The Great Bitcoin Experiment That Failed
Walk around downtown St. Petersburg, Florida, and you’ll mostly notice how good everything seems.One thing you likely won’t notice, at least unless you squint, is any sign that one company, flush with tech startup cash, tried to make St. Pete the Bitcoin capital of the world.
January 2, 2016 at 04:00PM
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A slightly snarky look at what’s arriving and departing on Netflix for the week of January 2-8.
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Guy Builds An RC Plane Out Of An Old Heater Part, Engine And Styrofoam
YouTuber Samm Shepard had to replace an electric wall heater in his house, so he used the old heater’s blower fan to build himself a plane engine.
January 2, 2016 at 02:44PM
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How the US Government’s rush to create backdoors to monitor the world may have come back to haunt them
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When Samsung revealed the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge flagship smartphones in April 2015, the designs and features were drastically different from the Galaxy S5. Samsung did away with expandable storage, the removable battery and water resistance from the Galaxy S5 to the Galaxy S6 in favor of aluminum edges and a glass back. Even though Samsung got rid of favorable features that distinguished its Galaxy devices from the iPhone, the Galaxy S6 received very positive reviews. And the curved screens built into the Galaxy S6 edge clearly proved that Samsung knows how to innovate. Now rumors about what Samsung will be doing for its next line of flagship smartphones have been pouring in. Here are 10 leaked features that are expected for the Galaxy S7:
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The Worrying Rise of Automated Parole
Vending machine-style kiosks are replacing parole officers, which means less rehabilitation work and more surveillance.
January 2, 2016 at 01:33PM
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Las Navidades son muy largas y los días para entregar los tradicionales regalos muy diversos: los hay que no pueden esperar y los entregan el 24 de diciembre por la noche; los que se animan a sorprender a sus seres queridos el día 25; y…
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After momentarily introducing the Peek feature in the Android version of its app in the previous beta, Instagram later pulled the feature for unknown reasons. It seems the company is now ready to roll it out again, as some users are now seeing the feature back in the latest v7.14.0 of the app.
For those not aware, the Peek feature is lifted from the iOS version of the app, which makes use of the sophisticated pressure sensitive display on the iPhone 6s to let you press harder on the screen to get a ‘peek’ at the image without actually opening it. This lets you quickly look at the image and then release the screen for the image to pop back. The Android version uses a cruder implementation, with the user having to press and hold on the screen for a while before the image pops up and then release it for it to pop back.
As mentioned before, only some users are seeing the feature even now, even if you have the latest version installed. It seems the feature is enabled server side, so you may have to wait a while even if you get the latest update before you can start using it.
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Building a star isn’t simply a matter of gathering enough mass. The type of matter you use greatly affects the behavior of your star.
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