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Report: Apple Is Negotiating an On-Demand Music Service Like Spotify
Mar 21, 9:29PM
Billboard reports that Apple has been talking to record labels about potentially launching an on-demand music service that would compete with Spotify and Beats Music.
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Michael Arrington: "Google Spied on My Gmail"
Mar 21, 9:28PM
This week, we learned Microsoft has been able to read anyone's Hotmail inbox, if it so pleases. But what about Google? According to TechCrunch founder and friendly VC giant Mike Arrington , his Gmail account was rifled through just the same.
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Embossed Rolling Pins Let Bakers Sign Their Creations
Mar 21, 9:20PM
Painters always sign their canvases, so why shouldn't bakers—proud of their tasty treats—not sign their work as well? But since pens don't work on dough, and Sharpies are probably an even worse idea, Etsy seller Zuzia Zuber will create a custom rolling pin for you, embossed with a repeating pattern of "made by (your name here)."
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The Best Refreshing Beers for the First Weekend of Spring
Mar 21, 9:00PM
It's the first full day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, which calls for celebration. Yesterday, on the equinox itself, you may have balanced eggs on end, danced in a circle with bells on your legs, or simply admired the animated horticultural Google doodle. Today, however, it is time to update your Happy Hour beverage to match the season.
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Suck The Balls Is a Magical Pneumatic Journey Through A Fancy Foyer
Mar 21, 8:40PM
It's Friday! Time to sit back, relax, and enjoy a genuinely satisfying session of Suck the Balls. Designer Niklas Roy's interactive installation shows just how much fun can be had with pneumatic tubes, a vacuum, and a pit of yellow plastic spheres. (Spoiler alert: lots of fun.)
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A Twelve-Track Sequencer That Plays Analogue Music Boxes
Mar 21, 8:20PM
It's hard to get excited over something as antiquated as a music box when the when the phone in your pocket can play back a symphony. But there's still something oddly appealing about this twelve-track sequencer that skips the digital samples for a row of random music boxes.
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Let's Talk About Whatever You Want Right Now
Mar 21, 8:19PM
It's Friday and it's finally effing spring, so come chat us up for a few minutes before you take off for the weekend. We can talk about texting etiquette , all the goddamn smartwatches that were announced this week, or honestly nothing in particular for that matter. Whatever! Come wile away the rest of the afternoon with us.
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How The Corvette Museum Rescued Its Cars From A Giant Sinkhole
Mar 21, 8:00PM
In a story that united geologists with rare car enthusiasts last month, a massive sinkhole opened up beneath the National Corvette Museums's Skydome, swallowing eight rare cars into its cavernous depths. Since then, the museum has worked tirelessly to recover the cars and fill in the sinkhole so that the Skydome can open anew. But how do you undo a giant sinkhole?
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How To Piss People Off in a Group Text Message
Mar 21, 7:59PM
Below, except the opposite.
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An LED Lantern Like This Would've Saved Mrs. O'Leary a Lot of Grief
Mar 21, 7:40PM
The farm hands no longer have to double-check to make sure old Mrs. Leary didn't leave the lantern in the shed again. Because this LED alternative called the M Lamp won't get hot enough to start any fires, no matter how hard a cow kicks it.
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Calm Down, People: Citi Bike Is Gonna Be Just Fine
Mar 21, 7:20PM
New Yorkers are freaking out about a Wall Street Journal story today that says Citi Bike is in trouble, "moving quickly to raise tens of millions of dollars" to save the system, which has been devastated by an unusually brutal winter.
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This Week in Time Capsules: Teaching Kids About the Cruel March of Time
Mar 21, 7:00PM
This week in our round-up of time capsule news we have a 20-year-old McDonald's capsule that only 90s kids will understand, a "time barrel" in Maine, and kids in the UK who learn that we eventually get old and die.
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Why Vinyl Is the Only Worthwhile Way to Own Music
Mar 21, 7:00PM
On any given Tuesday in the 90s, I would hustle to the record store after school to gawk at the new releases. Occasionally, I would take a CD home, greedily tear it open, pop it into my boombox, and listen while I pretended to do my homework. This wonderful experience has no value any more. It's obsolete.
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How Not To Piss People Off in a Group Text Message
Mar 21, 6:40PM
It's a shame you can't unsubscribe from group texts. This week I was one of the recipients of a never-ending text bacchanal with a bunch of people I didn't know. But it wasn't fun or consensual. It was just a good reminder that we need to talk about text etiquette.
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Military Future-Lasers Could Help Detect Bombs and the Flu
Mar 21, 6:20PM
DARPA is investigating handheld UV laser devices to help soldiers detect biological and chemical weapons from a safe distance. But when they master that technology, it won't just be used on the battlefield; it could also help public health workers detect and track outbreaks of communicable diseases. Fighting flu with lasers? This really is the future.
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Why the White House Is Spending Millions to Promote Wood Skyscrapers
Mar 21, 6:00PM
The Department of Agriculture doesn't usually meddle in architecture, but this week at an event at the White House, it announced an unusual project: A $1 million competition for high-rise buildings built out of wood—and another million that will go to educating architects about it.
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First Deal on Nest Protect, Wireless Charging Pad, Mohu Curve [Deals]
Mar 21, 5:45PM
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Today's best deals include the best smoke alarm money can buy, a popular Qi pad for wireless-charging phones, that you won't want to hide, Monoprice's famous IPS monitor, and a whole lot more. Have a good weekend, everybody!
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A Glitch in the Hubble Telescope Makes Beautiful Modern Art
Mar 21, 5:40PM
You've seen all the mind-boggling space images from the Hubble telescope, so this might seem... bizarre. What looks like a light painting or a computer rendering is an actual image sent back during the Hubble's observing session. This is what happens when the telescope locks onto a bad guide star. The European Space Agency explains:
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This Beautifully Simple App Wants to Change How Public Transit Works
Mar 21, 5:20PM
Public transit is a hard problem. Imagine how difficult it is for a city to meet the needs of millions, all of whom want to go different places at different times. And, inevitably, you're left standing on the platform. Ototo wants to change all of that.
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The Untold History of Ugliness
Mar 21, 5:00PM
We've all had that moment while perusing a flea market or junk store when you stumble across an item and have to yelp, "Good lord, that is ugly!" So ugly, in fact, you have to marvel that it even got made in the first place.
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Watch a Japanese Pianist Battle a Holographic Version of Himself
Mar 21, 4:40PM
Not since Donald Duck faced off against Daffy Duck in Who Framed Roger Rabbit? has there been such an epic piano battle as Japanese pianist Yoshiki squaring off against a holographic version of himself.
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China Offers Smog Insurance for Sight-Seeing Tourists Who Can't See
Mar 21, 4:20PM
China's debilitating smog problem isn't anything new at this point—at least for its residents. Tourists to Beijing, however, are still struggling with the fact that the sights they came for can often be virtually unseeable. To appease this growing group of angry travelers, China's biggest online travel agency now offers smog insurance.
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The Android Wear Smartwatch Apps We Want the Most
Mar 21, 4:00PM
The main concept of Android Wear is simple; it's a Google Now watch , which is awesome. But the right suite of compatible apps could make it even better, so long as they don't get in the way of the simple Google Now-ness we all want and deserve.
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These High-Flying Drones Almost Hit Satellite Status
Mar 21, 3:40PM
Low earth orbit is becoming increasingly crowded with satellite traffic and, as Gravity showed us, increasingly treacherous. So rather than try to squeeze yet another spacecraft into the mix, a French consortium has begun development on a super-high altitude, autonomous dirigible that will skim along the edge of the stratosphere.
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NASA's prettiest spaceship yet will take actual photos of alien worlds
Mar 21, 3:35PM
PlanetQuest is NASA's effort to search for new Earths, exoplanets like ours that would probably contain life too. They're doing some really cool stuff, like this sunflower-telescope combo spaceship—"a cutting-edge effort to take pictures of planets orbiting stars far from the sun." Imagine that—seeing the actual planets!
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