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  • The Biem Butter Sprayer Solves My Most Pressing First World Problem

    GIF I hate getting anything greasy on my hands. That includes moisturizer, sunscreen, olive oil, margarine, and butter. Until recently I had reserved myself to living a life of dry toast and flavorless corn-on-the-cob, but then a one-trick kitchen gadget came along with exactly the one-trick I desperately wanted. You might assume there are only…

  • Elon Musk Says He Got ‘Verbal Govt Approval’ for Hyperloop From NY to DC

    Source: AP Elon Musk tweeted this morning that he has received “verbal” government approval for his Boring Company to build an underground Hyperloop tunnel connecting New York City and Washington, DC. According to Musk, a Hyperloop passenger would be able to travel between the two city centers in 29 minutes. His plans also include stops…

  • Twitter Says It’s a Safer Place, But There’s No Hard Data to Prove It

    Photo: Getty Twitter claims it has become a safer site thanks to all its anti-abuse efforts, but there’s no way to tell if that’s true because the company didn’t share any hard numbers behind its data. In a closed-door meeting with reporters from several outlets this week this week, Twitter said it’s taking action against…

  • Genetically Engineering Nature Will Be Way More Complicated Than We Thought

    Image: Getty Images For more than half a century, scientists have dreamed of harnessing an odd quirk of nature— “selfish genes,” which bypass the normal 50/50 laws of inheritance and force their way into offspring—to engineer entire species. A few years ago, the advent of the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology turned this science fictional concept…

  • Build This DIY Cannon to Catch Rogue Drones

    GIF Unlike an RC car that will simply crash into a wall if you lose control, an expensive drone can potentially fly for miles after it stops heeding your remote’s commands. But while a shotgun can blast your treasured robot out of the sky before causes any trouble, this net-firing, air-powered, anti-drone cannon seems like…

  • Massive Tides Could Boost TRAPPIST-1’s Prospects For Life

  • Millions of People Just Watched a ‘Live’ GIF on Facebook for Hours

    Screencap: Facebook Earlier today, approximately 17 million Facebook Live users tuned in to an awe-inspiring video of nature at its fiercest: a massive, swirling supercell storm. In the sense that “live” means “actually happening right now,” however, this stream was 100 percent fake. As many commenters surmised, the “stream” was little more than a short,…

  • US Finally Ends Laptop Ban Due to ‘Enhanced Security Measures in Place’

    Photo credit: John Moore/Getty Images You are now free to fly with your laptop onboard US-bound flights from the Middle East. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), it seems, is satisfied with a series of recently adopted “enhanced security measures.” The DHS announced on Wednesday that it has now entirely lifted the four-month ban on…

  • Kovind new president of India

    NEW DELHI – Ram Nath Kovind, a politician of humble origin, is the new president of India. The 71-year-old partijgenoot of prime minister Narendra Modi received a overwhelming support. Nearly 5,000 regional and federal members of parliament spent Monday their vote, Thursday, was the count. Kovinds opponent Meira Kumar, a dalit woman from the lowest…

  • Polish president wants, not with Tusk talk

    BRUSSELS – The Polish president Andrzej Duda refuses EU president Donald Tusk meet for a conversation about the controversial justitiehervormingen in Poland. Duda has an invitation from Tusk, himself a Pole, and ex-prime minister of the country, chopped off, confirm to EU sources in Brussels. According to Duda’s chief of staff see the president ,,no…