Following a recent across the board price drop to $100, Amazon is taking another 40 dollars off the price of the Moto X for AT&T subscribers, and $50 off for Verizon users. This the best Android phone for most people, and even if you’re enamored by today’s reveal of the Nexus 5, this is quite a bit cheaper.
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Friday and Saturday, Best Buy is chopping $250 off the base-model MacBook Pro
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Did you grow up in a place called Colonial Terrace? Lawndale? Hawthorne Grove? Then you might want to thank Stanley L. McMichael. In his 1949 book Real Estate Subdivisions, the real estate guru took all the guesswork out of naming new suburban streets, providing a supersafe and hypersanitized vanilla list of options for future subdivision names.
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Earlier this week, Google announced a Hangouts update that brings SMS functionality, which is nice but unfortunately comes with a snafu. According to Nikhyl Singhal, who took to Google+ today, there are some issues to be ironed out with Google Voice, and for the time being neither of the two aforementioned Google services will be […]
A timid guest waits for her turn to enter The Basement. Guests must go through alone or in a pair.
(Credit: CBS)
On a chilly Saturday night in October, Margee Kerr stood outside the exit of The Basement, the latest haunted attraction to enter the Pittsburgh fright scene. The Basement is part of ScareHouse, ranked among the country’s top haunted houses by the Travel Channel.
If a normal haunted house is like a scary movie, The Basement is a psychological thriller. Inside, actors dressed as zombies do more than jump out of dark corners. They scream at you. Half naked, they press their bodies up against you and lick your neck. In one terrifying room, they pretend to slit your throat.
Whether guests exit laughing hysterically or looking terrified, Kerr is there to greet them. A sociologist and “scare expert” who helped design The Basement, she peppers them with questions, trying to determine if the experience hits its mark.
“A lot of the customers wanted something more intense and engaging, and there was this desire for a more extreme experience,” she tells CBSNews.com.
That desire is apparent across the country. At The Basement, guests pay $35 each. To walk through Blackout, a haunted house … [Read more]
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You’re probably used to hearing about drones as these scary, deadly things causing chaos in Pakistan, but the scientific community is actually pretty pumped up about the technology. Why wouldn’t they be? Drones can makes 3D maps of mountains
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As if there wasn’t already enough fun to be had at Expand, with our incredible lineup of speakers and our Insert Coin competition, we’ve got another treat for attendees. We’re gonna have a Raspberry Pi Make:Off hosted by Matt Richardson of Make Magazine! Here’s the deal: two teams of four …
Leaked from today’s 404 episode:
– Woman gets ticket for wearing Google Glass while driving.
– Mercedes integrates navigation system with Google Glass.
– Coming soon to a Google Glass near you: Mono earbuds!
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Strategy Analytics has released its third quarter Android smartphone shipment numbers, and in them we see a new victory for Google’s mobile OS: a record 81-percent global market share, something it has scored in light of BlackBerry and Apple failings. Microsoft has also had a strong third quarter, with the numbers showing a doubling of […]
One of the three private space companies that NASA has invested significant money in to develop private spacecraft is Sierra Nevada Corporation. The company has a lifting-body spacecraft called Dream Chaser that reminds me a bit of the retired Space Shuttle. Sierra Nevada conducted the first free flying test of the Dream Chaser this weekend.
While the spacecraft separated from the helicopter that carried it to launch altitude without issue and was able to assume it’s automated glidepath. The spacecraft suffered from what Sierra Nevada calls an “anomaly” during landing. By anomaly, the company means the left landing gear did not deploy correctly, resulting in Dream Chaser skidding off the runway.
The aircraft was damaged in the accident but reports indicate that it should be repairable. While Sierra Nevada is only conducting its first free flight tests, other companies NASA invested money in for private travel to the ISS, such as SpaceX with its Dragon capsule, have already made successful trips into orbit.
[via NBC News]
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