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Tech NewsSploidNausea: This brave man drove for hours to sample the Waffle Taco
What’s this handful of feces? It’s a half-eaten “Waffle Taco” from America’s fast-food innovator, Taco Bell. There is no taco involved. Instead, it’s a frozen waffle around some slaughterhouse-runoff “sausage” and a glop of reconstituted eggs. Yum, save some for the rest of us! https://kotaku.com/taco-bells-waffle-taco-the-snacktaku-road-trip-review-1112561590
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We Need More Ideas as Crazy as Hyperloop
You know why I didn’t like Elon Musk a few years ago? Because of PayPal. Because he seemed like a dilettante. Yet another Valley guy who was ignoring all the hard work and ingenuity that had gone into systems like infrastructure and space travel for the last fifty years; another nerd who thought every system … Continued
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Bloomberg: A Retina iPad Mini and a Thinner iPad Are Coming
Bloomberg is reporting that a retina iPad Mini and a thinner iPad are both set to release later this year. That would confirm previous reports about how the full-sized, big boy iPad was getting the iPad Mini design treatment with a narrower bezel and a thinner body and that the iPad Mini would finally get … Continued
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Time-Traveling Photographs Reveal History in the Present
These incredible composite photographs allow us to see present-day places and structures as they were decades in the past. Some reveal historical tragedy — others simply the passage of time. The picture above is the damaged Chain Bridge of Budapest, Hungary in 1945, and today. The composite image was made by Zoltan Kerenyi. A woman … Continued
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Max Landis: You might not have liked my Chronicle sequel idea
We’ll never get to see the sequel to the found-footage superpower movie Chronicle that writer Max Landis dreamed up. But now, Landis is saying that we might be just as happy that we didn’t. And he’s spilled some details about what would have happened. Over on his twitter account, Landis revealed his plans for a … Continued
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The Xbox One Is Worse For Everyone If Kinect’s Not Mandatory
Using Kinect with your Xbox One is no longer mandatory. Yay, right? No. Wrong. Again. This is another dumb subtraction from Microsoft, presented as choice. https://kotaku.com/xbox-one-wont-actually-need-kinect-plugged-in-microso-1113142909 It’s simple: As a standard-issue, always-on-and-enabled FEATURE of the Xbox One, Kinect was something that had a hugely better chance (not a guarantee, but a good chance) of being … Continued
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The orbits of all potentially hazardous asteroids in one map
NASA has put together an image showing the orbits of all known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs) currently threatening Earth. That’s 1,400 in total — making this map uncomfortably busy. https://gizmodo.com/bill-nye-explains-how-to-stop-an-asteroid-893435516 https://gizmodo.com/chelyabinsk-meteor-may-be-part-of-larger-pack-threateni-1039974316 To qualify as a PHA, an asteroid needs to be fairly large — at least 460 feet (140 meters) in size — and follow … Continued
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Behold the Horrible Glory of a Hoarder’s 250,000-Record Vinyl Library
Last year, a Canadian record shop called Apollo Music bought a filthy, trash-filled hoarder house. Why? Cuz it was full of records. At least 250,000. These are a few snapshots from the process, and they show the biggest and saddest collection you’ll probably ever see. According to Apollo Music, when the home was purchased, it … Continued
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Are these magic wizards the best friends ever, or the worst?
Look at these three kids, Harry and his super friends. But are they really the best super friends of the fictional worlds of magic and science fiction, or are they actually at the very bottom of a very long list? Only you can decide, using the magic we like to call “Kinja commenting.” https://gizmodo.com/whats-the-most-epic-friendship-in-all-of-science-ficti-1113135023
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Hyperloop Alpha: This Could Change Transit Forever
Inventor-entrepreneur-mad-scientist Elon Musk just released an alpha design of his vision for the future of high-speed transit. This is our first look at Hyperloop. After teasing the concept for months, we’re finally going to be able to figure out if this is a fantasy—or the beginning of our new reality. The entire PDF of the … Continued
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Could you really have a space colony like the one in Elysium?
Over at Slashdot, former International Space Station director Mark Uhran talked about whether the amazing space habitat we saw in Elysium is realistic. It turns out the biggest problem isn’t what you’d expect. The space habitat in Elysium is rotating around a central axis, which likely creates enough centrifugal force in the torus to prevent … Continued
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Tech NewsDesign
Brain Teaser Table Is More Complicated Than Ikea, But Also More Fun
Do you like a challenge when it comes to assembling flat-pack furniture? And we’re not talking about deciphering the illustrations and hieroglyphs in an Ikea manual. We mean real Mensa-level stuff. If blank crossword puzzles and unsolved Sudoku grids get you really excited, you’ll love the incredibly complicated furniture from Bulgaria’s Praktrik. https://gizmodo.com/can-you-solve-the-10-hardest-logic-puzzles-ever-created-1064112665 One of … Continued
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Here’s what to expect from Elon Musk’s Hyperloop super train
Elon Musk is coming out about his Hyperloop. He’s revealed plans for this super train, after teasing the public for months about a revolutionary technology that could send a train hurtling from San Francisco to Los Angeles in 30 minutes. Here’s how it would work. First of all, to make this train cost-effective, it would … Continued
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Researchers Detect Intense Brain Activity In Rats After They’re Dead
We now know slightly more about what happens after death, thanks to new research that measures the electrical activity in the brains of rats before and after cardiac arrest. Spoiler: it does not flat-line. Not immediately, anyway. A team of researchers from the University of Michigan conducted their life-after-death study on nine rats with electrodes … Continued
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Screw Indiana Jones, Adele Blanc-Sec is your kickass archaeologist now
Luc Besson directed The Professional, The Fifth Element, and more, so I have no idea why it’s taken this long to get his newest film, The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec, released in the U.S. but here’s the other offerings accompanying mademoiselle! • The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec What if Indiana Jones was a … Continued
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Hyperloop revealed: Elon Musk’s insanely cool transport of the future
These are first images and details of the system that may one day take you from downtown Los Angeles to downtown San Francisco in 35 minutes, all using passenger capsules traveling through tubes at the speed of sound. It’s called Hyperloop and it does look like the train from the future, both in terms of … Continued
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Our Hyperloop Liveblog Starts Right Right Now
In just a few minutes, Elon Musk will finally reveal his plans for the Hyperloop, a revolutionary transit system that’s capable of getting you from downtown Los Angeles to downtown San Francisco in 30 minutes flat. At 5 pm, he’ll hold a conference call to explain Hyperloop in detail. And we’re going to liveblog the … Continued
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io9OH MY GOD Bret McKenzie is making a Labyrinth style musical
We’ve been waiting anxiously for Bret McKenzie (the tiny kitten-shirted costar of Flight of the Conchords) to get another music project. And now he has — and he says it’s akin to the classic fantasy movie Labyrinth. EVERYBODY FREAK OUT. Ever since McKenzie won an Oscar for his work on the Muppet Movie, we knew … Continued