| Engineers at the University of Purdue solved the age old candy mystery of “How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?”; the answer is an average of 252 licks (via human tongues rather than a machine-based one).  | |
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| - Science Needs The Freedom To Constantly Change Its Mind
What science really needs is less sensationalism. Science is about constantly learning more about the world, and refining our understanding with new knowledge. We need to teach science as a process, not as absolute fact. [Aeon ] - Sleep Paralysis Is an Inescapable Waking Nightmare
This is a very real thing. When I was a teenager it would happen to me at least once a week. At first it's terrifying but eventually it's like the frustration of waiting in really slow traffic, you just want to scream "Move!!" [Motherboard ] - ID theft alert biz LifeLock coughs up $96m to FTC in false ad claim deal
You may recall TV adverts from the late 2000s in which LifeLock CEO Todd Davis revealed his social security number, confident his LifeLock service would protect him from identity theft. It was later reported that Davis' identity was stolen multiple times during the ad campaign. [The Register] - Microsoft is merging its Outlook and Sunrise apps
One of the best mobile email apps will merge with one of the best calendar apps. Microsoft is doing a good job in the mobile space, at least on iOS and Android. [The Verge] - IBM to Acquire the Weather Company
IBM has been in the artificial intelligence business for a long time, and it will be interesting to see how it all shakes out. Maybe Watson can actually get the weather predictions right. [NYT] - The Case for Bad Coffee
Cheap coffee is nostalgic, it reminds us of the moments in our life when significant things happened. I remember sitting at Denny's at 2AM drinking coffee in my 20s because I didn't want to go home to an empty house, or drinking 24oz cups of black but sweet coffee when pulling an all nighter at my first job. Cheap, lousy coffee was always there for you when you needed it. Interesting read. [Serious Eats] | |
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| The Track Changes feature in Word allows you to mark changes you make in a document so anyone else working on the document knows what changes you made. By default, these marks display on the printed document, but you can prevent them from showing. | |
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| Yes, Android devices have serious security problems. There’s Android malware out there — mostly outside the Google Play Store. The biggest problem is that most Android devices don’t get security updates. Android antivirus apps aren’t a solution to these problems. | |
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| The sharing system in iOS is one of the more overlooked features and, within that feature, the ability to customize the options of the sharing system is even more overlooked. Read on as we show you how to tweak the sharing system to fit your needs. | |
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| With OS X 10.11 El Capitan, Apple has added a considerable amount of new features, but among all the hubbub and hoopla, are smaller items that the company slipped in unannounced. One of these is the ability to change the number of recent items. | |
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| Halloween is one of those holidays that really brings out the tinker in a lot of geeks; there’s a veritable laundry list of things to deploy, modify, and enhance all in search of becoming the spookiest house on the block and throwing the best party. Read on as we highlight how easily you can turn a digital projector into a Swiss Army knife of cool Halloween tricks. | |
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| To view your photos on your iPhone or iPad, you can use a cloud service to store them and then access them on your device. However, what if you want your photos available offline? Transferring your photos to your iPhone or iPad is easy using iTunes. | |
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| Like cars and homes before them, mobile devices have become an integral part of our lives, something we all need to stay current on the days events or respond to emails while on the road. But what can you do to protect them in case your case can’t protect them from threats external or otherwise? | |
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