You loved Reading Rainbow as a kid. Everyone did! But since the show went off the air in 2006, your ol’ pal Levar Burton’s now trying to bring it back via the internet. He just needs a little Kickstarter help to do it. Read more…
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Levar Burton Enlists the Internet To Help Resurrect Reading Rainbow
Netflix’s huge streaming selection can be overwhelming when you don’t know what you want to watch. Instead of rolling dice or being paralyzed by the choices, there’s a better option. Read more…
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Netflix Roulette Picks a Random Movie for You to Watch
CGI is everywhere now. In many cases, it’s almost completely indistinguishable from things that were actually filmed. You can only tell by the impossible camera angles. It wasn’t always that way though—you remember The Last Starfighter , don’t you? Still, 20th century CGI had its high points, and these are 10 of them. Read more…
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10 of the Best Moments From the Early Days of CGI
URL shortening service Bitly announced a security breach regarding account credentials today. Here’s what you need to know. Read more…
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Bitly Accounts Hacked, Change Your Passwords And Disconnect Accounts
An anonymous reader writes “Nielsen, the company that studies the viewing habits of television viewers, announced its findings in a blog post Tuesday. Since 2008, the number of cable TV channels offered as a bundle rose from 129 to 189 in 2013, but in that time-frame viewers have consistently only watched an average of 17 channels. The data seems to support the notion that consumers are better off subscribing to channels a la carte, but cable companies are of the opinion that ‘the price of cable TV wouldn’t change much if channels were served à la carte because content providers won’t sell the most popular programs to cable companies unless the provider’s other channels are also served up.’ Nielsen concluded in its post that ‘quality is imperative—for both content creators and advertisers’, signaling the possibility that more Americans will cut the cord after realizing that their cable bill has increased in the last few years but their consumption of content hasn’t.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Average American Cable Subscriber Gets 189 Channels and Views 17
Getting crews out to patch roads is sometimes more trouble than its worth. It snarls traffic for hours at a time, costs counties and states hundreds of thousands of dollars annually, and typically only fixes the problem for a short time. But this gravel-blasting utility truck aims to make the permanent patch process faster than firing a gunstick. Read more…
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This Utility Truck Can Exterminate a Pothole Every 120 Seconds
Take heed, because there’s a lot of bad stuff out there on the internet today. But there’s one thing that’s very good and useful: it’s Gmail, and today your favorite email service is celebrating its tenth birthday. Read more…
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Gmail Is 10 Years Old Today
A very tricky phishing scam that takes advantage of Google Docs is making its way around the web . And since it uses a google.com URL and even makes use of Google’s SSL encryption, it’s almost impossible to tell that it’s a hack. Your best safeguard, as always, is a little bit of common sense. Read more…
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Beware of This Dangerously Convincing Google Docs Phishing Scam
When you’re working with tiny nanoparticles, you need extremely delicate tools. Like, say, tweezers that can manipulate particles 1, 000 times thinner than a human hair without physically touching them. That’s exactly what researchers at the Institute of Photonic Sciences have come up with: optical nanotweezers that use light to move tiny particles in three dimensions . It’s not sci-fi anymore. Read more…
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World’s Tiniest Tweezers Grab Nanoparticles Using Nothing But Light
One of the more annoying things about Netflix, Hulu Plus, and Amazon’s television streaming libraries is the vast difference between the selection available. It would be almost impossible to get a thorough idea of who has the better library without searching for hundreds of TV shows on each service and comparing them manually. So we did just that. Read more…
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TV Streaming Head-to-Head: Netflix vs Hulu vs Amazon Prime