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Your Very Worst Online Dating Horror Stories
Feb 14, 7:40PM
We asked you to share your online dating horror stories, and share you did—sometimes with explicit and terrifying details. Following are your very best worst tales of internet love. They're not for the faint of heart.
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Good news and bad news for serial phone-flippers: Starting on the 23rd, T-Mobile's Jump plan will le
Feb 14, 7:23PM
Good news and bad news for serial phone-flippers: Starting on the 23rd, T-Mobile's Jump plan will let you upgrade your phone any time you want, not just twice a year. But! You'll have to have paid off half the value of your current phone in order to swap to the newest thing, a limitation that wasn't originally there. [T-Mobile via The Verge]
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Could NYC Produce All Its Own Food If It Had To?
Feb 14, 7:20PM
If a catastrophic event cut off the food supply to New York, odds are you'd have to do without you triple vegan chia slaw and assorted trend vegetables. But would you go hungry?
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Go Deep Inside a San Francisco Vibrator Factory
Feb 14, 7:00PM
For all the mystique surrounding the female orgasm, vibrators are a surefire way for lots (and lots) of ladies to get off. I recently took a tour of Crave, a sex toy company that prototypes and fabricates its products in San Francisco; here's a peek inside your new favorite mini pleasure machine.
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Headphones For All Your Needs, Sony Lightning Speaker Dock [Deals]
Feb 14, 6:45PM
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Whatever your audio needs, we've got you covered with deals on three excellent sets of headphones today. First up is Klipsch Image ONE Gen 2 on-ear headphones complete with in-line controls for $50.
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A Gadget Used to Scan the Tower of Pisa Is Helping Police Fight Crime
Feb 14, 6:40PM
Three-dimensional scanners are one of the newest and most futuristic gadgets in a police investigator's toolkit. These magical, handheld little devices can create 3D models of a crime scene in mere minutes. And the technology just keeps getting better.
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This Amazing Geodesic Dome Houses a Danish Political Throwdown
Feb 14, 6:20PM
Every year, 10,000 Danes come together for the Folkemødet, a celebrated "political festival" of spirited policy debate, which sounds extremely Danish. This summer, they'll be doing so in an incredible space: A beautiful, wood-and-steel geodesic dome.
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How Criterion Collection Brings Movies Back From the Dead
Feb 14, 6:00PM
There are few names that represent a commitment to the distribution of classic films like the Criterion Collection. Since the 1980s, they have remastered and released hundreds of movies on Laserdisc, DVD and Blu-Ray. We recently visited the Criterion headquarters in New York to get a first-hand look at the meticulous restoration process that brings cinematic gems back to life.
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The Army's Perfecting a Pizza That Lasts for Years and Years
Feb 14, 5:40PM
Life is hard for soldiers in the battlefield, so when the troops want something that might make things a little more bearable—say, a particular food item in their meal rations—the military listens. And right now, soldiers want pizza. They want it bad. And it looks like they're finally going to get it.
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9 Sad Valentine's Gifts for Very Lonely People
Feb 14, 5:20PM
Valentine's Day —or as it's called in more cynical circles, "Singles Awareness Day"—is finally upon us. As is tradition, anyone finding themselves single and alone tonight will probably be inclined to spend the evening wallowing in self pity. But it doesn't have to be this way! There's an entire world of products out there designed for the express purpose of helping you lie to yourself about being alone.
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Breaking the Record for the Largest Concrete Pour in the World
Feb 14, 5:00PM
New skyscrapers will do anything for attention—which is why an under-construction supertall in Los Angeles, soon to be the tallest building on the West Coast, is trying to break another record, too. Starting Saturday, construction crews will pump 21,200 cubic yards of concrete onto the Wilshire Grand site, which might make it the largest continuous foundation pour in the world.
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The Experimental Hypersonic Rocket Plane That Ushered in the Space Age
Feb 14, 4:45PM
Chuck Yeager's historic supersonic flight in 1947 set off a firestorm of research into flight beyond the speed of sound. The most ambitious of these projects was the X-15 program, a top secret USAF program that aimed to test the limits of Mach 7. In X-15: The World's Fastest Rocket Plane and the Pilots Who Ushered in the Space Age, John Anderson and Richard Passman recount the death-defying flights of a steel-nerved team of test pilots at the controls of the world's first rocket plane.
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NASA sees mysterious heart in the darkness of space
Feb 14, 4:39PM
The Chandra X-Ray Observatory has captured this Heart in the Darkness, for all of you astronomers in love out there, "a heart-shaped cloud of 8 million-degree Celsius gas in the central region of the star cluster NGC 346. NASA says that the "the nature of the heart in the darkness will remain mysterious" until they make future observations.
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Pebble Steel Review: The Best Smartwatch, Now Also Beautiful
Feb 14, 4:20PM
Smartwatches are awesome! Smartwatches look kinda dumb a lot of the time! They don't have to though, and the Pebble Steel is proof. The improved look isn't quite enough to make it the perfect smartwatch, but it goes a long, long way.
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Why It's So Hard to Find Alien LIfe
Feb 14, 4:00PM
A big reason why the Fermi paradox has punch is the matter of time. Max Tegmark gets into this in his excellent new book Our Mathematical Universe (Knopf, 2014), where he runs through what many thinkers on the subject have noted: Our Sun is young enough that countless stars and the planets that orbit them must have offered homes for life long before we ever appeared. With at least a several billion year head start, wouldn't intelligent life have had time to spread, and shouldn't its existence be perfectly obvious by now?
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Tapping Into Wave Power With a Gigantic, Artificial "Seafloor Carpet"
Feb 14, 3:40PM
Scientists have known for decades that muddy coastal sediments absorb the power of waves as they roll toward beaches. The result is a free service courtesy of soft ocean bottoms that diminishes the sea's energy before it reaches the communities living beyond them.
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Tell Us Your Online Dating Horror Stories
Feb 14, 3:20PM
On the worst OKCupid date I ever went on, the guy was 30 pounds heavier than his pics, ate wings like a slob, licked his fingers, and talked about his upset stomach the whole time. It was the worst date in history. We want to hear your online dating war stories, too.
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This Giant Superdesk Is Bigger Than Your Average Suburban Home
Feb 14, 3:00PM
When it was time for the NYC ad agency, Barbarian Group, to design a new office, they wanted to do something different. The agency wanted something more open, less inhibiting. So architect Clive Wilkinson built them an "endless table."
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Clever New Clothes To Protect You From Germs On The Subway
Feb 14, 2:40PM
The news that measles might be spreading through San Francisco's BART network not only triggered a warning from the transit authority itself, it is also a particularly alarming reminder that public transportation can be, well, disgusting. Winter's runny noses, summer's sweat, spring's sneezing allergies—it doesn't really matter the season. When you ride the bus or subway, often the last thing you want to do is touch the straps or hang on. Could a new line of clothing help protect you from the germs?
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Seeking a Cheap Cell Phone Signal by the Light of the Moon
Feb 14, 2:20PM
It looks like a cultish gathering of smartphone users, and in many ways it is: this image shows African migrants on the shore of Djibouti, holding their phones aloft to snatch cheap phone signal from nearby Somalia.
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Gawker Heroin Smuggler Comes Up With the Worst Cover Story Ever | Jalopnik Out-Of-Control Car Misses
Feb 14, 2:11PM
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London's Iconic Routemaster Busses Are Being Scrapped For Good
Feb 14, 1:20PM
It's one of the most iconic vehicles on London's roads, but the ageing red Routemaster bus, currently serving two routes, is set to be replaced by the modern hybrid "Boris Bus" entirely.
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This Graphene Nanoribbon Conducts Electricity Insanely Fast
Feb 14, 12:45PM
You're looking a ribbon of graphene that's just one atom thick and fifteen atoms wide—and it could help shift data thousands of times faster than anything else currently can.
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The Science of Marrying Your Cousin
Feb 14, 12:00PM
In modern western society, marrying your cousin is not well accepted, particularly in the United States. Through a combination of old prejudices and present-day conventional wisdom about inherited birth defects, first cousin marriage is seen by many as a little too close for comfort, as well as a bad idea if you want children.
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Why Do We Get Headaches?
Feb 14, 11:30AM
From dull tension headaches to crippling migraines, sometimes your cranium can feel crippled. But what causes all those headaches?
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