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  • A horn-shaped Viking mug for your coffee

    Goat Story's 16 oz horn mug is designed to bring a little Viking to your morning cup, with a spillproof lid and a cross-body carry-strap that converts to a stand… Read the rest of the article: A horn-shaped Viking mug for your coffee

    • Cory Doctorow
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  • Duct tape crushed in hydraulic press

    I'm still addicted to the Hydraulic Press Channel on YouTube (previously, previously), but am careful only to force you to endure the very best crushings. Here, a roll of duct… Read the rest of the article: Duct tape crushed in hydraulic press

    • Rob Beschizza
      at 5:49
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  • The most common job in every state

    Most states being large and empty, the most frequent answer to the question "what is the most common job in your state?" is "truck driver." For everywhere else, teachers and… Read the rest of the article: The most common job in every state

    • Rob Beschizza
      at 5:44
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  • Important man's wife wins Olympic medal

    "Wife of a Bears' lineman wins a bronze medal today in Rio Olympics," The Chicago Tribune reported Sunday. Sadly, the headline writers were unable to figure out her name before… Read the rest of the article: Important man's wife wins Olympic medal

    • Rob Beschizza
      at 5:32
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  • Alien "megastructure" mystery deepens, but probably isn't a Dyson sphere

    KIC 8462862, a distant star, flickers erratically. Among the possibilities: occlusion by an alien "megastructure" surrounding it in space. Though it sounds far-fetched, and there's no other evidence of intelligence… Read the rest of the article: Alien "megastructure" mystery deepens, but probably isn't a Dyson sphere

    • Rob Beschizza
      at 5:19
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  • Trump disagrees with every position held by Trump

    Enjoy this remarkable montage of the Republican candidate for President of the United States flipping on virtually every position he's drawn breath to hold. His limited vocabulary makes it quite… Read the rest of the article: Trump disagrees with every position held by Trump

    • Rob Beschizza
      at 4:58
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  • Trump reboot: ditch populism, adopt Republican platform, say Clinton is the crazy one

    Donald Trump, sinking lately in the polls, is to "reboot" his campaign, writes the Wall Street Journal. Part of the issue for the New York businessman is that he has… Read the rest of the article: Trump reboot: ditch populism, adopt Republican platform, say Clinton is the crazy one

    • Rob Beschizza
      at 4:50
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  • Foreign influence: how a Chinese businessman funneled $1.3M to Jeb Bush's campaign

    Gordon Tang and Huaidan Chen — Chinese nationals who live in Singapore — own a global property speculation and development empire whose US branch is called American Pacific International Capital… Read the rest of the article: Foreign influence: how a Chinese businessman funneled $1.3M to Jeb Bush's campaign

    • Cory Doctorow
      at 6:54
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  • Researchers learn about wire-fraud scam after Nigerian scammers infect themselves with their own malware

    In Wire Wire: A West African Cyber Threat, researchers from Secureworks reveal their findings from monitoring a Nigerian bank-fraud ring whose members had unwittingly infected themselves with their own malware,… Read the rest of the article: Researchers learn about wire-fraud scam after Nigerian scammers infect themselves with their own malware

    • Cory Doctorow
      at 6:33
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  • Texas mom uncovers massive culture of corruption and sex scandals at US Secret Service

    Malia Litman of Dallas TX describes herself as a stay-at-home mom. Unlike most moms (or dads, or anyone for that matter) she has spent $100,000 suing the U.S. government to… Read the rest of the article: Texas mom uncovers massive culture of corruption and sex scandals at US Secret Service

    • Mark Frauenfelder
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  • Electronic makeup

    This is a demonstration of Omote, a real-time face tracking and projection mapping system.

    • Mark Frauenfelder
      at 11:02
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  • Cool magnetic gyroscopic levitation

    Here's cobrakiller2000's homemade Levitron-style magnetic top. He says: The only non-electric way that I know off to get a magnet fully levitating over a magnet and with nice elevation too.… Read the rest of the article: Cool magnetic gyroscopic levitation

    • Mark Frauenfelder
      at 10:57
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  • Valve-opening robot fail

    Trying to do simple tasks at a [10] Source

    • Mark Frauenfelder
      at 10:49
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  • A cellular-connected Pokéball for finding rare Pokémon

    Particle is a company makes low-cost Wi-Fi and cellular connected microcontrollers for prototyping the Internet of Things stuff. TJ Hunter used a Particle Electron and a GPS chip to make… Read the rest of the article: A cellular-connected Pokéball for finding rare Pokémon

    • Mark Frauenfelder
      at 10:46
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  • A teeny, tiny Raspberry Pi computer

    This tiny computer isn't just cutest thing we ever did see, it's actually incredibly powerful too. If you play your cards right, you can program Raspberry Pi (no relation to… Read the rest of the article: A teeny, tiny Raspberry Pi computer

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  • 1 billion computer monitors vulnerable to undetectable firmware attacks

    A team led by Ang Cui (previously) — the guy who showed how he could take over your LAN by sending a print-job to your printer — have presented research… Read the rest of the article: 1 billion computer monitors vulnerable to undetectable firmware attacks

    • Cory Doctorow
      at 8:25
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  • Web companies can track you — and price-gouge you — based on your battery life

    In Online tracking: A 1-million-site measurement and analysis, eminent Princeton security researchers Steven Englehardt and Arvind Narayanan document the use of device battery levels — accessible both through mobile platform… Read the rest of the article: Web companies can track you — and price-gouge you — based on your battery life

    • Cory Doctorow
      at 8:15
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  • Stiglitz quits Panama's official money-laundering panel over internal sabotage

    Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has resigned from the Panamanian committee set up to probe the country's money-laundering industry in the wake of the Panama Papers leak, because the Panamanian… Read the rest of the article: Stiglitz quits Panama's official money-laundering panel over internal sabotage

    • Cory Doctorow
      at 8:07
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  • BBC will use surveillance powers to sniff Britons' wifi and find license-cheats

    If you live in the UK and watch live TV or use the Iplayer video-on-demand service, you have to pay a "license fee" that directly supports public media in the… Read the rest of the article: BBC will use surveillance powers to sniff Britons' wifi and find license-cheats

    • Cory Doctorow
      at 8:02
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  • How and why to short Uber

    Uber's $62.5B valuation is an utterly speculative bet on a company that can only pay out if many sub-bets pay off: the timely arrival of self-driving cars, widespread adoption of… Read the rest of the article: How and why to short Uber

    • Cory Doctorow
      at 7:24
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