By Dan
Ackerman The company says it will take into account time spent viewing an article to improve your news feed. …read more
Monthly Archives: April 2016
How to Maybe Stop Procrastinating
By Casey Chan on Sploid, shared by Cheryl Eddy to Gizmodo
Everybody procrastinates. Well, every sane person does. That’s because it’s nice to not think about what we have to do and it’s so much funner to just play video games and distract ourselves from reality. But then eventually we still have to do the thing we had to do and we now have less time to do the thing because of our procrastination. How do we stop procrastinating?
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Source:: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/Ha5u9vXIajQ/how-to-maybe-stop-procrastinating-1772366421
Amazon Prime Video wants to be the new Netflix (The 3:59, Ep. 29) – CNET
By Ben Fox
Rubin The streaming video service comes out with a standalone monthly option, offering new competition in online TV. …read more
What on Earth is Tim shredding on this week?! (AutoComplete, Ep. 14) – Roadshow
By Brian
Cooley “High-octane” gas may not be a lie for much longer; Tim Stevens will soon be shredding on something you’ve never seen before; and the scope of the Takata airbag problem gets bigger (if that’s possible). …read more
How the Best Rides at Universal Studios Work
Universal Studios is a bizarre theme park that welcomes over seven million people a year. Lately, the big draw is a sprawling replica of Harry Potter’s world, though it’s long been famous for making tourists feel like they’re characters in one of Universal’s many hit movies. The technology involved in these spectacles, however, has remained a mystery—until now.
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Stephen Hawking and a Russian Billionaire Want to Build an Interstellar Starship
By Maddie Stone
Last year, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence …
PC shipments nosedive worldwide – CNET
By Lance
Whitney Shipments sunk last quarter as consumers continued to gravitate toward other devices. But increased purchases of Windows 10 PCs may provide a bounce toward year’s end, say Gartner and IDC. …read more
Source:: http://www.cnet.com/news/pc-shipments-take-a-worldwide-nosedive/#ftag=CAD590a51e
NASA scientists telecommute 75 million miles, rescue Kepler spacecraft – CNET
By Max Taves A malfunction jeopardized Kepler, the space agency’s best hope to find new planets. Its mission remains on hold.
Researchers store images in DNA, search for and perfectly retrieve them – CNET
By Michelle Starr DNA is the future of data storage, and it just got more viable, as a team of researchers found a way to encode direct access.
M83 Just Put Its Entire New Album on YouTube, Which Is Pretty Damn Cool
M83 released a new album, Junk, today, and although the band has been …