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Couple paid $100 for abandoned car they found in a storage unit—Elon Musk bought it from them for...
In 2013, Tesla CEO Elon Musk paid almost $1 million for a 1976 Lotus Esprit submarine car that was featured in the 1977 James Bond movie "The Spy Who Loved Me". Years after the film released, the car had been missing until discovered under blankets in an unclaimed storage unit by a couple in Long Island, New York.
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Sham news sites make big bucks from fake views
Websites that copy news stories from legitimate sites are making money from Google and Amazon ads.
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TikTok's catastrophic handling of a teen who posted anti-China videos shows it is almost...
TikTok's catastrophic public-relations fallout over its suspension of a teen girl who posted anti-China videos has shown that it's almost impossible to run a viral social-media platform while following Beijing's rules.
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How to make phone batteries that last longer
A breakthrough in battery technology would be an engineering triumph and spur to other technologies.
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If you have one of these Roku devices or smart TVs, you’re losing access to Netflix on Sunday
Over the past few months, owners of select smart TVs and streaming players have been receiving warnings that their devices will no longer support Netflix as of December 1st. The brands affected include Roku, Samsung, and Vizio, but the good news is that if you bought a TV or a streaming player from any of these companies within the past few years, it’s unlikely that your particular device will be affected by the incoming Netflix purge.
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Robots To Build Seoul's Robot Science Museum
The Robot Science Museum by Melike Altinisik Architects will be constructed at the heart of the Changbai New Economic Center, in Seoul's newly redeveloped area
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WordPress introduces a new way for bloggers to get paid
Anyone with a paid WordPress blog or a blog that uses jetpack.com are eligible to use it
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Twitter account deletions on 'pause' after outcry
Twitter has said it will "pause" plans to disable inactive accounts following user backlash, a day after announcing plans for a huge cull of such accounts. The social network said it now would not remove accounts until it had a process for "memorialising" dead users on the network.
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This resilient Raspberry Pi cyberdeck is made for the end of the world
Sometimes, certain gadgets speak to you on an intuitive level. They bypass that bit of your brain that demands functionality or value, and make their pitch on pure aesthetics. This custom Raspberry Pi cyberdeck is just such a device for me. With its rugged waterproof case, retro components switches, and compact ortholinear keyboard, it looks like a computer built for the end of the world — and I love it.
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ASUS finally rolls out Android Pie for the first gen ROG Phone
Most recently, the company rolled out a stable Android 10 update for last year’s ZenFone 5Z. However, it hasn’t extended the same priveledges to some other devices. For instance, the company dropped plans to update the ZenFone 4 to Android Pie late last month. Thankfully though, it doesn’t seem like the first-gen ROG Phone is going to get the same treatment.
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Scientists develop slippery toilet coating to stop poo sticking
Spray-on surface could prevent bacteria building up and reduce household water use
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Could this extra squishy new material mean safer bike helmets?
Scientists say a microlattice design can absorb 27% more energy than the foam helmets on the market now.
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Don’t Have Time to Write Every Day? Try This
Write shorter. Much shorter.
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Your car doesn’t need a touchscreen in it
The Volkswagen SPACE VIZZION is just the latest example of car companies betting it all on touch technology.
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Amazon’s Ring Planned Neighborhood “Watch Lists” Built on Facial Recognition
Documents hint the data could be shared with police, but Ring denies the features are in use or development.
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Woman, 82, Confronts Young Burglar, Breakes a Table on his Head and Start Shampooing Him
In Rochester, N.Y., an 82-year-old female bodybuilder,Willie Murphy, was attacked after she says a young man broke into her home – until she turned the tables on the intruder. It was dark in her home so she decided to hide and attack him as soon as possible.
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This Trash Eating Boat Can Clean Up The Rivers
Today we are facing so many environmental problems out of which one is water pollution. We are throwing away all the garbage directly into our lakes, rivers and oceans. We just can’t imagine how much waste is already present in our water bodies and therefore in the end we have to rely on new technologies and devices which can help us in cleaning our lakes and oceans.
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New machine detects 13 types of cancer with a single drop of blood
Toshiba has invented a machine that can detect 13 types of cancer using just a single drop of blood in record time: in just two hours, people will have a full diagnosis for the ridiculous price of $180 or under with more than 99% accuracy.
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Photo of Billy the Kid playing cards with his gang set to fetch $1m
The previously unseen black and white image from 1877 shows the American outlaw playing cards with three members of his gang - Richard Brewer, Fred Waite and Henry Brown.
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Instagram v porn stars: A battle over censorship?
Adult performers say it has unfairly removed their accounts, despite no explicit images.
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Look out for Junk Sources in Google News
"I don’t know how these sites got indexed in Google News because they don’t appear to meet the quality standards for the platform. But there they are."
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7 great Linux gifts for the holiday season
Want to give your Linux-loving friend a great gift? Here are some of my favorites for the Tux-lover in your life.
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YouTube needs to chill with its annoying Premium spam
Google is using full-screen pop-up ads to promote YouTube Premium subscriptions.
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The Australian government tackles climate change threats
Approximately 75 Victoria Police and 150 ADF personnel, including elements of the Army Reserve’s 4th Brigade, participated in the exercise held at the AGL Loy Yang Power Station facility in the La Trobe Valley.
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Daring Mars mission to send rocks back to Earth in hunt for past life
Engineers plan to collect rocks on Mars and bring samples to Earth, in one of the most complex robot space projects envisaged. The scheme, being developed by Nasa and the European Space Agency (Esa), will involve robot rovers finding rocks that might contain evidence of past life.
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The Jungle Prince of Delhi
For 40 years, journalists chronicled the eccentric royal family of Oudh, deposed aristocrats who lived in a ruined palace in the Indian capital. It was a tragic, astonishing story. But was it true?
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Facebook built a facial-recognition app that let employees identify people by pointing a phone at...
The employee-only tool, created around 2015 and 2016, used Facebook's vast collection of facial data to automatically recognize people.
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Sacha Baron Cohen Links the Decline of Democracy to the Rise of Social Media, “the Greatest...
Presenting a keynote address at an ADL conference, comedian Sacha Baron Cohen wasn't kidding around when he painted a bleak picture of our emerging world: "Today ... demagogues appeal to our worst instincts. Conspiracy theories once confined to the fringe are going mainstream. It’s as if the Age of Reason—the era of evidential argument—is ending, and now knowledge is delegitimized and scientific consensus is dismissed.
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Hands-on with folding Motorola Razr
The Motorola Razr has been revived as a folding smartphone, 15 years after the original “game changing” device hit the market. Motorola was once a popular phone brand but has since lost market share to rivals such as Apple, Huawei and Samsung. The brand is now owned by Chinese computing firm Lenovo. The new Motorola Razr will be sold for $1,500, starting in the US on 26 December.
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How our home delivery habit reshaped the world
The long read: The great trick of online retail has been to get us to shop more and think less about how our purchases reach our homes
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