What are phone jammers trying to tell us?

Cellphone jammers prevent phones from working. They're being used in cars, public places and exam halls. Jammers aren't new -- they've been around for years -- and they're illegal in many countries, including in the U.S., but use of jammers is growing fast.

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Every Single Pinky and the Brain Plan to Take Over the World, Ranked

Are you pondering what I’m pondering? No, it has nothing to do with monkeys and dental floss.

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How to Use iPhone Keyboard as Trackpad with 3D Touch

Navigating around text blocks in iOS is typically done by hunting and pecking with a finger to tap in between precisely the write characters or words.

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Want a $70,000 Job? Head to Coding School

With the student debt crisis ballooning, more and more students are looking for educational opportunities other than college. Tuition and fees at private universities can cost upwards of $30,000 per year and over $20,000 at public universities according to data from the College Board.

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Tami Stronach Interview, The Childlike Empress from The Never-ending Story

When I saw the Spotify ad with all grown up Atreyu flying around on Falcor listening to Limahl’s theme song to The Neverending Story, I tweeted about it. This caught the attention of Tami Stronach, who when she was 11 played the Childlike Empress in the film.

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This Bill in Congress Would Remove Credit Report Strikes After Four Years

Bad credit can haunt you for years. It affects everything from your home purchase to your bills to renting an apartment. Some employers even check your report before hiring you. A newly proposed bill aims to improve the system.

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Comixology Launches All-You-Can-Eat ‘Unlimited’ Subscription Service

The biggest digital storefront for comics just announced a new flat-rate service that lets users read through thousands of stories for $6/month. Comixology Unlimited gathers together back-catalog offerings from Image, Boom!, IDW, Dark Horse and other publishers under one banner.

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Jimmy Kimmel lost a ton of weight on this radical diet

Growing up in a big Italian family, Jimmy Kimmel says he has always struggled with portion control. By 2010, Kimmel's 6'1 physique had ballooned to 208 pounds, and he wasn't happy.

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There's a Garbage Pail Kids Documentary Coming Out and It Looks Awesome

Children of the ‘80s probably learned a lot about death, dismemberment and bodily fluids from the Garbage Pail Kids. The ultra-gross, depraved and occasionally sadistic trading cards released in 1985 were a massive, massive hit and now there’s a documentary about them.

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This Earpiece Will Prevent You From Ever Being Lost In Translation Again

In Douglas Adams' well-known novel Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy, a Babelfish is stuck in the protagonist's ear in order to simultaneously translate different alien tongues in outer space.

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BitTorrent launches Live multichannel video app for Apple TV, coming to Android, iOS, and OS X in June

BitTorrent today launched BitTorrent Live, a multichannel video streaming app for Apple TV. Think of it as the company’s take on live TV, with initial coverage spanning five areas: news, sports, music, tech, and youth culture.

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Petition to activate smartphone FM radios gains steam as carriers agree to flip the switch

A new report from CBC News details the progress being made to unlock the FM radio chip that many smartphones feature.

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Why Front Bench Seats Went Away

There are plenty of car features that went out the window at some point or another, including ones that were once the only option for drivers. One such feature that fell into obscurity was the classic front bench seat, slowly replaced by convenience and sportiness.

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Apple says a bug in iTunes might be deleting user's libraries

Last week, a blog post by a designer named James Pinkstone made the rounds; in it, the writer claimed that Apple Music and iTunes teamed up to delete his 122GB of local music files and basically cause havoc with his library.

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Top 10 Mistakes You Might Be Making with Your Job Search

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15 X-Men Cosplayers That Are Simply Uncanny - Dorkly Post

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Opera VPN offers a free and unlimited VPN service

VPNs can afford a lot of benefits to users. They route your data through special servers that can help you access content that is only available in certain regions, bypass firewalls that block content like iDownloadBlog or music streaming services, and protect yourself on public networks.

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Watch the World's Most Patient Model Maker Build Flawless Airplane Replicas

When it comes to a steady hand and an impeccable attention to detail, David Damek’s model making skills rival brain surgeons when it comes to the precision of his work.

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The Limits Of How Far Humanity Can Go In The Universe

If you peer out into the depths of space — at the vast expanse of stars, galaxies, and even the leftover glow from the Big Bang itself — you might think that if humanity can understand the laws of nature and create a good enough technology, there are no limits to what we can explore.

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Open Source Artificial Pancreas Helps Engineer's Son Survive With Type 1 Diabetes 18

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Turn an Old Mac Into a Cheap VPN with OS X Server

VPN subscriptions cost money, and they often require a bit of research just to figure out if they’re legit.

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We Finally Know Why This El Niño Was Such a Monster

The strongest El Niño ever seen is finally gone. But before it left it had plenty to throw at us: Storms, droughts, blackouts, thousands of pounds of dead fish. And we finally know just what it was that made El Niño so furious. Researchers know a lot about how El Niño works once it starts up.

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Opera Releases a Free and Unlimited VPN for iPhone

Opera VPN works just like any other VPN app on iOS. You can connect to the internet in the United States, or route your traffic through Canada, Netherlands, Germany, or Singapore. Alongside giving you a new region, Opera VPN also blocks ads and trackers.

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FCC Approves Nightmare Cable Super Merger

America’s long national cable company horror show is far from over. In fact, it just got a lot worse because the Federal Communications Commission has officially approved the Charter-Time Warner Cable merger.

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Panama Papers Source Breaks Silence Over 'Scale Of Injustices'

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The whistleblower behind the Panama Papers broke their silence on Friday to explain in detail how the injustices of offshore tax havens drove them to the biggest data leak in history.

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The Schwartz Was Not With the Syrian President

Repost Recaption and 151 more...

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Captain America Costumes : The Evolution of a Super Soldier [Infographic]

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Ben Heck’s Portable Atari 2600: Hand Soldered Handheld

Back in February, The Ben Heck Show had a special episode where Ben took out the Atari 2600’s CPU, RAM I/O and video driver and hand soldered them to a compact circuit board. Now he’s put together that miniaturized system to make a portable 2600.

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Brutal LEGO starfighter punches through space

We like a good starfighter, and here’s an absolute belter of a model from [email protected].

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Retro LEGO workspace makes us nostalgic for floppy disks

Chris McVeigh proves once again that he’s the master of technology nostalgia with this perfect recreation of an 80s/early-90s workspace.

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South Park: 15 Greatest Ever Episodes

South Park is perhaps the most misunderstood show out there: it is seen generally as a potty-mouthed immature comedy made by a pair of bullies, but in fact it is a potty-mouthed immature comedy filled with deep political and social insight.

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The best houseplants to clean the air in your home, as recommended by NASA

Easy to care for, resilient, and a quick way to inject some nature into your living room - no wonder houseplants have recently made a comeback.

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Marvel Studios' Origin Secrets Revealed by Mysterious Founder: History Was "Rewritten"

With 'Angry Birds' headed to theaters, producer David Maisel spills all on how he played a key role in turning Marvel Studios into a global film power as, he says, an inventor of its sequels and quasi-sequels strategy and engineer of the Disney sale.

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Vintage Beauties Are Eye Candy (21 pics)

Brigitte Bardot Lee Remick Joan Fontaine Rita Hayworth Claudia Cardinale Marilyn Monroe Madeline Smith Joan Collins Audrey Hepburn at age 23 Grace Kelly Sally Field Ursula Andress Vivien Leigh Christiane Schmidtmer Raquel Welch Misty Ayers Gene Tierney Barbara Bouchet Ann-Margret

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Sci-Hub Faces Millions Of Dollars In Damages, Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Domain

Reader Taco Cowboy writes: Sci-Hub is facing millions of dollars in damages in a lawsuit filed by Elsevier, one of the largest academic publishers. As a result of the legal battle the site just lost one of its latest domain names.

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PieMessage project brings iMessage to Android

Okay, let's be clear here: this is a total hack. PieMessage is a new project published yesterday on GitHub by Eric Chee, who goes by bboyairwreck. It involves:

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How-To: Find your MacBook’s battery cycle count and learn what it means about its battery life

Recently I noticed that my Late 2013 MacBook Pro with Retina Display seemed to be dying at a faster clip. Naturally, I assumed that the battery might be going bad.

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25 superb hacks to make your home more stylish

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Without Encryption, Everything Stops, Says Snowden

An anonymous reader writes about Snowden's appearance on a debate with CNN's Fareed Zakaria: Edward Snowden defended the importance of encryption, calling it the "backbone of computer security." He said, "Encryption saves lives. Encryption protects property. Without it, our economy stops.

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What If WoW Is Your Job?

This assumes that the person had a job or wife to begin with.

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Seinfield Adventures In Modern Setting (14 pics + 3 gifs)

Twitter account Modern Seinfield answers the question of what if Seinfeld were still on the air. It keeps the show alive by setting down the future adventures of its beloved characters in our time.

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Prank Call : Preston Garvey (Fallout 4) Calls Social Services For Help [Video]

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Samsung's Smart Home Gadgets Are Full of Security Holes

The “smart home” is a Jetsonian future concept in which all our domestic needs are automated. As it stands today, however, smart devices are buggy and often very easy to hack.

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We Just Solved One of the Biggest Mysteries About How Water Flows on Mars

Researchers just uncovered an incredible fact about liquid water on Mars. It’s not just flowing; it’s also boiling. And that discovery also solves one of the major mysteries about the surface of the red planet.

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Best Hubs for the 12-inch MacBook

If you need more ports than the MacBook offers, add one of these hubs! Apple's newest MacBook attempts to bridge the divide between larger, more cumbersome laptops and the iPad.

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Jony Ive talks fashion and technology at 2016 Met Gala preview

Ahead of the Met Gala fundraising event, which takes place tonight in New York City, Apple design chief Jony Ive spoke at a press event about the fusion of fashion and technology, the theme of this year's "Manus x Machina" Met exhibit.

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Every Zombie Scenario Ever [Comic]

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It's the Beautiful Bikini Babes Brigade (48 pics)

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Terrence Malick's universe documentary reaches IMAX October 7th

Director Terrence Malick's movies frequently cover grand concepts (just ask anyone who saw The Tree of Life), but his latest might just top them all. After a long development process, his all-encompassing documentary Voyage of Time will reach IMAX theaters on October 7th.

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