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La Luz: It's Alive
Yesterday
was the first day of fall where I audibly said the words "damn, it's
cold." Now, I actually love colder months as opposed to the
sweat-inducing alternative, but that doesn't mean I don't get nostalgic
when I know I'll soon be sentenced to the dreary, chap-lipped months of
northeastern winters. In these times…
Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week
In
contrast to last week's gush of new apps from the Microsoft Garage
project, things have slowed back to normal. But that doesn't mean that
there aren't some awesome apps to mention. Let's also not forget that we
achieved a major smartphone milestone this week: You can now order Taco Bell with just an app. The future…
You Either Solve This Riddle, Or You Die
Answer this week's riddle incorrectly, and your life – and the lives of 22 others – will be forfeit.
This Is The Public Pee Stain Typeface You've Been Waiting For
If you've been looking for that radical new typeface that will totally bring together than lackluster PowerPoint presentation, urine the wrong place. New York artist Aravindan Thirunavukarasu has created a typeface modeled after public pee graffiti.
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What Do You Miss Most About the Early Days of the Internet?
Nostalgia is making a come back, specifically warm and fuzzy feelings about the internet's early years. Influences of Web 1.0 can be seen in new apps from Facebook
and Ello's stripped-down design and call for an ad-free social network.
But what do you miss from those early years of web surfing?
How the Most Prolific Counterfeiter in America Made His Millions
Welcome
to another installment of Reading List where we take a look at some of
the the great tech and science reads from around the web. This week we
enter the weird world of sweeping, gaze through the lens of ghost cams
still haunting the internet, look at why technological limits made Abbey
Road Studios so…
11 of the Best Sci-Fi Robots Ever
The
thing that makes art great—whether film, books, or TV shows—is that it
aims to teach us about ourselves and the human condition. But sometimes
in order to do that, you need a teacher who is completely inhuman.
That's where robots come in.
Baseball, Lava, Street Harassment: What's Ruining Our Cities This Week
A
video on street harassment sparks an online debate. Fiery lava is
slowly encroaching upon a town in Hawaii. And winning the World Series
is always a great excuse to burn down a neighborhood. It's a hot list in
this week's What's Ruining Our Cities.
Creepy Cop Charged With Stealing Nudes Off Suspect's Smartphone
Earlier this week,
a California cop was accused of texting and disseminating nude photos
from a 23-year-old woman's smartphone. Well, the depressing end result
of this gross accusation is, yep, he totally did it.
U.N. Panel Reaffirms That Climate Change Is “Irreversible”
The
U.N. panel charged with a five-year mission to assess global climate
change and provide a necessary course of action in order to stem its
negative effects finally released a Synthesis Report detailing their findings in stark black-and-white. The news was all pretty doom and gloom.
SNL GoPro Parody Invites Action Cam Enthusiasts to "Go Deeper"
GoPro is the go anywhere, do anything camera that's the go-to solution
for athletes to capture that perfect wave or that harrowing 1080, but
last night SNL dreamed up another addition to the GoPro family
specifically for detecting colon cancer: the GoProbe.
The World's Smallest 7x7x7 Rubik's Cube Is Still Massively Frustrating
Don't be fooled by its diminutive size, the world's smallest 7x7x7 Rubik's Cube puzzle, designed by Matt Bahner, is still a considerable challenge, even for a master cube solver. In fact it might actually be even more of a challenge than the larger versions because you need to be far more precise with your finger…
Report: A New Google Product Will Rival AirDrop
Last year when Google bought Bump,
an app that lets users transfer data from device to device without help
from NFC, its plans for the app weren't clear. But based on reports
from Android Police yesterday, Google's been working on a service that may integrate some of that functionality.
Walk on Water: A Film About World War II Set In 2005
Most
of us are the children or grandchildren of the generation that fought
in World War II—we have the luxury of thinking about the war as history.
In the great 2005 movie Walk on Water, we watch as the descendants of both German and Jewish grandparents grapple with their predecessors' actions in the present.
SimCity IRL: Be the Mayor Of Your Own Tiny 3D-Printed Metropolis
Automobile
enthusiasts can collect die-cast cars, animal lovers can collect plush
toys, but architecture fans can't really collect towering skyscrapers or
sprawling art galleries. And that's what inspired Steve Fox, an architecture enthusiast himself, to create a collection of tiny noteworthy 3D-printed buildings that…
Andrew Bird: Pulaski at Night
Casimir
Pulaski is a big deal in the Midwest. In Chicago, the
Polish-nobleman-turned-Revolutionary-War-hero's birthday is still widely
celebrated; he has parks, streets, and schools named after him, and
Obama made him an honorary citizen in 2009. His name has also been commemorated in song on more than one…
This Giant Searchlight Once Scanned L.A. From the Mountains Above
As
twilight faded over Pasadena on September 9, 1894, an artificial sun
flickered to life for the first time. High above town in the San Gabriel
Mountains stood a wonder of the new electric age: a 60-inch General
Electric searchlight, by many accounts the largest in the world. This
massive projector first dazzled…
Watch Apple's Old Newton PDA Try To Keep Up With an iPhone
It's
been almost two decades since Apple shuttered its Newton platform,
which included handwriting recognition support for personal digital
assistants. But it's surprising to see how well the long-forgotten
product line has stood the test of time, if not the test of consumer
demand.
The Artist Making Beautiful Snow Art With Simple Math and Footprints
You've probably seen Simon Beck's masterpieces floating around the internet.
Up close it looks like an army's marched through the snow. But when you
step back — way back — the texture turns into an extravagant design.
Some look like snowflakes, some like elaborate fractals. They're all made with just a compass, Beck's…
Explore the Deck of the Largest Floating Object Ever Created
No one knows quite what to call the Prelude, the floating behemoth
that Shell engineered to extract natural gas from below the ocean floor
and liquify it for use. It's hard to describe Prelude because it's so
much bigger than any other floating structure humans have ever built—which is also what makes it difficult to…
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