Google Drive is reportedly down with frequent error messages and long load times. We’re looking into it — have you experienced any issues? (Update: it’s back!) Read more…
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Google Drive is reportedly down with frequent error messages and long load times.
She’s got love in her eyes. Literally. A Redditor says that her mom has a blood vessel that spells love in her eye. Supposedly it’s not some crazy wacky tattoo either, the blood vessel is just more pronounced than usual and shaped in a way that we would recognize. At least it doesn’t say something awful! Read more…
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Woman has ‘love’ written with a blood vessel in her eye
We know the ocean is home to some of the weirdest looking monsters on the planet. It’s a big place, after all. But did you know that a single drop of seawater is also home to alien-looking critters too? They’re just invisible to us because they’re microscopic. Once you get closer, all these creepy things start coming out! Read more…
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A single drop of seawater hides all these icky microscopic creatures
Two-factor authentication is critical for protecting your online accounts, but sadly, not every site supports it (even, shockingly, many banks ). TwoFactorAuth.org is a new site that all the sites that do or do not support two-factor authentication. Read more…
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TwoFactorAuth Lists All the Sites with Two-Factor Authentication
If you’re a regular on the internet, you probably know how a DDoS can choke your favorite site with garbage traffic . Well get used to it because they’re not going away; they’re actually getting worse. Read more…
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The New Kind of DDoS That Could Cripple the Internet
If you ever want to change the style of all the headings or captions in a document, bold all the italicized text, or otherwise fine-tune the formatting of your document in one swoop, Microsoft Word has a setting for that. Read more…
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Select All Text with the Same Formatting in Word (and Other Word Tips)
Integrated graphics are getting better and better , but if you really want to game on your laptop, ain’t nothing gonna beat discrete. Nvidia’s new line of GTX mobile cards are about as good as it gets, and they’re not just bringing performance upgrades, but better battery life as well. Read more…
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Nvidia’s New Laptop Cards Are Battery-Saving Scorchers
KingofGnG writes “DICE is a small emulator dedicated to recreating on a modern computer the arcade games based on discrete circuits: ancient and bizarre entertainment machines where the electronic components required for the game experience were soldered individually on the circuit board and where there was no trace of integrated circuit or CPU. It’s an obscure and fascinating kind of emulation, and the offering of emulated games grows richer with each release.” Released a few days ago, DICE 0.8 adds support for four new games: Atari’s Crossfire and Pin Pong, and Ramtek’s Clean Sweep and Wipe Out. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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New Release of DICE, the CPU-Less Arcade Game Emulator, Adds Four Games
What if, the next time you played a video game, the main character not only looked like you but had the same body, same clothes, same everything? How would it change the way you related to the game? How would it change the way you relate to the other characters in it? I found out. Read more…
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This Genius Kinect Rig Puts You Inside a Video Game in Two Minutes Flat
The numbers may be shrinking a bit in recent years but, when you look at it, the sheer aggregate of people who’ve made a toon, joined a raid or bought a pet in World of Warcraft is still mind-boggling. Read more…
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World of Warcraft’s Impressive First Decade, By the Numbers