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iOS 7.1 Developers’ Source Code Hints at Siri for Apple TV

Apple’s virtual helper might soon appear in additional types of hardware from the tech giant, with snippets of code found within the iOS 7.1 SDK suggesting that a version of Siri for Apple TV may be in the works. The discovery hinges around the device identifier “3” that’s been found inside the Assistant call code…

Tech News Gary Cutlack - Gizmodo UK

FBI Informant Sabu Linked to International Cyberattacks

Remember Sabu, the Anonymous hacker turned FBI informant? According to the New York Times, he’s been linked to a series of international cyber attacks—and the suggestion is that they may have been ordered by the Bureau. The newspaper writes that, back in 2012, Sabu exploited a web hosting vulnerability and directed other hackers to extract…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe

Amazon Prime Pantry: 45 Pounds of Groceries Delivered for $6

Jeff Bezos wants to feed you. No, really: Amazon’s latest venture is Prime Pantry, a service that allows you to have 45 pounds’ worth of household essentials, in everyday sizes, shipped to your door for $6. The service, first rumored late last year, is available to Prime members and is now live in 48 states…

Commerce Jamie Condliffe

The FDA Is Coming For Your E-Cigs

Gather ye e-cigarettes while ye may. According to a report from The New York Times, the FDA is preparing to announce “sweeping new rules” to regulate the sale of e-cigs, cigars, gels, and pipes. Tomorrow, the agency will unveil a “hundreds-of-pages-long” blueprint for the regulations—a long-delayed attempt to gain control over a booming industry. The…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Daft Punk + Kanye + Otomo = the Best Thing You’ll Watch Tonight

You know what makes Daft Punk’s “Better, Stronger, Faster” even better? Mashing it up with Kanye’s “Stronger.” And you know what Akira makes even better? Everything. Videosampleur produced this rocking remix, check out the rest of his work at Videosampleur.com.

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Dad saves a kid from getting hit by becoming faster than a superhero

Old man strength. The ability to fix anything broken inside the house. The impeccable sense of direction. The never ending wallet. Dads are basically real life superheroes. Especially this dad, who probably activated the secret powerful dad mode God code you get when you become a father that made him instantly realize the trajectory the…

Sploid Casey Chan

Bug trapped upside down does hypnotic workout forever

Is this bug a workout warrior who’s doing some insane six legged bench press? Or is he a dumb little critter who think he’s walking normally and doesn’t realize he’s trapped upside down? Whatever he’s doing, it’s hypnotic. And it goes on forever. And ever. And ever. Like three hours forever. SPLOID is a new…

Sploid Casey Chan

Pop an Ambien and watch happy Bob Ross happily washing his happy brush

I can watch Bob Ross forever. Back in college, I used to watch his program—The Joy of Painting—on late cable TV because he triggered my autonomous sensory meridian response like crazy. I’d get goosebumps and my blood pressure would drop. Here’s that son of a gun washing his brush again and again and again. SPLOID…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Dang, people don’t notice the homeless even when they’re family members

To most people living in cities around the world, the homeless have essentially become invisible. They blend into the streets, they’re background noise, they’re just a part of the fabric of a city like buildings and street lights and crosswalks. Only… they’re human. Just like us. To prove how invisible the homeless are to normal…

Sploid Casey Chan

The Story of What Might Have Been, Palaeontology Edition

Find a palaeontologist. Have him watch a whole lot of science fiction time-travel movies. Guide him into philosophical conversations about pivotal moments and alternate history. Then set him in front a keyboard, and see what spills out about what he might have studied if not dinosaurs. Okay, that’s probably not how this article was written,…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

tUnE-yArDs – Water Fountain

In a perfect world, you’d get an extended cut of this new tUnE-yArDs video, and watch it after you’d eaten a bunch of psychoactive drugs. This is what you get when kids who were raised on Pee-wee Herman grow up and become artists. And it’s no accident. For real. Director Joel Kefali says: When Merrill…

Tech News Leslie Horn

How to Make a Drill-Powered Pepper Grinder

If you’ve ever cooked pepper steak, you know the feeling of your forearms cramping up after what seems like hours of twisting. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if there were just a machine that did all the hard work? Lucky for you, there is, and it’s probably in your garage. That is, if you still have…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Abu Dhabi’s New Park Will Hide a 30-Acre Oasis Below the Desert

The United Arab Emirates has been overrun with a surge of costly and extravagant developments over the past decade including the Palm Islands and Burj Khalifa in Dubai. Now, a 125,000 square-meter park in Abu Dhabi will join them—but this isn’t your average mega-development. The beautiful design is credited to Thomas Heatherwick, an imaginative and…

Tech News Eric Rydin

This Early Concept for the 1964 Ford Pavilion Was Googie-tastic

Above we see an early planning illustration for the Ford Pavilion at the 1964 New York World’s Fair. This design is a bit wilder than the one they actually built, which you can see below. Those swooping corridors — while decidedly more tame in their trajectory in its final built form — did include one…

Tech News Matt Novak

This video of a car hitting a dog is not what it seems

I will not spoil the ending of this Russian dashcam video, so you have to watch the entire video till the very end. Trust me, you will really enjoy this—a lot. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook

Sploid Jesus Diaz

The FCC (Still) Stinks at Defending the Internet

The FCC’s soon-to-be-proposed rules on net neutrality reportedly won’t stop broadband providers from giving better service to people that pay for it. That stinks. This was the agency’s big chance to lock down a set of regulations that will keep the internet free and open, and it’s letting America down. In fact, the FCC has…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

A Map of Who Doesn’t Have Indoor Plumbing in the United States

Did you know that 1.6 million Americans don’t have complete indoor plumbing? The American Community Survey published on Tuesday that says that nearly 630,000 occupied homes in the United States lack complete plumbing facilities*, and The Washington Post whipped it into a handy interactive map. How’s your home state doing? If you’re from Connecticut, the…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

You’ll Want to Play Forever In This Swirling Sea of Packing Peanuts

You might think it a nuisance when a few packing peanuts spill from a box out onto your living room floor. But when an entire hallway is filled with millions of the white nuggets and blown around in a cyclone of styrofoam, you’ll probably react a bit differently. It’s all part of an installation by…

Tech News Michael Hession

Visualization reveals how the number Pi looks (spoiler: Pretty!)

Cristian Ilies Vasile has created the coolest visualization of Pi I’ve seen. First he divided a circle in 10 segments, from 0 to 9. Then he traced a path going from the third segment to the first segment. From 1, the path jumps to 4, then back to 1, then 5 and so on. After…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

With a Kevlar-Lined Shirt, You’re Not Completely Screwed in a Crash

Pay attention as the weather gets warmer: you’re gonna see a lot of motorcyclists riding around in regular street clothes, nothing but hopes and dreams protecting them from nasty road rash should things get tumbly. Well, maybe not all of them—hopefully, some will be wearing Crave’s kevlar-lined Axe shirt, which looks like a normal work…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

iOS 7.1 Developers’ Source Code Hints at Siri for Apple TV

FBI Informant Sabu Linked to International Cyberattacks

Amazon Prime Pantry: 45 Pounds of Groceries Delivered for $6

The FDA Is Coming For Your E-Cigs

Daft Punk + Kanye + Otomo = the Best Thing You’ll Watch Tonight

Dad saves a kid from getting hit by becoming faster than a superhero

Bug trapped upside down does hypnotic workout forever

Pop an Ambien and watch happy Bob Ross happily washing his happy brush

Dang, people don’t notice the homeless even when they’re family members

The Story of What Might Have Been, Palaeontology Edition

tUnE-yArDs – Water Fountain

How to Make a Drill-Powered Pepper Grinder

Abu Dhabi’s New Park Will Hide a 30-Acre Oasis Below the Desert

This Early Concept for the 1964 Ford Pavilion Was Googie-tastic

This video of a car hitting a dog is not what it seems

The FCC (Still) Stinks at Defending the Internet

A Map of Who Doesn’t Have Indoor Plumbing in the United States

You’ll Want to Play Forever In This Swirling Sea of Packing Peanuts

Visualization reveals how the number Pi looks (spoiler: Pretty!)

With a Kevlar-Lined Shirt, You’re Not Completely Screwed in a Crash

Tesla Goes Ahead and Admits Its Robotaxis Are Sometimes Fully Human-Controlled

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

‘Scream 7’ Just Won’t Stop Making Money as ‘Scream 8’ Gets Started

The Curtain Has Closed on Meta’s Movie Rating-Inspired Content Filters

Good News! You Can Finally Change That Ridiculous Gmail Address

ExpressVPN Just Launched ExpressAI: Your Prompts Are Now Invisible

VR Just Took Another Massive Body Blow

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

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

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