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SpY, the same street artist who brought us this matrix of CCTV cameras, recently finished a new piec

May 11, 10:00PM

SpY, the same street artist who brought us this matrix of CCTV cameras , recently finished a new piece in Lausanne, Switzerland. By hanging a giant glowing moon in the first quarter—a waxing crescent—from an industrial crane, he gave a construction site its own celestial body. [SpY]

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Retweet Your Mom Today

May 11, 9:00PM

Retweet Your Mom Today

It's Mothers Day! You should call the woman who gave birth to you! But don't stop there, give her the gift that will warm her heart and everyone else's: a retweet.

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Parrot's New Bebop Drone Wants to Be Your Eyes in the Skies

May 11, 8:23PM

Parrot's New Bebop Drone Wants to Be Your Eyes in the Skies

Thanks to the the FAA's recent decision to allow civilian drones into public airspace, the skies above us could soon be swarming with helpful robo-fliers. To that end, Parrot's newest model acts as a personal aerial surveillance system—albeit for only 12 minutes at a time.

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In 1989, the Car of the Future Was Equipped With a Fax Machine

May 11, 8:00PM

In 1989, the Car of the Future Was Equipped With a Fax Machine

Job got you checking work emails even on your day off? Nostalgic for the pre-smartphone era? "When you left the office, you left work behind," you muse, wistfully. Quit fooling yourself: 25 years ago, the sportscar-driving business boss couldn't afford to be out of touch—as evidenced by this fax-machine-equipped Isuzu 4200R concept car from 1989.

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Cruise Ship Plays the Loudest Seven Nation Army You've Ever Heard

May 11, 7:30PM

The 964-foot-long MSC Magnifica isn't just a luxurious, $550 million cruise ship. It's the world's first 4,500 passenger musical instrument, and it rocked a slow, loooouuud rendition of The White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army" at this weekend's 825th Hamburg Port Anniversary in Germany. Talk about rocking the boat.

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This Old Fire Service Truck Might Be Scotland's Coolest B&B

May 11, 7:00PM

This Old Fire Service Truck Might Be Scotland's Coolest B&B

While clicking around through a long binge of truck-camping photographs—feeling totally and absolutely desperate for the summer—I found a listing for this old Fire Service truck in the Cairngorms National Park of Scotland. Believe it or not, it's now a B&B.

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SNL Hilariously Nails Mom Chain Emails

May 11, 6:38PM

In honor of the women from whence we came, SNL aired an absolutely perfect Mother's Day Game Show skit last night. But of all the mom-related jokes, none hit quite as close to home as 'Which of These Emails Did I Send You?'. The winning answer? Fwd: fwd: fwd: fwd: all of them.

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Make Like Wile E. Coyote With These Adorable Firecracker Lamps

May 11, 6:30PM

Make Like Wile E. Coyote With These Adorable Firecracker Lamps

Wile E. Coyote never had much luck with the ACME Corporation's seemingly infinite supply of wacky wares ; poor guy couldn't catch a break. If you are and always have been on Team Road Runner, these Firecracker Lamps are like a cheery, fully-functional update on this ol' classic clunker.

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The Futuristic Superhighways of 1964 Had Glow-in-the-Dark Roads

May 11, 5:30PM

The Futuristic Superhighways of 1964 Had Glow-in-the-Dark Roads

Glow-in-the-dark roads are finally a reality ; at least in the Netherlands. But we've been waiting on this particular vision of the future for quite a while now — for over 50 years, in fact.

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How to Calculate Pi with a Shotgun

May 11, 5:00PM

How to Calculate Pi with a Shotgun

We all know pi , at least the first three digits of it. If for some reason you forgot them though, there's good news. All you need to get that knowledge back is some aluminum foil, ingenuity, and a shotgun.

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The First Commercially Available Car Navigation System Was From 1981

May 11, 4:54PM

The First Commercially Available Car Navigation System Was From 1981

The Global Positioning System constellation of satellites has been helping lost travelers find their way for a while now, but they only really started showing up in cars in the mid- to late- 1990s, and in big numbers even later than that. But the first automotive navigation system was offered over thirty years ago.

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The UN Will Debate the Ethics of Killer Robots This Week

May 11, 4:20PM

The UN Will Debate the Ethics of Killer Robots This Week

This week the United Nations will debate the role of so-called "killer robots" on the battlefield — so called, because robots are currently killing humans on the battlefield, and the next steps in their robo-evolution will have serious consequences for the future of war.

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The Easy Trick to Drastically Increase the Life of Your Razor Blades

May 11, 4:00PM

The Easy Trick to Drastically Increase the Life of Your Razor Blades

Today I found out how to drastically increase the life of your shaver razor blades, such as Gillette or Schick brand razors. This trick is incredibly simple and just as incredibly effective. It will also save you a nice chunk of change over time and make all your dreams come true.

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Today marks the first day of service for Denver's brand new downtown bus and rail concourse built in

May 11, 3:30PM

Today marks the first day of service for Denver's brand new downtown bus and rail concourse built in front of the old Beaux Arts Union Station. The concourse officially opened to public view on Friday in a ceremony featuring U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx. Designed by SOM, the station is part of a much larger plan to develop what the architects call "an urban transit district that orchestrates light rail, commuter and intercity rail, bicycle and bus routes, and pedestrian pathways." [SOM]

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How Underground Fires Helped Shape the Landscape of the American West

May 11, 3:00PM

How Underground Fires Helped Shape the Landscape of the American West

The most famous coal seam fire smolders underneath Centralia, Pennsylvania, but thousands of such underground fires burn all over the world. In the American West, where subterranean coal still burn, ancient conflagrations created the red-inflected landscape we see today.

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We've Thrown Microscopic Plastic Confetti Into Every Last Inch of Ocean

May 11, 2:00PM

The guys from One Minute Science are back with a particularly grim explainer this weekend: Why just about every cubic foot of ocean is embedded with tiny bits of plastic. You've heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, right? This is on a different scale—it's even less visible, and just as insidious.

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A Glimpse Of How We'll Use Our Land In 2051

May 11, 1:00PM

A Glimpse Of How We'll Use Our Land In 2051

It's the year 2051. Welcome to a view of the American landscape. Urban areas have swollen with people. Range and pasturelands have shrunk. There's a bit more forest than there was back in 2014, a result of economic incentives driving more timber production. These are a few of the predictions of a new study on how people will use privately held U.S. lands in coming decades.

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This Week's Top Comedy Video: The Stuff

May 11, 1:00AM

Did you bring the stuff?

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In Defense of GIFs in Science Writing

May 11, 12:00AM

In Defense of GIFs in Science Writing

University of Oxford PhD student Andrew Bissette recently published a diatribe against the Internet's favorite form of looping media, arguing that science writers should not use GIFs to explain science. He's wrong. His heart is in the right place. His argument is even halfway sound. But he's wrong.

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Geeking Out on the 20th Anniversary of Weezer's The Blue Album

May 11, 12:00AM

Buckle that nostalgia-seatbelt: Weezer's debut, The Blue Album, came out 20 years ago today. And in the two decades since, being geeky has gone from socially crippling to almost cool.

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China's Batty Proposal For an Under-Sea Train to the United States

May 10, 11:00PM

China's Batty Proposal For an Under-Sea Train to the United States

A lone report in China's state-run Beijing Times claims the nation is already in discussions to build an 8,000+ mile railroad connecting China, Russia, Canada, and the U.S.—including a 125 mile undersea tunnel spanning the Bering Strait. Forget taking this with a grain of salt, you're gonna need the whole shaker.

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Is this the perfect Asian-inspired burger? Yes, yes it is

May 10, 10:39PM

Is this the perfect Asian-inspired burger? Yes, yes it is

Behold the delicious Bao-ser's Castle Burger, a hot steamy bao bun filled with a "square, onion soup-braised (and seared) beef tongue patty, nested with green onion slices, quick pickle cucumber, cilantro, grilled pork belly, and a hoisin mayonnaise." The only way this thing could be more awesome is if someone were stuffing two of them in my mouth right now.

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Disney's Pixelbots Turn a Flat Surface Into a Moving Dot-Matrix Display

May 10, 10:00PM

Disney's Pixelbots Turn a Flat Surface Into a Moving Dot-Matrix Display

When you think of Disney animation, you probably envision cartoons drawn either by hand or computer. You probably don't think of little light-up robots that zip around a tabletop to make dot-matrix designs. But that's exactly what Disney Research came up with in Display Swarm, a research project that makes an animated display out of mini robotic pixels.

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This week in Tech Reads: DIY electronic brain stimulation, a chat with the man who invented the brow

May 10, 9:00PM

This week in Tech Reads: DIY electronic brain stimulation, a chat with the man who invented the browser tab, the strange hi-caffeine soda that fuels Germany's hackers, and so much more!

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Geek.com seems to have spotted an experimental new web Gmail layout that replaces the left-side cont

May 10, 8:37PM

Geek.com seems to have spotted an experimental new web Gmail layout that replaces the left-side control panel with a slide-in menu, uses pins instead of stars, and adds a "reminder" feature—all within a heavily-redesigned layout. No word if this test setup will ever roll out to users. [Geek.com]

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