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Looks like Twitter has quietly shut down its update from last month that let any follower direct mes
Nov 19, 3:30PM
Looks like Twitter has quietly shut down its update from last month that let any follower direct message you, regardless of if you followed back. [TheNextWeb via Electronista]
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Hundreds of Firms Are Selling NSA-Level Spy Tech and That's Not Okay
Nov 19, 3:20PM
While Americans shuddered over revelations about NSA surveillance earlier this year, hundreds of private companies have been marketing technology that lets anybody be a spy. We're not talking about a few nanny cams here and there, either. We're talking about military-grade tools for whomever has the cash.
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Nike's Latest Snowboarding Boot Fits Right In at the Tron Chalet
Nov 19, 3:00PM
First and foremost, a good pair of snowboarding boots should get you down a slope safely and with a good measure of comfort. But Nike also wants you to be noticed, particularly if you're competing and need to impress a bunch of judges. So with its latest snowboarding boot—the LunarENDOR QS—Nike's enhanced its iconic swoosh logo with 30 glowing LEDs so that when you're pulling a spiralling Double McTwist 1260, you'll be an impossible to miss swirl of blue.
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Artificial Photosynthesis: Making Cheap Hydrogen From Water and Light
Nov 19, 2:40PM
Hydrogen is one of the most promising fuels of the future but right now it's expensive to produce in bulk. Enter the work of a team of Stanford researchers who believe they can make it as cheap as fossil fuels—using just some water and sunlight.
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5 Eye-Popping Designs That Visualize Sound
Nov 19, 2:20PM
You unlock this post with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension—a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You're moving into a collection of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas.
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Today, Amazon is rolling out pretty slick Goodreads integration to the Kindle Paperwhite.
Nov 19, 2:18PM
Today, Amazon is rolling out pretty slick Goodreads integration to the Kindle Paperwhite. You might recall that just yesterday, Kindle Fire tablets got a very similar update. If you're a Goodreads user, the update affords you handy features like the ability to share passages without leaving the page you're on. If you're not a Goodreads user, maybe it's time to sign up? Maybe?
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The Prettiest iPad Drawing App Now Has the Prettiest Stylus Companion
Nov 19, 2:00PM
Have you used Paper by 53 Design? It's that iPad drawing app that is so decked out in pretty, design-y, feel-good-ness that it makes all who use it feel like Matisse. Well, now its creators have put out an equally gorgeous stylus.
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10 Old Sprint Phones Can Now Get Totally Free Voice, Texts, and Data
Nov 19, 2:00PM
FreedomPop's crazy free voice, text, and data plan is awesome, but the one catch was that you had to buy in with a (sort of meh) $100 phone. Not anymore. If you have an old Sprint phone laying around, you might be able to get on the FreedomPop train without spending one single cent.
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Deadspin How The New York Post Manufactured A Stupid Jets Controversy | io9 Human-caused earthquake
Nov 19, 1:05PM
Deadspin How The New York Post Manufactured A Stupid Jets Controversy | io9 Human-caused earthquake rocks Chicago | Jezebel What's The Weirdest Lie About Sex You Learned in Sex Ed? | Kotaku Man Shot Dead Over PlayStation 4 Sale | Regressing What A Billion Poker Hands Can Tell Us About Luck
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The World's Tallest Waterslide Better End In the World's Deepest Pool
Nov 19, 12:45PM
Either that or there's going to be a lot of squished people needing to be scraped off the tiles at the deep end. Currently under construction at the Schlitterbahn park in Kansas City, the Meg-a-Blaster slide will open in Spring 2014, dropping people from nearly 140 feet up.
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This Video Finally Makes Sense of Logarithms
Nov 19, 11:52AM
If math brings you out in a cold sweat, then logarithms surely leave you in a sobbing heap. But no longer, thanks to the wonderful Vi Hart.
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Patent Reveals How Samsung Would Use That Three-Sided Phone Screen
Nov 19, 11:00AM
Last week, Bloomberg reported that Samsung has plans to produce a phone with a curved OLED screen which wraps around three of its sides. Now, a patent reveals how Samsung would make use of that kind of hardware.
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According to a report seen by All Things D, the new PS4 costs $381 to manufacture--just $18 shy of i
Nov 19, 10:34AM
According to a report seen by All Things D, the new PS4 costs $381 to manufacture—just $18 shy of its $399 retail price.
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A Little Vitamin B Is All That Makes This Worm Glow Bright Green
Nov 19, 10:15AM
This might look like the result of some wild nuclear accident, but in fact this worm is perfectly healthy. It just happens to glow bright green when exposed to certain wavelengths of light.
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Obama Administration Tries to Ban Phone Unlocking, Claims to Support It
Nov 19, 9:30AM
Slate is reporting that, while the Obama administration has long been making noises about trying to support phone unlocking, it's also been busy readying legislation that would actually ban the practice.
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Selfie Is Officially the 2013 Word of the Year
Nov 19, 8:40AM
Time to fire up Instagram and party like it's, um, 2013, because 'selfie' has been named the Oxford Dictionaries word of the year.
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Yahoo is (finally) going to encrypt all the information that moves between you and its products by t
Nov 19, 8:15AM
Yahoo is (finally) going to encrypt all the information that moves between you and its products by the end of the first quarter of 2014.
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Moga Ace iOS Game Controller First Look: Cheap Fun, Huge Potential
Nov 19, 8:00AM
Ever since Apple introduced reference designs and an API for iOS gaming controllers at WWDC, we've known some kind of officially sanctioned iOS hardware was on the way. The Moga Ace is the first we've gotten in our hot little hands on, and after playing with it for a few days, we can safely say that it's a blast.
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US Army to get Iron Man suit for troops in just four years
Nov 19, 7:46AM
This is not the first time that the US Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) has talked about their desire to get a real life version of Iron Man's suit for soldiers, but now it's giving a very specific timeframe: "The goal is to have a contract in place by next fall and have suits ready for full field testing in about four years."
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The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Horse on a Treadmill
Nov 19, 5:00AM
Not bad, but lets see how far can it throw a cinder block.
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These animals unbelievably made from tissue paper are so fun
Nov 19, 4:27AM
In what might be the most creative use of tissue ever, Fuyu Arai created this wonderful stop motion animation video for Nepia, a Japanese tissue paper company. It shows different animals like birds, dogs, kangaroos, frogs, etc. being formed through just tissue paper. The animation is so fluid that you almost believe that these tissue animals are alive.
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Aerial photos reveal the destructive path of the Midwest tornado
Nov 19, 3:40AM
Tornadoes ripped through the Midwest of the United States earlier today and the damage it left behind is absolutely tragic. These pictures of Washington, Illinois, the worst area affected, show how a community gets shredded by natural disaster. The path is violent, the ground is scarred and the homes are just gone.
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How to open a can without a can opener
Nov 19, 2:07AM
Here's a tip you should file away in your folder for zombie apocalypse preparation and in your brain for future conversations for whoa, I didn't know it was that easy: opening a can without a can opener. All it takes is some abrasive concrete rubbing of the can's top and a firm squeeze of the can's body. As long as you don't slice your finger when the can opens, you could eat some tasty everlasting goop anytime you want.
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Terrifying van ride up the Himalayas would scare the life out of me
Nov 19, 1:26AM
So like... Uhh... Yeah... Oh my... this is just the van ride up to the Himalayas. As in, this scariness is only the beginning of something even scarier (that would be climbing the damn thing). Mick Fowler shot this video of his van driving up the mountain and it's so close to the edge of the cliff—we're talking inches here—that it makes me want to cry just watching the video.
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This is what a 3,400-year-old mummy steak looks like
Nov 18, 11:43PM
If you were Queen Tiye of Egypt's parents you wouldn't want to go to the Otherworld just with some bread and beer and wine and jewelry. You would like to eat a good ribeye beef steak, prepared with a mixture of fat, beeswax, and Pistacia resin.
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