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Your Phone Will Soon Spew 4K Video From Its USB Port

The Mobile High-Definition Link (MHL) standard, beloved of Roku and Android phone manufacturers, is about to get exciting: an update coming in September will allow phones to spit out 4K video from their USB ports. https://gizmodo.com/what-is-mhl-5873143 The upgrade, MHL 3.0, will add 4K support to the increasingly popular media standard. It will allow mobile devices…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Fukushima’s Radioactive Puddles Are More Serious Than Anticipated

Japan’s nuclear agency wants to raise the severity level of the new radioactive water leak at the Fukushima because the problem is more serious than initially expected. https://gizmodo.com/fukushimas-now-surrounded-by-extremely-radioactive-pud-1168088710 The incident—newly discovered leaks of radioactive water—was first classified as a level one incident on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES), which refers to an…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Accessing Public Websites Ain’t a Crime, Hiding an IP Address Could Be

In the ongoing legal battle between craigslist and 3taps, a new court opinion makes clear that people are “authorized” under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) to access a public website. But what the court gave with one hand it took with the other, as it also ruled that sending a cease-and-desist letter and…

Tech News Hanni Fakhoury

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Yes/No

Our modern lives are overwhelmed with options. What to eat, wear, do, and consume—your choices are limited only by your means. But there is such a thing as too much choice, like when you have 400 cable channels and nothing to watch. This alegorical short from Bezalel school of visual communications grad Ofer Winter illustrates…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Surprise! Facebook Wants to Get the Entire World on the Internet

In either a selfless bid to change the world or an unsurprising play to get another billion users on Facebook, good ol’ Zuckerberg has announced a new initiative called Internet.org that teams up Facebook with Samsung, Nokia, Qualcomm and Ericsson to somehow make the Internet available to the entire world. There aren’t any balloons involved…

Social Media Casey Chan

The NSA Can Reach 75% of All US Internet Traffic

The WSJ is reporting that the NSA can actually reach and spy on more of the Internet than they’ve publicly said. In fact, it looks like the NSA can reach roughly 75% of all U.S. Internet traffic. And yes, the NSA can read your e-mails too. The WSJ writes: The systems operate like this: The…

Privacy & Security Casey Chan

LG Made a 5.5-inch 2560 x 1440 Smartphone Display with 538 PPI

Hot diggity. LG just announced an insane 5.5-inch smartphone screen that has pixels that must be made from some sort of mixture between dense diamond sparkles and unicorn blood paint. More seriously, the 5.5-inch AH-IPS LCD display’s resolution is 2,560 x 1,440 (Quad HD) and packs 538 pixels per inch. That makes it the highest…

Tech News Casey Chan

These Toys Have Hilarious Real Life Problems

Toys are supposed to serve as an escape for real life, worries and limitations don’t exist when you’re just playing around. But artist Santlov imagined a harsher reality for toys, one where they live lives just as boring as ours. In these prints, Santlov puts your typical toys and action figures in mundane situations that…

Tech News Casey Chan

Brides now forcing bridesmaids to pose naked

What are the nation’s brides up to, these days? Having run out of ways to torture their friends and sisters with horrible dresses, the soon-to-be-married ladies are now forcing their bridesmaids to undress, for these tacky flesh-pile pictures. https://groupthink.kinja.com/bridal-party-boudoir-shots-are-a-thing-1169774872

Sploid Ken Layne

Can breathing that “after the rain” clean smell actually kill you?

There’s nothing like the way the air smells after a desert thunderstorm. It seems so clean. Connoisseurs tend to breathe in as much as they can. But what exactly are they breathing, anyway? Oh, just something that can do “terrible damage to the lungs, splitting open cells and causing them to leak enzymes.” [Photo by…

Sploid Ken Layne

Man’s half face is forever young after getting hit by particle beam

Forget about botox or plastic surgery: if your face gets hit by a high energy particle beam—and you survive the event—your face will stay forever young. This is what happened to physicist Anatoli Petrovich Bugorski, the only person ever to put his head in an active particle accelerator. It happened to him 19 years ago…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Human Body for iOS: Almost The Most Fun You’ll Have Exploring Your Body

While most educational apps are generally intended for children, let’s be honest—anyone not in the field probably remembers next to nothing about how the human body works other than the fact that, you know, it does. Fortunately, The Human Body by Tinybop is just as fascinating for adults as it is for children, letting you…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

9 Photos In Good Old Classic Monochrome

This shooting challenge was an ode to the time-honored tradition of monochrome photography. Oh, those delicate gray tones and striking shadows. Very artful, you guys. WINNER: Marcus Gesundheit I used my iPhone 5 (Jailbroken), CameraTweak v0.31 and for post processing I used Photogene for iPad to create the custom black and white filter. I thought…

Tech News Michael Hession

Parking’s a Breeze in This Foldable, Smartphone-Controlled Electric Car

Researchers in South Korea hope to solve all kinds of problems with a revolutionary new vehicle that’s a real-life Transformer. The Armadillo-T is an ultra-light, ultra-compact electric car that literally folds in half at the flip of a switch. Sure it looks a little bit goofy but come on—you know you want one. The Armadillo-T…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Cool new crime game also lets you pretend to smoke marijuana

Marijuana isn’t legal everywhere yet, but kids everywhere would like to try marijuana. One way to virtually experience getting high is to play the new car-stealing video game called Grand Theft Auto. Sources just confirmed that this game lets you pretend to smoke pot and have sex. https://kotaku.com/you-can-smoke-pot-in-gta-v-according-to-official-ratin-1173843764

Sploid Ken Layne

5 Fun Ways To Destroy Your House on Street View

Want to see what your home would look like if it were demolished by a tropical storm? Or if your city turned into a ruined post-apocalyptic outpost? You can do this and more virtual destruction using a few Google Maps tricks. Here are five good ones, courtesy of Keir Clarke from Google Maps Mania. 1)…

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Dead direwolf actually lives a happy life with Game of Thrones’ actress

One of the first What the hell is going on? *vomit* moments of Game of Thrones is when Ed Stark has to kill her daughter’s puppy direwolf by order of the evil Queen. In real life, however, Lady got to live a happy life with the actress who plays Sansa Stark. https://gizmodo.com/sansa-starks-actress-adopted-her-real-life-direwolf-1166195026

Sploid Jesus Diaz

This Smart Transforming Tote Is the Only Grocery Bag You’ll Ever Need

Mother Earth-lovers everywhere are, at this point, pretty used to carrying around reusable totes for their shopping excursions. In San Francisco, they’re almost as ubiquitous as non-tossable water bottles—especially since a checkout bag ordinance was passed last year that charges customers a cool dime for every paper sack they need. Walking with bags in hand…

Tech News Jordan Kushins

This is the safest car ever made (surprise: it’s American!)

The safest car ever is not a Volvo, a BMW or a Mercedes. It’s a car made in California: the Tesla Model S. It actually broke the safety scale. America, fuck yeah. https://jalopnik.com/the-tesla-model-s-is-the-safest-car-ever-produced-1171606291

Sploid Jesus Diaz

An Ephemeral Tour of Europe’s Abandoned Industrial Ruins

We Americans tend to conceptualize “old” in very recent terms—which explains our collective fascination with ruin porn. If the decay of European cities receives less attention, it’s just because it’s much more ubiquitous. French photographer and self-described “urban explorer” Thomas Jorion has made a career out of seeking out and photographing these lesser known spaces—from…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Your Phone Will Soon Spew 4K Video From Its USB Port

Fukushima’s Radioactive Puddles Are More Serious Than Anticipated

Accessing Public Websites Ain’t a Crime, Hiding an IP Address Could Be

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Yes/No

Surprise! Facebook Wants to Get the Entire World on the Internet

The NSA Can Reach 75% of All US Internet Traffic

LG Made a 5.5-inch 2560 x 1440 Smartphone Display with 538 PPI

These Toys Have Hilarious Real Life Problems

Brides now forcing bridesmaids to pose naked

Can breathing that “after the rain” clean smell actually kill you?

Man’s half face is forever young after getting hit by particle beam

Human Body for iOS: Almost The Most Fun You’ll Have Exploring Your Body

9 Photos In Good Old Classic Monochrome

Parking’s a Breeze in This Foldable, Smartphone-Controlled Electric Car

Cool new crime game also lets you pretend to smoke marijuana

5 Fun Ways To Destroy Your House on Street View

Dead direwolf actually lives a happy life with Game of Thrones’ actress

This Smart Transforming Tote Is the Only Grocery Bag You’ll Ever Need

This is the safest car ever made (surprise: it’s American!)

An Ephemeral Tour of Europe’s Abandoned Industrial Ruins

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