Israel doesn’t get on too well with its Arab neighbors, and the threat of annihilation by ballistic missile is always present. To defend itself against this potential threat, Israel has built an …
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A Brief History of Aphrodisiacs
By Melissa – TodayIFoundOut.com
Throughout history people have been trying to solve the problem of not getting any or just not getting enough. The following are some of the all-natural historical cures for the sexy-time doldrums.
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Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/-fN-mT8j4wE/a-brief-history-of-aphrodisiacs-1497774024
How Many Humans Would a T-Rex Need to Eat Every Day to Survive?
If Jurassic Park taught us anything, it’s that humans are easy prey for T-Rex. But just how many human beings would such a dino need to chow down on every day just to survive?
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This Is the Biggest Goddamn Smartwatch I’ve Ever Seen In My Life
The Luci Inflatable Solar Lantern Gets a Colorful Follow-Up
What was originally conceived as a …
LG’s WebOS TV Hands-On: An Awesome Resurrection
By Brent Rose
Yesterday we got the official word that LG would be using WebOS as the brains for 78-percent of its upcoming smart TVs. There was a lot to like about WebOS back when it ran on smartphones, but we were a bit skeptical about how it would fair in a smart TV. After all, smart TV user interfaces are almost universally bad. Not this time.
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A Giant e-Ink Digital Clock Powered By a Tiny Watch Battery
The biggest advantage to e-ink display technology is its incredible battery life. It means your Kindle can flip through book after book before needing a charge, and it allows this …
Why I dont like alien OSes simulators
There is new wave in the upcoming OSes (as well as some quite old ones): add possibility to run application from alien OSes. For example – Android
From marketing point of view this is an wow-factor…
Marketoid’s “User will able to run its favourite apps on our new cool platform! Hooray…” should read as “We are unable to attract enough native developers as well unable to get key applications to be ported on our platform”. In near terms strategy it makes sense, but, looking at human’s psychology this short terms strategy usually becomes the only strategy: users are get used to, native developers are gone…
Another killing paradigm: Android better than Android. This will definitely kill all attention of potential native developers. The reasons are simple – why to waste or spread forces for porting if it works better than in Android itself?
So, introducing alien OS will rise userbase at beginning, but, since there is no native applictions, implements unique platform’s features, userbase will decrease and platform will die
Remember OS/2?
Google’s Coming to the Rescue on HealthCare.gov
The “tech surge” that President Obama promised to fix the very broken HealthCare.gov portal just got a lot more tech-savvy. According to Bloomberg, …
FAA Approves Use of Electronic Devices Through All Phases of Flight
By Tiffany Kaiser Many airlines will allow passengers to use their electronics during all phases of flight by the end of the year