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This Terrible Thief Used a Stolen iPhone to Take Pictures That Synced Back to the Owner's Computer [Wait... WHAT!?]

This Terrible Thief Used a Stolen iPhone to Take Pictures That Synced Back to the Owner's Computer [Wait... WHAT!?]: from Gizmodo by Casey Chan That’s Nelson above. That’s Nelson partying. That’s Nelson with his girlfriend. All those pictures were taken with an iPhone he stole. Pictures that were automatically sent to the phone’s original owner, Katy Mc […]

Season Your Food With Salt From Real Human Tears

Season Your Food With Salt From Real Human Tears: from Gizmodo by Leslie Horn Would you like to season your french fries with some anger? No, really. I’m not being aggressive. Would you? Because the folks at Hoxton Street Monster Supplies have gotten really weird with it and made a line of salts from different types of human tears. More »

Where's HAL 9000?

Where's HAL 9000?: from Slashdot by Soulskill An anonymous reader writes “With entrants to this year’s Loebner Prize, the annual Turing Test designed to identify a thinking machine, demonstrating that chatbots are still a long way from passing as convincing humans, this article asks: what happened to the quest to develop a strong AI? ‘The problem Loebne […]

The Oldest Musical Instruments Ever Found Are 43,000-Year-Old Mammoth Tusks

The Oldest Musical Instruments Ever Found Are 43,000-Year-Old Mammoth Tusks: from Gizmodo by Kyle Wagner Scientists have found the oldest musical instruments ever recorded, which are carbon dated from 42,000 to 43,000 years old, and have turned up just in time to ask your dad if they’re what he listened to on the radio as a kid. More »

Gears, Gods, And Giant Robots: A Look Back At One Of The Best RPGs Ever

Gears, Gods, And Giant Robots: A Look Back At One Of The Best RPGs Ever: from Kotaku by Jason Schreier The other day on Twitter, fellow Kotaku writer Kate Cox mentioned she had just finished Xenogears, Square’s classic PlayStation role-playing game. Since Xenogears is one of my favorite games, a classic up there with the best RPGs ever, I bugged her roughly […]

New Noise-Cancelling Technology for Restaurants Uses 123 Speakers to Serve Up Peaceful Meals [Sound]

New Noise-Cancelling Technology for Restaurants Uses 123 Speakers to Serve Up Peaceful Meals [Sound]: from Gizmodo by Adrian Covert The days of having to shout over the noise at a restaurant may be over, thanks to a new digital noise-cancelling technology designed together by Meyer Sound and former Phish manager-turned-restauranteur, John Paluska. Utilizing […]

Are Porn and Video Games Ruining a Generation? [Wait... WHAT!?]

Are Porn and Video Games Ruining a Generation? [Wait... WHAT!?]: from Slashdot by Soulskill silentbrad writes “An editorial published at CNN is titled ‘The Demise of Guys: How Videogames and Porn are Ruining a Generation.’ It makes the sensationalized case that not only do game addiction and porn addiction share similar characteristics, but they’re also both […]

Nicotine and the Chemistry of Murder

Nicotine and the Chemistry of Murder: from Wired Top Stories by Deborah Blum In the 1850s, murderers learned of a fast-acting, incredibly lethal and virtually undetectable poison: nicotine. Science writer and Elemental blogger Deborah Blum unravels the toxic nature of this naturally occurring alkaloid — and how it led to the advent of modern forensic chemist […]

NASA Tells Future Moon Explorers to Stay Away From Its Old Space Junk [Wait... WHAT!?]

NASA Tells Future Moon Explorers to Stay Away From Its Old Space Junk [Wait... WHAT!?]: from Gizmodo by Adrian Covert With company after company going after Google’s Lunar X Prize, NASA appears to be a little hot and bothered by the prospect of people messing with all its crap it left behind during prior missions. So it essentially claimed dominion over the […]

Social Media Efforts Under-Performing? Use this Technique

Social Media Efforts Under-Performing? Use this Technique: from Social Media Today - The world’s best thinkers on social media by BrettRelander Social media marketing touches all digital marketing channels, or at least it should. Are you missing the boat or grabbing the tiger by the tail?