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Wileyfox Spark + Add-X: £69.99
Pay for a chunk of your Wileyfox Spark + Add-X with lockscreen offers and ads. On your lockscreen, simply swipe right to unlock your phone and swipe left to discover more. Offers and ads appear on the phone’s lockscreen while… Read More ›
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DUT-DUT-DUT-DAH
Many people try to play sheet music on the piano, but what about trying to play a drawing on the piano? The idea seems bizarre at first, but it’s central to a movement that began in the 1950s, where composers… Read More ›
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Apple Anniversary Skins
Celebrate ten years of beautifully elegant Apple design. You can now protect your iPhone X or any other iPhone going back to the 5 with the Anniversary Skin from Slickwraps. Constructed of two individual pieces, you will receive a black… Read More ›
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Amazon Prime comes to Apple TV, a little too late
As announced in the Amazon Prime Video iOS app release notes, the Apple TV Amazon Prime Video app is now rolling out. The release notes say users have to download a separate tvOS app, which apparently will work on the… Read More ›
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Android keyboard app leaks personal data of 31 million users
Personal data for more than 31 million users of an Android keyboard app called AI.type has leaked online, according to ZDNet and researchers at the Kromtech Security Center. The app’s database server wasn’t password-protected, which meant anyone could access more… Read More ›
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Can you hear this silent gif bouncing?
Synesthesia is likely what’s happening with the “noisy GIF” phenomenon, which Fassnidge’s lab calls the “visually-evoked auditory response,” or vEAR for short. (His lab is running a survey on vEAR, if you’d like to take part.) More at The Verge…. Read More ›
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Transient
“Transient” is a compilation of the best shots from my storm chasing adventures of summer 2017. Most of the lightning footage was captured in uncompressed raw at 1000 frames per second with our Phantom Flex4K. This summer I chased for… Read More ›
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The attack of the SuperFakes
“Once you see a good fake it’s actually scary to think about how many people are walking around with a fake watch that they think is real and they will sell or pass down to someone thinking it’s real,” he… Read More ›
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A brochure from 1960
Thanks to the colossal, world-gripping network of wires, pipes and pneumatic tubes that we call the “internet,” the ancient and exquisite art of the automobile brochure is rapidly fading into oblivion. That’s why it’s so important that especially noteworthy examples… Read More ›
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A positive social gaming story
A young man and an elderly woman who ‘randomly’ met playing Words With Friends together online last year and went on to share 324 games have now met up in person… More here. Social media and gaming are not all… Read More ›
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