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Tech NewsSploidThe top ten makeup transformations in movie history
Good makeup is key to create believable fictional characters. That’s why moviegoers at Cinefix decided to pay homage to the best movie makeup artists by putting together this list of the best ten makeup transformations of all time: Here’s the full list: Mystique from X-Men (2000) Makeup Artist: Gordon Smith Tootsie (1982) Makeup Artist: Allen … Continued
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Tech NewsBall-Balancing Robot Cheerleaders Make For One Heart-Warming Tech Demo
If you’re an electronics company that builds cutting-edge sensors the average consumer never actually sees in a device, how do you go about promoting your work? Japan’s Murata does so by building adorable little robots capable of impressive stunts—like riding unicycles or performing cheerleader routines while balancing on rolling balls—and then sending them to endless … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidShort film: The alleged story of the cosmonaut who burned in space
The brothers Achille and Giovanni Judica-Cordiglia claim they recorded the voice of a Russian cosmonaut as her capsule burned in re-entry on November 1963. This short film contains that recording and dramatizes the events. No matter if it’s true or not, the short film is terrifying. This is the translation of the audio allegedly captured … Continued
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Tech NewsAn iOS 8 Update That Doesn’t Bork Your Phone Might Take a “Few Days”
Yesterday, iOS 8.0.1 showed up and turned a whole bunch of new iPhones into iPod Touches. You can fix it now if you take the right steps, but the official patch from Apple might take a few days. From Apple’s support page on the subject, which also walks you through the revert-to-iOS-8 process: We are … Continued
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Polar’s New Activity-Tracking GPS Watch Manages to Look Good, Too
Polar has made plenty of GPS exercise watches, an activity tracker, and even a GPS watch-slash-activity tracker, but this is the first time the company has made a wearable device that looks good and won’t break the bank. At $200, we could actually see the Polar M400 ending up on some wrists. The M400 is, … Continued
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Every Response I Got When I FOIA’d the Year’s Dumbest App
When the soul-crushingly simple, single-serving messaging app Yo hit the App Store this past summer, people couldn’t say enough about the app that said barely anything at all. But given our pseudo-surveillance state and similar apps’ privacy concerns, we wondered—could the government be spying on (or even just talking about) Yo? After submitting requests to … Continued
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The British Museum wants to rebuild itself in Minecraft
The British Museum is one of the world’s most iconic collections of artefacts and art from thousands of years of human history – and now it wants to recreate itself in Minecraft as part of a debate on the relationship between the public and art collections in the Digital Age. The plan is to have … Continued
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The Seek Gives Your Smartphone Predator-Vision on the Cheap
Through apps and accessories our smartphones can be almost any digital tool we could ever need, including a thermal camera as FLIR showed us earlier this year. Not surprisingly, competing products to the FLIR ONE have started to appear, including the Seek thermal camera which promises a considerably smaller form factor and a cheaper price … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidI want this chili con queso burrito in my mouth right now
One of the things I hate the most from tex-mex food is burritos. Maybe it’s because I’m from Spain and mixing rice with a flour tortilla is not in my culinary DNA. But this chili con queso burrito made me so hungry that I’m willing to give up my nationality for one bite.* *Not really. … Continued
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Calgary’s New Library Is a Towering Glass Creation
City libraries are an embodiment of the spirit of higher learning that governments are supposed to be all about, and nowhere is that more true than Calgary’s about-to-be-built Central Library. The mock-ups show a towering glass library that’s loosely inspired by the foothills that surround Calgary, giving it a sense of wilderness often lacking from … Continued
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WEDG: An Alternative to Cloud Computing That’ll Keep Your Privates Safe
After the recent spate of celeb nude leaks, and the years-long Snowden saga, privacy is becoming an ever-hotter topic in the tech realm. That’s where WEDG, a personal cloud that aims to keep your data safe — and out of the reach of the government — comes in. WEDG is basically a personal server, that … Continued
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Report: China’s Tech Factories Are Abusing Poor Interns
Think that you have it hard, with your internship forcing you to work 8-hour days making coffee for no pay? Well, a WSJ report might make you feel a little better: Chinese factories are relying on cheap intern labour to keep the manufacturing dream alive. Chinese tech factories have long been under fire for atrocious … Continued
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Scientists Are Using Anthrax to Cure Cancer
“You need some anthrax” is probably not the diagnosis you’d like to hear from your family doctor; but if one MIT team has their way, that’s exactly what’s going to happen. A MIT research team were apparently just sitting around one evening, and wondered what would happen if you used the anthrax bacteria to deliver … Continued
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Japan Tests Its New 500kph Maglev Train
Maglev trains have been promised as the future of public transport since about forever, but high-speed magnetic levitation systems are rapidly gaining a serious reputation — something Japan’s public demonstration of its high-speed maglev system is only going to help. The test was carried out by the Central Japan Railway Company, and was the first … Continued
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Apple has posted an ‘official’ workaround to the iOS 8 screwing-over-your-cell-connection update, and it’s similar to all the versions that’ve been floating around today: backup your phone, then restore to the earlier version of iOS 8, using iTunes. And no, they still haven’t said sorry. [Apple]
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Tech NewsSploidI can’t believe this underwater film was made without special effects
This underwater video is impossibly surreal but the makers of the video, Francisco and Armando del Rosario and Armiche Ramos, say that no computer special effects were used in the video, just some camera tricks to make it look like the ocean world can be sideways and water can be walked upside down on. It’s … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidShort film: A zombie apocalypse might actually be pretty fun
TV shows like The Walking Dead make the zombie apocalypse look like a soul evaporating place because the characters enjoy making dumb decisions. Zombie movies like 28 Days Later make it look terrifying because of the constant state of panic. But what if the zombie apocalypse was actually… fun? Don’t get me wrong, the zombie … Continued
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Tech NewsDeveloper: iOS In-App Browsers Might Be Stealing Your Information
More (slightly) bad security news for Apple, on what’s already been a pretty bad day for iOS: Craig Hockenberry, one of the devs behind Twitterific, has revealed in a blog post that in-app browsers are capable of logging your keyboard. The point is that anything you enter into an in-app browser — even your password, … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidHow are these water drops just floating on the surface of the water?
Water isn’t supposed to float on top of water because well, water is water. So how are these droplets of water suspended on the surface of the water? Sound. The water is actually on top of a speaker and the acoustic vibrations allows the water drops to stay as drops on top of water. It’s … Continued
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