By Chris Mills
During a thunderstorm, it’s normally the lightning bolts that take over Instagram — after all, it’s a little difficult to apply the X-Pro II filter to a soundwave. That is, if you’re a heliophysicist armed with rockets, your own lightning bolt, and some heavy science.
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By Steven Musil Ride-sharing services pulls out after lawmakers override veto on bill requiring drivers carry more insurance and submit to state background checks.
We asked for your worst stories of working IT phone support — and boy, did you ever answer our call. You have the patience of saints and the fortitude of soldiers. We’ll never look at a phone the same way again.
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By Anthony Domanico To celebrate Star Wars Day, the folks behind the I am Bread video game release an expansion called Starch Wars – A New Loaf that brings a yeastly space battle to your computer.
By David Nield on Field Guide, shared by Meg Neal to Gizmodo
Learning a foreign language …
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By Bonnie Burton Han Solo and Chewbacca hang out with the new characters in Annie Leibovitz’s latest “Star Wars” portrait for Vanity Fair magazine. Plus J.J. Abrams reveals his Jar Jar death fantasies.
You might think that the best way to fight card skimmers would be hunt them down and destroy them. But in California, at least, police have been leaving the skimmers right where they are—after they’ve fitted GPS trackers to them, that is.
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By Chris Matyszczyk Technically Incorrect: A new ad lauding Samsung’s design credentials bears a stunning resemblance to every video lauding Apple’s design credentials.
By Eric Mack With the CH4 wearable, now on Kickstarter, the quantified-self movement may have just jumped the shark. Or perhaps flatulence truly is a data gold mine.
By Don Reisinger Just seven lines of code were used to dupe the anti-phishing tool. Google fixed the problem, but a new flaw has apparently been revealed.