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  1. A Great Explanation Of Why Not All Locks Need Keys

    A Great Explanation Of Why Not All Locks Need Keys Encryption is a dicey subject. A lot of governments want keyholes in products like phones and computers so that they can access important data in case of an emergency. But that's probably a

  2. Clay Bavor, Google's VP of VR, on His Plan to Make Virtual Reality Amazing for Everyone

    Clay Bavor, Google's VP of VR, on His Plan to Make Virtual Reality Amazing for Everyone Cardboard is just the start of Google's VR ambitions. April 14, 2016 at 10:33PMvia Digg bit.ly

  3. The Minecraft Generation

    The Minecraft Generation How a clunky Swedish computer game is teaching hundreds of millions of children to master the digital world. April 14, 2016 at 10:32PMvia Digg nyti.ms

  4. Three men rescued from remote island after writing ‘help’ on the sand

    Three men rescued from remote island after writing ‘help’ on the sand For three days, the men remained stranded on the uninhabited island, hoping for help. In the end, their own ingenuity would facilitate their rescue. April 10, 2016 at 11:

  5. VoCore: Mini Linux Computer

    VoCore: Mini Linux Computer With this mini Linux machine, you can make a tiny router, invent a new device, build a motherboard, or even repurpose old speakers into smart wireless versions. April 10, 2016 at 11:35AMvia Digg di.gg

  6. How Amazon Will Kill Your Local Grocer

    How Amazon Will Kill Your Local Grocer Amazon's done it to books. And electronics. And clothing. Now it wants to rule the grocery aisles. April 8, 2016 at 05:34PMvia Digg bloom.bg

  7. Juggling A Flaming Soccer Ball Is So Very impressive

    Juggling A Flaming Soccer Ball Is So Very impressive The only thing cooler than juggling a flaming soccer ball has to be scoring a fire goal on a fire pitch. Thankfully, they do that in this video too. April 7, 2016 at 10:06AMvia Digg di.gg

  8. What Should We Do About Big Data Leaks?

    What Should We Do About Big Data Leaks? The internet makes critical information accessible. Now let’s make it usable. April 7, 2016 at 10:06AMvia Digg bit.ly

  9. How To Make Every Item On The Taco Bell Menu At Home

    How To Make Every Item On The Taco Bell Menu At Home Brothers Green Eats brings you what might be the most important cooking video of all time. April 6, 2016 at 10:42PMvia Digg di.gg

  10. Why Use Glue When You Can Use A Plastic Welder

    Why Use Glue When You Can Use A Plastic Welder Sometimes glue — even the super kind — just doesn’t hold up. Which is why you should use the world’s first liquid plastic welder instead. April 6, 2016 at 10:34PMvia Digg di.gg

  11. Chinese Street Food Cook Is A Wizard With A Tray Of Buns

    Chinese Street Food Cook Is A Wizard With A Tray Of Buns Apparently his parents never told him not to play with his food. April 6, 2016 at 10:28PMvia Digg di.gg

  12. Spinning Top Trick Shots Are A Thing And They're Incredibly Impressive

    Spinning Top Trick Shots Are A Thing And They're Incredibly Impressive Did you know people do trick shots with spinning tops? Neither did we! And it's definitely the coolest thing we've seen today. April 6, 2016 at 09:51AMvia Digg di.gg

  13. Terrifyingly Convenient

    Terrifyingly Convenient AI assistants can give you the news, order you a pizza, and tell you a joke. All you have to do is trust them — completely. April 4, 2016 at 05:47PMvia Digg slate.me

  14. What Happens To Everyday Objects Under 100,000 Pounds Of Pressure

    What Happens To Everyday Objects Under 100,000 Pounds Of Pressure A while back, GE put a bunch of different objects — a rubber duck, a tennis ball, a silver goblet, etc. — into a micro forge capable of delivering 100,000 pounds of pressure.

  15. A Physicist Dreams Of Catching Dark Matter In The Act

    A Physicist Dreams Of Catching Dark Matter In The Act Hold out your hand for a century, and 100 million particles of dark matter will pass through each second without leaving a trace. Still, a physicist in South Dakota thinks he may be able

  16. Science Can't Save You From Your Hangover (Yet)

    Science Can't Save You From Your Hangover (Yet) The diverse constellation of symptoms that we call “hangovers” are a chronically understudied phenomenon. January 2, 2016 at 12:41PMvia Digg bit.ly

  17. In 2015, Airbnb Began a Fight for Its Life. In 2016, It Has to Win.

    In 2015, Airbnb Began a Fight for Its Life. In 2016, It Has to Win. Airbnb is the third-most valuable startup today at $25.5 billion, and the now ubiquitous home rental service wants to be nothing less than the hotel-substitute glue holding

  18. Fowl Play! Angry Man Leaves Flock Of Chickens Inside Tax Office

    Fowl Play! Angry Man Leaves Flock Of Chickens Inside Tax Office EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Police say an Oregon man angry with his tax situation left a flock of seven chickens inside the state revenue office. Police in Eugene said in a news releas

  19. Ain't No Party Like A Hydrogel-Balls-In-A-Hot-Pan Party

    Ain't No Party Like A Hydrogel-Balls-In-A-Hot-Pan Party Hydrogel balls are tiny bits of polymer that can absorb a bunch of water. And when you put the balls in a sizzling pan, that water wants to go somewhere. November 22, 2015 at 03:59PMvi

  20. How A Food Scientist Cooks Thanksgiving

    How A Food Scientist Cooks Thanksgiving Add some science to your Thanksgiving table with these tips from J. Kenji López-Alt’s New York Times bestselling cookbook The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science. Kenji will be here on Digg

  21. A Drone That Anyone Can Afford

    A Drone That Anyone Can Afford Why settle for one propeller when you could have four? The Snowflake Stealth quadcopter soars, hovers, flips and tilts at high speeds with ease and safety. And, at $35 your new toy won’t make you break the ban

  22. Having Trouble With That Supernative Wenal Sprocket? This Guy Has A Solution For You!

    Having Trouble With That Supernative Wenal Sprocket? This Guy Has A Solution For You! Look, we all took high school physics. Obviously this stuff is child's play. November 13, 2015 at 01:30AMvia Digg di.gg

  23. How Could You Like That Book?

    How Could You Like That Book? Trying to figure out why some people like books that are not very fun to read. November 13, 2015 at 12:59AMvia Digg bit.ly

  24. A Couple Dudes Created A Working Magic Carpet

    A Couple Dudes Created A Working Magic Carpet By rigging up an electric skateboard with a rug, Jesse Wellens and Casey Neistat created an amazing Halloween costume. November 1, 2015 at 07:47AMvia Digg di.gg

  25. Here’s When You Should Stop Trick-Or-Treating

    Here’s When You Should Stop Trick-Or-Treating In a survey, a little more than half of respondents said that 12 or 13 is a good age to stop trick-or-treating. November 1, 2015 at 07:44AMvia Digg 53eig.ht

  26. Experience: I grew up in a cemetery

    Experience: I grew up in a cemetery "I invited a girl home once. She asked where we were going. I pointed over the cemetery walls and said: In there. She ran off and never came back." November 1, 2015 at 07:41AMvia Digg bit.ly

  27. If drones are here to stay, n00bs must lead the way

    If drones are here to stay, n00bs must lead the way The drone horror stories you know involve new pilots; how can the community fix that? November 1, 2015 at 07:40AMvia Digg bit.ly

  28. Here Are The Kickstarters That Are Out-Fundraising Presidential Candidates

    Here Are The Kickstarters That Are Out-Fundraising Presidential Candidates Though people in the startup world whine a lot about politics and an entrenched class of Washington bureaucrats who hate disruption, the reality is that the two worl

  29. Reversed Video Of A Backwards Running Competition Is Funnier Than It Should Be

    Reversed Video Of A Backwards Running Competition Is Funnier Than It Should Be It's the Uncanny Valley of Running: It looks like people running normally, but something is just... off. October 24, 2015 at 01:25PMvia Digg di.gg

  30. "My Kind Of America" With Jack Black

    "My Kind Of America" With Jack Black Colbert and Jack Black have created the great political anthem of our time and it’s free for any politician to use. Lincoln Chafee, this could be your moment. October 15, 2015 at 08:46AMvia Digg di.gg