The CEO of Soylent is disrupting neighborhoods now, and the neighbors aren’t too happy. Rob Rinehart founded Soylent because he wanted to create a product that would provide coders with an easy meal replacement. But his latest product is getting some unwanted attention from the police.
Source: Gizmodo – CEO of Soylent Charged For Building Trash-Filled ‘Experimental Living Facility’ in LA
This is the shortest video of the world’s longest whip crack. The whip, which is 238-feet and 3-inches long, takes almost six seconds from the initial whip until the end cracks. It’s one of those world records that doesn’t really require any sort of particular skill or anything, just the world’s longest whip and two arms. If I had a 240-foot whip I could break the record today. Then tomorrow try to trade the whip to Indiana Jones for his hat. “And what am I supposed to do with a whip this long?” I don’t know, maybe you could– OMG look out there’s a snake behind you! *Indy screams* Haha, man, you seemed way cooler in the movies.
Keep going for the video of the world’s longest whip crack. The world’s longest butt crack? This guy at the gym, I swear it’s at least three and a half feet long.
Source: Geekologie – Congratulations?: The World’s Longest Whip Crack
A French court has ruled that Luc Besson’s 2012 film Lockout, starring Guy Pierce, was plagiarized from John Carpenter’s 1981 film, Escape From New York. As a result, Besson will have to pay Carpenter almost a half-million dollars.
Source: io9 – A French Court Has Officially Deemed Luc Besson’s Lockout a Rip-Off of Escape From New York
Let’s say you’re new to web design, but you’re intent on learning how to build a site from start to finish.
It can be a lot of info to take in, but this interactive tool can at least help get you started with the design.
Source: LifeHacker – Learn the Basics of Good Web Design in Four Minutes with This Tool
Evernote carved out a name for itself in the startup world with its relentless focus on productivity, synchronization and mobility (it debuted on the iPhone with the App Store’s launch in 2008). Today, almost 10 years since it was founded, the compan…
Source: Engadget – Evernote’s CEO on ‘unlocking the potential of every idea’
Some more graphics cards news via our long time reader MojoKid: AMD is officially announcing its newest mainstream members of the Polaris graphics family today, known as the Radeon RX 470 and Radeon RX 460. AMD is touting the RX 470 as a perfect companion for 1080p resolution gaming, offering 60+ FPS performance (with anti-aliasing enabled) in popular game titles. The RX 460, on the other hand, is based on Polaris 11 architecture, which has a more budget-minded performance profile. If all you’re looking for is an efficient, yet capable eSports gaming card, then AMD claims the RX 460 still has you covered. Peak compute performance for the RX 470 drops in at 4.9 TFLOPs (compared to 5.8 TFLOPs for the Radeon RX 480). The RX 460 has less than half the stream processors and less than half the compute units of the RX 470 and as a result, the peak compute performance stands at 2.2 TFLOPs. Pricing for the Radeon RX 470 and Radeon RX 460 is set at $149 and $99 MSRP, respectively.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – AMD Extends Polaris GPU Line-up With Mainstream Radeon RX 470 and Radeon RX 460
The surface of Mars is lined with mysterious deep-carved trenches. A long-standing theory suggesting that the were left long ago by flowing rivers was just debunked. So where did these trenches come from?
Source: Gizmodo – These Deep Trenches on Mars Aren’t What We Thought They Were
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AT&T is raising the data caps for U-verse Internet customers to 1TB a month and providing unlimited data “at no additional charge” to customers who subscribe to the company’s 1Gbps service.
But DSL users on AT&T’s network aren’t getting any extra data, and those users must continue to make do with a 150GB monthly limit.
AT&T has been enforcing data caps on DSL users for years but only began enforcement of caps on its faster U-verse service in May this year. Data caps were set at 300GB, 600GB, or 1TB based on the speed tier. But the changes announced today—which take effect August 21—give all U-verse customers a monthly data cap of 1TB or no cap at all. Previously, a 1TB cap was only for customers with speeds from 100Mbps to 1Gbps.
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Source: Ars Technica – AT&T boosts U-verse data cap to 1TB, keeps DSL users at 150GB
So you’ve finally made the decision to upgrade to Windows 10, congratulations! You put up the good fight and held out for a year, but with the prospects of paying $119 now staring you in the face, there are likely millions of people like you around the globe in the same situation.
However, the move to Windows 10 also comes with some words
Source: Hot Hardware – Upgrading To Windows 10? How To Protect Your Privacy And Clean-Up After Migration
It’s a not-so-secret-secret that the universes of Marvel’s film’s and TV shows are drifting further apart from each other. Directors
, producers
, and actors
alike have begun to speak out about the drift, but now Marvel says they never actually meant “It’s All Connected” quite like you thought they did.
Source: io9 – Marvel Has a New, Different Explanation for How Its TV and Movies Are ‘All Connected’
Microsoft is no stranger to collaborating with musicians to show off creative uses for its technology. With the Music x Technology project, the company has worked with acts like Big Grams, Neon Indian, KEXP, Phantogram and others to use its Kinect to…
Source: Engadget – Broods used the Microsoft Band to create music-video magic
Overwatch’s new hero Ana Amari is a badass support sniper who can shoot you with bullets to heal you or just shoot you to kill you. In this video, we’ll take a closer look at her mechanics and what they communicate. What does Ana tell us about Overwatch? What does she tell us about AAA game design? We’ll find out in this critical look.
Source: Kotaku – What Ana Amari Says About Overwatch
This week we discussed what happens at Comic-Con and why it’s awesome, matched Pokémon Go with our running routine, learned about alternate investments, compared sous vide cookers, and more. Here’s a look back at this week’s most popular posts as July comes to an end.
Source: LifeHacker – This Week’s Most Popular Posts: July 22nd to 29th
Once again, the geekiest of destinations, ThinkGeek, is having a massive sale. If you didn’t stock up on everything geekdom has to offer, now’s your chance. Grab up to 65% off all your geek essentials, like a Pac-Man Ghost lamp, Star Trek pajamas, even a Han Solo in Carbonite rug.
Source: io9 – ThinkGeek Brought Back Their Summer Sale with Up to 60% Off
Engineers at the University of Chicago have created a new kind of solar cell that efficiently converts atmospheric carbon dioxide into usable hydrocarbon fuel—and it does so using only sunlight for energy.
Source: Gizmodo – Solar Capture Technique Turns CO2 Into Burnable Fuel
System Shock is officially getting a remake, thanks to a successfully Kickstarter campaign that raised $1.35 million. The game is scheduled for December 2017 on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC, but remember, these games tend to slip! If you’re impatient, there’s a playable demo on Steam.
Source: Kotaku – System Shock is officially getting a remake, thanks to a successfully Kickstarter campaign that rais
Reader LichtSpektren writes: Almost eleven years ago, Slashdot featured an Ask titled “Favorite Firefox Extensions?”. I thought it might be worthwhile to ask the question again (Editor’s note: we couldn’t agree more!), but expand the query to all web browsers now that there’s more choices available. Right now my main browser is Firefox, which I use with uBlock Origin, Disconnect, HTTPS Everywhere, Privacy Badger, NoScript, Self-Destructing Cookies, Decentraleyes, Privacy Settings, and Clean Links. (N.B. the first four of these are also available in Chromium-based browsers.) I use Chrome as a secondary browser, with the first four of the aforementioned extensions, plus also Clear Cache and occasionally Flashcontrol. This one has nothing to do with security or privacy, but Reedy on Chromium is a really nice tool for speed reading. What do you use?Let’s get this going.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Ask Slashdot: Best Browser Extensions — 2016 Edition?
Every year for almost a decade, the most anticipated gadget release has always been Apple’s iPhone. It makes sense. In 2007, Apple completely changed the way we physically interact with our digital selves and went on to sell a billion iPhones across the world. Even though the iPhone is losing its luster
with each passing year, an iPhone is still an iPhone.
Source: Gizmodo – iPhone 7 Rumor Roundup: Everything We Think We Know
Source: Engadget – Democrats at the DNC were divided on last week’s email hack
Presumably bored out of his mind, Wisconsinite (that’s somebody from Wisconsin) Kevin Manion decided to replace family photos around his mom and dad’s house with photos of Steve Buscemi and see how long it would take his parents to notice. Apparently it took his dad two days, and his mom five, leading at least one blogger to speculate just what the hell this family looks like.
[Kevin’s sister Clare] said “My dad noticed [on] the second day but my mom didn’t notice until the fifth day.”
Manion added: “She was in the kitchen and could tell something was wrong with my brother’s senior photo, like the colors were wrong, and his head was too big, so she walked over to it and started laughing so hard.”
That’s the thing — you get so used to seeing things that you don’t really notice them anymore. You just assume what’s there is what’s always been there. That said, my parents played a similar photo-switching prank on me recently but instead of switching photos they turned my bedroom into an office and wait — why doesn’t my house key work anymore?!
Keep going for a couple more examples of Kevin’s handiwork.
Source: Geekologie – Guy Replaces Family Photos With Steve Buscemi, Family Doesn’t Notice