If your car has a proximity-based ignition fob that lets you start the engine without inserting a key, thieves on the street in front of your house can use an amp to detect its signal from your house and relay it to the car, getting away clean. Read the rest
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$17 radio amp lets thieves steal Priuses
The black swallower ( Chiasmodon niger ), capable of eating 10 times its weight, is only one of the curious animals introduced to visitors at the American Museum of Natural History’s new Life At The Limits exhibition. Read the rest
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Deeply strange black swallower fish and other odd animals
Design studio Studio Drift created “Shylights” that unfurl as they lower from the ceiling, looking more like glowing jellyfish than chandeliers (more…)
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Undulating jellyfish-like chandeliers
Amazon has started sending out Dash Buttons to Prime members. It’s a Wi-Fi button that you place next to your dishwasher, coffeemaker, washing machine, or medicine cabinet so you can instantly re-order a consumable product.
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Amazon introduces wi-fi buttons to buy products
They were the first company to dabble in a laughably crude version of the surveillance business-model, aggressively collecting your address every time you bought batteries so they could get into the direct-mail racket. Read the rest
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Bankrupt Radio Shack will sell the customer data they promised to keep private
“Service dog fraud” is a thing, now. Qualified handlers are aggravated by the increase of people saying their dogs are service animals, allowing them entry to cool human-only places, when they are not. Read the rest
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Fake service dogs everywhere
Well played, Ben Burst . Well played. For those of you who aren’t tweens, boy pop band One Direction lost a member yesterday: Zayn Malik. This abrupt breakup hit their fans right in the feels. [via Reddit ]
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Guy creates video mocking grief of One Direction fans after Zayn Malik quits. CBS airs it as real.
DashCon2014 , a gathering of tumblr users and celebrities, “descended into chaos” this weekend , with the chaos including an alleged $17, 000 friday night shakedown by the Marriot-owned hotel.
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"Tumblr convention" a total disaster
I’d always sort of thought that people with severe peanut allergies could have a reaction from being too close to peanuts, even without touching them. Turns out, that’s not true. Usually. Read the rest
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How indirect allergen exposure works
Amazon will be America’s #2 retailer in no time at all, but Wal-Mart is in a league of its own.
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Amazon enters retail top 10