Samsung announced a new partnership with ADT today that will make automated smart homes even more secure. The companies are launching a new self-installed security product powered by Samsung’s SmartThings platform and ADT’s professional monitoring services. 

The new Home Security Starter Kit ($549) from both companies comes with a security hub, two door and window detectors, and small motion detector. The security hub, which comes with a 7-inch touchscreen display, can also be used to control other SmartThings devices. But that’s not all.

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Original Post: Samsung and ADT partner to launch new smart home security kit

64-year-old Stephen Paddock is responsible for an attack that left at least 58 people dead and more than 500 people injured in Las Vegas last night — but don’t worry, officials want you to know, at least he’s not a terrorist.

Over the past 12 hours, elected officials and select media outlets have been extremely careful about how they’ve chosen to describe the man responsible for the largest mass shooting in American historyA lone wolf. A man who doesn’t fit the mass shooter profile. 

Trump and media outlets like Breitbart, always quick to call Muslim terrorists, terrorists, selected to exercise much more restraint this time around and instead use polite euphemisms for white, male, American Paddock.  Read more…

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A lone gunman fired into a crowd of people in Las Vegas on Sunday—and the crisis is still reverberating on Snapchat.

User-submitted Snaps, curated by Snapchat editors, provided an on-the-ground look at the raw emotions in the midst of the largest mass shooting in U.S. history like no other platform or media outlet. 

The story, which could still be viewed as of Monday afternoon, contained a variety of scenes of people in the midst of the chaos. Snapchat placed a “WARNING” label ahead of what it described as graphic content. If users have the sound on when watching these snaps, they’ll hear gunshots and screaming.  Read more…

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The taste of your beer can change drastically between its initial brew and when it hits your tongue. At least, according to the guys behind the Fizzics Waytap. 

When you’re at home and looking to crack open a cold one, you deserve to have your beer tap-fresh, complete with all those deliciously foamy bubbles you get on draft. That’s the thought behind the Fizzics Waytap, an at-home tap that transforms a bottle or can into a draft-like experience.

This home-beer tap uses sound waves to convert your beer’s carbonation into foam bubbles which, according to beer science, unleash the fullest and freshest flavor of the beer.  Read more…

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Original Post: Have a pint from this home beer tap that uses sound waves to foam up your drink