Save Hundreds on Furniture and Kitchen Gear During Wayfair’s Way Day Sale
Save Hundreds on Furniture and Kitchen Gear During Wayfair’s Way Day Sale
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Secret ‘Man Cave’ Discovered in Room in Beneath Grand Central Station
Secret 'Man Cave' Discovered in Room in Beneath Grand Central Station
Dreams do come true—but sometimes, they also get you in deep shit. Read more...
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Next Year You’ll Be Able to Use Microsoft Office Without a Subscription, Thank Goodness
Next Year You'll Be Able to Use Microsoft Office Without a Subscription, Thank Goodness
If there’s one thing we could do without next year besides, well (gestures at everything), it’s subscription services. Peacock. Xbox Game Pass. Disney+. Adobe Creative Suite. Apple Arcade. Stadia. HBO Max. CBS All Access. Netflix. Hulu. Spotify. Amazon Prime. Even our shoes aren’t safe from monthly payments. Kind of…Read more...
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Portland Police Ridiculed For Tweeting ‘Molotov Cocktails’ Made From Plastic
Portland Police Ridiculed For Tweeting 'Molotov Cocktails' Made From Plastic
Portland Police tweeted a photo Tuesday night claiming to show a “molotov cocktail,” made from what appears to be a plastic bottle and a washcloth. It’s at least the second time this year Portland Police have distributed photos of what it claims are molotov cocktails made from plastic, something that defense journalist…Read more...
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Get Your Wallets Ready: Xbox Series X and Series S Pre-Orders Are Open (Well, Sort Of)
Get Your Wallets Ready: Xbox Series X and Series S Pre-Orders Are Open (Well, Sort Of)
Xbox Series X | $499 | Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart, GameStop, Microsoft, Target Xbox Series S | $399 | Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart, GameStop, Microsoft, TargetRead more...
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1,000-Year-Old Precursor to Stainless Steel Found in Iran, Surprising Archaeologists
1,000-Year-Old Precursor to Stainless Steel Found in Iran, Surprising Archaeologists
Chromium steel, commonly referred to as stainless steel, is thought to be a recent manufacturing innovation, but new evidence suggests ancient Persians stumbled upon an early version of this alloy some 1,000 years ago, in what is a surprise to archaeologists.Read more...
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Starving Artists and Design Students Can Afford This Cheap but Accurate Real-Life Color Picker
Starving Artists and Design Students Can Afford This Cheap but Accurate Real-Life Color Picker
Check the camera roll on any designer’s smartphone and you’ll find hundreds of random images they snapped for inspiration or because they simply liked a color. But it’s not the best tool for the job. A dedicated color detector is far more accurate, and with Datacolor’s new ColorReader EZ, it’s no longer an obscenely…Read more...
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Xbox Series X Pre-Orders Have Been A Debacle So Far
Xbox Series X Pre-Orders Have Been A Debacle So Far
Despite advance notice, a set time, and links set up for all of the retailers who would be selling the Xbox Series X and Series S today, trying to pre-order Microsoft’s next-gen console has been a massive headache.Read more...
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The One Good Scene in: Beneath the Planet of the Apes
The One Good Scene in: Beneath the Planet of the Apes
Planet of the Apes is a classic. Of course, I’m talking about the original (the Tim Burton remake is another “one good scene” post in the making). There was huge demand for a sequel, one that would expand the story’s world and mythos following that dynamic ending. That didn’t quite happen with Beneath the Planet of…Read more...
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Game Your Heart Out With an MSI GK60 Gaming Keyboard, 41% Off
Game Your Heart Out With an MSI GK60 Gaming Keyboard, 41% Off
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Facebook Follows Up Vow to Fight Climate Change With ‘Mass Censorship’ of Climate Activists
Facebook Follows Up Vow to Fight Climate Change With 'Mass Censorship' of Climate Activists
Just last week, Facebook launched an initiative to uplift climate science. It was wildly misguided, yes, but the company was trying to show it’s down for the cause or something. Now, the company is proving just how devoted to climate activism it is by, um, booting environmental justice organizers from the platform.…Read more...
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It’s Officially Trump Nightmare Season
It's Officially Trump Nightmare Season
For Allison, the nightmare is a recurring one.Read more...
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This Budget Pet Camera Is Perfect for Neurotic Pet Owners
This Budget Pet Camera Is Perfect for Neurotic Pet Owners
Despite my partner’s disdain for pet cameras, it makes sense that I, the neurotic dog mom, would want one. Every time we leave the house for several hours, there’s a small part of me that’s convinced our furballs have died gruesome deaths due to freak accidents. I imagine their ghosts staring at me dolefully, asking…Read more...
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NOAA Taps New Chief Scientist Who Downplays Climate Change
NOAA Taps New Chief Scientist Who Downplays Climate Change
On Monday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration moved to replace its acting chief scientist with a full-time hire. Ryan Maue, a hurricane researcher who has worked for a number of private weather companies, is taking over the position being vacated by Craig McLean.Read more...
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What’s the Best Waterproof Bluetooth Speaker?
What's the Best Waterproof Bluetooth Speaker?
You know, the importance of waterproof tech has waned in recent months. Rain has become my defacto signal of a lazy stay-home day, and the frequency of neighborhood pool parties took a nosedive this summer, though some are throwing caution to the wind regardless of today’s circumstances.Read more...
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Pro-Trump NIH Goon to ‘Retire’ After Being Outed as Prolific Author of Anti-Mask, Anti-Fauci Blog Posts
Pro-Trump NIH Goon to 'Retire' After Being Outed as Prolific Author of Anti-Mask, Anti-Fauci Blog Posts
One of the Trump administration’s flacks at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases secretly trashed the agency under the persona “streiff” for the right-wing blog RedState, according to a Monday report by the Daily Beast. He is now planning to “retire.” Read more...
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One Year Later, Apple Arcade Is Still A Great Deal
One Year Later, Apple Arcade Is Still A Great Deal
On September 19, 2019, Apple launched Apple Arcade, a $5-a-month subscription service dedicated to bringing top-tier, bullshit-free mobile games to iPhones, iPads, and Apple TV. One year later the service has more than 130 mostly great games with more arriving on a semi-weekly basis, and I’ve never once considered…Read more...
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Buy 80 Rolls of Toilet Paper for $46, or a Bidet for $27 and Never Buy Toilet Paper Again
Buy 80 Rolls of Toilet Paper for $46, or a Bidet for $27 and Never Buy Toilet Paper Again
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Arctic Sea Ice Hit a Scary Milestone
Arctic Sea Ice Hit a Scary Milestone
Arctic sea ice shrank to its second lowest level on record, researchers announced on Monday. Sorry.Read more...
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Anyone Want to Buy a Quibi?
Anyone Want to Buy a Quibi?
Executives at Quibi, the spectacular disaster that no one asked for and evidently no one wants‚ may be looking to bail from their own failed experience.Read more...
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Amazon Sidewalk Wants To Connect Your Neighborhood—If You’ll Let It
Amazon Sidewalk Wants To Connect Your Neighborhood—If You'll Let It
Over the years, Amazon has made it very clear that it’s no longer satisfied with being “the everything store.” What was once just a hub where you buy shit online has since branched into the world of autonomous vehicles, pharmaceuticals, drones and space travel. Earlier today, the company unveiled some of the details…Read more...
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Android’s 2 Best Features Come to iOS 14: Here’s How to Use Them
Android's 2 Best Features Come to iOS 14: Here's How to Use Them
For a long time, one of the key benefits of choosing Android over iOS has been the ability to break away from the rigid inflexibility of multiple home screens, split up into uniform grids of app icons. Now with the introduction of home screen widgets and the App Library in iOS 14, that advantage has disappeared.…Read more...
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Two Critically Endangered Javan Rhino Babies Spotted in Indonesia
Two Critically Endangered Javan Rhino Babies Spotted in Indonesia
Conservationists in Indonesia are celebrating the birth of two Javan rhinos—a species listed as critically endangered and one of the rarest large mammals on Earth.Read more...
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Save 20% on Internal and Portable SSDs by Sabrent, Today Only
Save 20% on Internal and Portable SSDs by Sabrent, Today Only
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What Would Happen If Mark Zuckerberg Deleted All of Facebook?
What Would Happen If Mark Zuckerberg Deleted All of Facebook?
Mark Zuckerberg fucking loves Facebook. He thinks it’s great. Were someone to tell him it sucked—using phrases like “surveillance capitalism,” “passive radicalization,” “kind of a boring place”—he would probably disagree with them, maybe even strongly. For that reason, and many others, it seems unlikely that Zuck…Read more...
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Logitech’s New MX Anywhere 3 Is a Great Pint-Sized Productivity Mouse with a Super Slick Scroll Wheel
Logitech's New MX Anywhere 3 Is a Great Pint-Sized Productivity Mouse with a Super Slick Scroll Wheel
Last fall, Logitech released its flagship MX Master 3 mouse, which featured a super smooth scroll wheel that immediately put everything else on the market to shame. And now with the new MX Anywhere 3, Logitech is about to do the same in a smaller and more portable package.Read more...
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Twitter’s Scrambling to Figure Out Why Its Photo Preview Algorithm Seems Racist
Twitter's Scrambling to Figure Out Why Its Photo Preview Algorithm Seems Racist
The neural network Twitter uses to generate photo previews is a mysterious beast. When it debuted the smart cropping tool back in 2018, Twitter said the algorithm determines the most “salient” part of the picture, i.e. what your eyes are drawn to first, to use as a preview image, but what exactly that entails has been…Read more...
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Janina Gavankar to Write and Star in Mythological Monster Movie
Janina Gavankar to Write and Star in Mythological Monster Movie
If you know Janina Gavankar, chances are, it’s from her turn on True Blood or as the protagonist in the singleplayer campaign of Star Wars: Battlefront 2, where she played the (fantastic) Iden Versio. Now the actress and writer is getting to work on a rad monster movie based on Hindu mythology. Read more...
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The TikTok Saga Would Be a Comedy if It Weren’t So Tragic
The TikTok Saga Would Be a Comedy if It Weren't So Tragic
The United States is ceding its position as a world technological power. For decades, the world’s brightest landed here to build. They chose the U.S. for a few simple reasons, among them access to world-class equipment and education, the ability to take high-paying tech jobs, and a business climate that rewarded the…Read more...
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Celebrate a Late Batman Day With This Stunning Illustration by Bill Sienkiewicz
Celebrate a Late Batman Day With This Stunning Illustration by Bill Sienkiewicz
Yesterday was the day commonly celebrated by nerds everywhere (yes, that includes us) as Batman Day. If you didn’t spend any time brooding over the Dark Knight yesterday, today we’ve got just the thing. Read more...
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