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The Secret NYC Graveyard Where Ships Go to Die

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As reported on Wired. BY BRENDAN I. KOERNER  ADVERTISEMENT The filmmakers may have accidentally dosed themselves with radiation by getting too close to the USS YOG-64, a Navy gas tanker that was posted near Bikini Atoll during the Operation Sandstone nuclear weapons tests in 1948. WILL VAN DORP Reaching the marshy spot on southwestern Staten Island where good boats go to die requires a car, sturdy footwear, and a willingness to be prosecuted to the full extent…

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Microsoft cuts 18,000 jobs as part of its largest layoff ever

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Asd reported on Engadget BY MATT BRIAN Microsoft today announced that it’s cutting 18,000 jobs, the biggest round of layoffs in its history, as part of ongoing restructuring efforts. In a release, the company says that Nokia’s Devices and Services business, which it acquired for $5 billion last year, will be most affected, with 12,500 “professional and factory positions” expected to go by the end of the year. In an email to employees, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella…

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Automotive Culture Environmental

A Weekend With The All-Electric BMW i3

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Darrell Etherington I’ve never driven a BMW, or an electric car, so I might have been an odd choice to test drive the new BMW i3, the German car maker’s all-electric hatchback, which packs the equivalent of 170 HP into its electric engine. But an unexpected reviewer might be the perfect candidate for an unexpected car. The car, which was on limited display at CES back in January, is on sale as…

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Germany’s Stunning World Cup Win Over Brazil Is The Most-Tweeted Sports Game Ever

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Darrell Etherington For a long time yesterday, I couldn’t see any tweet in my regular feed that wasn’t in some way linked to the Germany/Brazil semifinal World Cup match – and apparently, I wasn’t alone. The devastating 7-1 victory by Brazil was the most activity around a single sports game on Twitter ever (via THR), surpassing the Super Bowl from earlier this year. Brazil’s routing garnered 35.6 million tweets during the game…

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An abandoned mall in Bangkok has been overtaken by fish

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As reported The Verge. By Carl Franzen Travel writer stumbles upon a deep, dark secret There’s something particularly eerie about an abandoned shopping mall. Perhaps it’s the stark contrast from its intended purpose: to see such a sterile place once designed to entice throngs of shoppers into its doors, now so completely devoid of any human life, dilapidated and darkened with time. It’s basically the very definition of post-apocalyptic. But in the case of the (now ironically…

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Application Cloud Culture

Virtual Says It Can Emulate iOS Or Android Devices In The Cloud

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Matthew Panzarino A new company called Virtual is claiming that it can imitate nearly any Android or iOS device almost perfectly in software, on any platform, with nearly ‘native quality’ performance. It does this with a combination of virtualization and emulation technology and it could change the way that developers test apps. Chris Wade started out hacking the iPhone in its earliest days, and contributed to some of the first jailbreak exploits. Since…

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How to Disappear (almost) Completely: a practical guide

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As reported on Engadget. BY DANIEL COOPER Maybe you’ve seen Into the Wild, or (gasp) have actually read it. It’s the true story of an ordinary person who, one day, decided to abandon society, pack some rice and a rifle into a bag and head off into the wilderness never to return. It’s the sort of drastic move you rarely hear about in our modern life. But in next week’s final installment of How to Disappear, we’ll meet some people who’ve…

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Google will keep absolute control over the the look and feel of Android Wear

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As reported on The Verge. By Chris Welch OEMs can’t change the design of Android Auto and Android TV either Companies that make Android Wear, Android Auto, and Android TV products won’t be allowed to dramatically alter the design and user experience of Google’s latest software. Somecustomization will be permitted; they’ll be able to add custom apps, services, and other small touches, but changing up the overall look and feel is expressly forbidden. “The UI is more…

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Apple Culture

Apple’s New iPhone Pitch To Parents

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Matthew Panzarino In my line of work  I’m often called on to think critically about the usability of both hardware and software, especially smartphones. One of my big touchstones, and one that’s ignored by a surprising amount of designers — is that stuff doesn’t exist in a vacuum. If your goal is to have thousands, or millions, of people use your thing then you’ve got to consider how it works when…

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LA school officials shift from free iPads to laptops and hybrids

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As reported on Engadget. BY MAT SMITH  An iPad for every student was the plan. Then, some students were too smart for their own good, quickly enabling their for-learnin’ iPads to access to anything on the web, including Twitter, Facebook and all that other fun stuff. LA’s school district now plans to differentiate what it offers its students, authorizing purchases for one of six different devices, including laptops and hybrids such as Chromebooks, Microsoft’s Surface Pro 2 and…

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