We’ve seen plenty of custom controllers over the years , but for those who prefer the tactile feel of a keyboard, Adafruit has put together a guide to make your own little keyboard-gamepad. Read more…
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Make a Custom Bluetooth Mechanical Keyboard Gamepad
All photos courtesy Kevin J. Walter It was a project eight years in the making—well, technically nine now. One LEGO fan has built his own Star Trek Klingon Bird of Prey using about 25, 000 blocks, based on a virtual blueprint he started all the way back in 2008. Read more…
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Guy Builds Intricate Star Trek Klingon Warship Using 25,000 LEGO Blocks
A portrait is often defined with a little depth of field of effect that makes the person in focus really pop. Most smartphone’s can’t produce this effect, but How-To Geek shows off a way to use a single Photoshop effect to create the same look. Read more…
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Quickly Improve a Smartphone Portrait in Photoshop with a Simple Depth of Field Effect
For most modern computers, you can add a file from anywhere using a service like Dropbox or Google Drive. That doesn’t quite exist on a Raspberry Pi, but Instructables user audstanley put together a guide to make your own web uploader. Read more…
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Make Your Own File Uploader to Add Files to a Raspberry Pi From Anywhere
A Russian military jet that was en route to Syria disappeared from radar on Sunday. Russian authorities say that it crashed into the Black Sea. Reportedly , all 92 people on board were killed, including at least 60 members of the Red Army Choir. Read more…
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Russian Military Jet Carrying Choir Crashes, No Survivors
The scariest scene from the movie Contagion. Three days ago, NPR reported that 45 cats were confirmed sick with H7N2, a rare form of avian flu making the leap from birds to felines. Poor kitties. But Thursday morning, the NYC Department of Health confirmed H7N2 has spread from cats to humans, infecting a veterinarian caring for the cats who had tested positive for bird flu. Read more…
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Veterinarian Catches Rare Form of Bird Flu From a Sick Cat Who Maybe Ate a Pigeon
By now the Amazon boxes are piling up in your house before the holidays. Before you toss them in the recycling, Give Back Box wants them. The service, in partnership with Amazon, will give you free shipping labels to send donations to Goodwill. Read more…
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Use Your Old Amazon Boxes to Ship Donations to Goodwill For Free
A large fire has engulfed scores of houses, shops, and other buildings in the Japanese coastal city of Itoigawa. The blaze, which started mid-morning local time, shows no sign of slowing, and fire crews are frantically working to put out the flames. Read more…
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Huge Fire Torches 140 Buildings in Japanese City
The Monju nuclear reactor. (Image: Nife/Wikimedia) The government of Japan has decided to decommission the experimental Monju nuclear reactor, which worked for just 250 days out of its total 22-year lifespan. Read more…
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Japan Just Scrapped a $9 Billion Nuclear Reactor That Never Really Worked
A remotely operated sub has captured stunning images of the Antarctic seafloor, revealing a surprisingly dynamic and colorful world filled with spidery starfish, coconut-shaped sponges, and dandelion-like worms. Read more…