NVIDIA recently unleashed a slew of new graphics cards, but judging from a new announcement on the NVIDIA blog, that isn’t all the company has been working hard on. NVIDIA announced today that it will soon be releasing a mod all its own for Bethesda’s Fallout 4, and just as you’d expect from a company that primarily deals in GPUs, … Continue reading
The Nubia Z11 will be starting its North American and European rollout in September, the company has announced. We’ve known for a while that Nubia intended to make the Z11 available in the U.S., but details about that plan hadn’t been forthcoming, and weren’t provided when the handset officially launched in China this past June. The company made its plans … Continue reading
If you take a lot of photos with your smartphone, you’ve probably noticed they’re not always up to snuff with the kind of images you’d see from a DSLR camera.
Linden Lab, the creative minds behind the bizarre social game Second Life, is unveiling its latest project, planted firmly within the roots of the virtual world.
You probably still don’t know a lot about the Nubia smartphone brand if you live outside of China, but the company is bent on changing that: it’s launching its latest flagship, the Z11, worldwide. The phone touts a “bezel-less” design with a 81 per…
Back in the day, before the option to “mute” a conversation, reply-all emails were the Devil incarnate. No one was safe. Like that video tape in “The Ring,” if you saw it, it was already too late.
But, even today, reply-all emails are still an organizational nightmare. Comedians Soren & Jolles and The New Yorker created this illustrative video showing you just how disruptive they can be.
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Fight booking site CheapAir is now allowing customers to pay for tickets in installments using three, six or 12-month purchase plans.
The goal, CEO Jeff Klee said in a statement, is to “give everyone the freedom to travel.” But we aren’t so sure this is freedom at all.
CheapAir’s new program works like this: Customers purchasing flights for $100 or more have the option to enter some personal information at checkout and see if they qualify for financing plan to pay off their ticket. The full cost of their ticket will be quoted upfront, with interest rates ranging from 10 to 30 percent based on a free credit check run through financial company Affirm. Accept the payment plan, pay off your ticket in monthly installments, and BOOM! You’re on your way. CheapAir says they won’t charge late fees, though delinquent accounts may be sent to a collections agency.
But it’s better to simply budget for a trip yourself, says Phoenix-based personal finance coach Deacon Hayes.
“The reality is, you could do the same thing on your own and save the 10 to 30 percent interest,” he told HuffPost.
Hayes recommends a “countdown fund”: If you know you want to fly to Hawaii in eight months and tickets will cost $800, then simply make a plan to set aside $100 per month until the day arrives.
That’s infinitely less headache than owing interest to a booking site.
Some airlines, including American and Delta, allow travelers to play for flights in installments, but they require signing up for an airline credit card first. United’s FareLock service lets you reserve a ticket and pay for it either three or seven days later, for an extra fee. CheapAir, meanwhile, calls itself “the first online travel agency to accept monthly payments for flight purchases.”
But honestly, you may not need to take them up on their offer, if you know how to save for a trip and where to find cheap flights on your own.
Happy travels!
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A powerful photo series is letting kids who have faced serious illnesses and injuries show off their battle scars with pride.
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA) teamed up with photographer Kate T. Parker to take pictures of some inspiring former patients. “For kids who have battled illness or injury, scars are badges of honor, signs of survival, fodder for the ultimate round of show and tell at school,” reads a post about the photo series on the CHOA blog.
Parker told The Huffington Post that she felt inspired by her subjects in this series. “These kids have been dealt, by all accounts, a pretty tough hand. Illnesses, injury, etc … and not a single one of them let it keep them down,” she said.
The photographer added that she believes everyone has a “scar” of some sort, though they aren’t always physical marks on our bodies. “Some of our ‘scars’ are invisible,” she explained. “They might be mistakes we’ve made, or things about ourselves that we wish to hide.”
“My hope is that people can recognize their own ‘scars’ and instead of seeing them as flaws or mistakes or things to conceal, we recognize that those ‘scars’ are exactly what make us US,” Parker said. “And what makes us beautiful and strong.”
Keep scrolling to see Parker’s photos of these inspiring kids, along with their thoughts (or in the case of the littlest ones, their parents’ thoughts) about their scars.
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After going through a rough breakup two years ago, Washington, DC-based artist Mari Andrew made a point to draw and paint every single day since.
“I was literally putting happiness on the calendar. The 30 minutes I set aside a day to create art and paint was so soothing and enjoyable for me,” she told The Huffington Post.
Andrew’s funny, relatable illustrations draw inspiration from some of the most annoying realities of adulthood, from having to hop on a call when email would suffice, to Tinder dates who are just “not looking for anything right now.”
Today, the 29-year-old illustrator has more than 52,000 followers on her Instagram account, @bymariandrew.
“Everything you see is something that happened to me, including the comics about single life,” Andrew told HuffPost.
“Being single for me is 90 percent wonderful romances, travels, new experiences, self-care and confidence ― and then there’s that 10 percent that keeps me going on dates,” she joked. “Sometimes, you just really want someone to dance with in your living room and kill the bugs.”
Check out more of Andrew’s illustrations capturing the joys and minor annoyances of being a modern single lady below:
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International model Denise Bidot loves her body just the way it is. However, she’s the first to admit she hasn’t always felt that way.
The 30-year-old Puerto Rican and Kuwaiti mother of one shared a collage of un-retouched photos of herself on Instagram Monday, captioned with a candid and empowering message about self-love.
“I used to be so critical of myself and I overthought everything, including my posts,” she wrote. “But I realized that unless I learn to love and accept myself, nobody will ever know or love the real me. So here I am, no photoshop, and no fucks given…”
Bidot went on to encourage her followers to not let anyone tell them that they aren’t enough.
She punctuated her message with a series of empowering hashtags, including “#effyourbeautystandards” and #thereisnowrongwaytobeawoman,” the latter of which is a nod to her body positive campaign by the same name.
Bidot launched her body positive brand and movement “There Is No Wrong Way To Be A Woman” in June.
“My movement is all about inspiring others to love themselves exactly as they are because our differences are what make us perfect,” she explains in the campaign’s mission statement. “If we are sincerely ourselves without apology, there’s no way we can go wrong.”
Practicing what she preached, Bidot doubled down on her message Tuesday when she posted another set of un-retouched photos of herself on Instagram.
This time she was wearing denim shorts and bearing her stomach ― two things she said she avoided doing for years.
She explained in her caption that she used to avoid wearing shorts because she doesn’t have a thigh gap, and she didn’t want to show her stomach because she has “stretch marks and some baby weight.”
However, she no longer feels that way.
“I refuse to be mean to myself and I refuse to hide what society has labeled as flaws any longer,” she wrote. “I am a work in progress, constantly learning/growing as a woman and I am going to enjoy every moment of my journey regardless of if my thighs touch.”
Beautifully put.
H/T Vivala
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