Google Chrome is officially killing Flash starting next month
The death of Flash won’t take long. By the time Chrome 55 hits in December, Google plans to have HTML5 as the only option for Chrome users — unless a site only supports Flash.

August 9, 2016 at 01:51PM
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This Military Grade Cleaner Powered By An Entire Truck Is Frickin’ Hardcore
It will erase all the mistakes you have ever made (in the kitchen).

August 9, 2016 at 01:00PM
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Hackers Can Spy on You Through Your ‘Smart’ Sex Toy
If you go to high intensity, they’ll know.

August 9, 2016 at 12:45PM
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Snapchat, Instagram Stories, and the Internet of Forgetting
It’s a response to a demand: on an internet that always remembers, we are fighting for places we can go to forget.

August 9, 2016 at 10:48AM
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How a Computer Outage Can Take Down a Whole Airline
Just after five in the morning on Monday, Delta sent out an alert every traveler dreads. “Delta has experienced a computer outage that has affected flights scheduled for this morning.” An outage Atlanta had crippled its mission control center, forcing the cancelation of 650 flights worldwide.

August 9, 2016 at 06:33AM
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This Guy Wants to Become the Steve Jobs of Weed
Davis Clayton Kiyo hoped to go down in history as the disruptor of pot culture. Things were going well. Until the cops showed up.

August 8, 2016 at 07:47PM
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Robotic Swedish Speed Bump Doesn’t Mess Around
If your only knowledge of speed bumps is the lumps America puts in its roads to scare drivers into slowing down, you’d be in for a rude awakening in Sweden, where they use radar guns and mechanized sections of the road to make sure you’re definitely adhering to the speed limit.

August 8, 2016 at 06:36PM
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Inside Hebocon, Where A Ton Of Shitty Robots Fight Each Other
Battlebots or Robot Wars are cool, but to be very realistic, most of us don’t have the skills and time to participate. Thus, it only makes sense for Hebocon to be the alternative.

August 8, 2016 at 04:32PM
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Major Qualcomm chip security flaws expose 900M Android users
According to Checkpoint — which revealed its findings over the weekend at the Defcon security conference in Las Vegas — the “vulnerabilities can give attackers complete control of devices and unrestricted access to sensitive personal and enterprise data on them.”

August 8, 2016 at 11:39AM
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These viral selfie apps with 1 billion downloads are shaping China’s start-up culture
The selfie, we all know, is an art form. That cast of light. That tilt of the chin. Not that you’re trying. But at the southern Chinese headquarters of Meitu, the maker of some of the world’s most popular beauty apps, the selfie is also science.

August 8, 2016 at 10:34AM
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