By Ben Fox Rubin The cards sold over the weekend in a private-school auction, after bringing in online bids from around the world.
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Three Steve Jobs business cards sell for $10,050
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Monthly Archives: May 2015
Rare direct image of a super-Jupiter exoplanet
By Michelle Starr A giant planet 11 times the mass of Jupiter has been directly photographed, the closest such planet to Earth we’ve seen with our own eyes.
Happy Birthday To Betamax, Sony’s Next Big Thing
By Chris Mills
On May 10, 1975, Sony took out full-page ads in a bunch of newspapers to proudly announce the arrival of a new product, “The Next Thing”: Betamax.
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In A Terrible Alternate Reality, Siri Is Your Mom
By Chris Mills
To celebrate Mother’s Day, the team at The Daily Dot tracked down the real-life voice of Siri, and put her to work giving motherly advice to a real-life human.
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Are “Keyless Entry” Hacks Really the Source of Recent Car Break Ins?
By Jason Mick My investigation did reveal some Chinese sites selling devices which claimed to be able to detect and amplify car key signals at range …read more
More than 2 million people still pay for AOL dial-up
By Chris Matyszczyk Technically Incorrect: AOL’s quarterly earnings report throws up a glorious statistic about how slow some are to change their habits.
The NSA Actually Named a Program Skynet
By Kate Knibbs
In the Terminator franchise, Skynet is an evil military computer system that launches war on humanity. And at some point, someone in the National Security Agency sat down and thought, “Damn, that’s a sick thing to name a secret system!”
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Why picking a college roommate is now like online dating
By Alisa Lee Some colleges are now using software programs and algorithms to pair up first-year students. Much like online dating, it’s all based on compatibility.
Zoo Incident Proves OtterBoxes Are No Match for Actual Otters
While attempting to take a picture, a zoo-goer at the Red River Zoo in Fargo dropped an OtterBox-equipped iPhone into the otter exhibit. An actual otter promptly destroyed the OtterBox and the iPhone.
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Someone Finally Sued the Police Over Invasive License Plate Readers
License plate readers that scan plates and store information about a car’s whereabouts are a violation of privacy and state law, according to a lawsuit filed in Virginia.
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