You might not want to spend too much time with your poop, but it can tell you a lot about your overall health
. StoolAnalyzer can help you narrow down what health issues you might be having based on the size, color, and frequency of your bowel movements.
Source: LifeHacker – StoolAnalyzer Will Tell You How Healthy Your Poop Is Based On a Few Questions
This company is committed to ethics and environmentalism by manufacturing its clothing line in downtown LA, paying fair wages, and repurposing deadstock textiles.
Source: TreeHugger – Beru Kids uses leftover textiles to make cute children’s clothes
Welcome back for the latest installment of HOT deals, direct from our friends at TechBargains. On tap for you all today, we have deals on 1TB Samsung T3 external USB 3.1 SSD, a Samsung UN55J6200 55″ 1080p LED LCD Smart HDTV, a Dell Optiplex 3020 Micro, and more. Full details for all of today’s deals are available below. For more electronics
Source: Hot Hardware – 1TB Samsung External SSD + 0 Gift Card Under 0, 44% Off Dell Optiplex 3020 Micro Desktop And More
The recent Doom reboot published by Bethesda and developed by id Software has been getting rave reviews from fans of the franchise, both old and new, and it’s about to get even better. That’s because the first major update for Doom is on its way—it’s due out on June 30th for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC, Bethesda announced.
It will roll
Source: Hot Hardware – First Doom Update Brings Photo Mode And Old School Weapon Placement Shout Out To Original Game
From a technological standpoint, the Tesla Motors Model X is an amazing vehicle. The crossover impresses with its all-electric all-wheel-drive drivetrain, neck-snapping Ludicrous Mode and crowd pleasing Falcon Wing rear doors. However, it’s that last feature that has brought the most negative attention to the vehicle.
The Falcon Wing doors
Source: Hot Hardware – Tesla Reportedly Reaches Settlement To Buy Back Customer’s Nightmarish, Bug-Riddled Model X EV
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OnePlus is back with its fourth device, the OnePlus 3. The upstart Oppo subsidiary has slowly been maturing since entering the market in 2014, and the OnePlus 3 feels like the company’s first phone that “normal” people can safely consider.
The biggest reason is that OnePlus has done away with its lame invite-to-purchase system, meaning potential customers no longer have to fight to hand over their money. Thanks to that change, it really feels like there are no catches now: OnePlus is offering a Snapdragon 820, a whopping 6GB of RAM, 64GB of storage, and an aluminum body for $399, and it’s actually going to work with LTE networks outside of China.
The OnePlus 3 is easily the best-made phone OnePlus has ever produced. The aluminum unibody is a big upgrade over the plastic-clad OnePlus One and 2, and it’s more durable than the glass-backed OnePlus X. The back design looks like an exact copy of an HTC One M9, but it’s hard to care too much about originality when the build quality is this good. Overall, the OnePlus 3 is as well made as a top-tier phone from HTC or Apple; it’s just offered at a much lower price.
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Source: Ars Technica – OnePlus 3 review: A great 0 phone you can actually buy
If you’re not in the habit of regularly backing up your data, do it now
. Cloud storage company Backblaze has made it even easier with insanely cheap storage space that you can connect directly to your NAS and more.
Source: LifeHacker – Backblaze B2 Leaves Beta, Offers Crazy Cheap, NAS-Connected Cloud Storage
So, England, nominally the home of football, is out of the European Cup, having lost to Iceland. Iceland is a country with a population of 330,000 hardy Vikings, whose national sport is handball. England’s population is over 53 million. And we invented soccer.
Iceland’s only football pitch is under snow for much of the year, and their part-time manager is a full-time dentist.
I think perhaps England should refocus their sporting efforts on something a little less challenging. Like table football. With a Raspberry Pi on hand, you can even make it feel stadium-like, with automatic goal detection, slow-motion instant replay, score-keeping, tallying for a league of competitors and more. Come on, nation. I feel that we could do quite well with this; and given that it cuts the size of the team down to two people, it’d keep player salaries at a minimum.
Foosball Instant Replay
Demo of Foosball Instant Replay system More info here: * https://github.com/swehner/foos * https://github.com/netsuso/foos-tournament Music: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar/Blinded_by_dust/Magic_Mountain_1877
This build comes from Stefan Wehner, who has documented it meticulously on GitHub. You’ll find full build instructions and a parts list (which starts with a football table), along with all the code you’ll need.
Well done Iceland, by the way. We’re not bitter or anything.
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Source: Raspberry Pi – Instant-replay table football
Valve last night released the SteamOS 2.83 Brewmaster Beta, which includes AMDGPU-PRO RC2 and the NVIDIA 367.27 driver…
Source: Phoronix – New SteamOS Beta Bundles Interesting AMDGPU-PRO Driver
What’s better than mowing down (virtual) alien hordes with a buddy sitting right next to you? When it comes to video games, not much. That’s why the fine Finnish folks at developer Housemarque are adding local co-op to the top-down, xenophobic shoote…
Source: Engadget – Abduct four pals for couch co-op in PS4’s ‘Alienation’
One side effect of talking about the risk of killer robots so much is that everyone is now rushing to assure us exactly how they would prevent this. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is the latest to reassure us, in an extremely vague way.
Source: Gizmodo – Satya Nadella Has Come Up With His Own AI Safety Rules
This week, delegates are meeting to determine the fate of a proposal to protect part of the Arctic. This pianist’s moving performance urges people to show their support.
Source: TreeHugger – Pianist’s poignant concert on Arctic ice calls for protected sanctuary (Video)
We go on about great design ideas for maximizing space in tiny homes. But what about maximizing other more private matters?
Source: TreeHugger – How tiny home living can lead to a more “creative sex life”
As the initial shock of Britain’s decision to leave the European Union sinks in, it’s time to assess the details and look to the future. There are certainly more important concerns, but if you’re planning a summer trip overseas, one of yours may be, “How’s this Brexit stuff gonna affect my vacation?” We’ve got answers.
Source: LifeHacker – How Brexit Will Affect Your European Travel Plans
Qualcomm is in the process of optimizing its Snapdragon System-on-Chip (SoC) line to support Google’s Project Tango augmented reality technology, the company announced this week. Support for Tango has already been extended to its popular Snapdragon 820 and Snapdragon 652 processors, while future Snapdragon 800 and 600 tier products will also
Source: Hot Hardware – Qualcomm Optimizes Snapdragon 820 And Snapdragon 652 For Google Project Tango Augmented Reality
Members of HomeSharersSF, speaking at a rally at City Hall in San Francisco before the big vote on the Airbnb Law in October 2014. (credit: Kevin Krejci)
It’s not every day that a major tech company sues its hometown. But that’s exactly what’s just happened: on Monday, Airbnb sued the City and County of San Francisco over a new law set to go into effect next month.
The new law expands upon a previous ordinance, which Airbnb itself helped initially draft. The earlier law went into effect in February 2015—it defined and began to regulate short-term rentals. The additional legislation, set to take effect in late July 2016, now requires that listings on sites like Airbnb clearly publish this new registration number and holds both the host and the “platform” (Airbnb) potentially civilly and criminally liable for non-compliance.
In its civil complaint, Airbnb argues that it should not be found liable under the new ordinance, as it is exempt under federal statute. Specifically, Airbnb says that it is protected under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act—the famed law that protects “computer service” providers from being found liable for speech made by its users.
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Source: Ars Technica – Airbnb sues San Francisco over short-term rental law it helped create
For years Ookla has dominated internet speed test traffic, but Netflix recently unveiled a simpler option. Now, Google may be muscling into the game with its own test that works straight from search. Internet marketer Dr. Pete Meyers spotted an “Inte…
Source: Engadget – Google is testing internet speeds straight from search
If you’re a cheapskate when it comes to purchasing a new smartphone, Amazon is doing its best to revive the Fire Phone without actually manufacturing its own hardware (which was a disastrous endeavor). The online retail giant has initially partnered with two hardware OEM to subsidize the cost of brand new Android smartphone in exchange for
Source: Hot Hardware – Amazon Now Subsidizing Motorola Moto G4 With Lock Screen Ads And Stinky Bloatware
Sony is giving gamers the heads up that its discontinuing its Ustream service for the PlayStation 4 effective August 1, 2016. Once that date arrives, PS4 gamers will no longer be able to broadcast their gameplay to Ustream, nor will they be able to view Ustream broadcasts from the “Live from PlayStation” portal on the PS4 console or from the
Source: Hot Hardware – Sony Killing PlayStation 4 Ustream Support On August 1st
itwbennett writes: Blancco Technology Group, which specializes in data erasure, bought 200 secondhand PC storage drives (PDF) from eBay and Craigslist to see if they could recover any of the old data saved inside. Their findings: 78 percent of the drives contained residual data that could be recovered, 67 percent still held personal files, such as photos with location indicators, resumes and financial data, and 11 percent of the drives also contained company data, such as emails, spreadsheets and customer information. Only 10 percent had all the data securely wiped, Blancco said. The Consumerist points out that Blancco makes their money from promising secure data erasure, so the company has a “strong and vested interest in these results.” As for why so many of the drives contain unwanted information, the report says it has to do with the difference between “deleting” data and “erasing” data. Your files aren’t actually deleted when you drag them to the Trash or Recycle Bin, or by using the delete key — shocking, I know. You can format a drive to erase the data, but you have to be careful of the format commands being used. A quick format, which was used on 40% of the drives in the sample, still leaves some residual data on the drive for someone to possibly access. A full format, which was used on 14% of the drives, will do a better job in removing unwanted files, but it too may still miss some crucial information. The solution Blancco recommends: buy a tool to perform complete data erasure.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Study: 78% of Resold Drives Still Contain Readable Personal or Business Data