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• Amazon Prime comes to Apple TV, a little too late

  By Shaun on December 6, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  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 ›

• Android keyboard app leaks personal data of 31 million users

  By Shaun on December 6, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• Can you hear this silent gif bouncing?

  By Shaun on December 5, 2017 • ( 4 )

  

  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 ›

• Transient

  By Shaun on December 4, 2017 • ( 0 )

  “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 ›

• The attack of the SuperFakes

  By Shaun on December 3, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  “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 ›

• A brochure from 1960

  By Shaun on December 3, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• A positive social gaming story

  By Shaun on December 3, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• iPhone thief wants iCloud password

  By Shaun on December 3, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  “Hi, I hope you don’t mind me asking but I was given this phone that I believe you lost and I’m just using it for 2 weeks whilst mine is repaired but I am unable to use it without the… Read More ›

• Smart Buckle

  By Shaun on December 3, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Smart Buckle is a watch buckle, which can be attached to any of your watch straps and turn your timepiece into a Fitness Tracker. Made with Stainless Steel with a Brushed Metal Finish, the buckle is water proof, shockproof and… Read More ›

• A lonely death in Japan

  By Shaun on December 3, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Chieko Ito hated the din they made. They had just started shrieking, as they always did in early summer, and the noise would keep getting louder in the weeks to come, invading her third-floor apartment, making any kind of silence… Read More ›

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