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Lauren Groff knows what you think of when you think of Florida: Disney, Miami, Florida Man. But in her new book Florida, the writer describes a different tenor to the sunshine state. “My Florida is different. My Florida is full of pestilence and dread,” Groff told MashReads. SEE ALSO: 7 essays that every David Sedaris …
June 22, 2018 | by Raheel2017 clearly had people feeling a certain type of way, because throughout last year, we bore witness to some seriously strange beauty experiments. Folks put glitter on their tongues, drew their eyebrows into squiggles, and adorned their digits with zit-inspired nail art, to name a few trends. SEE ALSO: Turning landfill-bound makeup into sustainable watercolor …
June 22, 2018 | by RaheelSnap is making another major update to Spectacles that finally addresses one of the biggest issues with the camera-enabled glasses: the videos are too hard to watch outside of Snapchat. Beginning Friday, the app will let you export photos and videos from Spectacles as either square or widescreen clips, in addition to its proprietary circular …
June 22, 2018 | by RaheelThe Supreme Court ruled 5-4 today that police cannot freely access people’s cellphone location data, regardless if they are suspected for a crime. Police have always needed court-approved warrants before searching people’s phones (due to the search and seizure protections under the Fourth Amendment), but they routinely breeched that protocol by accessing data from wireless …
June 22, 2018 | by RaheelMove over, YCombinator. The hottest and not-troubling-at-all new startup accelerator is the army! The US army is running a competition that will give startups that create winning new weapons technology a cash prize of up to $200,000. First spotted by Engadget on the government’s Challenge.gov website, the program is called xTechSearch and is intended to …
June 22, 2018 | by RaheelAre you ready for some scary numbers? After months of Mark Zuckerberg talking about how “Protecting our community is more important than maximizing our profits,” Facebook is preparing to turn that commitment into a Time Well Spent product. Buried in Facebook’s Android app is an unreleased “Your Time on Facebook” feature. It shows the tally …
June 22, 2018 | by RaheelWhen it comes to sound, you can’t do much better than Bose. From the SoundTouch speaker systems to to the QuietComfort headphones, Bose is the undisputed king. They don’t come cheap though, so any sale is worth looking at. If you’re in the market for a new pair of earbuds, Walmart might have the deal …
June 22, 2018 | by RaheelUrban transportation app Citymapper quietly rolled out an app update that lets you find many alternative mobility services in the app. You can now find the nearest dockless bike or electric scooter around you (not the Bird and Lime kind, the motorcycle kind). The integrations are already live in many cities. The company didn’t add …
June 22, 2018 | by RaheelAs she recovers from brain surgery, Simone Giertz is chronicling her experience with trademark honesty and humor. The “shitty robots” YouTuber has been tweeting steadily since her procedure in May, even posting a photo of her “super villain scar” a few days after surgery. On Thursday, she posted perhaps her realest update yet. SEE ALSO: …
June 22, 2018 | by RaheelWhen it comes to action cameras, GoPro is the undisputed king. From the original cameras all the way up to the Hero5 and Hero6, no one has been able to take the crown. Unfortunately, that’s also meant that GoPro cameras have never been the cheapest option. But thanks to Amazon, this might be the time …
June 22, 2018 | by Raheel