Do you know where chocolate comes from? Apparently, not from the checkout line at grocery stores! How to Make Everything shows how to make chocolate from scratch, from the fruit of the cacao tree to the fermentation to the sun drying process to making sugar and cocoa butter to the grinding and tempering and molding of the chocolate bar. There are so many steps, it’s a wonder how we ever figured it out. Read more…
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How to Make Chocolate from the Fruit to the Candy Bar
Sip your morning coffee suspiciously, friend—it may not be what you think. Read more…
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Counterfeit Coffee Is Now Something You Need to Worry About
Late last week, Islamic State militants were routed from the historic city of Palmyra, a UN World Heritage site. A preliminary investigation of the ancient ruins suggests that the damage is not as bad as feared, and that a significant portion of the relics could be restored quickly. Read more…
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ISIS Damage to Ancient City of Palmyra Is ‘Enormous’
It’s long been said that space tourism will be big business. Whole spaceports have sprung up ( and basically died ) in belief of that economic promise. The problem is that shooting people past our bubble of atmosphere, safely and reliably, is still tricky. Not to mention you need to be rich as hell or dead to even consider it. Read more…
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The Concept Art for Las Vegas’ ‘Mars World’ Looks Nuts
The saga over whether the government should legally be allowed to force Apple to write software to help it unlock seized iPhones may be over soon—or at least the first round. The government has confirmed that it was able to get the data off the iPhone of the San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook without Apple’s help. Read more…
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The Government Didn’t Need Apple’s Help Unlocking the San Bernardino iPhone After All
In Connecticut, six individuals have been charged with exploiting a bug in electronic lottery machines that allowed them to select winning tickets last year. Read more…
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6 Charged With Exploiting Electronic Loophole in Lottery Vending Machines
Netflix is bringing back Voltron , and they’ve just revealed the first glimpse of the cartoon, and it looks awesome. Read more…
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Netflix’s Voltron Series Looks Awesome, And it’s Coming June 10th
We’ve shown off how to build a handheld Linux machine using a Raspberry Pi before, but a lot’s happened since Node put together that original guide. So much so, that he’s created an updated version with lots of cool new features. Read more…
Pangu, the team behind the most recent jailbreaks on iOS , have just released a jailbreak for the Apple TV. There are a lot of caveats for using it, including the fact you’ll need to still be running tvOS 9.0/9.0.1. Read more…
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The New Apple TV Is Jailbroken, Provided You Didn’t Just Update It
In case Google’s free voice calling or Skype wasn’t enough for you, iPhone users on AT&T now have a stupid-simple way to keep in touch when they’re travelling. Read more…
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AT&T’s Wi-Fi Calling Is Now a Cheap Way to Phone Home From Overseas