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Microsoft: Finally, a PC for All Your Lady Stuff (Weddings, Pinterest)

Mar 03, 8:20PM

Tech companies don't exactly have have the best track record when it comes to marketing to women—obviously. But after running damage control on horrible campaign after horrible campaign, you'd think they'd try to avoid making the same mistakes again—and you'd be wrong. Enter Microsoft's new all-in-one lady commercial.

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This Cozy Urban Cabin Is A Writer's Dream

Mar 03, 8:00PM

This Cozy Urban Cabin Is A Writer's Dream

For most writers, the idea of a retreat is a wistful fantasy. That's because many writers live in the city, and the subway doesn't go to that perfectly reclusive cabin in the woods. So what's a writer to do? Well, you could just build a cabin in your backyard, like this guy.

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Make an Awesome First Impression With a Tetris-Playing Business Card

Mar 03, 7:20PM

In a time when business cards seem more obsolete than ever , more and more people are coming up with fantastic ways to modernize them. And no one will probably make a better first impression than Kevin Bateske, who created this business-card-sized Game Boy clone called the Arduboy that's just 1.6 millimeters thick.

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Watch a Teensy Micro-Apartment Transform Into a Five Room Suite

Mar 03, 7:00PM

The 43-story De Rotterdam is Europe's largest building. Inside, however, it's a study in how to live inside a small space: The behemoth's tiniest unit is only 645 square feet, yet because it's kitted out with incredible transforming furniture, it functions like a five room apartment.

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Sony Headphones, Laptop-Charging Battery Pack, Hunger Games [Deals]

Mar 03, 6:45PM

Sony Headphones, Laptop-Charging Battery Pack, Hunger Games [Deals]

Sony's MDR-10 headphones have a great reputation , and you can get a wired or Bluetooth pair today from Amazon for $50 off their normal asking price.

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A Wearable IV Pole Is Like Morphine-2-Go For Patients

Mar 03, 6:40PM

A Wearable IV Pole Is Like Morphine-2-Go For Patients

Even when a patient recovering from surgery is strong enough to get out of bed, they're still usually tethered to an IV bag for medication—which means they have to drag around one of those awkward IV poles even when just going to the bathroom. But if they're strong enough, they might soon be able to use this wearable IV pole instead

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South Korea Is Building a Series of Biodomes for Endangered Species

Mar 03, 6:20PM

South Korea Is Building a Series of Biodomes for Endangered Species

Planet Earth is falling apart. It sounds a bit dramatic when you put it in such stark terms, but, in many ways, it's true. The list of endangered species grows every year as humans bulldoze more habitats and belch more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. What's an environmentalist to do?

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Networks Fined Millions For Airing Shitty Movie's Fake Emergency Alert

Mar 03, 6:08PM

The FCC is proposing a fine of nearly $2 million for cable channels that aired a trailer for Olympus Has Fallen, which uses the tones from the Emergency Alert System.

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Chromebooks Come in Faux-Leather Now

Mar 03, 6:00PM

Chromebooks Come in Faux-Leather Now

You know how the Galaxy Note 3 has faux-leather backing ? And also a few of Samsung's PRO tablets ? It doesn't end there. The Chromebook 2 is your first pleather Chromebook. That doesn't make it a premium product, no. But it's kind of a nice touch!

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SurroundWeb: Microsoft's Plan To Cloak Your Living Room With Internet

Mar 03, 5:40PM

SurroundWeb: Microsoft's Plan To Cloak Your Living Room With Internet

Your browser is in all your devices. Hell, you can even get it in your watch if you're down with that. And in the Microsoft world, its next destination is your living room wall.

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New Netflix Phishing Scam Tricks You Into Calling Fake "Tech Support"

Mar 03, 5:23PM

If the screen below has ever popped up as you were supposedly logging into Netflix, we've got some bad news for you. No, it's not your Netflix account—that's perfectly safe (at least for now). But if you followed the instructions on the screen, you've been duped by a new phishing scheme that seems so painfully obvious, it's almost brilliant.

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The Grandfather of the Space Shuttle Looked Like a UFO

Mar 03, 4:40PM

In the late 1950s, at the dawn of the Space Age, the idea that a wingless vehicle could somehow generate lift just from its body shape was seen as beyond preposterous. But less than a decade later, this early forerunner of the Space Shuttle proved the design far more science than fiction.

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Nepal Will Force Each Everest Climber To Collect 18 Pounds of Trash

Mar 03, 4:20PM

Nepal Will Force Each Everest Climber To Collect 18 Pounds of Trash

Mount Everest might be the be-all, end-all of mountaineering, but it's also a dumping ground for the climbers striving upon its face—which is littered, as National Geographic puts it, "with garbage leaking out of the glaciers and pyramids of human excrement befouling the high camps." This week, Nepal announced a new rule aimed at cleaning it up.

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Magnetic Wallpaper Lets You Redecorate Your Room Every Day

Mar 03, 4:00PM

Magnetic Wallpaper Lets You Redecorate Your Room Every Day

Designer Luis Pons may have just come up with the biggest innovation in home decorating since wall-to-wall carpeting. This large magnetic panel, which could be easily made to cover the walls of an entire room, is adorned with a metal mesh 'fabric' that can be rearranged, repositioned, and even completely replaced to match new decor.

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What Apple CarPlay Looks Like in Action

Mar 03, 3:36PM

While Apple showed off a few screengrabs of its CarPlay in-car iPhone and iPad integration system earlier, we finally have some actual video of it in action. Not surprisingly, it turns your car's dashboard into a big 'ol iPhone copilot.

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Every Meal Time's an Adventure With These Scenic Tables

Mar 03, 3:20PM

Every Meal Time's an Adventure With These Scenic Tables

If your meals lack a certain sense of stimulation, maybe you need one of these tables—each of which depict a beautiful outdoor landscape as if it were seen from far above.

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5 Ideas To Make Roads Safer for Cars and Pedestrians

Mar 03, 3:00PM

5 Ideas To Make Roads Safer for Cars and Pedestrians

"Vision Zero," New York mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to eliminate traffic deaths in the city, is audacious but not unprecedented. Like almost all good social policies, the Swedes did it first. And we could learn a thing or two from them.

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Relive Jurassic Park's Iconic Hacking Scene Right From Your Browser

Mar 03, 2:30PM

Relive Jurassic Park's Iconic Hacking Scene Right From Your Browser

For the most part, Jurassic Park isn't the kind of movie you'd want a chance to live out, what with the mortal danger and velociraptors and all that. But thanks to the amazing Jurassic Systems website, you can experience of of Jurassic Park's safer thrills first-hand: getting hacked by Dennis Nedry.

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I Wish This Energy Drink-Delivering Drone Would Accompany My Workouts

Mar 03, 2:21PM

I Wish This Energy Drink-Delivering Drone Would Accompany My Workouts

Powerade has seemingly come up with an amazing way to dethrone Gatorade as the world's most popular sports drink. It's just too bad these tiny tanker planes full of hydrating blue energy drinks only exist in this clever commercial created by an ad agency called The Lift.

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11 Creative Interpretations Of The Golden Ratio's Perfect Proportions

Mar 03, 2:00PM

11 Creative Interpretations Of The Golden Ratio's Perfect Proportions

Although the Golden Ratio was devised way, way back by ancient Greek mathematicians, you might remember it from such modern implementations as the Apple logo and an early incarnation of Twitter . But, honestly, it can be a total mind-fuck for non-designers to wrap their heads around.

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Horizon, the clever camera app that forces your iPhone or iPad to only shoot horizontal videos no ma

Mar 03, 1:39PM

Horizon, the clever camera app that forces your iPhone or iPad to only shoot horizontal videos no matter how they're held, is now free on the iTunes App Store for a little while. So now you have no excuse for shooting vertical videos ever again. [iTunes App Store]

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WSJ: Apple Is Hiring Engineers in Asia to Launch More Products, Faster

Mar 03, 12:45PM

WSJ: Apple Is Hiring Engineers in Asia to Launch More Products, Faster

Good news, perhaps, for the impatient: the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple is "hiring hundreds of new engineers and supply-chain managers" across Asia in an attempt to "speed up product development and launch a wider range of devices."

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How the Time of Sunrise and Sunset Varies Around the Wrold

Mar 03, 12:10PM

How the Time of Sunrise and Sunset Varies Around the Wrold

Time zones are strange old things , especially the way they prescribe one time to thousands of miles of land mass—so this visualization shows which parts of the world experience unusually early and late hours of daylight as a result.

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New HTC One Seemingly Leaked in This Detailed 12-Minute Video

Mar 03, 11:25AM

Given we already seem to know so much about this year's HTC One successor, you have to wonder what will be left for the struggling Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer to show off at its March 25th showcase event. Thanks to this lengthy video leak, they might as well box 'em up and get the phone down to the shops already.

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How the Data From Three US Rating Agencies Control the World's Economy

Mar 03, 10:59AM

Is it governments that control the economy? Banks, perhaps? Or maybe even the people? Nope, in fact, it's rating agencies—and the there are three in the US that practically control the entire economy.

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