The lectures of Nobel Prize winning physicist Richard Feynman were legendary. Footage of these lectures does exist, but they are most famously preserved in The Feynman Lectures.
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Sunday, August 31, 2014
You Can Now Access All Of Richard Feynman's Physics Lectures For Free
The lectures of Nobel Prize winning physicist Richard Feynman were legendary. Footage of these lectures does exist, but they are most famously preserved in The Feynman Lectures.
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Thousands of Americans surrendering their passports due to be hit by huge hike in government fees
Large tax bills faced by Americans who have not lived in their country for years are forcing US citizens to renounce their nationality - but only at a cost Americans who are abandoning their citizenship in droves are due to be charged five times more to surrender their passport under go
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Flaw lets hackers break your WiFi router's security with one guess
Typically, attacks against your WiFi router require a lengthy attempt to guess any codes and passwords.
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Saturday, August 30, 2014
How Siri’s Founders Could Have Built The Next Google
Editor’s note: Dan Kaplan helps startups tell their stories. He’s done marketing for Twilio, Asana, and Salesforce and blogs about marketing, growth, and storytelling at Threadling.
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Friday, August 29, 2014
One Response to “T-Mobile schedules Uncarrier 7.0 event for day after new iPhone unveiling: ‘This time it’s personal’”
T-mobile just sent out invites to press for its big upcoming Uncarrier 7.0 event scheduled for September 10.
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iPhone 5 Battery Replacement Program
This is not a valid Apple Product serial number. Please re-enter the number one more time. If you still have problems, contact us. Replacement process As of August 22, 2014, the replacement process will be available in the U.S. and China.
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Thursday, August 28, 2014
Switzerland Puts Secret Bacteria in Cheese to Catch Knockoffs
In parts of Europe, where cheese is taken seriously as a source of national pride, entire labs are devoted to spotting knockoff Emmental and Gruyere.
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Super Time Force, Monaco Come To Games With Gold In September
Xbox LIVE Gold Members are about to die a lot in Super Time Force, for free. In September Xbox One owners will be able to download the excellent Super Time Force free of charge. Crimson Dragon will also continue to be free.
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RPG Reload File 003 - 'The Bard's Tale (1985)'
Hello, gentle readers, and welcome to the RPG Reload, a weekly feature where I take a look back at a previously released iOS RPG to do a little reflection, reconsideration, and to perhaps dig in directions that are outside the scope of a regular review.
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Mobile Carriers: Stop Crippling Android With Your Annoying Bloatware
I love Android, particularly the latest release, KitKat. It’s come a long way from my first Android phone, the T-Mobile G1 (the one with the weird flip out QWERTY keyboard).
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How An App Helped Me (And 20,000 Other Women) Get Pregnant
Last summer I sat in the bathroom of an Irish pub, trying desperately to solve a math equation. I had abandoned my friends at the bar, where I'd been pretending to drink an IPA, to tend to this pressing arithmetic in private.
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Shapeways might have found the best model yet for 3D printing copyrighted objects — Tech News and Analysis
Copyright holders and 3D printer owners don’t like each other for the most part. Once a protected design makes it onto a 3D model site like Thingiverse, it just takes a few clicks to download and print it. It’s a modern version of pirating.
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Wednesday, August 27, 2014
What To Do About Repeated Internet Overbilling?
AT&T has already refused to attempt to fix the billing meter, and asserts they have tested it and found it correct. Yet they refuse to provide a realtime readout of the counter that would make independent testing trivial.
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Text Expander Keyboard Replacement iOS Goes to Public Beta product
Smile Software announced Wednesday that TextExpander touch 3 was being opened to a public beta. This will be a keyboard replacement for iOS 8 (via Apple's new keyboard extension) that allows you to use your TextExpander snippets in every iOS app—even Apple's own apps.
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Tom Chilton: Blizzard had hoped to have Warlords out a couple of months ago
We did a good job earlier in Mists of Pandaria, having the content come at a more frequent intervals, and certainly we had hoped to have Warlords of Draenor out a couple of months ago.
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Tiny 3G Modem Could Connect Internet Of Things
Intel has produced a 3G modem only a little bigger than a one-cent coin. It’s targeting the connected devices market, otherwise known as “the Internet of Things.” The 6255 has a total area of around 300 square millimeters, with Intel billing it as the world’s smallest modem.
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iPhone 6: NFC Looks Likely for Both Models
Apple is expected to make a push into mobile payments with the iPhone 6 this year by combining the Touch ID technology introduced with the iPhone 5s and the huge trove of iTunes credit card data it has been sitting on for years.
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HTC One (M8) for Windows review: Same muscle, different soul
Since Windows Phone's humble beginnings, Microsoft has been the underdog in the wireless industry. Four years later, nothing's changed -- except, perhaps, a few more percentage points of market share. Even then, it's got a long way to go before catching up to Android and iOS.
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Dropbox Upgrades Pro Users to 1TB, Adds Remote Wipe, Security Features
Today, Dropbox announced a re-shuffling of its Pro plans. Now, there's just the one $9.99/mo option, which comes with 1TB of storage (up from 100GB previously). The company also announced several new security features for Pro users.
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Minimalistic puzzle game Bicolor goes temporarily free via Apple Store app
Concluding its four-week promotion celebrating the life of a college student, the beautiful minimalistic puzzle game Bicolor has gone free for a week inside Apple’s official Apple Store client for the iPhone and iPad (not to be confused with the App Store).
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Cloud Storage Showdown: Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud and More Compared
Cloud storage bigwig Dropbox just slashed the price of its plans, offering 1TB of storage for $10 per month. And it's not alone. Over the last year, most of the major players have been cutting prices and upping sizes. So what's the best option today?
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A Supposedly Inspirational Story Takes a Dark Turn
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T-Mobile offering up to $50 off all iPhone models starting tomorrow
As noted by the folks over at TmoNews, the magenta-branded un-carrier will be offering a discount of up to $50 on all iPhones starting tomorrow. An internal memo leaked from the company indicates that not every model will get the full $50 drop, but at least a few will.
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TiVo Roamio OTA DVR Is Another Step Toward Cutting the Cord
TiVo on Monday announced the $49.99 TiVo Roamio OTA DVR, a device that will provide cable and satellite service to those who aren’t currently subscribed. The device essentially hooks up to any HD antenna for over-the-air broadcasts, giving users access to a limited number of channels.
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Boring Basement Transformed into Epic Man Cave on a Budget (28 pics)
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Microsoft: Your Surface Is Not Overheating. But We'll Fix It Anyway
Microsoft says that your overheating Surface Pro 3 is actually not overheating at all, never mind that thermometer icon on the boot screen.
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Facebook Turns On “Bandwidth Targeting” To Match Mobile Ads To A User’s Network Quality
Facebook today counts more users, and faster growth, outside of its home market of the U.S. than it has inside it, but the U.S. still accounts for nearly half of all the social network’s ad revenues.
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Dropbox dramatically cuts pricing to compete, 1TB now just $9.99/month
Dropbox has today slashed its pricing and doubled the maximum storage space from 500MB to 1TB. Up until yesterday, you’d have been paying $500/year for 500MB; today you can pay just $120/year for a terabyte. The new deal finally brings Dropbox into line with Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive.
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Tuesday, August 26, 2014
How the Ancient Egyptians (Should Have) Built the Pyramids
KentuckyFC writes The Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt is constructed from 2.4 million limestone blocks, most about 2.5 tonnes but some weighing in at up to 80 tonnes, mostly sourced from local limestone quarries. That raises a famous question.
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Second City's Leak of the "iPhone 6" Is Perfect
iPhone 6 day is (probably) right around the corner and we're all aching for as much early detail as we can scrape up. DOLDO411 is the latest to bust out an in-depth (and hilarious) scoop, but this is one that not even TMZ could confuse for the real thing.
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Quickly turn flashlight on and off from the Lock screen with Lumos
The Lock screen on iOS comes with a tiny camera grabber that is located in the bottom right corner of the screen. Swiping it up will open the camera directly from the Lock screen without requiring you to unlock your device first.
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Coin Cards Will Be Obsolete Months After They Are Released
Coin already blew their launch, pushing back the release of the all-in-one credit card eight-plus months right before pre-orders were supposed to ship. Now, customers will only be able to use their $100 Coin card for a few months before it's made obsolete.
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A Different Kind of Social Media Challenge for the Generation of Debt
Read more about this charity parody over at Know Your Meme!
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How To Get The Sharpest Images Possible Out Of Your Old Consoles
If you've tried playing a retro console on a modern HDTV, you may not have liked what you saw — smeary, stretched images that are a far cry from the sharp chunky blocks of yesteryear. Luckily, there's a better way for purists to get a crystal clear image that doesn't involve buying an old CRT TV.
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Hangouts in Gmail finally floats online friends to the top
Those of us who've been frustrated that Hangouts in Gmail has been displaying conversations in chronological order rather than who's online are about to get some relief.
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The Grumpy Programmer has Advice for Young Computer Workers (Video)
Robin Miller: Bob Pendleton, you call yourself the Grumpy Programmer. Which came first? Grumpy or programmer? Bob Pendleton: I’d say grumpy.
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Prometheus and Blade Runner Sequels Have Been Written, Says Ridley Scott
Now 76 years old, Ridley Scott is showing no signs of slowing down, with Exodus: Gods and Kings set for release later this year and The Martian in the works for 2015.
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First Superman Comic Sells for $3.2 million on eBay
A comic book has sold at auction and has set a record for the most ever paid for a comic. The comic in question is the debut of Superman in Action Comics No. 1 from 1938. A copy of that comic that had been sitting in a cedar chest for decades sold via eBay recently. The rare comic was a 9.
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BitTorrent Sync Updates Interface, Now Makes Sharing Easier
Bittorrent Sync may not be the perfect Dropbox replacement, but it is pretty great. Today it got a lot better. In addition to a new interface, users can now share quick links to your folders with anyone. Previously, the only way to share files with Bittorrent Sync was to share entire folders.
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T-Mobile will double your data if you add a tablet to your smartphone plan
T-Mobile, the nation’s fourth-largest wireless provider, on Tuesday announced it’s doubling LTE data when you add a tablet to your smartphone plan. Moreover, the firm said it’s increased the number of lines supported by its family plan accounts to ten.
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The Ultimate Breakdown of How People Watch Porn Online
If there are any two things that define the tech-minded modern millennial, they are his operating system and his porn preferences. Fortunately for our inquiring minds, our data-crunching friends over at Pornhub have to access to both.
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Get your Showtime Anytime with Apple TV
Apple TV added Showtime’s new on-demand video service, Showtime Anytime, to the list of channels available to Apple TV user in the U.S. today.
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