Cold? Here are the best space heaters

Record breaking low temperatures are hitting the country, and the bad news is that they’ll last into next week and are just getting started. If your home’s heating system isn’t up to snuff (or, if non-existent—hello Californians!) we recommend you check out these two space heaters, which we selected after 20 hours of research and testing by a physics PhD. Read more…        

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This Guy Just CCed All of Microsoft By Accident

A little Friday advice: if you work for one of the great mammoths in the history of technology, and your faltering CEO just emailed to say he’s departing , make sure you click the right buttons when you reply. Read more…        

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This Guy Just CCed All of Microsoft By Accident

How to use electricity to spin liquid into nanostring

When left to its own devices, liquids form into spherical drops. But add a little electricity, and you get “electrospraying” and “electrospinning, ” and you can watch electricity play Rumpelstiltskin. Read more…        

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How to use electricity to spin liquid into nanostring

Microsoft is simplifying the way users managing multiple aliases on Microsoft accounts today, stream

Microsoft is simplifying the way users managing multiple aliases on Microsoft accounts today, streamlining the way users add, remove, and manage multiple aliases across different Microsoft services. Read more here . Read more…        

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Microsoft is simplifying the way users managing multiple aliases on Microsoft accounts today, stream

A hacker claims to have gained access to "the entire database of users on Twitter" after leaking the

A hacker claims to have gained access to “the entire database of users on Twitter” after leaking the details of 15, 000 accounts, but Twitter asserts that “no accounts have been compromised.” You can read more here . Read more…        

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Repair a Broken Headphone Plug for $2

The danger of buying expensive headphones is that no matter how good the sound quality is, you run the risk of ruining it by breaking a flimsy piece of rubber and metal. Or you can fix the plug for a couple bucks. Read more…        

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Turn Off a Lamp By Tapping Your Nightstand with this DIY Power Strip

Turning off lamps and alarm clocks by your bed in the dark is never easy. If you’re skilled in electronics though, you could do it just by knocking on your nightstand. Read more…        

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Turn Off a Lamp By Tapping Your Nightstand with this DIY Power Strip

Roku’s updated iOS app now lets you stream video directly from your iPhone to its set-top boxes.

Roku’s updated iOS app now lets you stream video directly from your iPhone to its set-top boxes. Which is neat. Read more…        

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A Futurama/Adventure Time crossover is real and is happening

OH MY GLOB. The voice of John DiMaggio will collide with the voice of John DiMaggio when Jake the Dog — and Finn, natch — make a guest appearance on the next episode of Futurama (airing Wednesday the 9th, at 10:00 pm EST). Read more…        

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Placebo buttons do absolutely nothing, and they are everywhere

Ever stood at an intersection and prodded at, leaned on, elbowed and otherwise palm-slapped the ever-living hell out of a crosswalk button and wondered to yourself if the thing actually does anything at all, really? Well – chances are, it doesn’t. Read more…        

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Placebo buttons do absolutely nothing, and they are everywhere