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How the World’s Oldest Computer Worked
In 1900, Greek sponge divers discovered a shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera. The artifacts they came back up with included money, statues, pottery, and various other works of art and craft, as well as a curious lump of bronze… Read More ›
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The Final Flight of Martin McNally
Finally alone after eleven hours of feverish demands, threats and hostage exchanges, the hijacker pulled off his shaggy brown wig and began to disrobe. He shrugged out of a burgundy sport coat, white dress shirt and yellow trousers — it… Read More ›
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Stand up your asthma inhalers
Even though I’ve used one, I never realized that asthma inhalers aren’t designed to stand upright… and it’s quite strange because there’s no real reason why it shouldn’t! If it could stand, it would save space in the medicine cabinet… Read More ›
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Good for marching into Poland…
A California shoe company has recalled a boot after a customer discovered the sole left tiny swastika prints behind. The boot went viral after a Reddit user posted a picture showing the shoe’s tread and its swastika imprints. Conal International… Read More ›
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Trailers for 11 Nintendo Switch games
We’ve collected the trailers for all of the games below. There are still many details to be filled in before the Nintendo Switch launches on March 3rd — notably, only a few launch games appear on this list. So expect… Read More ›
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App.net is shutting down
In May of 2014, App.net entered maintenance mode. At that time we made the difficult decision to put App.net into autopilot mode in an effort to preserve funds and to give it ample time to bake. Since then every dollar… Read More ›
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iBoy
Tom is an average teenager whose world is turned on its head when a violent encounter with local thugs leaves fragments of his shattered smartphone embedded in his brain. He wakes from a coma to discover that returning to normal… Read More ›
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The HTC U Ultra
The other big change on the outside is the U Ultra’s second screen, which is a thin 2-inch strip residing to the right of the front-facing camera and immediately above the Super LCD 5 screen. The 5.7-inch Ultra has what… Read More ›
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Apple grabs 41% of the wireless headphone market, but…
Between Apple’s AirPods wireless headphones, and its subsidiary Beats Audio, the company has accumulated 41% of the wireless-headphones market, based on revenue, according to a report released today by market analysis firm Slice Intelligence… More at Quartz. The numbers above… Read More ›
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The Ressence Type 1 Squared
While remaining faithful to the DNA of RESSENCE, the TYPE 1² differs distinctly from the rest of the collection in its design. Borne from the intersection of 6 spheres, it has a cushion shape case. It also distinguished itself by… Read More ›
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