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+18 +2iPhones are calling the police when their owners ride rollercoasters
Apple’s iPhones are automatically calling the police to notify them that their owners have been in car crashes during roller coaster rides. The Cupertino tech giant’s newest iPhone had sent the notifications sent from owners phones while they were at the Kings Island amusement park, in Warren County, Ohio, The Wall Street Journal reports.
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+18 +386-year-old bodybuilder breaks own record as oldest to compete in Japan championships
An 86-year-old bodybuilder broke his own record as the oldest person to compete in the Japan championships on Oct. 9. Toshisuke Kanazawa, who lives in the city of Hiroshima, took part in the 68th edition of the men's Japan bodybuilding championships in Osaka, going up against young bodybuilders with exquisite poses.
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+22 +5$1.5 million floating home prototype sinks into the water at unveiling
Hopes for the seamless unveiling of an impressive floating home in Panama quickly sank when the structure ended up becoming partially submerged. If there's one quality you're looking for in a floating home, it's that it floats. Without that, the only home it's really going to provide is one for fish.
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+4 +1'A fluke': The world's oldest webcam is still watching over SF
The average student at San Francisco State University probably doesn’t even know it’s there. But on a recent Tuesday morning on campus, as throngs of them dart off to their next class or settle onto the grassy quad to enjoy their lunch, the presence looms over them — a relic of bygone technology no more than a few inches tall and held up by a couple of pieces of blue gaffer tape.
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+19 +7Litelok claims to have made the world’s lightest and toughest angle-grinder resistant locks
The new Litelok X-1 and X-3 locks are claimed to offer the best available protection from multiple attack methods and, most critically, the threat of angle grinders. The advent of improved battery technology brought a wave of new and very portable power tools, including angle grinders, which have become the weapon of choice for bike (and motorbike) thieves.
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+23 +5Costco Says Hot Dog-Drink Combo Will Cost $1.50 'Forever'
Food prices got you down? There's some good news, thanks to warehouse-store Costco. The store is famous for its hot dog and drink combination, sold at its in-store food counter for just $1.50. And even in tough financial times, that price is sticking around, possibly "forever."
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+12 +3Father and Son Charged in $100 Million Sandwich Scheme
It was the caper of the century: a minuscule New Jersey deli not only became a publicly traded entity but mysteriously grew to have a market value north of $100 million. Now, three men are being charged with illegally pumping up the company’s stock, with the goal of dumping their shares and absconding with the profits. They never even had the chance to pocket their ill-gotten bread.
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+9 +3UK Royals Force News Sites to Delete Embarrassing Video Clips
The British royal family has given broadcasters in the UK a deadline of today to pick just one hour of footage they would like to keep for future use from the Queen’s funeral and the King’s proclamation ceremony, despite the fact that millions of people already saw it all livestreamed on several platforms, according to a new report from the Guardian.
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+3 +1How Much Horsepower Does a Horse Have?
This is an age-old question that pretty much everyone has asked themselves at least once during their lifetime and for good reason too. How much horsepower does a horse have? Shouldn’t it be just one since it is a horse that we’re talking about here?
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+2 +1Fyre Festival Founder Billy McFarland Is a Free Man—And Planning a Comeback
Infamous Fyre Festival founder and convicted felon Billy McFarland is out of prison after serving less than four years. McFarland was released early on March 30th and then transferred to community confinement until August 2022, Deadline reports. And now that the disgraced festival organizer is free, he's planning a comeback and may even start a new company.
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+3 +1Students Say They Were ‘Duped’ Into Attending Twisted Religious Event
The East Baton Rouge school system in Louisiana has been accused of tricking hundreds of high school seniors into attending a religious event this week disguised as a college and career fair.
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+26 +6Three of their four kids are losing their vision. So, they're going on a year-long world tour to make visual memories, before it's too late
Many parents dream of their children growing up and seeing the world. But Edith Lemay, a mother of four from Canada, worried her children were running out of time to do that. When her first child, Mia, was little, she noticed she would bump into things. Lemay worried about her daughter's vision and brought her to a doctor. In 2018, Mia was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa.
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+19 +5The 'last man' selling floppy-disks says airlines continue to make orders for the ancient storage technology
The archaic floppy disk apparently isn't as obsolete as we thought in the US. While they're a relic of another time, at least one industry is still interested in the storage devices, according to the person who claims to be "last man standing in the floppy disk business." Tom Persky, the founder of floppydisk.com — which sells and recycles floppy disks — said that the airline industry is one of his biggest customers in the new book "Floppy Disk Fever: The Curious Afterlives of a Flexible Medium" by Niek Hilkmann and Thomas Walskaar.
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+13 +2Funeral of Queen Elizabeth II draws crowds of mourners so large they're visible from space
Earth-imaging satellites have spied the massive crowds that gathered in London for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. Images taken by the WorldView-3 satellite operated by Colorado-based satellite company Maxar Technologies on Saturday (Sept. 17) show hundreds of thousands of mourners queueing up to pay their respects to the late Queen, who passed away at the age of 96 on Sept. 8.
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+13 +3'French Spiderman' climbs Paris skyscraper to mark turning 60
Alain Robert, the free climber dubbed the "French Spiderman", scaled a 48-storey skyscraper in Paris on Saturday, fulfilling a goal he had set for himself once he reached the age of 60.
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+4 +1On the Run
Without any sort of power, no cars, airplanes, or any type of machinery, the world was filled by a complete lack of any noise, and even though I had been living with it for months, it was something that still bothered me. Especially early in the morning, when the first hints of light were making their ways through the trees. Most of the people in the camp were still sleeping, but Evan, Lauren and I were loading the truck.
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+10 +1A boy was never supposed to know his birth mother. His adoptive parents had other plans.
Schauna Austin is about to let you in on a secret. When the 46-year-old was 20 and single, she got pregnant. She says she wasn't ready to be a mom, so she made the decision to place her baby for adoption. It wasn't easy. "I've never talked about it — ever," Austin said.
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+12 +2If you had to name a probe for Uranus, what would you call it?
Uranus always seems to be the butt of the joke, but this icy planet is actually one that scientists hope to dive deeper into in the future. In fact, many are already pushing for more missions to probe Uranus and learn more about the planet. That’s why some folks, like the people behind Twitter account @ExploreIGO, are trying to push for missions by coming up with a Uranus probe name.
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+14 +2Newegg has so many extra GPUs that it’s bundling them with free monitors
In a strange turn of fate, it seems that Newegg somehow has too many 30-series graphics cards. Right now, you can get a free 24-inch 1080p gaming monitor when you buy an RTX 3060 for $399.99. Another solid offer bundles a free 27-inch curved QHD monitor with a purchase of an RTX 3070 for $599.99. A deal like this is tough to beat; even if you don’t need the monitor, you’re still getting a 30-series graphics card at close to retail price, which was damn near impossible a year ago.
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+15 +2This Man Is Trying to Put Mirrors in Space to Generate Solar Power at Night
Ben Nowack is a 26-year old inventor and entrepreneur. After a mechanical engineering degree, a raft of gigs, and an appearance on Mythbusters he is now the CEO of Tons of Mirrors. Tons of Mirrors is using satellite-mounted reflective surfaces to redirect sunlight to earthbound solar panels at night.
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