The long-awaited ( and long-rumored ) Nexus 6, the 6-inch (technically 5.96) monster phablet, is finally, officially here . The Nexus 6, like its predecessors before it, will be the first device in the world to ship with Android’s new operating system, Lollipop. It’s the purest vision of what an Android phone should be. Apparently Android phones should be huge. Read more…
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Google’s Nexus 6 Superphone Is Here, and It’s a Monster
In the middle of the 19th century, Chicago embarked on a quest to literally lift itself out of the mud. Water couldn’t drain from the low-lying city, so its streets became impassable swamps. The most reasonable solution, Chicago decided, was just to raise the whole goddamn city by 4 to 14 feet. Read more…
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Chicago was raised over 4 feet in the 19th century to build its sewer
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
If there’s one group that will surely embrace smartwatches, it’s those who like to change their background image and the look and feel of their devices every day. But the FES Watch doesn’t just let you change the watch face whenever you tire of the current design, using E-Ink technology it actually lets you change the look and style of the entire timepiece. Read more…
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You Can Customize This E-Ink Watch Down to the Strap
After an already rough morning , Dropbox is now facing something far more menacing. After first surfacing Reddit, several Pastebin files have been found to contain hundreds of Dropbox users’ usernames and passwords—and the anonymous poster claims that there are millions more to come. Read more…
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Change Your Password: Hackers Are Leaking Dropbox User Info
A team of researchers in Singapore have developed a next generation lithium-ion battery that can recharge a battery to 70-percent in just two minutes. That means it would charge an entire electric car in just 15 minutes. And here’s the kicker: it lasts over 20 years. Read more…
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New Li-Ion Batteries Charge 70 Percent in 2 Minutes, Last for 20 Years
I’m glad the History Channel is producing mockumentaries like The Great Martian War. The real documentaries are not much different and science-fiction alternative history lines are always more interesting than our savage and grim historical realities. It’s also very well made. Read more…
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Fake documentary shows terrifying war against the Martians in 1913
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
Someone is trying to make “The Snappening” happen. Read more…
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A Third-Party App May Have Leaked Tens of Thousand of Snapchat Photos
GIFs are the lifeblood of the internet, the reason most of us get up in the morning. But they haven’t really gotten better in the past 25 years—until now. Imgur claims to have created a brand-new GIF which recreates the traditional animated, looping images we love using the best web video format, MP4. Hold onto your jorts! Read more…
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Imgur Just Invented a New GIF Format—Here’s Why It Matters