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Facebook Is Buying Oculus, The Future of Virtual Reality, For $2 Billion
Mar 25, 9:34PM
For some completely inexplicable reason, Facebook has announced that it is buying Oculus VR for $2 billion. What?!
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A toxic and deadly week in landscape reads.
Mar 25, 9:31PM
A toxic and deadly week in landscape reads. We learn how, remarkably, tourist poop is flown by helicopter out of national parks, how Silicon Valley exports toxic waste all over the country, how poison lurks in our old televisions, and how the land can just fall away in the form of Washington's deadly mudslide.
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Tying Yourself to a Quadcopter Is the Most Awesome Way to Lose a Tooth
Mar 25, 9:08PM
What was the most memorable way you ever lost a tooth? For me, it was the day some girl karate kicked an incisor into the back of my throat at gymnastics camp. For this brave, young soul, it will almost certainly be the day his dad ripped his tooth out with a quadcopter.
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These Silk Scarves Are Patterned With Real Raindrops
Mar 25, 9:00PM
Depending on what you're wearing, unexpected downpours can be real outfit ruiners. Rather than block the drops, Dutch designer Aliki van der Kruijs used them to make natural patterns on specially-treated silk scarves.
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Depth Maps Hidden in Google Street View Create Flickering Ghost-Cities
Mar 25, 8:40PM
This is awesome: Patricio Gonzalez Vivo found a way to scrape Google Street View for its depth map data, then rebuilt the streets as ghostly spatial models in openFrameworks. The weird and flickering results, seen in the video above, are like a holograph dreaming of electric streets, with facades and sidewalks tuning in and out as if being tuned on shortwave radio.
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This Is the Power Glove Oven Mitt You Want To Buy
Mar 25, 8:20PM
About a year ago we brought news of a Power Glove themed oven mitt that had anyone who grew up playing the NES excited to do some baking. But that version was made of heatproof fabric and while it looked convincing enough, it can't hold a candle—or a hot tray of cookies—to this amazingly detailed silicone Power Glove oven mitt.
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This Synthetic Mother of Pearl Is Ten Times Tougher Than Ceramics
Mar 25, 8:00PM
Ceramics are an increasingly common material to work with—from hard-wearing bearings to heat-proof cladding on spacecraft—but they all share one fatal weakness: they're fragile. Now, though, inspired by nature, researchers are making a ceramic that mimics mother of pearl—and is ten times stronger than normal ceramics.
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The Onion's Useless App Pitch Is Perfect
Mar 25, 7:50PM
The Onion's TED talk parodies return with the reveal of a remarkable new app called PicSong that turns your countless photos into music—for anyone who might want to do that for some reason.
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Every Brand Video You've Ever Seen in One Sweeping Parody
Mar 25, 7:20PM
In a time when a company's brand is seemingly more important than its products, there's emerged an ugly trend where advertisers slap together a stock footage highlight reel designed to emotionally connect consumers to a giant corporation. It feels kind of icky, and this wonderful parody by stock footage company Dissolve perfectly illustrates why.
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This "Electric Book Reader" of 1927 Was The Future of Speed Reading
Mar 25, 7:00PM
"The biggest thing of all in research is the mental effect," Willis Whitney wrote in 1921, "the projecting of a beam of light into the infinite and the growth of man's appreciation."
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How Global Warming Is Dissolving Sea Life (And What We Can Do About It)
Mar 25, 7:00PM
The last time Earth's oceans were this acidic, a six mile-wide sulphur-rich space rock had just smashed into the Yucatan Peninsula, unleashing a deluge of acid rain that exterminated all sea life in the the top 400 meters of the water column. Now, some 65 million years after the Cretaceous extinction, human activity is threatening to similarly decimate the ocean's ecosystem—this time, from the bottom up.
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The Perfect Suitcase Keeps Your Smelly Laundry Sealed Off
Mar 25, 6:40PM
When you're traveling, your suitcase can quickly go from a model of organization to a chaotic catch-all of clothing, souvenirs, and dirty laundry. But the makers of these Genius Pack suitcases and bags have found a better way to keep travelers perpetually organized, including a brilliant way to deal with laundry.
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IRS Declares Bitcoin Is Property and Must Be Taxed As Such
Mar 25, 6:24PM
With April 15 looming, plenty of bitcoin barons have been wondering how to treat their newfound crypto-fortunes. Does it count as capital gains? Is it taxed like a currency? Is it taxed at all? Well, on Tuesday, the Internal Revenue Service announced definitively that Bitcoin is property, and will be taxed as such.
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27 Serendipitous Shots Of Spring
Mar 25, 6:00PM
It still might not actually feel like it, but spring is officially here. Don't believe me? Here are 27 pieces of photographic proof.
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Lytro Cameras over 50% off, DIY Ice Cream, ThinkGeek [Deals]
Mar 25, 5:45PM
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Remember that weird looking camera that could change its focus in software after you took a photo? Well, if you want to play with one yourself, you can get a factory refurb today from Woot for as low as $135 shipped. That's not nothing, but it's a far cry from the $300-$500 they sell for new.
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This Monster Truck Trike Will Stop You From Sinking on Snow and Sand
Mar 25, 5:40PM
If you've ever ridden your bike onto a beach or into deep snow, you've probably experienced the joy of then having to walk it back out because it was impossible to ride. But with the recent rise in popularity of fat-tired bikes that can seemingly float on sand and snow, that's not a problem. Especially with Standard Bearer Machines' new Rungu new Juggernaut, which adds a third wheel into the mix.
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Nvidia's Got a New Next-Gen GPU and $3,000 Graphics Card
Mar 25, 5:34PM
Nvidia is only just starting to put out cards that run on its new Maxwell architiecture, but its eyes are already on the future. Today at its annual GPU Technology Conference, Nvidia announced its next, far-future architecture: Pascal.
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Hackers Can Force ATMs to Spit Out Money With a Text Message
Mar 25, 5:20PM
It's getting remarkably easy to hack ATMs these days, and security researchers say that Microsoft's aging Windows XP is making the problem worse. This week, security analysts at Symantec blogged about a new technique popping up in Mexico that uses text messages to give hackers access. It's as wild as it sounds.
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We're Not Doing Enough to Protect the World's Nuclear Materials
Mar 25, 5:00PM
President Obama and leaders from over 50 countries are meeting in the Hague this week to discuss nuclear security. The over-arching theme of the conference, unfortunately, is a troubling one. Put bluntly: We're not doing enough to protect the world's most dangerous materials.
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Why Netflix Needs To Bring Back Expiration Dates
Mar 25, 4:40PM
Sometime in early February, I loaded up Netflix on my PlayStation 3 to watch Captain America: The First Avenger. I planned to re-watch the flick to get ready for its amazing-looking sequel, which hits theaters soon. But as I cycled through titles on My List, I soon realized the action-packed Marvel film was no longer there.
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This Synthetic Seaweed Stops Deadly Algae Blooms Before They Start
Mar 25, 4:20PM
The potent synthetic fertilizers used in modern industrial farming are a double-edged sword. Sure, they help grow more robust, higher-yielding crops, but the nutrient-rich runoff from these farms can also help incite deadly algae blooms downstream. This new nanoscale filter from GE, however, prevents effluent fertilizer from ever reaching our delicate waterways.
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The Insanely Expensive F-35 Is Delayed Again, Now Because of Software
Mar 25, 4:00PM
A government report reveals that the DOD's F-35 will be delayed yet again. This time, the problem is stalled software development. It's just the latest in a long line of delays and problems.
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HTC Will Fix Your Busted Screen For Free in the First Six Months
Mar 25, 3:46PM
Everyone breaks a phone every once in a while. But if you break your new HTC One it's a little less soul-crushing. HTC says it will fix your cracked display for free in the first six months, even if it's your fault.
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Inside the New HTC One Duo Camera: A Whole New Way to Shoot
Mar 25, 3:45PM
There's been a ton of speculation about the HTC One M8's strange new camera. With one large lens on the back and a slightly smaller one just above it, no one quite knew what to think. Is it just a 3D camera? Is one telephoto and one wide? Is it a light field camera like the Lytro? None of the above.
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HTC One 2014 Review: Faster, Stronger, Bigger, Better
Mar 25, 3:45PM
Last year, the original HTC One won us over with its unprecedented Android design chops. Machined from a solid block of aluminum, it was beautiful and incredibly satisfying to hold. Not only that, it absolutely hauled ass. Needless to say, the new HTC One has big shoes to fill.
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