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Watch an Insanely Relaxing Flight Across the Arctic Ice Plains, by NASA

What you see here is some of the best footage shot from the front and back mounted cameras on one of the P-3B aircraft that runs NASA’s IceBridge missions. These vistas are from the spring mission over Greenland and the Arctic, but NASA’s going back for more this fall. See, NASA’s not just concerned about…

Tech News Eric Limer

Famous old singer wants HP to pay millions for his namesake penis app

American singer Chubby Checker—known for popularizing the twist dance in 1960—is suing the underpants off HP. The conflict: the Palo Alto multinational corporation published a third-party penis measuring app for their now defunct Palm phones called Chubby Checker. https://gizmodo.com/chubby-checker-singer-can-sue-hp-over-chubby-checker-1155156358

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Dealzmodo: Nikon D800, MacBook Air $800, Haswell, Mousing Surface

The Nikon D800 is arguably the best camera you can buy. Its 36-megapixel sensor re-opened the conversation about megapixels, and in terms of raw image quality, the D800 is second to none. Roberts Camera (via eBay) has the manufacturer refurbished D800 for $2000 today. That’s at least $800 off a new model, and comes with…

Tech News Shane Roberts

What You Shouldn’t Put On Facebook (Explained By a Gospel Choir)

Putting personal information on Facebook is never a good idea. And if you don’t believe us, at least take it from this social media-savvy gospel choir: Well you need to keep your business off Facebook You need to keep your business off of Facebook The things that you say you;’re never gonna find out about…

Social Media Leslie Horn

Is Amazon Art a Ripoff?

It’s been more than a week since Amazon launched Amazon Art, a marketplace for fine art where online shoppers can one-click-buy directly from galleries. And while it’s great to imagine disrupting one of the wackiest, most unregulated markets in the world, the question remains: Just how good of a deal are you getting on that…

Commerce Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Chubby Checker (Singer) Can Sue HP Over Chubby Checker (Dick-Measurer)

Remember that time Chubby Checker wanted to sue HP over a penis-measuring WebOS app that was also called “Chubby Checker”? There’s more fun to come: ol’ Chubs just got the go-ahead to sue the pants off HP. https://gizmodo.com/chubby-checker-sues-hp-over-penis-measuring-webos-app-5984301 On Thursday, U.S. District Judge William Alsup ruled that Ernest Evans (ol’ Chubs) is well within his…

Tech News Eric Limer

Snowden Reportedly Started Stealing Spy Documents While Working at Dell

The neverending Edward Snowden saga is getting some new characters with a new Reuters report that tracks the origins of his secret document-stashing not to the NSA but to former employer Dell Computer. Wait, Dell? What do they have to do with spying? You’d be surprised. Unnamed United States officials and other anonymous sources told…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

The coolest and most exotic cars in the world all in one place

Every year, the most luxurious, exotic and expensive cars in the world get together at Monterrey Car Week, commonly known as Pebble Beach among fans of all things on wheels. From unique classics to the unveiling of the latest models, these are the awesome cars you’ll never have. Here are the highlights so far. The…

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Forbes Uses Furry Convention Logo in Obamacare Article For Some Reason

Forbes had a fun little piece the other day in which they answered a few common questions people had been asking about Obamacare—because healthcare can be confusing! Almost as confusing as, say, pulling the logo of a wildly popular furries convention to use as the accompanying graphic on an article about Obamacare. Which, you know,…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

An Alarm Clock With a Feature You Actually Need: USB Ports

It’s a hard pill for the alarm clock industry to swallow, but the fact of the matter is that we don’t really need them anymore. Smartphones have been reliably waking us up for years now, and they do so much more. So kudos to the folks at Idea International for finding the perfect feature that…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

How One Perfect Shot Saved Pinball From Being Illegal

In May of 1976 in New York City, Roger Sharpe watched nervously as city council members piled into a Manhattan courtroom. Reporters and camera operators had already begun setting up, eagerly anticipating the proceedings ahead. Roger, a young magazine writer for GQ and the New York Times among others, did not expect this kind of…

Tech News Matt Blitz - TodayIFoundOut.com

Fire in New York’s Queensboro bridge

There has been a fire in the middle of the Queensboro Bridge, which links Manhattan with Queens over the East River and Roosevelt Island. The explosion of a truck caused a fire on the lower level of the bridge, which is now closed. A thick column of black smoke from all over the city for…

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If You Use a Drone to Film Your Wedding This Is What You Deserve

Honey, let’s not waste money on a human photographer. I know this guy with a quadcopter and a GoPro. Baby, it’ll be awesome. No no, I promise. I promise. I mean what could possibly go wrong? This is gonna be so epic. Bonus GIF for Fun and Enjoyment: [Reddit]

Tech News Eric Limer

A “Glitch” Made All the Doors in a Max. Security Prison Open at Once

A Florida prison says that a computer “glitch” is to blame after all of the doors in the maximum security wing opened without warning. Wired has news for them, though. Sometimes, these kinds of glitches are caused by sneaky characters called hackers. And this situation looks pretty suspect. The incident happened back in June at…

Privacy & Security Adam Clark Estes

A California Walnut Farm That Costs Peanuts to Run

If the midwest is America’s breadbox, California is its orchard. The Golden State produces nearly half of America’s fruits, vegetables and nuts—more than 400 varieties—an output valued at more than $43.5 billion each year. But the energy needed to grow, harvest, process, and ship this bounty is no small sum. That’s why one ingenious farmer…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Dealzmodo: $30 Off The New Nexus 7 [GONE]

Tricks with coupons and promo codes not withstanding, here’s the first real deal, and lowest price so far, on Google’s latest and greatest tablet. Grab the new 16GB Nexus 7 for $200 flat, that’s $30 off the MSRP, which is what every other retailer is selling it for. Free shipping. [eBay (Adorama)] Keep up with…

Tech News Shane Roberts

This Deceptively Pretty Map Shows Every Traffic Death on Earth

Death by car is random and sudden—which, unfortunately, means it tends to fall into the category of “accidental,” and hence, unpreventable. But with traffic deaths set to outpace AIDS/HIV and malaria in the developing world, the UN is trying to change that perception—and this shocking interactive map ought to help. Right now, 1.2 million people…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Robo-Bookshelf Demands Access To All Your Antiquated Media

Books, DVDs, CDs? This Robox shelving unit, designed by Fabio Novembre for Casamania, is happy to gobble up all of your outdated forms of media. But that doesn’t mean it only has an appetite for information and entertainment. Not at all. It’s equally adept at storing your classic Transformers—or to a lesser extent Go-Bots—collection. Plants…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Watch Today’s ISS Spacewalk Right Here, Right Now

While you’re just settling in at your desk, Russian cosmonauts Alexander Mizurkin and Fyodor Yurchikhin on the International Space Station have been awake for hours preparing for today’s 10:40AM EST spacewalk to install cables (including ethernet) on the outside of the station. And you can watch the whole thing live, right here. The spacewalk should…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

There’s a museum of rocks that look like real people—in Japan, of course

Does that rock look to you like Elvis Presley? With a bit of imagination, it does. Or at least, that’s what the founder of the Museum of Curious Rocks thought when he started to collect 900 “face rocks” that look like characters like Jesus, ET, Boris Yeltsin or Donkey Kong. https://kotaku.com/wonderfully-odd-japanese-museum-has-face-rocks-1153070477

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Watch an Insanely Relaxing Flight Across the Arctic Ice Plains, by NASA

Famous old singer wants HP to pay millions for his namesake penis app

Dealzmodo: Nikon D800, MacBook Air $800, Haswell, Mousing Surface

What You Shouldn’t Put On Facebook (Explained By a Gospel Choir)

Is Amazon Art a Ripoff?

Chubby Checker (Singer) Can Sue HP Over Chubby Checker (Dick-Measurer)

Snowden Reportedly Started Stealing Spy Documents While Working at Dell

The coolest and most exotic cars in the world all in one place

Forbes Uses Furry Convention Logo in Obamacare Article For Some Reason

An Alarm Clock With a Feature You Actually Need: USB Ports

How One Perfect Shot Saved Pinball From Being Illegal

Fire in New York’s Queensboro bridge

If You Use a Drone to Film Your Wedding This Is What You Deserve

A “Glitch” Made All the Doors in a Max. Security Prison Open at Once

A California Walnut Farm That Costs Peanuts to Run

Dealzmodo: $30 Off The New Nexus 7 [GONE]

This Deceptively Pretty Map Shows Every Traffic Death on Earth

Robo-Bookshelf Demands Access To All Your Antiquated Media

Watch Today’s ISS Spacewalk Right Here, Right Now

There’s a museum of rocks that look like real people—in Japan, of course

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