Applied Hacking’s Samy Kamkar ( previously ) has released Opensesame , an app for hacked IM-ME texting toys that can open millions of fixed-code garage doors in less than a minute. Read the rest
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Open garage-doors in less than a minute with a hacked kid’s toy
Charter Communications plans to acquire Time Warner Cable in a $78.7bn deal . The acquisition follows an earlier attempt by Comcast to buy TWC, a plan foiled by regulators worried about lack of competition in the market for high-speed internet. Read the rest
The California Seafloor Mapping Program is the most extensive of its kind, initiated in 2008 and bearing fruit in a series of beautiful maps. Read the rest
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Amazing sea floor maps reveal California’s offshore depths
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How far did Sam and Frodo walk? Middle Earth’s journeys compared to real-world hikes
The entire magazine industry has been hurt by the web, but pornographic magazines have been hit the hardest. From an essay in Quartz by Lee Quarnstrom, former editor of Hustler : In a January 2014 interview with Erin Moriarty of CBS, Flynt announced that he didn’t expect Hustler , the heart of his porn empire, to last more than two or three years. Read the rest
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Because of net porn, Hustler’s circulation has dropped 97%
Henrique Alvim Corrêa’s fantastically beautiful pen & ink drawings for a 1906 special edition of H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds were a hit at Heritage Auctions’ recent illustration art auction . Read the rest
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Alien drawing from 1906 edition of War of the Worlds sells for $32k
MAME , the arcade-game emulating software under constant development since its creation by Nicola Salmoria in 1997, is “going open-source.” Read the rest
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Kyle Stetz’s typedrummer is a fun web app where you program drum beats by typing letters.
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Typedrummer: type out your drum beats
The interactive Homicide Monitor allows you to click on a country and see its murder count in a specific recent year, and the rate the number represents per 100, 000 people. For some countries, you can also see the weapon most commonly used. (No surprise, the good ol’ USA has some of the more terrifying stats.) Read more…
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An Interactive Map Of Murder Rates Around The World
“Scholars at the University of California, Berkeley have uncovered and authenticated a cache of stories written by Mark Twain when he was a 29-year-old newspaperman in San Francisco. Read the rest