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This Shipping Container City Above an Old Grain Silo Is Actually a Dorm
Feb 11, 7:40PM
In Johannesburg, where student housing is sparse, one developer is taking extreme measures—by creating a 370-bed dormitory out of shipping containers perched atop a set of abandoned concrete grain silos.
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Burn An (Almost) Infinite Candle With This Clever Wax-Catching Holder
Feb 11, 7:20PM
To all of you convinced there's no such thing as a perpetual motion machine, behold Benjamin Shine's brilliant Rekindle candlestick holder that slowly but steadily turns into a brand new candle as it burns and melts away.
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What Are "Smart" Credit Cards, and Why Are They Coming to America?
Feb 11, 7:00PM
It only took the theft of 40 million Target customer credit card details to spur Congress into finally joining the rest of the world in abandoning the highly insecure credit cards you're used to. Starting late next year, every credit card in the United States will adopt a more secure system. Here's what it is, and how it works.
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A Pair of Roombas, Xbox Live and PS Plus, Xbox One Bundle [Deals]
Feb 11, 6:45PM
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Why do chores yourself when robots can do your bidding? These Roomba models will work in pretty much any house, but they're optimized for pet owners, which is perfect, because you can do things like this. Roombas are rarely discounted, and all of these prices are $50-$100 off retail, so if you've been thinking of picking one up, this is a great opportunity.
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This Man Built A Colorful Mountain In The Desert With His Bare Hands
Feb 11, 6:40PM
The only color in the landscape for miles, Salvation Mountain looms like a mirage on the horizon. The three-story, three-decade work of artist Leonard Knight, who died yesterday at the age of 82, is a piece of brightly painted, hand-sculpted California desert, like an impossibly scaled cathedral made from Play-Doh.
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Cancer-Spotting Glasses Light Up the Bad Cells for Surgeons
Feb 11, 6:20PM
Cancer surgery is tough. Even with high-powered microscopes, surgeons have a very difficult time distinguishing cancer cells from healthy cells. But these new glasses developed by Washington University, St. Louis could change all that.
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This Genius Kinect Rig Puts You Inside a Video Game in Two Minutes Flat
Feb 11, 6:00PM
What if, the next time you played a video game, the main character not only looked like you but had the same body, same clothes, same everything? How would it change the way you related to the game? How would it change the way you relate to the other characters in it? I found out.
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A Simple 3D-Printed Plastic Adapter Turns Anything Into a Stool
Feb 11, 5:40PM
The obvious plan of attack when you're building a stool is to just toss a round wooden seat on the top and call it a day. It's functional, for sure, but nowhere near as creative as Arthur Schmitt's Anice Stool, which is a 3D-printed plastic core that lets you use whatever material you want for the seat.
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Crazy-Advanced Malware Has Been Infecting Governments Since 2007
Feb 11, 5:20PM
Kaspersky security researchers just revealed their discovery of a cyberespionage threat they say could be the most advanced in the world. Immensely powerful and hard to detect, it's been active since at least 2007, targeting governments, embassies, and energy companies. And nobody knows where it came from.
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Imagining Life With the iWatch
Feb 11, 5:00PM
Apple's making a smartwatch. By now that's a foregone conclusion. What we don't know, though, is what an iWatch will be. Although the people who are making it might offer us some clues.
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Google Bought a NASA Blimp Hangar To Go With Its Barge
Feb 11, 4:53PM
Google just snatched up a piece of American history in Silicon Valley. NASA announced on Monday that Google subsidiary Planetary Ventures LLC would take over the Moffett Federal Airfield including the iconic and hulking Hangar One, former home of America's biggest blimps.
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Escape From Las Vegas: My Weekend Being Fake-Kidnapped in Sin City
Feb 11, 4:20PM
In the meeting room of a La Quinta hotel on the northernmost outskirts of Las Vegas, near the entrance to Nellis Air Force Base, the company OnPoint Tactical hosted the most recent iteration of their "Urban Escape & Evasion" course.
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Always Clear the Porn From Your Browser Before Going on TV
Feb 11, 4:00PM
Someone over in the production department at Chicago's WGN news station is apparently learning about internet best practices the hard way today. This very unlucky employee managed to get their little Pornhub Mobile habit splashed all over the local news—and, naturally, the internet took notice.
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China's New Research Station and the Quiet Rush to Claim Antarctica
Feb 11, 3:20PM
In 2048, a very important international event will occur: The Antarctic Treaty, which stops countries from mining the continent's abundant resources, will come up for review. China—along with the US, the UK, and other countries—intends to be ready.
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Insane pilot makes an insane low pass over an insane drunk person
Feb 11, 3:19PM
Clearly, you don't have to be a military or airliner pilot to make crazy low passes. And you don't have to be a pilot to be crazy. Just look at that guy with the beer, jumping in front of this prop plane making a pass so low that one of the wings almost touches the ground.
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The Ugly Behind-the-Scenes History of Video Game Movies
Feb 11, 3:00PM
Few Hollywood announcements are treated with such fierce-yet-wounded anticipation as video game adaptations. Full of incredible artistry, instantly-recognizable characters and an increasingly-mature approach to storytelling, you'd be forgiven for thinking gaming is a medium particularly well suited for making the jump to the silver screen. But history tells another story.
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Sochi's Giant Pinscreen Wall Is Hypnotic in Action
Feb 11, 2:30PM
British architect Asif Khan's MegaFace art installation was teased well before the athletes had even arrived in Sochi. But now that the Winter Olympics are well under way, we've finally got footage of the giant automated pinscreen in action—and it's even more awesome than we'd hoped.
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7 Simple Improvements That Perfected Everyday Products
Feb 11, 2:12PM
It's really hard to improve on a good thing. But every once in a while, a product you have known and loved for a very long time gets a redesign or a tweak that's genius in is simplicity. Here are seven examples of products that we took for granted, recently perfected by a tiny twist:
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The Xbox One's February Upgrades Seem Nice, But March's Are Better
Feb 11, 2:00PM
An "early March" system update for the Xbox One will bring some popular multiplayer features from the Xbox 360 with the intention of improving the multiplayer experience in advance of the launch of Respawn's exclusive, multiplayer-only Titanfall, according to Xbox product chief Marc Whitten.
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The Science of Kissing
Feb 11, 12:57PM
Kissing is great! Everyone loves kissing. But when you stop and think about it, the idea of rubbing your face and tongue up against those of another human being is actually a little... weird. This video tries to get to the bottom of the science of kissing.
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Report: Google and Foxconn Building Roboticized Factories of the Future
Feb 11, 12:26PM
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google and Foxconn are working together to create a new vision of roboticized factories.
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Flappy Bird Creator: I Pulled the Game Because It Was Too Addictive
Feb 11, 11:27AM
Flappy Bird is dead. But Dong Ngueyn, the seemingly troubled developer of the game, has now explained, somewhat counter-intuitively, that he pulled the tortuous title because it was "an addictive product."
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The AP Deleted Fidel Castro Images Photoshopped to Remove a Hearing Aid
Feb 11, 10:45AM
At 87, Fidel Castro is not as young as he used to be, so it shouldn't come as a huge surprise that he wears a hearing aid—but that didn't stop AP contributors photoshopping the device out of images of the ex-Cuban President.
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Today Is the Day the Internet Fights Back to Protect Privacy
Feb 11, 10:15AM
Mass surveillance of electronic communications is a vast, new, government intrusion on the privacy of innocent people worldwide. It is a violation of International human rights law. Without checks and balances, its use will continue to spread from country to country, corrupting democracies and empowering dictators.
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Why Do We Cry?
Feb 11, 9:30AM
Whether you're happy to admit it or not, from time to time we all cry. But how? Why? And are all tears the same?
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