water,…

It Might All Be Falling Apart For The Bravest Warriors

Things are starting to get sticky for the Bravest Warriors. After the last episode saw Chris struggling alone against his destiny, now Beth, Wallow, and Danny are stuck dealing with the coming of the Aeon Worm. Beth’s father has amassed his hamster army of followers and will try to free his master from the See…

Saved: A Satirical Tale of Teen Pregnancy in a Christian High School

What happens when you mix a gay teens, teen moms, divorce, and disabilities and then put them under the roof of judgey Christian high school? Saved, a comedy that hilariously deals with some topics that aren’t exactly fiction. Mary Cummings (played by Jena Malone) is a high school senior who gets pregnant upon sacrificing her…

Report: T-Mobile’s Parent Company Might Be Screwing With Hungary’s Press

Deutsche Telekom is the huge corporation that owns two-thirds of T-Mobile. It also, if you follow a chain of sub-companies, owns Origo.hu, a hugely popular Hungarian news site. Origo’s editor in chief was just unceremoniously fired, after writing critically about the Hungarian government—which, incidentally, just inked a $1.5 billion broadband agreement with Deutsche Telekom. Something…