Ever wonder why your highlighters glow in the dark? How about glow sticks at a rave? Our world is full of glowing objects that awe us even into adulthood, and their existence is easily explained. Read more…
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Fluorescence Is Like A Rave At the Molecular Level
Holy crap. Rebels has a new Big Bad, and it’s an old Big Bad—Grand Admiral Thrawn, the brilliant Imperial military commander who took over the remnants of the Empire in the old Expanded Universe, as revealed in the very first EU novel trilogy by Timothy Zahn. Read more…
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Grand Admiral Thrawn Joins Rebels and the New Star Wars Canon
Today, Christie’s auctioned off the well-worn leather jacket of Albert Einstein . You may know him as the Nobel Prize-winning mathematician who figured out the essence of the universe almost a full century before science could prove him right . But he also had great fashion sense. Read more…
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Someone Bought Einstein’s Smelly Leather Jacket for Nearly $150,000
A little more than one month after the Tor Project’s public face Jacob Applebaum stepped down following accusations from multiple women that he sexually assaulted them, the nonprofit has completely replaced its board. Read more…
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Tor Project Completely Replaces Board After Sexual Assault Scandal
After 81 years of remaining relatively silent on just what’s in that brown bottle you’re about to down, America’s largest breweries are about to stick nutritional labels on their beers. What took them so long? Read more…
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Beer Will Finally Get Nutritional Labels
It’s been a strange week for Pokemasters, dealing with armed robberies , dead bodies , and even accidental exercise . And nobody is happier than Nintendo, whose market value grew by $7.5 billion in two days as stock surged because everyone got hooked on Pokemon Go . Read more…
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Pokemon Go Added $7.5 Billion to Nintendo’s Value in Two Days
Jailbreaking a Kindle comes with a variety of benefits, including installing custom screensavers and software, but most recently the availability of the jailbreak has been restricted to a small handful of firmware. Now, its seeing a much wider release. Read more…
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You Can Now Jailbreak Just About Any Kindle
According to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs , only safety and physiological comfort are more important than love in our search for self-fulfillment. Maslow was wrong. A stronger driving force than love, apparently, is the need to catch ‘em all, seeing how Pokemon Go has already been installed more times after a week than Tinder in five years. Read more…
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Pokemon Go is Already Bigger Than Tinder
You have hundreds of ways to view the weather, but if you’re looking for an elegant desktop solution, DIYer caturnuson shares their lovely looking Pi-powered forecast display. Read more…
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Build a Raspberry Pi-Powered Weather Forecast Display
Facebook could be in trouble with the US Internal Revenue Service. The Justice Department filed a lawsuit on Wednesday, hoping compel Facebook to turn over information regarding any transfer of global assets to an Irish-based holding company on its 2010 tax return. The IRS is investigating whether Facebook undervalued transfer assets by billions of dollars, according to Law.com Read more…
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The IRS Is Suing Facebook