Over the past thirty years, few cities have undergone the transformation that Shanghai has. It went from a vertically challenged city filled with greenery to mutant New York on speed and steroids. Claire and Max illustrate how much has changed by eliminating the current buildings from the skyline and then drawing them in and putting them back. Read more…
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Cool video illustrates how much Shanghai has changed over the years
Hot on the heels of HBO announcing a standalone streaming option , CBS just debuted its own subscription streaming service… and it is possibly the worst streaming TV deal out there. Read more…
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CBS Thinks People Will Pay $6 a Month to Stream Just CBS Shows
Afghanistan veteran Sam Arnold uploaded this spine-chilling video of a US Marine getting a direct headshot from a Taliban sniper—only to be saved by his kevlar helmet. It’s incredible to watch, especially the face of relief and disbelief of the impact victim. That was a really close call. Read more…
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Video: Marine survives Taliban sniper headshot thanks to helmet
This is big news: HBO just announced it will launch a web-only service sometime next year. Meaning, you can get HBO with no cable subscription. Yay! Read more…
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Yes! HBO Without a Cable Subscription Is Coming Next Year
Data Looks Dope’s Max Einstein sent us his new creation: What the top 100 porn stars look like. At the top you can you can see the breast cup size. At the bottom there’s the top 100 actresses as ranked in Xvideos.com along with body measuring information according Internet Adult Film Database. Read more…
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What the top 100 female porn stars look like in one fascinating chart
Astronaut Reid Wiseman captured this sequence of the Dragon spaceship ” breathing fire as it rendezvoused with [the International Space Station] last week.” The spacecraft was firing its thrusters to adjust its course. The original video was quite shaky, so I stabilized it for your GIFing pleasure. Read more…
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Dragon spacecraft quickly firing thrusters to adjust course
Tony Stark and Bruce Wayne would feel at home inside DARPA’s GXV-T missile-dodging superbuggy. This video shows how the Pentagon’s research arm wants t he cockpit to be: Closed, with high-definition touch screens providing wide-angle visibility and displaying combat information in augmented reality . It’s really impressive. Read more…
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Sitting inside DARPA’s missile-dodging buggy is just like a video game
The Federal Trade Commission announced today that AT&T will pay $105 million for hiding extra charges in cellphone bills. The best part of the news? $80 million of it will go back into the pockets of people bilked by AT&T. Read more…
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AT&T Will Repay $80 Million In Shady Phone Bill Charges
Adobe has made a video with its vision for the future of its tablet-based graphic applications. Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere… it is really amazing, almost unbelievable—borderline magical, really. Check it out. Read more…
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This is the future of Photoshop and it feels like magic
It’s the Star Trek -inspired future we were promised—walls that glow and change color, perhaps with just a gentle voice command. And it’s finally (almost) possible thanks to a series of advances in OLED sheets. This new lighting solution also uses half as much energy than existing fluorescent lights. It is, however, pretty expensive. Read more…
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OLED Wallpaper Could Be the Future of Lighting