Gawker Leaked Emails Detail “Secret” Frat’s Antics With Drugs, Cops, and Sex | io9 Did Game Of Thron

Gawker Leaked Emails Detail "Secret" Frat’s Antics With Drugs, Cops, and Sex | io9 Did Game Of Thrones Finally Go Too Far? | Jalopnik In Defense Of The Booth Professional | Lifehacker 10 Tasks You Should Never Put on the Back Burner | Kinja Popular Posts

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Vanity Fair Says Architecture, Like Women, Can Never Be Too Thin

Vanity Fair Says Architecture, Like Women, Can Never Be Too Thin

New Yorkers have said plenty of negative things about the super-expensive supertalls going up in Manhattan. They tower over their neighbors. They cast shadows over Central Park. But no one has yet equated them with anorexic women—until the May 2014 issue of Vanity Fair.

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BLU’s latest smartphone is big, cheap and contract-free

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Uber Giveaway: Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro, Yoga Tablet 8 and Mixx 2

Uber Giveaway: Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro, Yoga Tablet 8 and Mixx 2Lenovo and Ubergizmo are joining forces to give away three great devices to three lucky winners. The first winner will get a Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro (around $1099) which come with a 3200×1800 display, 128 GB GB of SSD storage and 4GB of RAM. Its display can turn to a full 360 degree to ensure maximum comfort in tablet mode, while also offering the classic laptop productivity.

Uber Giveaway: Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro, Yoga Tablet 8 and Mixx 2

The second winner will get a Yoga Tablet 8 ($199) Android tablet which is designed to last for 18hrs of multimedia usage, which is possibly the longest battery life for such a tablet. That’s enough to watch movies non-stop during a San Francisco to Hong Kong flight, with some battery life to spare.

Uber Giveaway: Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro, Yoga Tablet 8 and Mixx 2

Finally, the third lucky person will get a Lenovo Miix 2 ($299) Windows 8 tablet which is one of the smallest PC computer that can still run full Windows applications, thanks to its Intel processor.

What to do: rules highlights

  • Not mandatory at all, but now would be a good time to follow @lenovo on Twitter or on Facebook and don’t miss another giveaway by becoming a fan on facebook.com/ubergizmo
  • Post a comment below and tell us what you would do with those computers and why you want one of them (scroll down, and the commenting system will load). Use your Facebook account or an email that we can use to reliably contact you.
  • Don’t enter the giveaway more than once (our bots check…)
  • The deadline to post a comment is APR 30 2014 at 23:59 PT
  • This is open to legal U.S residents (50 states), 18 and older (sorry, it’s a legal requirement)
  • One (1) winner will be chosen randomly for each device. Go read and agree to all the rules in this page. Good luck!

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Drones are getting pretty advanced, and they’re continuing to prove their usefulness. They can do anything from dodge bullets to land on aircraft carriers . And up next is an emerging new class of drones that can take off and land vertically, thanks to the likes of the new Arcturus UAV Jump system.

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Using Plastic Surgery To Keep Astronauts Human On Long Space Missions

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A brief exchange in the back of last week’s issue of New Scientist asks: "I understand that the lines and sagging skin we acquire as we age are due to the sun and gravity. If I lived in a space station in zero or microgravity away from the sun, would I stay looking young?" A perfectly innocuous, if even somewhat boring, question—but the answer, supplied by a reader from London, touches on some fascinating terrain.

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Sony Xperia Z2 Tablet Review: Hardware Triumph, Software Facepalm

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Last year, the original Xperia Z Tablet was one of our absolute favorite tablets . It was so wonderfully thin and light, plus waterproofiness? Fantastic. But the laggy software Sony put on top kind of knee-capped its potential. This year, the hardware is even better. Bordering on masterful! But some lessons Sony just refuses to learn.

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