Transform the zoom capabilities on your smartphone camera with this Kickstarter project
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When you’re at a concert or a big sporting event and you want to record what’s going on, using your smartphone can only get you so much detail. If …
Mobile holiday shopping visits in U.S. will surpass desktop for first time
Mobile’s contribution to holiday shopping, in terms of both visits and sales, has been growing every year. But the 2017 holiday shopping season will hit a new milestone: for the first time ever, mobile visits to retailer’s websites are expected to surpass desktop visits during the months of November and December. Consumers shopping from the desktop will continue to account for… Read More
Lucky driver backs out of parking spot seconds before tree falls
This dude should definitely play the lottery.
A dashcam captured one incredibly lucky driver narrowly avoid being crushed by a tree. In the clip, a man approaches his vehicle, which is parked right next to a group of trees. Just after the driver …
Latina Equal Pay Day is in November, and that’s a problem
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Seven months ago, women marked Equal Pay Day—the day women had to work until in 2017 to earn what men did in 2016.
The April 4 date was based on an average statistic—80 cents to the dollar—that lumps all women’s earnings together. More than half a year later, Thursday marks Latina Equal Pay Day.
Latina women earn 54 cents for every dollar white men make. It takes just two months shy of two years for Latina women to earn what white men did in the single year prior. In other words, an extra 10 months.
Latina Equal Pay Day follows Black Women’s Equal Pay Day in July, Native American Women’s Equal Pay Day in September, Asian-American Women’s Equal Pay Day in March, and the aforementioned averaged Equal Pay Day in April. Read more…
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View More Latina Equal Pay Day is in November, and that’s a problemYep: Russian hackers have targeted everyone from Colin Powell to Pussy Riot to the Vatican
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Russian hackers — they’re everywhere. Not even those in the the pope’s camp are safe from them, according to a new report. And yes: That pope.
While the narrative surrounding Russian hacking efforts has centered mostly around the 2016 U.S. election, a new report published by cybersecurity firm Secureworks and obtained by the Associated Press shows hackers also targeted figures like John Kerry, Colin Powell, a member of the Russian punk rock band Pussy Riot, and — gasp! — a representative of the Pope Francis, based in Kiev.
According to the AP, the list shows hackers, aligned with the Russian government, who attempted to bust into around 4,700 Gmail accounts (leaving one to wonder why a representative for the pope even uses Gmail). Read more…
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If you wanted to cheat your WWII rations, you went to the ‘Wide Boys’
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The ‘Wide Boy’ was the guy to know if you were caught in London in WW2 and needed to skirt government rationing
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View More If you wanted to cheat your WWII rations, you went to the ‘Wide Boys’iPhone X Animoji Karaoke is the next big thing
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Turn any surface into a canvas with this 3D printing pen
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Trump’s pick for NASA chief has an appalling record on LGBTQ rights, and that matters for the space agency
Jim Bridenstine has a problem.
The Oklahoma congressman and President Donald Trump’s nominee for NASA administrator really wants the job, but he may not get it, and not for the reasons you might think.
On Wednesday, during Bridenstine’s confirmation …
Watching bath bombs get chopped up is surprisingly satisfying
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Bath bombs: they’re not just for baths anymore.
Thanks to “professional Lush enthusiast” @therosequeenn, the famed beauty products have taken on a purpose beyond making your bathwater smell like lavender. @Therosequeenn, whose real name is Andrea, films herself chopping up bath bombs for her Instagram.
Don’t worry; it’s not as traumatizing as it sounds. In fact, the videos are incredibly satisfying — in a candle-carving, makeup-destroying, DIY-sliming kind of way.
In each video, Andrea uses a knife to cut a bath bomb into relatively even slices. Then, she makes another set of lengthwise cuts and voilà! The bath bomb is a set of cuboid chunks. Read more…
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View More Watching bath bombs get chopped up is surprisingly satisfyingPandora made $80M in U.S. app store revenue in Q3, booting Netflix from the top grossing spot
In the face of fierce competition from Spotify and Apple Music, Pandora has been growing its in-app subscription revenues, according to new data from Sensor Tower. The streaming music service earned the number one spot on the chart of top grossing apps in Q3 2017, excluding games. It’s the first time Pandora has held that position since the third quarter of 2015.
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Revolutionary ultrasound smartphone gadget helped a doctor diagnose his own cancer
Butterfly Network Inc., a medical technology company that aims to revolutionize current ultrasound systems, just announced that it got clearance from the FDA to put the ‘Butterfly iQ’ ultrasound smartphone gadget on the US market.
The portable and po…