| Is This Homemade 'Lightsaber' the Real Deal? | | The Force may be strong with one handheld laser that its creator describes as a "homemade lightsaber." The laser, which emits a blue light and includes a metal handle, can torch through paper, tape, ping-pong balls, cardboard and wooden splints, among other items. Watch for yourself in the video, above. "Here my BEAST 3000 mW [milliwatt] laser goes up against a bunch of flammable stuff.
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| T-Mobile to Launch BlackBerry Q10 and HTC One in U.S. on June 5 | | T-Mobile is set to launch the HTC One and BlackBerry Q10 across the U.S. on June 5, TmoNews reported. HTC's long-awaited flagship device originally launched on T-Mobile on April 24, but its availability was limited to 300 stores. Now, it's expected to be available in all T-Mobile retail stores and branded locations. The BlackBerry Q10 is also scheduled to hit T-Mobile retail stores on June 5.
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| Chinese Farmer Turns His Homemade Bionic Arms Into Business | | 1:57:59 AM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| When a Chinese farmer couldn't afford expensive prosthetic arms, he reportedly created his own functional, bionic arms, which later turned him into an entrepreneur. New Tang Dynasty (NTD) Television reports that farmer Sun Jifa, in China's northern Jilin province, lost his arms years ago when a fishing explosive prematurely went off. Sun could only afford a low-grade pair of prosthetic arms, but they weren't very useful.
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| Could Crowdfunding Help Build Cities? | | 12:59:48 AM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| If you thought crowdfunding was only good for Zach Braff's movies, weird Segway-like transportation devices and dancing robot alarm clocks, think again. In Bogotá, Colombia's capital city, crowdfunding will build a skyscraper, thanks to the donations of 300,000 residents who contributed a total of $170 million.
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| Microsoft: Xbox One's Kinect Won't Skimp on Privacy | | As excitement around Microsoft's unveiling of the new Xbox One and updated Kinect dies down, the inevitable questions about consumer privacy are now cropping up. Wary of the Kinect sensor, Peter Schaar, Germany's federal data protection commissioner, is calling the Xbox One a "monitoring device," according to a translated report in German news magazine Der Spiegel.
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| These Crazy Bike Tricks Are Off the Chain | | Tuesday, May 28, 2013 11:47 PM | Annie Colbert |
| Tim Knoll's insane bike skills can ride circles around your popped wheelie on that rusty Huffy. The BMX freestyler shows off tricks that seem impossible, but Knoll tackles the stunts with ease. The incredible moves include upside down maneuvering, handstands and enough spinning to make your brain dizzy. Enough chatter — just watch. BONUS: Action! 15 Jaw-Dropping Videos Shot on a GoPro Image via iStockphoto, Chilled Images.
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| Apple: 'We Did Not Make a Bid For Waze' | | Tuesday, May 28, 2013 11:05 PM | Emily Price |
| Apple did not try to acquire Waze. CEO Tim Cook set the record straight during an interview Tuesday evening, remarking that Apple “did not make a bid for Waze” — contrary to reports by several tech publications earlier this year. According to the rumors, Apple was attempting to acquire Waze in order to fix some of the ongoing issues with Apple Maps.
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| YouTube's New Tool Makes it Easy to Create Slow-Mo Videos | | Tuesday, May 28, 2013 10:42 PM | Emily Price |
| What turns an average video into a spectacular one? Slow motion. Working under the premise that “slow-mo makes everything better,” YouTube added a new slow motion enhancement tool to its built-in editor on Tuesday, making it accessible to everyone who uses the site to create videos.
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| Tim Cook: Apple Has Sold 'Over 13 Million' Apple TVs | | Tuesday, May 28, 2013 10:22 PM | Emily Price |
| Apple has sold over 13 million Apple TVs, CEO Tim Cook announced during an interview on stage at All Things D’s annual conference currently being held in southern California. Cook said that for several years Apple was only selling a few hundred thousand of the set-top boxes annually, but has now surpassed 13 million total units — more than 6.5 million of those sold in the past year.
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| Apple's Tim Cook: 'We Have Several More Game Changers in Us' | | Tuesday, May 28, 2013 9:54 PM | Emily Price |
| Has Apple lost its cool? “Absolutely not,” says CEO Tim Cook. All Things Digital’s Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg interviewed the CEO as a kickoff to their annual D11 conference being held in Southern California.
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| Life Is a Doodle in a Notebook | | Tuesday, May 28, 2013 9:00 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| Everything you need to know about life, you can find in your drawing notebook. Well, maybe that's an overstatement, but you might learn something about yourself. SEE ALSO: More Comics on Mashable Grant Snider of Incidental Comics made this comic soon after he became a first-time father, when he had the irresistible urge to write about life.
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| Bill Nye the Science Guy Guesses How Superman Shaves in 'Man of Steel' | | Tuesday, May 28, 2013 8:12 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Clark Kent transforms from a bearded man to the clean-shaven Superman in the upcoming Man of Steel movie. In some tales, Superman must reflect his heat vision off his Kryptonian ship or mirror to remove his facial hair, which is known to be as durable as his strong body.
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| Bad News for Bitcoin? Feds Shut Down 'Paypal for Criminals' | | Tuesday, May 28, 2013 7:17 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| In what could be a bad sign for the future of Bitcoin, the feds have shut down Liberty Reserve, a virtual currency exchange system that prosecutors claim was a $6-billion money-laundering scheme designed to help criminals and hackers conceal the origin of their illicit money. Liberty Reserve is a Costa Rica-based online payment network that U.S.
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| North Korea's English Propaganda Broadcast Now Online | | Tuesday, May 28, 2013 6:13 PM | Tech in Asia |
| If you wanted to listen to North Korea’s English-language propaganda in the past, your only option was to buy a shortwave radio or listen to edited clips on the Voice of [North] Korea website. Now, according to North Korea Tech points out, you can listen to the full hourlong daily broadcast streaming on the WRN site. Based on a Monday broadcast, the sound quality is pretty terrible.
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| Boeing's Phantom Badger Combat Jeep Fits in a Small Plane | | Tuesday, May 28, 2013 5:35 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| It's neither an ATV, nor a mini Humvee. Boeing's new Phantom Badger vehicle is a little jeep that can fit inside of a V-22 Osprey aircraft. Boeing's new proposal for a tactical vehicle can be loaded into a V-22 plane with six inches of space left on the sides, according to Shephard, a media organization focused on aerospace and defense.
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| Chris Christie Won a Stuffed Bear for Barack Obama Today | | Tuesday, May 28, 2013 4:54 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| President Barack Obama got a lesson in football carnival games from New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Tuesday afternoon as they toured the rebuilt Jersey Shore together. Obama missed several attempts at throwing a football through a hoop — the objective of the "Touchdown Fever" game. Christie stepped up to the quarterback position and scored on his first throw, winning a Chicago Bears-themed stuffed animal that he gave to the president.
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| LG Won't Make Another Google Phone, VP Says | | Tuesday, May 28, 2013 4:41 PM | Emily Price |
| LG will not make Google's next Nexus device, the Nexus 5, despite previous rumors. In an interview with Dutch website All About Phones, Won Kim, vice president of LG Mobile Europe, indicated that the company has no plans to produce another Nexus device, in part it seems because the company doesn't need to. "The Nexus 4 was a great success, despite the production problems for us and Google.
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| Kickstarter Tops 100,000 Launched Projects | | Tuesday, May 28, 2013 4:20 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Kickstarter announced Tuesday that it has passed a major milestone: More than 100,00 projects have been launched on the crowdfunding service.
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| Who Will Be Our Next Chris Hadfield? | | Tuesday, May 28, 2013 3:36 PM | Amanda Wills |
| Three astronauts are headed to the Space Station on Tuesday. Will one of them give us daily web updates from space like Chris Hadfield?
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| 20 Sassy Marquee Board Messages | | Tuesday, May 28, 2013 3:17 PM | Christine Erickson |
| There are so many creative advertising options these days that you might not even realize you're staring at a billboard. Unfortunately, many local businesses can't afford marketing budgets. But this doesn't mean one can't appreciate an old classic: the marquee board. We pass so many of these simple message boards in our commutes and daily travels that we usually tune them out.
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| Anonymous Hacker Pleads Guilty to Stratfor Breach | | Tuesday, May 28, 2013 3:07 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Another Anonymous hacker has surrendered to the long arm of justice. Jeremy Hammond, 28, a political activist and hacker, pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge for breaching the servers of the U.S. private intelligence firm Stratfor and passing its internal files to Wikileaks.
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