Reddit’s CEO Steve Huffman has been caught editing comments of users of the infamous pro-Trump subreddit The_Donald. For a site which prides itself on “authentic” conversation, the ability of site administrators to secretly alter content has drastic implications. Read more…
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Reddit CEO Caught Secretly Editing User Comments, Chatlogs Leaked [Update]
A cyber attack oddly gave San Franciscans something to be thankful for this weekend when officials responded to a hack of the city’s transit system by giving away free rides . Read more…
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Commuters Get Free Rides After Hackers Target San Francisco Public Transit
If you’ve ever submerged your phone in liquid, you know the utter devastation that follows immediately afterward, during which you alternately shake your fist at yourself and the offending liquid. One guy, however, got lucky. Read more…
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An iPhone 4 Survived a Year at the Bottom of a Lake
Our friends at The A.V. Club just published an insanely awesome oral history of the obstacle course from Nickelodeon’s classic game show Double Dare, and it’s chock-full of icky, messy fun. This look behind-the-scenes comes is timed right: Nickelodeon is airing a one-night only Double Dare special on Wednesday to… Read more…
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The Disgustingly Awesome World of the ‘Double Dare’ Obstacle Course
Google suspended hundreds of accounts used by people trying to take advantage of a US sales tax loophole in order to make a profit on the resale of Pixel phones. Although the accounts were restored after a few days, this creates an unsettling precedent for Google users. Read more…
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Google Bans Hundreds of Accounts For Participating in Pixel Tax-Dodging Scheme
Not many people in the U.S. will know that Luc Besson’s lavish new scifi epic, Valérian and the City of a Thousand Planets , is actually yet another movie adaptation of a hit comic book. This is mainly because Valerian the comic was never a hit in the U.S., although it’s been one of Europe’s best-loved scifi series for… Read more…
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A Guide to the Epic Scifi Movie Valérian, and the Fantastic European Comics That Inspired It
If you’re looking for a fun weekend project and have a Pi Zero lying around, consider making your own electric, powered skateboard like this one from The Raspberry Pi Guy. Controlled with an old Wiimote and capable of 30 km/h (about 19 mph), it’s not a bad way to get around town. Read more…
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This DIY Electric Skateboard Is Powered by a Raspberry Pi Zero
It will be a while before we can actually colonize Mars (no matter what Elon Musk says). But when we get there, an official tartan will be ready for the outfits. Read more…
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Mars Has Its Own Plaid Pattern
An out of the park home run is a feat few ballplayers ever achieve. But Shohei Otani, who plays baseball for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters in Japan, managed to blast a home run right through the roof of the Tokyo Dome stadium. Read more…
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Japanese Baseball Player Blasts a Ball Right Through the Stadium’s Roof
A pair of warships lost during a historic 1942 naval battle have completely disappeared from their resting places at the bottom of the Java Sea. Large portions of a third ship are also missing. An international investigation has been launched in hopes of solving this bizarre maritime mystery. Read more…
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Two World War II Shipwrecks Mysteriously Vanished From the Bottom of the Ocean