By Ty Pendlebury Tidal is a new subscription streaming service which offers truly lossless music — and the promise of a better deal for the artists.
Daily Archives: 23.12.2014
ESPN3 Is Finally Arriving For DirecTV Customers
A new deal announced today between DirecTV and Disney will make live and on-demand ESPN content available to subscribers of the satellite service, finally extending WatchESPN and ESPN3 to its 20 million subscribers.
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The FDA Blew Its Chance to End the Ridiculous Ban on Gay Blood Donation
By Sarah Zhang
So much for ending government-mandated discrimination. The FDA today …
An Artist 3D-Printed 100,000 Parts To Make This 26-Foot Long Sculpture
What’s more impressive than this 26-foot long version of Taiwanese artist Hung-Chih Peng’s …
How the U.S. Military Turned Santa Claus Into a Cold War Icon
By Matt Novak
You’ve probably heard the story by now: On Christmas Eve 1955, a young boy in Colorado Springs dialed a Sears-sponsored hotline that let kids talk with Santa Claus. But instead of reaching Santa, he was connected to the red phone at CONAD, the military command center charged with patrolling the skies for any nuclear missiles coming from the Soviet Union. The local newspaper had mistakenly printed the wrong number.
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How the U.S. Military Turned Santa Claus Into a Cold War Icon
By Matt Novak
You’ve probably heard the story by now: On Christmas Eve 1955, a young boy in Colorado Springs dialed a Sears-sponsored hotline that let kids talk with Santa Claus. But instead of reaching Santa, he was connected to the red phone at CONAD, the military command center charged with patrolling the skies for any nuclear missiles coming from the Soviet Union. The local newspaper had mistakenly printed the wrong number.
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Mozilla, KDDI partner on ‘high-spec’ Firefox OS phone for Japan
By Don Reisinger The phone comes with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor and features everything from 4G LTE to NFC support.
7 Million Keurigs Recalled Because They Won’t Stop Burning People
Instant coffee machine manufacturer Keurig is …
A Video Guide to Building Your Very Own Racing Quadcopter
Apple updates Macs without asking, but it’s to foil hackers
By Rich Trenholm Apple is pushing out its first automatic security update to protect your computer from being taken over by wrong’uns.