On its journey from plant to ice cream cone, vanilla travels thousands of miles. Shady fields of waist-high vines in Madagascar, the South Pacific, or Latin America produce valuable fruit, which is cured, oxidized, and dried in an intensive sequence of events lasting several weeks. It’s then shipped to markets around the world, just as […]
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As it has long threatened to do, HP has sued two former Autonomy executives, accusing them of impropriety related to the two companies' financially disastrous 2011 merger.…
Looney Pyramids (formerly known as “Icehouse Pyramids”) are a system of plastic board game playing pieces. They come in a variety of colors (10 are commonly available) and 3 sizes and are sold in sets.
Lasers and radioactive dating help scientists figure out how much muck the 2013 storms scraped out of the Colorado Rockies.
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The commercials are the closest thing Star Citizen has to a conventional advertising campaign.
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Pic + vid Microsoft's brief flirtation with ARM-powered Windows RT tablets looks to be over: the Redmond giant has unveiled its latest fondleslab, the Surface 3, which is a dinky Atom-powered slate running a full version of Windows on Intel hardware.…
I heard about xkcd's Mysteries comic on the excellent Weird Things podcast. The hosts discussed the very weird unsolved "Lead Masks Case."
Netflix crystalized the idea of an internet service that streamed unlimited amounts of TV and movies into your home. It redefined television production with House of Cards, bringing a bona fide original series straight to the net. And with documentaries like The Battered Bastards of Baseball, it took the idea of original programming to new heights. But the company isn't finished.
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What happens when you spin a CD too fast? The answer is that it shatters. The Slow Mo Guys captured some high speed video showing just how it breaks.
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One man is dead and another seriously hurt after they rammed a car into the front gates of the NSA's headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland.…
Games can be conversations, and a new anthology curated by Merritt Kopas called Videogames For Humans aims to explore those connections.
Nearly 18 months after the Silk Road online drug market was busted by law enforcement, the criminal charges rippling out from the case have now come full circle: back to two of the law enforcement agents involved in the investigation, one of whom is accused of being the Silk Road’s mole inside the Drug Enforcement […]
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The new One looks the same as the last, but it has a new camera, some more intelligent software, and an incredible number of customization options.
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NFC payment tech for phones, aka bonking, is coming to an Android Vodamobe near you.…
The price of this Scandinavian dream loft? Zero dollars. Airbnb raffled it off to a lucky winner.
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