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Kim Dotcom's cloud storage service Mega now has its own iOS app.

Nov 28, 3:45PM

Kim Dotcom's cloud storage service Mega now has its own iOS app. Go forth and... store!

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Explosive Pyrotechnic Pie Is Dangerous For More Than Just Your Diet

Nov 28, 3:30PM

If you've been hunting for the perfect Thanksgiving dessert that will leave a lasting impression on your dinner guests, look no further than this recipe/experiment. The ingredients in your typical pumpkin pie aren't that far off from a chemical mix known as Rocket Candy that's typically made from sugar and an oxidizer like potassium nitrate.

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3 Ways To Improve Air Travel From an Airport Concessions Expert

Nov 28, 3:00PM

3 Ways To Improve Air Travel From an Airport Concessions Expert

It's Thanksgiving, and we've got food on the brain. Before the big meal, however, you might have to endure the available edibles at an airport departure lounge. Be brave, as you ponder this burning question: If you could do anything to improve the flying experience, what would it be?

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All Breakfast Menus Should Work Like This

Nov 28, 2:00PM

All Breakfast Menus Should Work Like This

Eggs and bacon? Eggs and sausage? Eggs and bacon and sausage? Sometimes the choices at breakfast can be paralyzing—but a Venn diagram can make that all better.

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Forget The Timer, Use Netflix to Judge When Your Turkey's Done

Nov 28, 1:00PM

Forget The Timer, Use Netflix to Judge When Your Turkey's Done

Figuring out how long to leave your Thanksgiving turkey in the oven feels like a stress nightmare from high school algebra. Converting pounds of turkey into minutes of cooking is way easier when you've got a tangible reference point. Say, two adorable holiday-themed kids movies.

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Watch ISON Edge Ever Closer to the Sun

Nov 28, 12:30PM

Comet ISON is inching ever closer to the Sun, and it'll get incredibly close later on today. In the meantime, though, you can watch its most recent progress in this video from NASA.

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HP Is Taking Over the Hosting of HealthCare.gov

Nov 28, 12:00PM

HP Is Taking Over the Hosting of HealthCare.gov

We don't need to tell you how much of a disaster Healthcare.gov has been. But what we do need to tell you is that, fortunately, the Government is being sensible enough to not renew its contract with its host Verizon.

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The Nationwide Stolen Smartphone Database Is Complete

Nov 28, 11:00AM

The Nationwide Stolen Smartphone Database Is Complete

Last year, the FCC and the Big Four carriers announced that they were developing a national lost-and-stolen phone registry. Now, the wireless industry says that the database is complete.

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Read These 3 Unpublished JD Salinger Stories That Just Leaked Online

Nov 28, 10:00AM

Read These 3 Unpublished JD Salinger Stories That Just Leaked Online

Later today, you'll be full of turkey and bored with talking to your family. Fact. So why not settle down with a nice story? In fact, how about these three unpublished works by JD Salinger, that have just been leaked online?

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Apple TV For $85

Nov 28, 8:57AM

Apple TV For $85

Amazon and Best Buy have the latest generation Apple TV for $85, which is pretty much as low as we've ever seen it go. Now featuring HBO GO. [Amazon]

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Google Chromecast For $30

Nov 28, 8:08AM

Google Chromecast For $30

The Google Chromecast, which happens to be the most popular item the Commerce Team has ever covered, is $30 at Amazon and Walmart right now. Amazon deal includes $6 Google Play credit. [Amazon]

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The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: We Have Band

Nov 28, 5:00AM

Leveraging the special effects wizardry that helped put Peter Gabriel on the map—namely face paint and stop motion animation—electronica trio We Have Band goes on a psychedelic romp in the latest single from their sophomore album Ternion.

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This animated Donkey Kong wedding cake just won best nerd cake forever

Nov 28, 1:53AM

This animated Donkey Kong wedding cake just won best nerd cake forever

It's going to be impossible to beat the glorious nerdness level in this wedding cake, which uses projectors to animate Mario on his quest to beat Donkey Kong and rescue Pauline. Unless they find a way to modify the sugar molecules to act as color displays.

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Incredibly enough, this London skyline made of food is not a 3D image

Nov 28, 1:02AM

Incredibly enough, this London skyline made of food is not a 3D image

It may look as computer-graphics-perfect as a frame from Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, but this image of the London skyline made of food is an actual photograph designed and taken by the masterful Carl Warner. Don't believe it? This is how it is made:

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Pea-Sized Gel Implant Could Eliminate Vaccine Booster Shots

Nov 28, 1:00AM

Pea-Sized Gel Implant Could Eliminate Vaccine Booster Shots

Anyone who has prepared for international travel, or reared a baby, knows the hassle of staying on schedule through multiple courses of vaccinations. It'd be way easier if those required boosters came in pill form, but that's just not how vaccines work. Or it wasn't, until researchers came up with a tiny implant that stores a vaccine dose released when you take a pill.

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This must be Darth Vader's favorite chair

Nov 28, 12:10AM

This must be Darth Vader's favorite chair

I can't decide if this angular Skull Armchair designed by French artist Harold Sangouard is just gaudy or awesome, horrible or pretty, vanguardist or Louis XV/Conan the Barbarian retro, but there's something about it that hypnotizes me.

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Frances Ha: Can a Hapless, Endearing Twenty-Something Get It Together?

Nov 28, 12:00AM

Frances Ha: Can a Hapless, Endearing Twenty-Something Get It Together?

Frances is a dancer in her late twenties getting by in New York, but just barely. She's hit a standstill in her personal and professional life and it seems like she'll never ever find the right path. Frances Ha somehow avoids falling into a cliche tale in its quest to answer will she or won't she?

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How Airlines Know If It's Safe to Fly

Nov 27, 11:00PM

How Airlines Know If It's Safe to Fly

As a Nor'easter heads towards the east coast just in time for the busiest travel day of the year, you're probably wondering how bad it has to get before your plane gets grounded. Well, as a new National Geographic feature explains, figuring that out is more an art than a science.

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Scientists Accidentally Discover Incredible Bacteria-Killing Surface

Nov 27, 10:30PM

Scientists Accidentally Discover Incredible Bacteria-Killing Surface

Wouldn't it be wonderful if you never had to worry about germs crawling around on your kitchen countertop? Well, thanks to a new discovery by Australian scientists, that could soon be a reality. And it doesn't require a drop of disinfectant.

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Everything Except the Hands Move On This Dizzying Watch

Nov 27, 10:00PM

Everything Except the Hands Move On This Dizzying Watch

Typically it's a watch's hour and minute hands that make the journey around the face every day. But on Mykonos Design's innovative Visus watch, they're both parked at the quarter after mark—except that's not how you read it. The numbers indicating the hours, minutes, and seconds are instead constantly spinning, forcing you to adjust how you read the time.

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An Amazingly Bad IT Job Listing that Borders on Abusive

Nov 27, 9:48PM

An Amazingly Bad IT Job Listing that Borders on Abusive

Tech jobs are often hard, thankless, and generally unpleasant—but rarely do you see a company tell you, straight up, it's going to be miserable. The next systems admin for geeky web comic Penny Arcade certainly has their work cut out of them.

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Deadspin Crane Collapse At Brazil World Cup Stadium Kills 3 | io9 The Best Turkey Frying Disasters o

Nov 27, 9:41PM

Deadspin Crane Collapse At Brazil World Cup Stadium Kills 3 | io9 The Best Turkey Frying Disasters on the Internet | Kotaku The Bittersweet Story of Francis, YouTube's Biggest Video Game Nerd | Lifehacker The Difference Between Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday

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Agricultural Printing: A Rooftop Farm Culled By Autonomous Tractors

Nov 27, 9:30PM

Agricultural Printing: A Rooftop Farm Culled By Autonomous Tractors

The World Expo Milano 2015 is still a few years years off, but details about the pavilions are starting to emerge. Today, we learn that a building sponsored by agricultural machinery company New Holland will feature a sloping rooftop field farmed by two "zero-emission, robotized, self-driving tractors."

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What International Air Travel Was Like in the 1930s

Nov 27, 8:33PM

What International Air Travel Was Like in the 1930s

Today we largely take international air travel for granted. Every major city in the world is little more than a hop, skip, and jump away. But what was it actually like to fly halfway around the world in the 1930s, when the very concept was still novel? Pretty incredible, as it turns out—provided you could afford it.

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NASA scientists explain how to cook turkey in four crazy recipes

Nov 27, 8:12PM

NASA scientists explain how to cook turkey in four crazy recipes

Most of you will use ovens to cook your turkeys tomorrow. But most of you aren't NASA. We asked their engineers and science writers how they would cook a turkey to perfection using their high tech gear instead of traditional methods. Here are the results:

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