Whenever you happen to need a charging cable or a power battery…hey, wait a minute, where did that go? Between the house, your vehicle and all those evildoers that blatantly steal your stuff (otherwise known as family, friends and co-workers), it's tough to keep track of where all your tech accessories are at a moment's [&]

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Spoken Word with Electronics is an audio series delivering to you a two side recording of unusual stories paired with vintage modular electronic sounds Greetings, all. Welcome back to the show. This week, the discussion is on meditation and making our body into a conductive circuit. A meditation device called the SOMA Quantum Ocean arrived [&]

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YouTuber Ann Reardon of How to Cook That looks closely at viral content channels to learn how they get millions, even billions, of views with some sneaky tricks. Humorously, she's titled her own video using the clickbait formula she reveals in the video: Number + Adjective + Keyword + Promise. And, unlike the ones she [&]

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David Byrne's Broadway hit American Utopia (previously) has released a trailer in advance of its October 7 debut on HBO. The filmed version is directed by Spike Lee. Despite all that's happened, and despite what's still happening, there's still possibility. James Baldwin said, 'I still believe that we can do with this country something that [&]

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The Cheapskate's Guide is Hunting the Nearly-Invisible Personal Website. It's a paean to the personal website presented in the form of a David Attenborough-style nature documentary about an endangered species, touching upon the contemporary difficulties of reproduction and how it suffers in a web ecology dominated by giant social media companies. The personal website is [&]

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Foone recently examined the guts of a digital pregnancy test to find that it was a fully-functional system on a chip that simply looks at the lines on a standard test strip and reports what it sees. They originally reported that the pregnancy test, with its baked-in ROM and tiny display, couldn't play Doom. Foone [&]

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Classic first-person shooter Doom is 27 years old, but still receiving official updates. A few months ago, it received 60fps support. Now it's going widescreen. [via The Verge] For the first time in an official port, the original DOOM renderer has been modified to natively render 16:9 without any letterboxing. The FOV has been increased [&]

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Asked today by the presiding judge whether he consents to be extradicted to the U.S. on espionage charges, Julian Assange said "No." The district judge Vanessa Baraitser commented: "That was the response I was anticipating." There were no opening statements by either parties. The indictment says Assange and WikiLeaks "repeatedly sought, obtained, and disseminated information [&]

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After a truck was spotted driving around Lincoln, Nebraska, with the words "Fuck the Ns" painted on it, the owner was soon identified and fired from his job. Cordis told the Omaha World-Herald on Sunday that he drove his 2002 Chevrolet Silverado K1500 to Gateway Mall near 61st and O streets at about 5 p.m. [&]

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It's already one of the most iconic items in film history. Unless you've been off-world for the past few years, you already know all about the all-powerful Infinity Gauntlet. It's the weapon wielded by the Mad Titan Thanos in his quest to reshape the cosmos in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, culminating in a heart-stopping smackdown [&]

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Boy, they sure love to say the quiet part out loud, huh? A two-page document released late Friday by Office of Management and Budget Director Russel Vought effectively bans all federal agencies from using taxpayer dollars on racial sensitivity or other diversity and inclusion initiatives for workers. "These types of 'trainings,'" the memo claims, "not [&]

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Don't worry, it's sped up! The little critters fan out into the sand over the course of a day or so, welcoming us to Ant Farm Time Lapse YouTube. (Previously in Ants)

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Earlier this week, an international team of scientists from the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration published two reports — one in the Physical Review Letters, and the other in The Astrophysical Journal Letters — about a strange gravitational wave phenomena they observed. Approximately 17 billion light-years away from the Earth, a black hole that was [&]

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From The Guardian, where the Snowden revelations were originally published in 2013: Seven years after the former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the mass surveillance of Americans' telephone records, an appeals court has found the program was unlawful – and that the US intelligence leaders who publicly defended it were [&]

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The new National Geographic special "Bin Laden's Hard Drive" analyzes the porn collection found in the Abottabad compound of slain terrorist Osama Bin Laden. BIN LADEN'S HARD DRIVE premieres on National Geographic on Thursday, September 10, at 9/8C. Peter Bergen, who famously interviewed Bin Laden, is the correspondent and host of the special. More in [&]

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Learning to code is a skill many people realize they should take the time to understand, yet instinctively cringe at the actual prospect of doing. It isn't hard to see why. For its integral place in technology and growth, the thought of plunging into programming with all of its precision and technical mumbo-jumbo can feel [&]

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Whenever Donald Trump's wife pops up in the news, it's good to remember she was and remains a racist birther. Back in 2011, Melania repeated the racist conspiracy theory pushed by her husband, and called on Barack Obama to release his birth certificate during a TV interview on 'The View'. In the 2011 interview with [&]

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• China did not release images of the reusable spacecraft it says completed a two day space flight. China's government announced Sunday that its first reusable spacecraft landed after two days in orbit. The success of the Chinese experiment suggests a new way to achieve space flight at lower cost. "The secretive, military-run space program [&]

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Having a webcam isn't enough these days. We've assembled over 20 gimbals, lights, tripods, full kits, and more to elevate your video game, whether you're making elaborate YouTube videos or just trying not to get mocked on the company call.  And if over the Labor Day holiday, if you use the coupon code GOFORIT15 during [&]

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Part puzzle, part science, part creativity and all fun, the Geeek Club launched a Kickstarter campaign to help make high-tech more accessible by creating fun robot kits that blur the line between playtime and serious engineering. The Kickstarter was a success — and now, you can be a creator of robots yourself with the Geeek [&]

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