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New VR Dating Show Asks: What If The Sims Were Misshapen and Horny?
Image: Virtually Dating Your mouth doesn’t move when you talk and your slightly misshapen legs bend away from your body. But it’s a first date so you’re making the best of it. Mood lighting and romantic music come on, so you move in closer for a dance. “I like the way my hand goes through…
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Razer’s Giant Laptop Gets Way Cheaper Version
The $4000 Razer Blade Pro next to the $2300 Razer Blade Pro. You’ll definitely notice a difference when it comes to the display. The new, cheaper, Razer Blade Pro shifts to a 1080p display with a 120Hz refresh rate, it also downgrades from a 1080—the most powerful graphics card you can get in a laptop…
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Why MoviePass’s Crazy Cheap Subscription Just Might Work
AMC Theaters Is Not Happy About the New Super Cheap MoviePass Service You probably saw this coming. The long embattled theatrical movie subscription service MoviePass… Read more As a co-founder of Netflix and the President of Redbox, Mitch Lowe was a crucial figure in the death of the video store. He took over the CEO…
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More Than a Dozen New Cosmic Radio Bursts Detected From Deep Space
Artist’s depiction of a rupturing magnetar—a rotating neutron star with an extremely strong magnetic field. These exotic objects could be the source of the mysterious cosmic bursts observed by scientists. (Image: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/S. Wiessinger) Scientists on the hunt for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence have detected 15 Fast Radio Bursts from a dwarf…
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Burying Beetle Colors Warn Predators of Toxic, Embalming Butt Juice
Image: Kebman/Flickr Creative Commons Burying beetles (Nicrophorus) are hard to miss. The insects aren’t big, but most species are painted with vibrant, orange blotches on a glossy black background. According to new research, walking around dressed in their Halloween best may have a much more important function for the beetles than just looking like Beavers…
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Fire, Dust Storms and Scorching Heat: This Year’s Burning Man Sounds Like the End of Days
We've Identified Those Bugs Infesting Burning Man — And It's Not Pretty [UPDATED] Yesterday, Burning Man organizers revealed the truth: the annual desert arts festival is infested… Read more Attendees have been gathering in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada since Sunday to install art projects, construct camps, fire up sound systems and, ya know,…
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There’s a Good Reason This Weird, Old Cassette Format Didn’t Work Out
GIF Before optical and then digital storage, magnetic tape was the standard. In the rush to develop dominant formats, we know Betamax lost out of VHS due to price (and because VHS captured the burgeoning porn market). But why did Phillips’s compact cassette become the standard while almost no one has ever heard of the…
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Apple’s Next iPhones Will Officially Be Announced September 12
Apple iPhone 8 Rumor Roundup: Everything We Think We Know [Updated] With a new iPhone due out later this fall, the Apple rumor mill is hitting peak froth. Not only… Read more Besides three new phones, Apple is also rumored to be releasing a third iteration of the Apple Watch—the first with LTE connectivity. There…
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Girl (9) suddenly disappeared after the wedding, search rope
PONT-DE-BEAUVOISIN – The French police Thursday arrested a man suspected of involvement in the disappearance of nine-year-old Maëlys de Araujo. The girl disappeared in the night from Saturday to Sunday from a bedroom during a wedding in Point-de-Beauvoisin. Since then, looking for the police with man and power to the girl. There is seriously taken…
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Prime minister Iraq: IS in Tel Afar reports
BAGHDAD – The Iraqi prime minister Haider al-Abadi last Thursday, the victory declared in the battle against the group Islamic State in the city of Tal Afar. “Tal Afar is liberated”, as was the premier in a statement to know. He called to the remaining warriors that IS about to give up. In the past…