Jan 18
Hilarious AeroMexico Ad Trolls Border Wall Debate With Mexican ‘DNA Discounts’
Posted in: Today's ChiliSurprise! You’re part Mexican!
Jan 18
The lie involved Trump’s involvement in a deal to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.
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If your home decor is lacking, perhaps you just need some more skulls. These decorative unicorn skulls should do the trick just fine. Each resin skull is hand-painted and polished and looks like what a real unicorn skull would look like if they existed. Maybe you can hang this next to your Bigfoot fur rug, Chupacabra skeleton, or Ogre taxidermy trophy.
Each skull measures 10.75″ (h) x 8.5″(w) x 4.75″ (d). Something tells me that this isn’t to scale with an actual unicorn. Its horn is screwed onto the skull which I don’t think is how it works in real-life but what are you gonna do? Maybe you can swap that horn out for other stuff, like a decorative ice cream cone, a hand making devil horns, a lightsaber, or other fun accessories. I like the idea of a Jedi unicorn with a lightsaber instead of a horn. I might have to make a short Star Wars film with an all unicorn cast. The lightsaber duels will be the best. When they collide they create rainbows.
[via Boing Boing via Geekologie]
Jan 18
While it seems that Apple is trying to capitalize on its iPad Pros capabilities as “computer replacements”, it hasn’t completely forgotten about its non-Pro slates. In fact, based on information from suppliers, two such iPads are coming within the next five months. But while that’s almost a given considering Apple has not canceled the iPad mini and regular iPad lines, … Continue reading
Jan 18
Sixty Percent Of Us Chose the Frosties and More Black Mirror: Bandersnatch Stats
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Admit it: As you moved your way through Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, you wondered what your friends chose. Now, Netflix has begun to let us know.
Jan 18
ACLU Is Suing the Federal Government for Information About Social Media Surveillance Practices
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The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation filed a lawsuit in the Northern District of California against the federal government on Thursday over its social media surveillance practices, specifically relating to the Trump administration’s controversial immigration policy known as “extreme vetting.”
Jan 18
Jan 18
When it comes to accessories for mobile devices, there is one particular name that tends to deliver well thought up solutions consistently: Scosche. This time around, this innovative company has come up with an elegant solution to the challenge of keeping multiple and diverse devices charged and organized via its all-new BaseLynx system. With a myriad of mobile devices that each person owns these days, it makes perfect sense if there is a system which will be able to keep everything well organized, and the Scosche BaseLynx system does seem to fit the bill perfectly.
Getting organized is one thing, it is another matter altogether in order to remain organized. After all, nobody likes to leave the home and grab a smartphone that contains only a quarter charge left to face a daunting day ahead. All of our devices ought to be fully charged each day, and it is often high on the list of daily requirements for most folks. The combination of wireless charging and a multi-device organizer has given birth to the Scosche BaseLynx system. This system is highly customizable, enabling it to work in multiple settings ranging from the home to the office or even dorm.
When connected, the modules will be powered by a single power cable in order to make things even more simple than ever before. The potent combination of necessity, creative design and engineering is what made this possible, where the BaseLynx accommodates wired and wireless charging of different devices, and the entire myriad will include smartphones, tablets, Apple watches and others.
Some of the charging elements include the Qi wireless fast charging dock, the Apple Watch charging dock, a vertical power station that holds and charges up to three devices via its pair of 12W USB-A outlets and a single 18W USB-C Power Delivery outlet, a powered end cap, and extra 12V USB-A and 18W USB-C PD outlets.
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[ Scosche BaseLynx system keeps devices organized during charging copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]
Jan 18
There are some movies where we get comical scenes of people pushing over robots who are unable to pick themselves up after they fall. This seemed like a good way to run away from our robot overlords, at least until now where researchers have actually taught a robot dog how to pick itself back up after it has fallen over.
In the study published in the Science Robotics journal (via Engadget), researchers trained a neural network through a computer simulation. They then practiced it on a robot dog by literally kicking it over multiple times to test their training, and sure enough it worked because the robot dog eventually learned how to pick itself up.
According to the researchers, these moves were taught through the simulation which means that the ability to pick itself up is based completely on how the robot learned, not through specific maneuvers that were preprogrammed or built into the robot beforehand. The reason for the use of simulation is because it is a faster and cheaper way of training.
It also makes it better at adapting itself to various situations which will come in handy if ever deployed in the real world, where the robots could pick themselves up regardless of terrain, or at least in theory.
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Jan 18
Artist John Cuneo shows the president “walled in” with bricks and barbed wire.
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