How to Hack a Car and Control It From 1500 Miles Away

Imagine this: You’re cruising along when the car suddenly brakes. The doors lock. It starts accelerating backward. A hacker hundreds of miles away has taken control of your car over the cellular network. This is how it happens, as explained by a video from the good folks at Motherboard . Read more…

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How SpaceX Dragon V2 dramatically changes space travel in one image

The amazing new SpaceX Dragon V2 spaceship will be able to soft-land anywhere on Earth using rockets and retractile legs with the same accuracy as any aircraft. You can click here know all about it or just look at this image. When Elon Musk says “it lands like a 21st century spaceship should land” he’s right. Read more…

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Vimeo’s ordering up its first batch of original content for its on-demand service in the form of six

Vimeo’s ordering up its first batch of original content for its on-demand service in the form of six episodes of the hilarious web series High Maintenance . No word on how much individual episodes will cost. Read more…

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Of all the Chinese cemeteries in Calcutta’s Old Chinatown, Choong Ye Thong Cemetery is almost certai

Of all the Chinese cemeteries in Calcutta’s Old Chinatown, Choong Ye Thong Cemetery is almost certainly the largest and most well-maintained. The graves here are horse shoe-shaped, which (according to Chinese Feng Shui culture) is the most conducive to conserving energy. [ Rangan Datta ] Read more…

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The curious story of why the Jedi are called Jedi

If you’re a cinema fan you may know part of this story but, if you aren’t, this video is a throughout summary of how American westerns influenced the samurais of Akira Kurosawa—and how the samurais of Akira Kurosawa influenced that galactic western known as Star Wars. Read more…

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Being gluten free is dumb because gluten intolerance may not even exist

If you have Celiac, this obviously doesn’t apply to you. Don’t eat gluten. But if you don’t have Celiac—and that’s 99% of the human population, mind you—there’s no reason to be gluten free. You’re wasting your time. Even the scientist who started this gluten free craze thinks it’s useless to be gluten free . Seriously. People, the father of gluten free think it’s bullshit. Read more…

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Thousands of Gallons of Crude Oil Spill In Los Angeles

As many as 50, 000 gallons of crude oil spilled onto the streets of Los Angeles early this morning when a 20-inch pipeline ruptured. According to the Los Angeles Fire Department , the oil is knee-deep in places. Read more…

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Woman has ‘love’ written with a blood vessel in her eye

She’s got love in her eyes. Literally. A Redditor says that her mom has a blood vessel that spells love in her eye. Supposedly it’s not some crazy wacky tattoo either, the blood vessel is just more pronounced than usual and shaped in a way that we would recognize. At least it doesn’t say something awful! Read more…

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Why Do Chinese URLs Use Numbers, Not Letters?

If, for whatever reason, you’ve ever spent much time on Chinese websites, you’ll know that they often use numbers over letters or other characters. So, 4399.com is a gaming site, 92.com deals with car trading, and 12306.cn sells train tickets. Why is that? Read more…

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The Next Version of OS X Might Be a Radical Change Like iOS 7

Last year at WWDC, we got a huge overhaul of Apple’s mobile operating system . And this year , it looks like OS X could be in for the same treatment. According to 9to5Mac, the upcoming OS X 10.10 is going to be a major overhaul, maybe the biggest in OS X history . Read more…

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