Day: January 28, 2014

Culture

Forget Matadors, These Guys Wrestle Bulls With Their Bare Hands

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As reported on Wired. BY JAKOB SCHILLER ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT SIMILAR GALLERIES 30 Years of Amazing Sports Moments, Captured by a Master Photographer Meet the Coolest 84-Year-Old on the Internet Throwback Thursday: 100 Years Ago, Drone Cameras Soared on Kites 2,000 Feet High Powerful Photos Go Deep Inside America’s Fracking Boom Siamese Fighting Fish Show Off Their Fiercest Looks Haunting Photos of a Crumbling Post-Communist World 1 / 12 A forcado tries to hang on after the…

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Art

Trip on psychedelic GIFs from the safety of your browser

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As reported on The Verge. By Aaron Souppouris Henrique Lima is a man of many talents. Perhaps better known as ‘Gringo,’ the São Paulo-based artist is one half of the illustrative duo Mulheres Barbadas, but he also creates typefaces, designs T-shirts for Tenso Graphics, is part of the loose Black Rock Collective, and, most recently, has turned his hand to crafting GIFs. Lima’s Mestre Fungo is a psychedelic series of expertly animated images, in which faces drip like melting waxworks, eyes well with…

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Automotive Culture

Will connected cars cause more accidents?

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As reported on The Verge. By Adrianne Jeffries With a deluge of apps coming to the car, it’s time to start taking distracted driving as seriously as drunk driving Morgan Webb, the gaming and tech personality, stood on a purple-lit stage between a Chevy Impala and a Corvette and raised her arms triumphantly. The candy-apple-red cars looked ordinary, if a little shinier than normal, but it was what was inside that mattered: LTE connectivity and an…

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Apple

Apple’s next cash cow could be your fingerprint

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As reported on Engadget. BY BRAD MOLEN The mobile payments arena may not seem so big right now, but make no mistake: We’re just seeing the beginning of a rapidly growing trend. Some estimates we’ve seen from market research firms put the future mobile payment market in the US alone at around $90 billion spent in 2017. Compared to that, the $12.8 billion spent in 2012 is just pocket change underneath the couch cushions. Apple’s very much aware…

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Google

Google Glass gets prescription glasses: four styles, $225 each (video)

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As reported on Engadget. BY MAT SMITH Remember when Google said its wearable would work perfectly fine with prescription glasses? Well it’s finally delivered, offering a $225 upgrade option for current Google Glass Explorers. Crafted from titanium (whatever else?), the designs are pretty unassuming and classy: they look like glasses frames you’d see at an optometrist. There’s four styles to choose from — Curve, Thin, Split, Bold — making the selection sound more like font categories than frame categories.…

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