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Shooting Challenge: Summer Solstice

A ncient civilizations buit monuments dedicated to the summer solstice, the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, you’ll just need to photograph it. The Challenge Capture a photo of the summer solstice – that’s June 21st – sorry it’s not a weekend, but the Universe sort of…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Watch the Milky Way Wheel Overhead In All Its Glory

Randy Halverson took this amazing time lapse of the night sky over the plains of central South Dakota. Each shot took perseverance, as clouds and high winds made it harder to shoot. He still makes it looks easy. [Motherboard]

Tech News Kwame Opam

U.S. Senator Calls Robot Projects Wasteful. Robots Call Senator Wasteful

A U.S. senator has cited three robotics projects as examples of “wasteful” research that lack useful applications and shouldn’t have received government funding. In a recent report, Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma takes aim at the National Science Foundation, the premier source of funding for science and engineering in the United States, raising questions about…

Tech News Erico Guizzo, IEEE Spectrum

Sprint Bringing Phishing Protection to Its Smartphones

IT can be easy enough to fall into a cleverly-executed phishing net on a modern desktop browser—nevermind the piddling ones on our smartphones. So Sprint’s teaming up with software firm Lookout to make your pocket browsing safer. Lookout’s safe browsing app will be available in Sprint’s Android market, checking the URLs you peruse against a…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Apple Store Employees Aren’t Allowed to Say ‘Unfortunately’

Ah, Apple stores, gleaming temples of consumption. So bright and airy, filled with friendly, clean-cut geeks. A little too friendly, if you ask us. What’s the secret? A ban on negativity. The Wall Street Journal spoke to a bunch of former employees and Apple Geniuses for an opus on Apple Stores. And they painted a…

Tech News Adrian Chen

The Hotter the Action, the Redder This Bedside Table Glows

a These fancy Lexham tables have all sorts of weird forced-perspective angles going on, but the reason I want them is due to the thermochromic-sheeting applied to the tops. When the temperature rises, they glow red—when cold, blue. [DesignMilk]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Nine Everyday Tech Tools Made Possible by 100 Years of IBM

IBM’s Centennial anniversary is fast approaching (as in TODAY), and their 100 years of hard work shouldn’t go unnoticed. Behind every major technological advance, you’re likely to find IBM’s name floating around somewhere. Here are 9 of our favorite IBM-aided innovations. Personal Computers Without IBM, we wouldn’t have computers at all. From the earliest, most…

Tech News Adrian Covert

A Bookshelf that Rolls Up Like Ancient Parchment

I love little space-savers like this. Here’s a tensioned bookcase that unfurls to give you space for your books and such. Plus it has compartments for pens and other scrolls. For writing decrees, naturally. [BoingBoing]

Tech News Kwame Opam

Shazam Has a New Karaoke-like Feature

Shazam Encore and Shazam Red both have a new feature called LyricPlay. It’s pretty much like karaoke, the app will display and animate (scroll, jump or slide) the lyrics of the song you’re listening to for you to sing along. [iTunes]

Tech News Casey Chan

America, This Is Just Too Much

Can’t…stop *wheeze* laughing…at…the…cruel *big breath* irony of it all. This is no Photoshop japery like that “Seriously McDonalds” viral; this is the real deal, spotted at an American KFC. The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’s Flickr seals it. [SelfishGiving via Grist] https://gizmodo.com/seriously-mcdonalds-hoax-pic-angers-internet-mcdonalds-5811193

Tech News Kat Hannaford

How to Watch Today’s Lunar Eclipse from Your Computer

There’s going to be a 120-minute long, total lunar eclipse today at 2:20 PM EDT and that, of course, is awesome. But what’s not so awesome is that it won’t be visible to people in North America. Selfish Moon! Good thing we have Google to live stream the whole shebang. Google has teamed with SLOOH…

Tech News Casey Chan

5 Ways To Keep Your Dad From Being That Guy

Father’s Day is speedily approaching, and while your pops might normally expect a new tech toy from you, why not try something new? This year give him something he can always use—the gift of sartorial intervention. Flip through the gallery above to see our picks for the best summer looks from Old Navy to help…

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Sony’s Cloud Music Superstore Beats Rivals to the Punch

You’ve waited months for iCloud. You’ve waited years for Spotify. But Sony just beat both of those to the punch on your phone, with an all-you-can-hear, cloud-based music buffet available right now in the Android Market. Music Unlimited had been previously announced by Sony back in September—and it’s been available on other Sony products—but this…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Center Pivot Irrigation: How to Grow Food in the Middle of the Sahara

We humans are supposed to number about 7.8 billion by 2050. Feeding every one of those mouths demands food production in new, less-than-“optimal” areas. Like the Sahara. And if these monstrous irrigations work there, they can work virtually anywhere. Irrigation is essentially the application of water to soil using non-natural methods. It’s been around about…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

BBQ Tools Are a More Valuable Item to Carry In a Briefcase Than Secret Documents

Little did you know that our Inception hero was actually just a BBQ fetishist. 20 stainless steel utensils should do the job at your next barbie, and if not, well, there’s always that spinning-top you carry around. [UncommonGoods via Werd]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

The Ultimate Father’s Day Shopping Deadline Guide

You know that Father’s Day is coming up. But if you’re anything like me, “June 19th” still sounds distant enough that you haven’t gotten off your ass to actually buy a gift. It’s not too late. (But it almost is!) Here’s a list of places that should have presents your dad won’t hate, and that…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Leak: Google Nexus 4G Will Be an Absolute Monster

It may-or-may-not be called the Nexus 4G, but BGR has learnt that Google’s next flagship will be a 4G LTE “beast” with a dual-core processor up to 1.5GHz, and 720p “monster-sized” screen. Intriguingly, there aren’t any buttons on the phone. This means the usual cues—home, menu, back and search—will be done purely in Android, which…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

How did this car get inside this van?

German police stopped a Kazakh-plated Sprinter van on the A1 Autobahn after noticing the rear door wasn’t quite flush. Upon stopping the vehicle they realized why. An entire Mazda 626 wedged inside. How the hell did they do it? [Jalopnik] https://jalopnik.com/how-did-this-car-get-inside-of-this-van-5812119

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Donate $1 to Offset the CO2 of Your iPhone 4

Philanthroper has a really good donation up today: you pay a dollar and you can offset the lifecycle carbon dioxide emissions from an iPhone 4. Which means, you’ll help “suck and trap the greenhouse gas that’s driving climate change”. [Philanthroper]

Tech News Casey Chan

Read Sarah Palin’s Emails Like It’s Your Own Inbox

Have any interest in reading over 14,000 emails from then-Governor Sarah Palin’s personal account? What, don’t you want to find out what wine spritzer she liked to pair with moose nuggets? This fully searchable “inbox” makes Palin’s inbox yours. Sarah’s Inbox, helmed by government transparency advocacy Sunlight Foundation, puts the recently-FOIA’d dispatches into a familiar,…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Shooting Challenge: Summer Solstice

Watch the Milky Way Wheel Overhead In All Its Glory

U.S. Senator Calls Robot Projects Wasteful. Robots Call Senator Wasteful

Sprint Bringing Phishing Protection to Its Smartphones

Apple Store Employees Aren’t Allowed to Say ‘Unfortunately’

The Hotter the Action, the Redder This Bedside Table Glows

Nine Everyday Tech Tools Made Possible by 100 Years of IBM

A Bookshelf that Rolls Up Like Ancient Parchment

Shazam Has a New Karaoke-like Feature

America, This Is Just Too Much

How to Watch Today’s Lunar Eclipse from Your Computer

5 Ways To Keep Your Dad From Being That Guy

Sony’s Cloud Music Superstore Beats Rivals to the Punch

Center Pivot Irrigation: How to Grow Food in the Middle of the Sahara

BBQ Tools Are a More Valuable Item to Carry In a Briefcase Than Secret Documents

The Ultimate Father’s Day Shopping Deadline Guide

Leak: Google Nexus 4G Will Be an Absolute Monster

How did this car get inside this van?

Donate $1 to Offset the CO2 of Your iPhone 4

Read Sarah Palin’s Emails Like It’s Your Own Inbox

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Adds ‘Succulent Chinese Meal’ Guy

Feds Sniffing Around Polymarket After Suspicious Bets

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

Don’t Get Too Attached to Any AI App

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