Have you ever wondered what your brain is really doing as you sweat your way through a math test? Now you can see for yourself, thanks to a new brain imaging study from Carnegie Mellon University that captured the brain activity of people in the act of solving math problems.
Source: Gizmodo – These Are the Four Stages of Your Brain on Math
You’re on your way to a birthday or holiday celebration when you realize you don’t have a gift. All you have is some cash in your wallet. With this folding trick, that’s all you’ll need.
Source: LifeHacker – Fold a Money Shirt for a Fun Last-Minute Gift
Source: Engadget – Google is turning on HSTS encryption on its domain
Source: Engadget – Google is turning on HSTS encryption across the web
Instagram has had enough of questionable, offensive comments. The company announced Friday that it will soon give users the ability to make the choice about what’s acceptable and what’s not, reports BBC. From an article: The first will let people hide certain words, phrases or emoji icons from their feed. The second will go further in allowing users to block comments entirely, on a post by post basis. Verified accounts will be able use these new tools first before they are rolled out to everyone, Newsbeat has learned. Accounts which get lots of comments will get access in the next couple of weeks.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Instagram Will Soon Allow Users To Filter Comments
Somebody took Overwatch’s Reaper and replaced his sound effects with Seinfeld clips. This creation by elliobot is equal parts great and terrible. Unfortunately, you can’t download it as a mod for the game (that’d be cheating, probably), but you can watch, listen, and dream.
Source: Kotaku – Somebody took Overwatch’s Reaper and replaced his sound effects with Seinfeld clips.
SwiftKey works by learning words and phrases that you commonly use, and can sync that personalized data to the cloud so that you can access it from multiple devices. A recent bug, though, caused some emails and phone numbers in the predicted text to be sent to the wrong users.
Source: LifeHacker – Remains of the Day: SwiftKey Accidentally Revealed Some Private User Data
As Twitter and Facebook have taken online harassment more seriously in 2016, though most of their methods to curb it involve user reporting. Instead, Instagram is debuting user-operated word filters, letting them control the tone of discussion below…
Source: Engadget – Instagram is letting users filter words out of post comments
The story of mankind is one of doing as little work as possible. And that plays out most excellently as Christian Bale lookalike Primitive Technology seeks to build the most efficient “forge blower” he can with the bounty of the forest.
Source: Gizmodo – Guy Builds a Crazy Bellows Using Only Primitive Technology
Rarely do characters go through as dramatic a change as Stephen Strange will in the upcoming Marvel movie, Doctor Strange. He’ll go from being a highly clinical, science-based surgeon to an ethereal, mystical being. Speaking with io9, actor Benedict Cumberbatch explained why that was so crucial and exciting.
Source: io9 – Benedict Cumberbatch Says a Journey From Fact to Faith Is at the Heart of Doctor Strange
An anonymous reader quotes a report from BBC: Strong earnings from Amazon and a boost to the company’s stock have made its founder, Jeff Bezos, the world’s third richest person, according to Forbes. Mr Bezos owns 18% of Amazon’s shares, which rose 2% in trading on Thursday. Forbes estimated his fortune to be $65.3 billion (49.5 billion British Pound). Amazon’s revenue beat analysts’ expectations, climbing 31% from last year to $30.4 billion in the second quarter. Profit for the e-commerce giant was $857 million, compared with $92 million in 2015. According to Forbes estimates, Mr Bezos’s fortune is only surpassed by Microsoft founder Bill Gates, worth $78 billion (59 billion British Pound), and the $73.1 billion (55 billion British Pound) fortune of Zara founder Amancio Ortega. Amazon had developed a reputation for announcing little or no profit each quarter, but appeared to hit a turning point last year and has seen improving earnings since. Amazon shares have spiked 50% since February. BBC’s report includes some bullet points about Bezos. He was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1964. He studied at Princeton University and worked on Wall Street. In 1994, he launched Amazon as an online book retailer. A lifelong Star Trek fan, Bezos launched Blue Origin spaceflight and aerospace firm in 2000, and more than a decade later, he purchased The Washington Post newspaper in 2013.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Becomes World’s Third Richest Person
When you’re out catching ‘em all and taking over the gyms in your neighborhood, you need the best tools for the job. This digital toolbox will help you level up faster, defend your gyms longer, and win more battles.
Source: LifeHacker – Poké Assistant Has Eight Useful Pokémon Go Tools All In One Kit
I’m still not entirely sure we needed another Matt Damon Bourne movie after not having one for nearly a decade, but we’re getting one this weekend. It’s probably not going to be as good as the original trilogy. That’s why it’s nice to look back on the three Bourne flicks that were actually good. Specifically, their fight scenes.
Source: io9 – Here Are the Difference Fight Scene Styles Used in the Bourne Movies
This is a video mashup of the Sesame Street gang singing DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince’s appropriately titled summertime anthem ‘Summertime’. It’s pretty much exactly what you’d expect from this kind of mashup, including, and pretty much limited to: Sesame Street characters dancing and moving their mouths to the song. I’m not sure if you actually expected more, but if you did you must be really disappointed a lot. Tell me about your last birthday.
Keep going for the video, then let’s skip out of work early and hit the beach, or at least a hr parking lot. Bring towels and an umbrella.
Source: Geekologie – Sesame Street Gang Sings DJ Jazzy Jeff And The Fresh Prince’s ‘Summertime’
Russian officials are flipping out about Pokémon Go. And what will dispel its destabilizing effect on society, the Moscow government believes, is developing their own, more patriotic, version of it.
Source: Kotaku – Russian Officials Think Pokémon Go Is Evil
Considering the Raspberry Pi’s a mini computer, it should come as no surprise one of the more common projects is a dashboard-style display
. Over on GitHub, DIYer n0bel has a guide to turning the Pi into a smart clock.
Source: LifeHacker – Use a Raspberry Pi to Power a Fancy Clock and Display Panel
“Two Southern Classics, One Legendary Taste,” is the marketing language emblazoning every bottle of Cheerwine Kreme, the unholy combination of, well, soda and doughnuts. While Krispy Kreme has graced the tastebuds of us Yankees for some time now, Cheerwine remains uniquely Southern. I’m not from the South, and something tells me the marriage of two foods known for being unhealthy will end in tears.
Source: Gizmodo – Doughtnut-Flavored Soda Will Make Your Dentist Very Rich
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: The U.S. military is using an unmanned robotic vehicle to patrol around its camps in the Horn of Africa. The remote controlled vehicle is the result of a 30-year plan after military chiefs approved the concept of a robotic security system in 1985. Now the Mobile Detection Assessment and Response System, known as MDARS, are carrying out patrols in the east African country of Djibouti, under the control of the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa. The area is known as home to a number of hostile militant groups including the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Shabaab. An operator sits in a remote location away from the vehicle watching the terrain via a camera link which is fixed to the chassis. U.S. military software engineer Joshua Kordanai said in a video presentation that the vehicle drives itself, freeing the remote operator to monitor video. “The vehicle has an intruder detection payload, consisting of radar, a night vision camera, a PTZ [pan-tilt-zoom] camera and two-way audio, so the system will be able to detect motion,” he added. One report prices the cost of an earlier version of the military ‘drone buggy’ at $600,000 each.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – US Military Using 0K ‘Drone Buggies’ To Patrol Camps In Africa
In a promo entitled “We’re back, idiot hookers,” Scream Queens assures one and all that nuclear-strength mean-girl mojo will still be a major part of the Ryan Murphy horror comedy’s second season—even if circumstances have changed for the catty trio since leaving their killer-plagued sorority house.
Source: io9 – The Chanels Are Back and Bitchy as Ever in This New Scream Queens Promo
In the wake of hacks against the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, US officials believe the computer network used by the Clinton campaign has also been hacked, according to a new report from Reuters.
Source: Gizmodo – Report: The Clinton Campaign Also Got Hacked