By Rick Broida This impossibly tiny drive barely sticks out of a USB port, so you can leave it there full-time. Great for storage-strapped laptops!
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Monthly Archives: February 2015
Oh Hey, An Ubuntu Phone Is Actually Happening
By Eric Limer
Remember how there were …
Darth Vader looms large in Star Wars snow sculpture in Japan
By Bonnie Burton Japanese soldiers have built a giant sculpture of Vader and his Stormtroopers for the Sapporo Snow Festival. Who knew the Dark Lord of the Sith looked so good in white?
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Darth Vader looms large in Star Wars snow sculpture in Japan
By Bonnie Burton Japanese soldiers have built a giant sculpture of Vader and his Stormtroopers for the Sapporo Snow Festival. Who knew the Dark Lord of the Sith looked so good in white?
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The phenomenal alien worlds of Jesse van Dijk
By Jesus Diaz
If you have played Destiny, you are familiar with…
Trippy drone video wrecks brains by flipping the world upside down
By Casey Chan
I don’t know why this is so unsettling. The eerie music and the fact that the drone is taking footage from abandoned places doesn’t help but it’s also mostly because the world is literally flipped upside down and my normally aligned brain can’t begin to process that without melting a little bit.
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Seeing an avalanche form right before your eyes is absolutely terrifying
By Casey Chan
The ground just starts cracking right in front of the snowboarder. I mean, what do you even do when the ground fractures and the snow murmurs and life glitches like that? What do you do when you have two seconds to realize you’re screwed and to come up with a plan to unscrew yourself? You can’t do anything, really.
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That Plastic Thing Inside the Pizza Box Was Invented 30 Years Ago
By Casey Chan
If you’re one of the 7 billion humans on this planet who enjoys getting pizza delivered to your door, you have a piece of plastic to thank. A piece of plastic? Yes, that circular plastic thing that goes in the middle of a pie to prevent the pizza from sticking to the top of the pizza box. It’s called a pizza saver. And it was invented 30 years ago on February 10, 1983 when Carmela Vitale got her patent issued for that piece of plastic.
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Microsoft’s CEO expects pen to be extinct in a decade
By Chris Matyszczyk Technically Incorrect: Asked which technology won’t exist in 2125, Satya Nadella crushes romantics and nostalgics.
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8 predictions Arthur C. Clarke got right decades ago (pictures)
By Eric Mack Author, inventor and futurist Arthur C. Clarke brought us some frightening visions of the future that have yet to come to pass. But he also nailed an awful lot about 21st-century life decades ago.