Apple iBeacon arriving in 100 American Eagle Outfitters stores via Shopkick deal

In late November 2013, Apple’s iBeacon technology made its first big public debut with Macy’s in Union Square and Herald Square in conjunction with Shopkick, which has penned a deal … Continue reading

Japan To Deploy A Magnetic Net In Space To Clean Up Floating Debris

Japan To Deploy A Magnetic Net In Space To Clean Up Floating DebrisWe can’t really see it from where we are, but in reality there is a lot of junk floating in space and in our orbit. Its actually our fault since the junk consists of debris from previous space missions, and you would think that we would have learnt to clean up after ourselves already, but apparently not. Well it looks like Japan could be doing everyone a huge favor as the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has announced a plan to create a gigantic magnetic space net that will basically attempt to scoop up all the junk that we have left floating around in space. (more…)

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    An adorable lion cub waves hi to a GoPro camera

    An adorable lion cub waves hi to a GoPro camera

    Well, it looks like a hi and then it winds into a gentle smack. But still, the lion cub who stumbled upon this GoPro camera is just so adorable that I wouldn’t mind getting pawed around by the little prince of the jungle.

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    Put your emoji where we can see them! The NSA collected text messages, too

    Secretly sifting through your text messages isn’t just for overprotective parents and paranoid lovers anymore. Now the NSA’s prying eyes have shifted from your call logs and location data to your texts in a not-so-secret initiative called Dishfire. …

    Rdio Copies Spotify, Goes Totally Free On the Web With Ads

    Rdio Copies Spotify, Goes Totally Free On the Web With Ads

    Earlier today, Spotify removed listening caps from its web-based music service. And so the struggling Rdio streaming music service has decided to follow with its own announcement: Free on-demand music forever on the web—as long as you’re willing to listen to some of the company’s newly conceived advertising. Yup, everybody’s shaking in their boots over the launch of Beats Music next week.

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    Intel’s revenue and profit stay flat in Q4 as PC sales level off

    Intel may have just validated concerns that the PC market was relatively weak in the fourth quarter. The company has reported a net profit for the period of $2.6 billion based on revenue of $13.8 billion, which is only slightly better than its …

    Looks Like Russians Were Behind the Target Hack

    Looks Like Russians Were Behind the Target Hack

    A U.S. government report finally offers up some details about the series of hacks that led to theft of the debit card information for 40 million people and the personal information of 70 million. Based on chunks of computer code written in Russian, it appears our old Cold War foes may have been the culprits.

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    Falcon Northwest defends “fully loaded” Steam Machine

    One of the most high-end-friendly builds to be shown in Valve’s first wave of Steam Machines revealed at CES 2014 was the Falcon Northwest Tiki, a tower with a price … Continue reading

    Watch a concrete WWII bunker get cut in half

    In 2010 a Dutch WWII bunker was sliced in half to create one of the most unique war memorials in the world. This video documents the transformation of bunker 599 into a work of art. The sculpture, designed by Dutch studio RAAAF and Atelier de Lyon, recently won the Architectural Review Award in 2013 for Emerging Architecture.

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    Coinye digital currency briefly shuts down following Kanye West legal threat

    One of the more interesting digital currencies to surface in recent times (aside from Dogecoin, that is), Coinye was hit with a legal threat from Kanye West this week, something … Continue reading