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Manholes In D.C. Are So Full of Methane They're Ready to Explode
Jan 16, 6:20PM
Washington, DC may not really have been built on a swamp, but it can't escape the swamp gas. Scientists just published a survey that maps a whopping 5,893 natural gas leaks in the city's aging pipelines.
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Google Now Just Took Its First Steps Onto the Desktop
Jan 16, 5:55PM
Google Now is great, but it's only on your mobile devices. We've been waiting on a desktop version for what feels like forever. Now, finally, it's just starting to poke its head out in the beta-est of Chrome's beta builds.
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Why Is There a US Naval Cruiser in the Middle of This Cornfield?
Jan 16, 5:50PM
If you're driving along the New Jersey turnpike just outside of Moorsetown and think you see the top of an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer peeking above endless rows of corn, miles from the nearest ocean, don't worry—it's supposed to be there. It's just a full-size mock up that Lockheed uses to develop its AEGIS Combat System.
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Facebook Now Shows You Personalized Trending Topics In Your News Feed
Jan 16, 5:47PM
Facebook will start showing you trending stories to the right of your News Feed, just under where you're used to seeing notifications about your friends' birthdays and upcoming events. Twitter has been showing trending topics for years, but Facebook's trends promise to be personalized to your interests, so maybe they'll be better?
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Dyson's New Vacuum Cleaners Make You Feel Like a Superhero
Jan 16, 5:35PM
There's something strangely throttling about a Dyson device. The curves feel futuristic, and the transparent plastic shows you what's under the hood. And the latest generation runs faster than a Formula 1 race car. You almost have to pinch yourself to remember that it's just a vacuum cleaner.
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Rumored Nokia Android Phone Gets a Rumored Windows Phone UI
Jan 16, 5:26PM
We've been hearing for months about "Normandy", the rumored Android phone that Nokia's supposedly got in the works. @evleaks, the source of many of those rumors, has a fresh one for us: A UI that looks a lot like Windows Phone.
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Evangelical Urbanism: A Review of the Downtown Project's Vegas Revival
Jan 16, 5:00PM
As the story goes, Las Vegas was built by Mormons and mobsters. This unlikely team worked together to bring gambling to a place almost exclusively populated by men constructing the Hoover Dam. Their work turned a tiny sun-baked town into a global phenomenon.
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Chinese Counterfeiters Don't Knock-Off Wearables, No One Wants Them
Jan 16, 4:40PM
When you've got a hit, somebody's gonna try to rip it off. The rule is almost universal, applying to erotic fiction books the same way it applies to iPhones. You could argue, then, that if nobody's ripping off your work, you're probably in trouble.
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This Tiny Printer Only Prints What You Select On Your Screen
Jan 16, 4:22PM
Do you feel guilty printing out an entire email when all you really needed was someone's address? King Jim's new compact Cocodori printer is designed for just those occasions. Using an included piece of software, it lets you highlight only specific areas of your screen for printing. And what you're left with is a receipt-sized note with an adhesive backing that you can even use as a sticky note.
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Purveyor of all things candy, Hershey, just made the delicious announcement that it will be making 3
Jan 16, 4:20PM
Purveyor of all things candy, Hershey, just made the delicious announcement that it will be making 3D-printed sweets in the future using machines from 3D Systems. Is your mouth watering?
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Winamp Review: Still Surprisingly Rad
Jan 16, 4:00PM
Winamp died! And then it came back! So since this classic from days-gone-by has been resurrected, we thought we'd give it another look to see how its reanimated corpse holds up in modern times. You might be surprised how much you can still love a zombie.
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Sacramento Kings Accept Bitcoin Now, Still Can't Buy a Bucket
Jan 16, 3:40PM
The Sacramento Kings will become the first pro sports team to accept BitCoin. Great news for all nine of their fans.
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A Lightsaber Battery Lets You Battle Intergalactic Power Emergencies
Jan 16, 3:20PM
If you had to pinpoint one common feature of all the backup batteries on the market, it would probably be their uninspired brick-like form factor. There are exceptions, though, but none as elegant and civilized as Brando's new lightsaber-themed portable backup battery.
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Mathematician Calculates How To Survive First 30 Minutes of Nuclear War
Jan 16, 3:00PM
We're more than half a century past 1960, when the Doomsday Clock ticked down to two minutes before midnight. Yet, despite the steady outpouring of movies and TV shows featuring rogue nukes and dirty bombs, fewer and fewer people actively worry about a nuclear bomb going off. That being said: Do you know where and when to take shelter if it does?
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Emoji in Real Life Are Terrifying (But Could Save a Kid's Life)
Jan 16, 2:39PM
What do you get when you apply the kindly, whimsical emoji you know and love to actual human faces? Nightmare fuel for days. But also very clever ad campaign that aims to stop sexual predators from occupying your child's open tabs.
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This Bike Jacket Uses Embedded Glass "Pixels" to Light Up the Night
Jan 16, 2:25PM
With an increasing number of bikes now sharing American roads with vehicle traffic, it's more important than ever to be as visible as you can on two wheels, especially at night. But with the Zap commuter jacket from Sugoi, that won't be much of a problem.
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14 Complex Data Visualizations That Take The Form Of A Tree
Jan 16, 2:00PM
Infographics might seem like a modern phenomenon—citizens of the internet love nothing more than a nice and tidy presentation of catchy stats—but data viz dates way, way back. In The Book of Trees: Visualizing Branches of Knowledge, interaction designer Manuel Lima examines a recurring theme: more than eight centuries' worth of trees used as diagrams, and why botanical iconography has endured from those early days through to the digital revolution.
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Apple May Have Figured Out How to Make FaceTime Work With Bad Internet
Jan 16, 1:48PM
A new invention filed by Apple with the US Patent and Trademark Office is so simple but clever that it's amazing it's not been done before: Cook & Co. suggests that it could insert doctored or pre-recorded images into FaceTime chats on crappy connections to keep the conversation smooth.
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Starbucks' iOS mobile payment app seems to store passwords in clear text, with no encryption of any
Jan 16, 1:21PM
Starbucks' iOS mobile payment app seems to store passwords in clear text, with no encryption of any sort. Looks like the coffees could be on you whether you like it or not.
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This Isn't Abstract Art, It's the Sun
Jan 16, 12:45PM
It might look more like abstract art than anything else, but you're actually looking at a series of observations of the Sun.
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The World's Biggest Coffee Drinkers, Visualized
Jan 16, 12:03PM
If you think you drink a lot of coffee, think again. While the US might pride itself as being a nation fuelled by the stuff, it turns out that other countries beat it hands down.
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Scientists Use Gene Therapy to Stop Six People Going Blind
Jan 16, 11:20AM
A team of surgeons in Oxford have used a pioneering new form of gene therapy to stop six of their patients going blind--and it's hoped the technique could be used to treat blindness more generally.
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Impressive video of a falcon hunting its prey is like a WW2 dogfight
Jan 16, 11:06AM
New Scientist has a story on how peregrine falcons rely on a sailors' trick to hunt down their prey. The video is like watching one of those World War II dogfighting films.
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Stunning sunset in Manhattan
Jan 16, 10:53AM
New York has at least a few magical moments through the day. This is probably the best, when the sun is about to disappear engulfed by New Jersey and Manhattan is still alive and buzzing. Hungarian photographer Örs Cseresnyés captured this moment perfectly.
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100 Famous Movie Quotes as Charts
Jan 16, 10:40AM
Nathan Yau has turned the American Film Institute's 100 most memorable quotes from American cinema into chart form. Here they are, in all their wonderful geeky glory.
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