Captain Marvel, the latest superhero film from Disney’s Marvel franchise, is bringing home the bacon — to the tune of a $455 million box office total for the weekend. The movie, Marvel’s first to be headlined exclusively by a female superhero, is off to the second largest global opening of any superhero movie behind Avengers: […]
View More Captain Marvel rakes in $455 million in worldwide weekend haulCategory: Fiction
Hammerhead raises $4.2M to build a smarter operating system for bikes
Hammerhead founder and CEO Piet Morgan is a bicyclist, and he started the company to create something he wanted for his rides— a better navigation system. So Hammerhead crowdfunded its first product, the H1, and subsequently built Karoo, a “cycling computer” with features for navigation and training. But Morgan told me his ambitions is bigger […]
View More Hammerhead raises $4.2M to build a smarter operating system for bikesHow to read fiction to build a startup
“The book itself is a curious artefact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very pleasant to look at and handle, that can last decades, even centuries. It doesn’t have to be plugged in, activated, or performed by a machine; all it needs is light, […]
View More How to read fiction to build a startupShodan Safari, where hackers heckle the worst devices put on the internet
If you leave something on the internet long enough, someone will hack it. The reality is that many device manufacturers make it far too easy by using default passwords that are widely documented, allowing anyone to log in as “admin” and snoop around. Often, there’s no password at all. Enter “Shodan Safari,” a popular part-game, […]
View More Shodan Safari, where hackers heckle the worst devices put on the internetNew trailer reveals when Game of Thrones will return
Winter is coming this spring. HBO is finally revealing when season 8 of Game of Thrones will begin. On Sunday, HBO released a new teaser for Games of Thrones that announced the first episode will air April 14. The season 8 teaser, called Crypts of Winterfell, was released on YouTube and played before the third […]
View More New trailer reveals when Game of Thrones will returnHit the trackless nuclear wastes with this Laco RAD-AUX watch
Laco is a small German watch company famous for its Flieger watches — pieces featuring big crowns and legible faces designed for pilots. Now the brand has teamed up with A Blog To Watch on a Fallout-themed watch that looks like something pulled out of a deserted vault. The $2,950 watch contains ETA 2824.2 movement […]
View More Hit the trackless nuclear wastes with this Laco RAD-AUX watch“Venom” is better than it has any right to be
What happens when a cast of Oscar contenders like Tom Hardy, Riz Ahmed and Michelle Williams are turned loose to chew the scenery of a (seemingly wryly self-aware) B movie? Audiences get “Venom”, the latest bid from Sony Pictures to create its own superhero mega-franchise now that storylines for the studio’s web-slinging centerpiece have merged […]
View More “Venom” is better than it has any right to beInside the pay-for-post ICO industry
In a world where nothing can be trusted and fake news abounds, ICO and crypto teams are further muddying the waters by trying – and often failing – to pay for posts. While bribes for blogs is nothing new, sadly the current crop of ICO creators and crypto projects are particularly interested in scaling fast […]
View More Inside the pay-for-post ICO industryThis hack turns your old Kindle into a clock
If you have an old Kindle e-reader lying about then you’d best dig it up. This cool hack can turn your dead e-reader into a living clock that scours hundreds of books for exact times and displays the current time in a quote. It updates once a minute. The project, available on Instrucables, requires a […]
View More This hack turns your old Kindle into a clockWatchmaker Doxa resurrects its most famous dive watch
Doxa is a storied dive watch company and their most popular watch, the Sub, has just gotten a 2018 overhaul. The watches were made famous by writer Clive Cussler whose character, Dirk Pitt, consulted his beefy Doxa on multiple occasions. This new model is made in collaboration with gear manufacturer Aqua Lung and features a […]
View More Watchmaker Doxa resurrects its most famous dive watchPush notification short stories are a thing now thanks to this app
Your smartphone’s notifications might already be clogged with junk, but what about a short story instead?
Serial Box, an iOS app for serving up serialized fiction on devices, announced in a blog post that it’s launching something called Microfiction …
Researchers create a real cloaking device
Researcher Amanda D. Hanford at Pennsylvania State University has created a real cloaking device that can route sound waves around an object, making it invisible to some sensing techniques. From the report: Hanford and her team set out to engineer a metamaterial that can allow the sound waves to bend around the object as if […]
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