A Segway you can carry in a laptop bag? That’s what Cocoa Motors promised when it revealed the WalkCar , an ultra-compact personal transport, last year. And finally, after a year of perfecting its design, the WalkCar will be available for pre-order starting on October 21. Read more…
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You Can Soon Buy That Tiny Scooter That Looks Like a Laptop You Can Ride
Using the Hubble Space telescope and other observatories, astronomers have completed the most accurate census of galaxies in the observable universe to date. In terms of the actual number, let’s just say we were way the hell off. Read more…
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We Were Very Wrong About the Number of Galaxies in the Universe
Amazon has just launched its long-awaited Spotify competitor , Amazon Music Unlimited. Like Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Google Play, and Deezer, Amazon Music Unlimited offers on-demand access to tens of millions of songs. And like those services, it also offers “thousands” of “hand curated playlists” and personalized stations. Read more…
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Amazon Comes for Spotify With Cheaper Music Subscriptions
Yahoo has recently disabled a feature that would have made it easier to ditch your Yahoo email account. Perhaps you had planned on forwarding all incoming messages to a new address, a common feature with most email providers. Unfortunately it’s not currently an option at Yahoo. Read more…
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Remains of the Day: Yahoo Makes it More Difficult to Leave by Disabling Email Forwarding
On Sunday, explosives experts were dispatched to Folly Island, South Carolina, after a resident found what appeared to be at least a dozen Civil War cannonballs uncovered by Hurricane Matthew. Read more…
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Hurricane Matthew Unearths 150-Year-Old Civil War Artillery in South Carolina
Are you one of the millions of people who signed up for health insurance through HealthCare.gov? If your health insurance company is pulling out of Obamacare, you might want to head over to the site before the start of the new year. If you don’t switch your health insurance provider by January, the government will switch it for you. And you might not like their choice. Read more…
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HealthCare.gov Warns It Might Just Change Your Coverage For You By January
Netflix has released the first trailer for Dreamworks Trollhunters , a children’s animated series directed by the same guy whose idea of a fairy tale includes rebel torture and child murder. It’s Guillermo del Toro… for kids! Read more…
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Guillermo del Toro’s Trollhunters Looks Really Damn Fun
A new lawsuit from a former Yahoo employee claims that Zamboni-loving CEO Marissa Mayer tried to purge the company of men. The lawsuit, filed by Scott Ard in San Jose federal court, accuses Mayer of fostering “the use of (an employee performance-rating system) to accommodate management’s subjective biases and personal opinions, to the detriment of Yahoo’s male employees.” Read more…
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed off the company’s experiments with social virtual reality experiences that allow you to chat with your friends using avatars in headsets like Oculus’s Rift. It was really weird. The demo app allows you to chat with avatars of your friends, travel to places like Mars or Facebook’s Headquarters, and take virtual reality selfies to share to Facebook. Read more…
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Absurd ‘Social VR’ Demo Was Brutal
An NSA contractor was arrested in secret by the FBI and investigated for possibly stealing secrets, the New York Times reported . Read more…
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NSA Contractor Arrested in Probe of Stolen ‘Source Code’: Report