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Opera has announced that it will start using WebKit to render pages—just Chrome and Safari. About time!
Spoons? You don’t need no spoons. Or at least, you wouldn’t if the SlingsHOT mug became a reality, because the shape of its handle is designed especially to let you deal with teabags using just your bare hands. There’s a groove running up and around the handle of the SlingsHOT mug, which both keeps the…
Amazon is, apparently, the most respected company in the US—overtaking Apple and Google, who’re sliding down the table.
When you connect a bunch of young college kids together on the Internet, any meeting eventually devolves into a crying mess of memes, Internet hall of fame pictures and a whole lot of trolling. So when students in Stanford’s computer science program realized that e-mailing one address would contact EVERY student, well, you bet it…
Never underestimate the power of radical thinking, especially when your ideas are rocket-powered and equipped with laser cannons. Joe Pelling, director of the Sherbet animation studio, produced this amusing short of hypothetical brinkmanship between a pair of sanctimonious pseudo-intellectuals.
Oh, Iran. Your Qaher 313 stealth fighter jet sure looks intimidating but it will never get off the ground. So why do you insist on tricking everybody into thinking that the beast can fly? Iran’s latest transgression is especially hilarious: they’ve photoshopped the Qaher 313 onto a stock image of Mount Damavand to make it…
Before President Barack Obama gave his State of the Union and shouted out 3D printing, he signed a new cybersecurity executive order with the goal of preventing cyber attacks by allowing companies and the government to share information they have on cyber threats. If that sounds a lot like CISPA, it kind of is, but…
As silly as it may sound, more and more people are reporting about an Apple watch that maybe its time to put away those Dick Tracy jokes (never!). This time, Bloomberg throws its hat in the mix saying that Apple has “a team of about 100 product designers working on a wristwatch-like device that may…
Because the world doesn’t have enough streaming black boxes, Western Digital is making its own version: the WD TV Play. You can watch video on YouTube, Netflix, Hulu Plus, VuDu, Sling and stream music from Spotify and Pandora. But what’s really cool about the WD TV Play is that you can easily play content from…
Haunting electronic melodies propel an astronaut-cum-biker through a surreal dance party as she hunts for a fallen star in Retrograde, the first single of James Blake’s sophmore album, Overgrown. Martin de Thurah directed. Overgrown follows his highly-praised, self-titled debut album from 2011 which reached #9 on the UK charts. It’s available April 8th but the…
You read the internet from cover to cover, but rather selectively. Thirst learns the parts you want to read and leaves out the ones you’d rather just skim. What does it do? It combs the web to find the best, most current stories and delivers them to you in an easy to read format. You…
Photography is getting easier thanks to cameras that are able to better evaluate and automatically choose the best settings for a given scene. But photo editing, that’s still a bit of a mystery to most amateur photographers. So Adobe—the makers of Photoshop—are working with the University of Michigan to develop an extremely intelligent photo editing…
You probably have heard about the magical visualization system in the F-35, the fabled Electro Optical Distributed Aperture System (or DAS) that feeds all kinds of data to pilots using demon helmets. Now it just got a new feature that makes it indistinguishable from Tony Stark’s visor: hostile ground fire detection. Check out this cool—and…
Throw your Newman’s Own out the window. The best salad dressing you make is your own, and to do that you need is this Mini Measure Bottle. It has eight different dressing recipes printed on the outside of the bottle, measurements and all. And it’s only 10 bucks. At that rate you’re saving money since…
That self-winding perpetual-movement monstrosity strapped to your forearm is accurate across a hemisphere’s worth of time zones. But no matter how extravagantly handcrafted or precisely engineered your Rolex is, it’ll never be as accurate as a cheap digital gas station watch. Here’s why. The earliest known pocket watch was devised by German locksmith Peter Henlein…
Comcast will buy the 49-percent of NBCUniversal it doesn’t already own from GE for 16.7 billion clams. That’s right, Kabletown is bigger than ever now. Regulatory approval for Comcast’s purchase of 51-percent of the company cleared last year—now the cable and media giant owns the whole shebang. That means that Comcast now owns in their…
Couldn’t make it to New Orleans for Mardi Gras this year? You’re not alone. Who throws a giant street party on a Tuesday, anyways? That’s what long weekends are for. But don’t be too disappointed at missing out on the fun. Like the Fourth of July, you can celebrate Mardi Gras wherever you happen to…
In the age of super-sonic fighter jets, cruise missiles, and exo-atmospheric ballistic missiles, carrier fleets must be able to monitor as accurately and far afield as possible to avoid being caught unaware of incoming threats. Odd then, that the duty of watching over the most sophisticated aircraft carriers ever constructed falls to the last propeller-powered…
Look, I know what you’re thinking and I’ve been thinking the same thing, too. But Under Armour is going for something a bit different with the Armour39 performance monitor they’ve been teasing. What differentiates it from the crowded field of wearables is that it’s a “performance” monitor, not an “activity monitor” like Nike’s FuelBand, the…
Good news Girls enthusiasts—HBO Go is finally getting AirPlay support starting today, and so is Showtime!
