Saturday, July 30, 2016

Your soap and toothpaste could be messing with your microbiome



Antibacterial products are found in hospitals, personal products and at home. However, recent studies say they may do more harm than good

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Friday, July 29, 2016

Fold a Money Shirt for a Fun Last-Minute Gift



You’re on your way to a birthday or holiday celebration when you realize you don’t have a gift. All you have is some cash in your wallet. With this folding trick, that’s all you’ll need. In this video from youtuber Grant Thompson “The King of Random,” you’ll learn how to fold any U.S.

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Watch a Guy Chop Down a Tree and Make a Longbow Out of It



Chop a tree. Wait three years. And then you can make yourself a longbow. Well in order to make it, it still requires a hell of a lot work, because you still gotta axe the wood plank down to the proper shape.

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Watch a Katana Bend When It Hits Liquid



In order to harden the edge of steel, swords are often heated until they’re impossibly hot and then quenched in liquid to rapidly cool down. This creates a much stronger grain structure in the steel which obviously leads to a much stronger sword.

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Thursday, July 28, 2016

Roll20: Online virtual tabletop for pen and paper RPGs and board games



Roll20 is a suite of easy-to-use digital tools that expand pen-and-paper gameplay.

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Jobs That Don’t Require A Bachelor’s Degree But Make Good Money (30 pics)



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Wednesday, July 27, 2016

iOS 9.3.3 "PPJailbreak Could Not Be Installed At This Time" Error When Jailbreaking Via Safari



If you’ve been keeping up with news surrounding Apple’s mobile OS for the past week, you must already know that a working jailbreak is now available for 64-bit devices running the current publicly available build, iOS 9.3.3, through iOS 9.2.

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Girl Had A Life-Changing Jaw Surgery And Her Transformation Is Breathtaking (8 pics)



When Ellie Jones came to her orthodontist to have braces at 14 she discovered that her jaw had stopped growing when she was eight. That was quite a shock for her. But thanks to her orthodontist Joy Hickman and surgeon Emma Woolley her face was completely transformed.

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Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Verizon Q2 misses on declining sales of $30.5B, beats with EPS of $0.94



Verizon yesterday announced a landmark deal to purchase Yahoo’s core business for $4.83 billion, but judging from its just-released second quarter earnings report, the telecom giant continues to feel the pressure of declines in its legacy business.

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iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus leaked units show dual cameras, more



Apple’s new iPhone lineup is a little over a month away, but today we’re getting another look at what appear to be dummy units for the rumored iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus (or whatever Cupertino ends up calling them).

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China's LeEco buys Vizio in a $2 billion deal



Today at an event in Los Angeles, Vizio announced that it will sell to China's LeEco (formerly LeTV) for $2 billion. Don't expect to see much change on store shelves, as the company plans to continue operating under the Vizio name as a wholly-owned subsidiary.

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All The Current Options For Buying An Xbox One S



The sleek-looking Xbox One S starts shipping next week, but if you want one, you may want to hold off. More options will be available later in the month thanks to a new set of bundles Microsoft announced today. 2TB hard-drive ($400) - This is the highest-end version, available August 2.

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Monday, July 25, 2016

NIST Prepares To Ban SMS-Based Two-Factor Authentication



An anonymous reader writes: "The U.S. National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has released the latest draft version of the Digital Authentication Guideline that contains language hinting at a future ban of SMS-based Two-Factor Authentication (2FA)," reports Softpedia.

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Adam Savage Went Undercover as The Bear from The Revenant at SDCC 2016 [Video]



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San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC) 2016 Cosplay in Pictures [Gallery]



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Facebook Admits It Blocked Links to Wikileaks DNC Emails



Facebook admitted it briefly blocked links to Wikileaks files containing internal Democratic National Committee (DNC) emails. The block seems to be the result of another algorithm accident that may have incorrectly determined the links to be malicious or spam.

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Platform change, the Yahoo-slayer



In 2000, Yahoo was worth $125 billion. In 2008, it rejected a $44 billion buyout from Microsoft. And today it sold to Verizon for $4.83 billion. The lesson here is, if you won the last computing platform and are on the cusp of the next one you’re not built for, you might want to sell the company.

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Sprint CEO Hints at Price Hikes Ahead of iPhone 7



An anonymous reader shares a CNET report: If you're considering jumping ship to Sprint to take advantage of its "half-off" promotion, don't dawdle. The promotion, which promises to cut your existing rate plan at a competing carrier in half, has been a hit with consumers.

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When The Rules Are Silly And People Are Creative… (22 pics)



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Save $11--Not Just $10--On Your Next Year of PlayStation Plus



We see $10 off deals on PlayStation Plus just about every week, but today...are you sitting down? Today, you can save $11. Commerce Content is independent of Editorial and Advertising, and if you buy something through our posts, we may get a small share of the sale.

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Sunday, July 24, 2016

The Black Tux Premium Rental Service



Ensure you look as dapper as ever at your next black tie event by ordering your formal wear using The Black Tux premium rental service. The user-friendly site lets you customize every aspect of your suit from style to measurements to guarantee a perfect fit.

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Thursday, July 21, 2016

The first 4 Bourne films in 3 minutes (Video)



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Apple and Facebook helped bust the world's biggest torrent site



When you're the owner of the world's biggest torrent-sharing site, the last thing you'd expect to land you in trouble would be a totally legitimate (and legal) purchase via iTunes. But that's what happened to 30-year-old Ukrainian Artem Vaulin a.k.

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Boys And Their Toys (VIDEO)



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Rare Historical Snapshots From The 20th Century (31 pics)



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That’s Why We Love Summer. Men Will Understand (47 pics)



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Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Verizon Begins Charging a Fee Just to Use an Older Router



Karl Bode, reporting for DSLReports: Several users have written in to note that Verizon has informed them the company will begin charging FiOS customers with an older router a new "Router Maintenance Charge." An e-mail being sent to many Verizon FiOS customers says that the fee of $2.

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Verizon expected to crack down on unlimited customers using 'extraordinary amount of data'



According to a new report, Verizon may be planning a crackdown of sorts on customers it deems to be using "an extraordinary amount of data" each month.

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Crashing into the sun is damn near impossible



Turns out, crashing into the sun is a lot harder than you think. According to a video by Minute Physics, your chances of crashing into the sun actually get better the farther away you are, which means your rocket full of nightmarish clown dolls is better of starting from Pluto.

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Apple targeted with class action lawsuit over AppleCare+ replacement process



Apple today has been hit with yet another class action lawsuit, this time concerning the company’s process of replacing damaged devices under AppleCare+ with a refurbished device.

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Hilariously Funny Texts To Make You Laugh Out Loud (42 pics)



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Best Lobster Rolls in NYC



When deep in the throes of a New York City winter, huddled over a non-working radiator with a bowl of suspiciously unlabeled soup, it’s hard not to muse about the perfect image of summer: hot -- but not unbearably hot -- weather, seemingly unburnable tan skin, and the absolutely perfect lobster r

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Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Atom-scale storage holds 62TB in a square inch



Storage tech doesn't get much better than this. Scientists at TU Delft have developed a technique that uses chlorine atom positions as data bits, letting the team fit 1KB of information into an area just 100 nanometers wide. That may not sound like much, but it amounts to a whopping 62.

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Monday, July 18, 2016

DIY Corner: How To Make Your Own Standup Arcade Game (64 pics)



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Sunday, July 17, 2016

Ben Heck tears down the legendary Nintendo PlayStation



We got a good, close look at the Nintendo PlayStation last year and even talked to Sony veteran Shuhei Yoshida about it, but have you ever wondered about everything inside the ill-fated game console? Ben Heckendorn, aka Ben Heck, is happy to show you.

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Microsoft 'Patch' Blocks Linux Installs On Locked-Down Windows RT Computers



An anonymous Slashdot reader quotes a report from fossBytes:Microsoft has released a security update that has patched a backdoor in Windows RT operating system [that] allowed users to install non-Redmond approved operating systems like Linux and Android on Windows RT tablets.

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Friday, July 15, 2016





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Mentat will apply for jobs on your behalf and guarantee you get an interview



Did you know nowadays there are more people who dislike their jobs than like them? While there was once a time where the vast majority of Americans were happy with their current job, now anywhere from 50 to 70 percent of employees are dissatisfied with their current position.

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Learning to code as a 30-year-old kid with Apple’s Swift Playgrounds



If you've installed the iOS 10 public beta since it came out last week, you’ll know that compatible iPads come loaded with the “Swift Playgrounds” app that Apple announced at WWDC.

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Monday, July 11, 2016

Black Mirror's Smartphone Dystopia Is Here, Thanks to Pokémon Go



As someone living in a country where Pokémon Go has yet to come out, it’s been certainly something to be an outsider looking in upon the sheer Pokémania that has gripped the U.S.

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Sunday, July 10, 2016

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Earlier this month, the American Diabetes Association held its 76th annual scientific session in New Orleans. There were more than 2,000 presentations on cutting-edge technology, and it’s impossible to list all of the great innovations there.

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The Best Pokémon Go Sightings



What’s the coolest place you’ve seen pocket monsters popping up in Pokémon Go? That is, unless we all work together.

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How to catch Pokémon (rare or otherwise) in Pokémon Go



How do you catch a Pokémon? With practice, eye coordination, and a Razz Berry or two. There are lots of great reasons for playing Pokémon Go, but catching Pokémon is pretty high up there. Without the little creatures, the game would just be, well... "walk around and look at nature.

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Black Lives Matter activist Deray McKesson arrested while Periscoping



Police arrested more than 200 people marching down the side of the road in Baton Rouge, Louisiana last night, according to several reports, including a strong voice in the Black Lives Matter movement, Deray McKesson.

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Saturday, July 9, 2016

Tech Job Postings Are Down 40% On Popular Job Boards



Tech job postings are down 40% year-on-year, says Cameron Moll, founder of job board Authentic Jobs. He says that job volume for April 2016 was nearly half the volume of April 2015, and currently, annual job posting volume is 63% on the platform compared to 2015, and 59% compared to 2014.

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26 time-management tricks I wish I'd known at 20



Most people learn time management the hard way: by trial and error. He created the following presentation, posted to SlideShare, which we've shared here with his permission.

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Friday, July 8, 2016

The Best Star Trek Deep Space Nine Stories



Overlapping with both Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's seven seasons had some very high points, It also had some very low ones that strayed a bit too far from the core of Star Trek for some fans, yet gave the show a unique texture that some savor.

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Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Deadpool #2 [Pic] : Geeks are Sexy Technology News



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