When Daniel Korell scanned a QR code on a bottle of Heinz Ketchup, he got more than he bargained for. Rather than bring up the competition page he was expecting to see, it instead linked to a German porn site called Fundorado. Oops. Read more…
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A QR Code on Heinz Ketchup Linked Straight to German Porn
Orange County’s Seal Beach is a popular spot for swimmers and surfers, so its lifeguards figured they’d use a camera drone to keep a better eye on them. But what they saw instead was “10 to 12 great white sharks just feet from shore.” Read more…
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California Lifeguards Get Drone, Instantly Spot 10-12 Great Whites
Is nothing sacred? LastPass, the service charged with keeping track of all our disparate online security measures with just one master password, was hacked last Friday—as detailed by the company’s own blog post published today. That is not good news. Read more…
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LastPass, Defender of Our Passwords, Just Got Hacked
Visitors to Nortk Korea now have another unusual observation to add to their list: they don’t have a shred of 3G data access during their trip. Read more…
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North Korea Has Turned Off 3G Networks For Foreign Visitors
The primary way we share ideas today is the internet. In the 15th century, it was cartography. And now, researchers at Yale are giving us a glimpse of one of the most influential maps in history—parts of which, up until now, had been too faded and aged to read. Read more…
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A Map That May Have Led Columbus To America Is Finally Being Deciphered
iPhone users will be able to block ads in Safair running on iOS 9 . Read more…
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iPhone users will be able to block ads in Safair running on iOS 9.
Samsung has announced a new series of prototype OLED displays in Hong Kong that, with their mirrored and transparent surfaces, are like something from a sci-fi film. Read more…
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Samsung’s Mirrored and Clear OLED Screens Are Straight From the Future
In Switzerland, it’s apparently common for people to leave out bags of stuff they don’t want for others to take, instead of throwing it all in the trash. And when a writer over on Brick Fanatics found a sack of miscellaneous Lego, when he got home he was surprised to find it actually included classic sets, manuals, and catalogs dating back to the 1970s. Read more…
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Lucky guy finds a treasure trove of classic ’70s Lego in a discarded bag
Yahoo is pulling the plug on 8-year old Yahoo Pipes , the service that creates custom web feeds through powerful filters. Pipes will run until September 30th in read-only mode but you should probably download your Pipe definitions as soon as possible. Check the announcement here . Read more…
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Yahoo Pipes Is Closing Down
MicroSD cards are ridiculously, laughably, annoyingly tiny. (No, seriously: they’re small enough to be stolen by three slightly strong ants.) They’re about the same size of your baby fingernail, only with half a terabyte of storage now crammed in there. Read more…
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Microdia Somehow Fit 512GB Onto A MicroSD Card