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World’s Smallest Fingerprint Reader Borders on Adorable

Following in the footsteps of USB flash drives that have shrunk to meer slivers of plastic, Eikon’s new Mini biometric fingerprint reader is barely noticeable as it hangs off your laptop. And the convenience of not having to remember passwords will cost you just $10. It works with both Mac and Windows PCs, and includes…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

The Science of Hockey Ice

Hockey is a game played by linebacker-sized men moving at vehicular speed on razor-sharp blades. Skaters will travel almost 200 miles in a single game, slicing, shredding and shaving a surface just 200 feet long, 85 feet wide and 1 inch thick. The abuse the New Jersey Devils and Los Angeles Kings will heap upon…

Tech News Brandon Keim - Wired

Rumor: Apple Is Giving the Mac Pro One Last Chance

We’ve heard that Apple is to announce updates to almost all of its hardware line-up at WWDC next week, but the future of the Mac Pro still seemed uncertain. Now, 9to5mac and Mac Rumors are independently reporting that Apple is giving it one last chance. First off, 9to5mac claims that a source has provided it…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

NASDAQ Plans to Compensate Facebook IPO Losers

After openly admitting that they screwed up over Facebook’s IPO, NASDAQ is now planning to compensate those who made a loss when their systems failed to allow trades to take place. The losses—a result of a 30 minute delay in trading which left brokers with millions of shares’ worth of unconfirmed trades—total over an estimated…

Social Media Jamie Condliffe

LinkedIn Transmits Personal Data in Plain Text (Update: And Leaks Passwords, Too!)

The Next Web is reporting that LinkedIn’s iOS app collects personal data from its calendar—without explicit consent—and sends it back to the company’s servers in plain text. Users must opt-in to a feature which allows them to view calendar information from within the LinedIn app, but once that choice is made the user is not…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe

100 Million Doritos Tacos Locos, By the Numbers

Hey, have you heard? Taco Bell has sold over 100-million of its Doritos Tacos Locos, the nuclear weapon of the fast food franchise—and it’s been only 10 weeks since they launched! This is disturbing information, I think! As Brian Fung points out over at The Atlantic, it took McDonalds 18 years before they finally sold…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Mad Men Map Shows You Where Don Drank and Dined

WNYC has put together this handy guide to the NYC hotspots frequented by characters in AMC’s Mad Men. To further flesh out Mad Men Mapped in anticipation of Sunday’s season 5 finale, WNYC wants fans of the show to email [email protected] “with a New York neighborhood, building or spot you’ve heard a character mention or…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Romney Campaign Tweets From Bill Clinton Parody Account

The Romney campaign has harvested the celebrity power of yet another another high-ranking politico, adding to its arsenal of Mitt-favoring parody Twitter accounts none other than beloved democrat Bill Clinton. At 4:49pm Tuesday evening, the account @Bill_Clinton12 sent its relatively tame first tweet: “There’s no question the #MittRomney has had a sterling business career.” A…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

The Stoner Channel: George Carlin on The Man’s Game, Housewives on Acid, and San Francisco on High

Gov. Cuomo Wants to Legalize Weed to Fight Stop-n-Frisk NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg seems intent on making the Big Apple into a police state served in 16oz portions. The NYPD’s controversial Stop-and-Frisk policy—which just so happens to disproportionately target minority youths for random inspection—is another such example. See, New York law states that weed possession…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Sony RX100: This Is How You Cram a 1-Inch Sensor and Wide Aperture Lens Into a Point-and-Shoot Body

With DSLRs like the Canon T2I and Nikon D3200 becoming increasing accessible, and smartphone cameras becoming increasingly quality, fixed-lens point-and-shoot cameras have become something a forgotten breed. But with the introduction of the RX100—complete with its impressive 1-inch sensor, f/1.8 aperture, and compact body—Sony is trying to make the pocketable camera relevant again. When it…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Samsung Cloud Gaming to Stream Console-Quality Games Straight to Smart TVs

It was announced at E3 today that Samsung Cloud Gaming, developed in partnership with Gaikai, a leading cloud-based video game platform provider, will stream a mix of family-friendly and AAA video games directly to owners of 2012 Samsung LED 7000 series and up Smart TVs in the U.S. The cloud-based gaming service will be second…

Gadgets Molly Oswaks

Chinese Real Estate Developers Successfully Cloned Entire Austrian Village

China has long been known for its knock-offs and copy-cat merch, but this latest project is some next-level kind of counterfeit crazy. The Austrian village of Hallstat—a centuries-old village of 900 and a UNESCO heritage site that relies heavily on season tourism to survive—was recently cloned by Minmetals Land Inc., the real estate development arm…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Elderly Sex Expert Introduces Libido-Friendly Wine Line

Much to the delight of indiscriminate lightweights everywhere, 84-year-old sex expert Dr. Ruth Westheimer is coming out with her own label of wine—Vin D’Amour—specially formulated to have a alcohol content of only 6-percent by volume, as opposed to the typical 13-percent ABV. The reason: “If [the woman] drinks too much, she falls asleep,” says Dr.…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Nuance’s Dragon ID Understands the Unique Properties of Your Voice

Nuance already has some solutions for speech recognition—they’ve got a voice control app for both iOS and Android called Dragon Go! Now it’s taking that a step further with Dragon ID, an even smarter tool that actually can decipher the sound of your voice. You can talk to Dragon in a similar way you would…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Skateboards Make for Gnarly iPhone Backs

You don’t have to be a skater to like these iPhone backs. Made out of the extra materials from skateboard decks, they’re a tasty addition to your handset. They’re a collaboration between Grove and Maple XO, and they double as an attempt to limit the waste produced from building about 4,000 skateboards each week. To…

Tech News Leslie Horn

The Hot Rod of iPhone Speaker Docks Is Actually Made From Hot Rod Parts

Far too many speaker docks for Apple products are boring black boxes. These hand-built aluminum docks shaped like the exhaust pipes from hot rods are some of the most creative we’ve seen in awhile. Designed in Italy, iXoost docks come in three models: eight cylinders, 10 cylinders, and 12 cylinders. The eight- and 10-cylinder models…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

The New Internet Starts Now

A whole new version of the Internet is about to take over. Internet Protocol version 6 is here to save us from the dwindling number of IPv4 addresses. If everything seems the same as before, rejoice!. That means everything went to plan. The IPv6 transition is necessary because we’ve nearly run out of the 4.3…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Skifta Launches Engine to Sync Content Across Devices

Music fans, and everyone else with a smartphone in their pockets for that matter, face a big problem: We have lots of stuff; it’s all on different machines; and we want it to be on other machines. Oh, and we don’t want to get an engineering degree in order for that to happen. You might…

Tech News Eliot Van Buskirk - Evolver.fm

The First Video of Earth Bombarded by Meteors From Orbit

See those explosions of light against the backdrop of our ever-spinning Earth? They are meteors burning through our planet’s mesosphere, captured from the International Space Station in a time lapse made of 316 still frames by astronaut Don Pettit. The meteors are the Lyrids, a meteor shower that happens each year, when Earth crosses material…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

This Dual-Action Dress Flips from Wookie to Ewok in Under 12 Parsecs

Can’t decide which furry character from Star Wars lore you want to attend Comicon as this year? Fear not ladies (and creepy cross-dressing cos-play dudes), here’s your answer. The Wookie-Ewok dress from Etsy artist Crissy Baker is a handmade piece, cut and sewn to order, that includes both a faux-leather bandolier for taller wearers as…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

World’s Smallest Fingerprint Reader Borders on Adorable

The Science of Hockey Ice

Rumor: Apple Is Giving the Mac Pro One Last Chance

NASDAQ Plans to Compensate Facebook IPO Losers

LinkedIn Transmits Personal Data in Plain Text (Update: And Leaks Passwords, Too!)

100 Million Doritos Tacos Locos, By the Numbers

Mad Men Map Shows You Where Don Drank and Dined

Romney Campaign Tweets From Bill Clinton Parody Account

The Stoner Channel: George Carlin on The Man’s Game, Housewives on Acid, and San Francisco on High

Sony RX100: This Is How You Cram a 1-Inch Sensor and Wide Aperture Lens Into a Point-and-Shoot Body

Samsung Cloud Gaming to Stream Console-Quality Games Straight to Smart TVs

Chinese Real Estate Developers Successfully Cloned Entire Austrian Village

Elderly Sex Expert Introduces Libido-Friendly Wine Line

Nuance’s Dragon ID Understands the Unique Properties of Your Voice

Skateboards Make for Gnarly iPhone Backs

The Hot Rod of iPhone Speaker Docks Is Actually Made From Hot Rod Parts

The New Internet Starts Now

Skifta Launches Engine to Sync Content Across Devices

The First Video of Earth Bombarded by Meteors From Orbit

This Dual-Action Dress Flips from Wookie to Ewok in Under 12 Parsecs

Epstein Victims Sue Google, Claim AI Mode Exposed Personal Information

‘Wicked Spot’ Is a Fun, Sapphic Rom-Com That Yeets a Witch Into the Magical World of Influencer Culture

Anthropic and OpenAI Just Gave Us a Glimpse Into the Future of Model Pricing

Amazon Slashes 63% Off Acer Aspire Desktop for a Limited-Time Spring Sale, With Keyboard and Mouse Included

Smart Glasses Now Have One of the Vision Pro’s Best Features

Marvel Just Put ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 2 in a Very Weird Place in the MCU Timeline

Trump Drops $1B to Kill 2 Wind Farms, Then Watches a Bigger One Go Online

Scientists Found a Weird New Way to Wash Fruits and Vegetables

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

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

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