Facebook announced a new feature today that allows users that are in an area affected by a natural disaster to check in and let their friends and family know they’re safe. Read more…
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Facebook Safety Check Confirms You’re Okay During a Natural Disaster
Google has officially announced Android L (henceforth known as Lollipop). While we heard a bit about it back at Google I/O, there’s plenty more to hear about. This is what’s coming in Google’s latest. Read more…
Fondant icing is the ingredient cake artists use to create their masterpieces. Grocery stores don’t always carry it, though, and it’s expensive if they do. Use some marshmallows and flavored gelatin instead and make your own. Read more…
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Jell-O and Marshmallows Make a Quick and Tasty Fondant
If you’ve ever tried to send a large PDF over email, you know that email systems have file size limits. SmallPDF will combine and shrink PDFs from the cloud so you can send it along. Read more…
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SmallPDF Compresses PDFs From the Cloud
When we think of medicine, we usually think of the treatment: drugs, surgery, therapy. But before all that comes the diagnosis—a tricky proposition when symptoms are confusing and information scant. Now for the first time ever, doctors were able to use rapid DNA sequencing to identify an obscure bacterium in time to save a boy’s life. Read more…
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A New Rapid DNA Test Helped Save a Kid From an Obscure Infection
I watched The Lego Movie once again. Like the first time, I cried like a little kid. It’s a good movie, but the strong emotional reaction came from deep inside, firing the same childhood memories that The Lego Memory Lane —Leg0 HQ’s underground secret vault with all their sets—did when I visited it in Billund, Denmark. Read more…
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Secret underground vault contains all Lego sets in history
Offering free Wi-Fi to shoppers or diners is almost as essential to a business these days as having a public bathroom on site. But at the same time, you don’t want to give it away to just anyone walking by—at least without getting something in return. So D-Link’s new AC 1750 wireless router only doles out the Wi-Fi after someone has checked in to your business’ Facebook page. Read more…
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A New Wireless Router Lets You Trade Facebook Check-Ins For Free Wi-Fi
Before you spend years turning an empty wine bottle into a decorative lamp by covering it in countless melted candles, consider these $28 LED alternatives instead. Not only do they glow brighter, they’re much less of a fire hazard—it’s a win-win. Read more…
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An LED Wand Turns Your Wine Bottles Into Lamps Without Flame
The cup of joe you get from those pod-based instant coffee machines like the Keurig might not be the best you can find, but they sure are convenient. And while instant soup is a logical next step for pod-based dining, the makers of the Flatev have actually found a way to churn out fresh, warm tortillas from a machine on your counter. The future is delicious. Read more…
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A Keurig Machine For Tortillas. Repeat: A KEURIG MACHINE FOR TORTILLAS
Despite the billions upon billions of dollars funneled into the hungry maw of the military over the past 70 years, some technology has remained the same since World War II—including the smoke grenade. Now, the Army is choosing a new version that, in theory, will be slightly less toxic than the “classic” model. Read more…
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The Army Is Redesigning Its Smoke Grenade For the First Time Since WWII