The concept is simple: a customizable, movie-theater-style marquee that fits on your coffee table.
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Deadspin ESPN Cancels Barstool Sports TV Show After One Episode | Jezebel NYPD Officers Who Allegedl
Deadspin ESPN Cancels Barstool Sports TV Show After One Episode | Jezebel NYPD Officers Who Allegedly Raped Teen in Custody Are Now Attacking Her Over ‘Provocative Selfies’ | Very Smart Brothas Justin Timberlake is a White Man | Earther An Art Installation in the Massachusetts Woods Sheds Light on the Hemlock’s Dying…
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Palestinian Man Arrested After Facebook Auto-Translates 'Good Morning' as 'Attack Them'
A Palestinian construction worker was arrested by Israeli police after Facebook incorrectly translated the text of one of his posts. Haaretz reports that the man uploaded a picture from his job at a construction site with the text “good morning” in Arabic. When officers used Facebook’s automatic translation service to…
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The Cursed History of NYC MetroCards
If you’ve ridden the New York City subway, you know the feeling. You buy a flimsy plastic card that lets you ride the train, and when you try to swipe it at the turnstile, it doesn’t work. You swipe again. The machine asks you to swipe again. You swipe again. The machine asks you to swipe again at the same turnstile.…
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Scientists Capture Rare Footage of Spooky-Ass Arctic Jellyfish
Using a small robotic sub, scientists from Columbia University have captured rare video of arctic jellyfish slithering along the bottom of the Chukchi Sea near Barrow Alaska. The footage came as a complete surprise to the researchers, who weren’t expecting to see jellyfish during the Arctic winter.
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Scientists Want to Update These Four Fundamental Constants
Some numbers don’t change. These values are deeply connected to the very fabric of the Universe and our human existence. Until they aren’t, of course. Then we change them.
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238 Thirsty Cities to Amazon: Stimulate Me, Daddy
The proposal deadline has come and gone on Amazon’s unusually public search to plant a second headquarters in one of North America’s metropolitan areas. Among other factors, Amazon’s stated “preference” for candidates cities with a population over 1 million should have whittled possible HQ2 locales down to a few…
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An Insurer Is Offering Apple Watches For $25
The Apple Watch hasn’t exactly been the breakout hit that Apple hoped it would be. Increasingly, though, Apple has been turning its attention to a market where the watch could still hit it big: insurers.
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Samsung's Tiny Portable SSDs are On Sale Today; Just Don't Lose Them
Several capacities of Samsung’s adorably tiny T5 external SSDs are marked down to some of their lowest prices ever today on Amazon. The 500GB model is the best deal of the bunch in terms of percentage savings versus its usual price, but the 1TB model has never been cheaper.
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A Salute to Bidlo Kwerve, the Man With the Most Important Skull in the Star Wars Galaxy
Thanks to a wildly obsessive fanbase that craves cataloguing and detailing every inch of the movies, everyone in the Star Wars galaxy has their own story. Today, we’d like to take some time to honor Bidlo Kwerve, a man who helped defeat the Empire by using his head. Well, by Luke using his head, more specifically.
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It’d Be A Business Miracle If Tesla And Uber Succeed At All
Raise cash, burn it, rinse, repeat—that has essentially been the business model of enterprising startups like Tesla and Uber for some time. And an insightful report from The Economist shows just how uncommon it is for companies like that to achieve prolonged success.
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The Disastrous Geostorm Is Mostly About People Staring at Computer Monitors
If watching people watch computers is your idea of fun, you are going to love Geostorm.
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James Comey Confirms Gizmodo Report
Back in March, Gizmodo published an investigation into what was “almost certainly” former FBI director James Comey’s Twitter account. At the time, he was still the FBI director and his very public falling out with president Donald Trump was still a ways off. Now that Comey is free, he ha s decided to let the world…
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The FBI Can't Stop Fearmongering About Encryption
Never in the past century has the FBI ever had greater access to consumer data than it does today. It has never been easier to locate a person of interest—be it a terrorist, a counterfeiter, or a child predator. The quickening pace of technology has given rise to new forms of surveillance, the likes of which, two…
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Save $30 On Three Different Kindles
Prime exclusive Kindle discounts come around fairly often, but today’s $30 discounts are notable in that they’re available to all Amazon shoppers.
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Traces of Alzheimer’s Disease Detected in Wild Animal for the First Time
An international team of researchers has uncovered tell-tale signs of Alzheimer’s disease in dolphins, marking the first time that the age-related disorder has been detected in a wild animal.
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Stranger Things' Second Season Lives Up to Its Incredible Expectations
Here’s the thing about Stranger Things season two: If you liked season one, and pretty much everyone did, then you’ll like this season just fine. Everything is turned up a bit, but the soul of Stranger Things remains what it was last season—a story about friendship, family, and giant piles of ‘80s nostalgia.
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This Doomed Doll House Simulates Tragedies to Teach Kids About Fire Safety
Years ago, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission realized that blowing up mannequins was the most effective way to demonstrate the importance of fireworks safety. The city of Poznań, Poland, has taken a similar approach when it comes to teaching kids about fire safety, but using an incredibly detailed miniature…
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It Sounds Like Snap Spectacles Turned Into a Massive Boondoggle
This is kind of a sad story. In November, Snap Inc blew everybody’s mind by releasing a surprisingly interesting piece of hardware. The camera-equipped sunglasses called Spectacles worked with Snapchat and looked cool. But a year later, the company reportedly has “hundreds of thousands” of unsold Spectacles sitting in…
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Newly Released Files Show Steve Jobs Gave President Clinton Unsolicited Cabinet Recommendations
President Bill Clinton and Apple cofounder Steve Jobs were buddies before Jobs died of cancer in 2011. Jobs even gave Clinton advice in the middle of the Lewinsky scandal. But the details of the relationship between the two men have been pretty scarce. Newly released documents from the Clinton Presidential Library…
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