After a marathon weekend installation, the Golden Gate Bridge has finally gotten the $3o million movable median barrier system that it so desperately needs. These are the oversized mechanical zipper pulls that will be in charge of changing lanes (quite literally) twice a day to keep traffic flowing smoothly. Read more…
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The Golden Gate Bridge Gets the Massive Median Mover It Needed
When customs officers at Futian Port in China saw a males passenger with “weird walking posture, joint stiffness, muscle tension …” they got suspicious. Turns out, he was attempting to smuggle 94 iPhones into the country—all of them strapped to his body. Read more…
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How Not to Smuggle 94 iPhones Through Chinese Customs
Chromebooks are pretty reliable, but problems do happen. Create a restore disk with the Chromebook Recovery Utility, so you can reinstall your operating system if anything ever goes wrong. Read more…
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Chromebook Recovery Utility Makes Recovery Media For Your Chromebook
Sriracha, the hot sauce God would ask for if he ate on Earth, is still made from the same recipe when it first started decades ago. Only the chilis are hotter now. And the sauce is more popular. And the production is much, much larger. Hypebeast took a tour of the giant factory that makes Sriracha in the video below. Read more…
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Video: Inside the factory that makes Sriracha
Bill Gates loves the Janicki Omniprocessor, an amazing machine that turns human waste into electricity and drinkable water. He saw it and he is extremely impressed. So impressed in fact that he drank from a glass of water that was human poop only five minutes earlier. “It’s water, ” he said, obviously relieved. Read more…
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Bill Gates shows us the future drinking a glass of water made from poop
The New York Times’ Upshot blog reports that regular New York City taxi medallion prices have fallen about 23 percent since last year’s peak. A medallion now sets taxi drivers back about $805, 000. Why are prices plunging? Uber. Well, probably. Read more…
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NYC taxi medallion prices have fallen almost 25% since last year
Kepler just can’t stop discovering exoplanets. Nearly two years after scientists said it was crippled, the planet-hunting telescope recently identified eight new planets. But that’s not all. They’re all in the Goldilocks zone of their respective stars, and two of them are more Earth-like than anything astronomers have ever seen . Read more…
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Kepler Just Found the Most Earth-Like Exoplanets Ever Discovered
Here’s a short video showing the before and after footage of a movie being color corrected by a colorist. It’s dramatic to see the difference between the initial footage and the final official scenes. It’s also fascinating to see the process and how certain things change slowly. Read more…
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See how much color correction can change the feel of a movie
I mean, sure, technically we knew that Sony’s flagship XBR-X900C Ultra HD television was a ridiculous 4.9mm thin the moment Sony announced it. Technically. But it’s another thing entirely to see what that means: it’s thinner than an iPhone 6 Plus. Read more…
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Sony’s Flagship 4K TV Is Thinner Than an iPhone 6 Plus
In most large cities there are tons of great, free activities. We asked you for your recommendations for New York , now let’s focus on Los Angeles. What free activities have you done in and around LA? Read more…
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The Best Free Things to Do in Los Angeles