GrinOn Industries’ System for Providing Immediate Beer– By Filling Through the Bottom of the Cup

Many of us enjoy a beer after work (and some of you, during), but for the most part we’re not in a rush; we understand the tap dispenses beer at a set pace, and I almost like the anticipation that comes with watching the glass slowly fill with amber up to the top. In a sports stadium, however, you want beer NOW. You sneak away from your seat because they called a time-out and you think you can make it back before they take the ball out; otherwise you wait in an interminable line during halftime, wondering if the Miami fan behind you will ever shut his mouth, or if he’ll require your assistance. To beer people faster, an Indiana-based company called GrinOn Industries has invented the Bottoms Up Beer Draft Dispensing System . As the name suggests, the system’s innovation is to inject beer into a cup through the botttom , which greatly speeds the filling time—they’re claiming it’s nine times faster than a tap, and that one person can fill 44 pint cups in one minute—while leaving a decent head on the brew. Observe: (more…)

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Apple debuts new, more detailed status page for iCloud and other services

As those affected by recent iMessage outages no doubt noticed, Apple’s status page for its various services hasn’t exactly been the most detailed around. That’s changed a bit today, however, with the company rolling out a new page that promise to offer a better look at what’s working and what’s not across iCloud, iTunes and Apple’s other services. As you can see above, that includes a grid that provides a quick look at any outages currently occurring, below which is a more detailed timeline that lets you look back at any past outages and how long they lasted. Filed under: Internet , Apple Comments Via: The Next Web Source: Apple

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Major Brooklyn Gang Taken Down by Cops on Facebook and Also by Extreme Stupidity

In the second season of the nerdiest adaptation of The Wire to date, New York City police have busted up a violent 41-member gang in Brooklyn using—you guessed it—Facebook and Twitter. Again. More »

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Sprint offers $2.1 billion to acquire the rest of Clearwire

As most observers  expected , Sprint has finally made a formal offer to acquire the rest of Clearwire. On Thursday, Sprint said it would pay $2.1 billion for the remaining 49.7 percent of Clearwire that it does not currently control. As we reported yesterday , the move is widely seen as a play for Sprint to acquire Clearwire’s valuable 2.5 GHz spectrum, which it would use to offer LTE and strengthen its position against Verizon and AT&T. The bid works out to $2.90 per share—higher than the company’s closing price on Wednesday—but analysts say the offer may not be good enough. Read 2 remaining paragraphs | Comments

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It Now Only Costs $100 To Know Everything About Your DNA

Mapping out your genome is the 21st Century equivalent of staring deep inside your soul; it’s tempting to look, but terrifying what you might find. The DNA divers at 23andMe are hoping that slashing the price of their home-testing service—from $300 down to $100—will be enough to tilt the scales towards discovery. Are they right? More »

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Drobo’s new 5N is a speedy $600 NAS for when you need files, stat

Tragically, we only learned about Drobo’s new 5N after we’d hired a warehouse the size of an aircraft hanger to store our latest, 12 million page novel. If you want to avoid our mistake, then the company’s latest NAS might end your own storage woes. The new hardware is part of the same family as the 5D and Drobo Mini , except this one ditches the Thunderbolt connection in favor of a single gigabit-ethernet port. Inside, there’s space for five 3.5-inch drives, giving you a maximum capacity of 20TB. An mSATA slot for an SSD drive will let you make use of Drobo’s “data-aware tiering” feature, which gives applications like Adobe Lightroom and iTunes faster access to your NAS-stored files. The base model will set you back $600 and will be available in “mid December,” which we impatiently hope is a euphemism for “tomorrow.” Continue reading Drobo’s new 5N is a speedy $600 NAS for when you need files, stat Filed under: Storage Comments Source: Drobo

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