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[Link] These Bose Headphones Helped Cure My Airplane Ear
Read: 27/7/2022 www.vice.com
I’m not going to sugar coat it: Flying sucks. The hell of getting to the airport, TSA screaming at you to take your shoes off, endless delays, the sad food selection (with the exception of free Biscoff cookies), turbulence—the list goes on.
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[Link] This TikTok-Viral WFH Mouse Jiggler Will Make Your Boss Think You're Online
Read: 9/3/2022 www.vice.com
A fair point.
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[Link] Australia’s Most Expensive Dildo Is On-Sale for $696.69
Read: 3/3/2022 www.vice.com
Yoni Pleasure Palace's Honey Dipper has a big price tag and next-level design, but we've got the details on why it's so special—and a discount code.
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[Link] How ‘Vampire Survivors’ Went From Obscurity to 27,000 People Playing at Once
Read: 27/1/2022 www.vice.com
There are, as of this writing, more than 27,000 people playing a $3 game on Steam called Vampire Survivors. That’s more than games like The Elder Scrolls Online, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Phasmophobia, and just below God of War and The Witcher 3.
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[Link] Australia’s free-to-air channels demand guaranteed prime position on smart TVs
Read: 19/1/2022 www.theguardian.com
Australia’s commercial free-to-air TV channels have called on the federal government to introduce legislation guaranteeing them prominence on smart TV home screens, claiming they are becoming “increasingly hard to find” among global streaming rivals such as Netflix.
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[Link] It’s Time to Admit the Theragun is a Sex Toy
Read: 19/1/2022 www.vice.com
The Theragun, a triangle-shaped personal massager by wellness company Therabody, is not, by any official account, a sex toy. The website explicitly says it’s not. The company warns against using it on your junk. Despite this, Theraguns have become a popular device for drilling one’s genitals.
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[Link] Picoclick C3T Is the World's Smallest IoT Button and It Has a RISC-V Processor
Read: 19/1/2022 www.hackster.io
WiFi-enabled buttons send an MQTT message or REST call from a single button push. This simple action enables a wide range of automation activities. For example, at one point, online retailers gave them to customers to quickly purchase replacement products.
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[Link] Edible Hemp-Infused Transit Tickets Are the True Face of Innovation
Read: 20/12/2021 www.vice.com
The word “innovation” gets thrown around a lot these days, often by politicians and investors anxious to hype something that isn’t actually innovative at all.
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[Link] Is The Game Up For Baofeng In Europe?
Read: 5/12/2021 hackaday.com
For radio enthusiasts worldwide, the inexpensive Chinese handheld radios produced by the likes of Baofeng and other brands have been a welcome addition to their arsenal.
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[Link] This Company Is Selling a Futuristic Gauss Gun for $3,375
Read: 30/11/2021 www.vice.com
Advanced weapons startup Arcflash Labs is selling an alpha version of a handheld gauss gun for $3,375.00. It’s called the GR-1 and it’s very similar to futurist weapons from video games like Fallout and Quake.
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[Link] Hellbound: the South Korean death-fest that wipes the floor with Squid Game
Read: 27/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The easiest thing in the world would be to call Hellbound the new Squid Game. After all, they’re both South Korean dramas, they both deal in violent death and they’re both smash hits on Netflix.
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[Link] Tech In Plain Sight: Eyeglasses
Read: 16/11/2021 hackaday.com
Glasses wearers, try a little experiment. Take off your glasses and look at this page or, at least, at something you can’t see well without your glasses. Now imagine if you lived in a time where there was nothing to be done about your vision.
[Link] Australian governments urged to set a date to ban cigarette retail sales
Read: 15/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Governments must set a date for banning the sale of cigarettes through retailers including supermarkets, and find new ways of boosting revenue without relying on tobacco excise taxes, leading public health researchers say.
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[Link] The latest Surface is a $250 laptop that takes a swing at cheap Chromebooks
Read: 10/11/2021 arstechnica.com
Microsoft's next Surface device is the company's latest and most direct attempt to compete with Chromebooks in schools. The $250 Surface Laptop SE is a low-end, 11.6-inch laptop made for basic browsing, document editing, and remote learning.
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[Link] Adobe brings a simplified Photoshop to the web
Read: 9/11/2021 www.theverge.com
Adobe is bringing Photoshop and Illustrator to the web, letting you make changes to documents hosted in the cloud without having to download them and open up the app.
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[Link] Reg reader returns Samsung TV after finding giant ads splattered everywhere
Read: 8/11/2021 www.theregister.com
A Register reader triggered a kerfuffle for Samsung after asking the electronics biz if he could disable large and intrusive adverts splattered across his new smart TV's programme guide.
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[Link] Solar Cells, Half Off
Read: 7/11/2021 hackaday.com
A company named Leap Photovoltaic claims they have a technology to create solar panels without silicon wafers which would cut production costs in half.
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[Link] In These Strange and Uncertain Times, We Still Have the Shrek Butt Plug
Read: 6/11/2021 www.vice.com
When will the cult of Shrek be satisfied? That depends. Decades of memedom have matured the animated ogre into ideal TikTok fodder for trolls, millennials, and Gen Zers alike, whose Shrek Feels harken back to simpler, Y2K days.
[Link] Facebook Shuts Down Massive Photo Tagging Facial Recognition Program
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
For years, photo tagging was a core Facebook feature and was one of the main things people “did” on Facebook. To tag a photo, you clicked a specific part of it and wrote in the name of your friend.
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[Link] The Pi Zero 2 W Is The Most Efficient Pi
Read: 1/11/2021 hackaday.com
Last week we saw the announcement of the new Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, which is basically an improved quad-core version of the Pi Zero — more comparable in speed to the Pi 3B+, but in the smaller Zero form factor.
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[Link] Zuckerberg Announces Fantasy World Where Facebook Is Not a Horrible Company
Read: 29/10/2021 www.vice.com
Facebook’s new name is “Meta,” and its new mission is to invent a ‘metaverse’ that will make us all forget what it’s done to our existing reality.
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[Link] Uber Wants In On All That Positive Hertz-Tesla Press
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
On Tuesday, Hertz announced it is buying 100,000 Teslas as part of a massive push into electric vehicles. This is a smart move by Hertz, because renting electric vehicles, especially in the U.S., is currently very difficult.
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[Link] Department of Commerce Says We Need Fewer Repair Restrictions
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), a federal agency that advises the president on telecom issues, has sent a letter to the Copyright office detailing a list of exemptions it believes should be made to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA).
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[Link] Speaker ‘Stun Gun’ Aims To Combat China’s Dancing Grannies
Read: 28/10/2021 hackaday.com
One of the more popular social activities in China is group dancing in public squares. Often the pastime of many middle-aged and older women, participants are colloquially referred to as “dancing grannies.
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[Link] Game Publisher Unveils Gloriously Ugly iPod Prototype It Had In Its Closet
Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com
Video game publisher Panic has unveiled photos of the original iPod prototype it said was laying around in a closet. First released on October 23, 2001, the iPod catapulted Apple from an iconic but struggling computer company to a global behemoth.
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[Link] Apple’s new AirPods are greater, but girthier
Read: 27/10/2021 www.smh.com.au
The new AirPods 3rd Generation ($279) are curious devices. On the one hand, they’re much more impressive than their older siblings thanks to added sensors and spatial audio.
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[Link] Couple slammed for wearing ‘inappropriate’ T-shirts to Disney World
Read: 26/10/2021 www.news.com.au
Angry Disney fans are calling for the Mouse House to ban inappropriate garb after a couple was photographed wearing sexually suggestive T-shirts at Disney World. Over the weekend, fans posted a photo of a couple wearing matching shirts that riffed on Disney’s “D” calligraphy.
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[Link] Why I Use Microsoft Edge on Android
Read: 25/10/2021 www.howtogeek.com
Microsoft Edge started life on Windows 10, but it’s now available on several platforms, including Android. Chrome is the default browser on most Android devices, but I’m here to tell you Edge is just as good—if not better.
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[Link] The newest 'Simpsons' character is a hypnotherapist breast cancer survivor with 'uniboob.' Here's her inspiring backstory.
Read: 25/10/2021 www.yahoo.com
An episode of beloved comedy The Simpsons is about to get serious about breast cancer awareness. In a groundbreaking moment for survivor visibility — specifically of women who have undergone mastectomies and opted to stay flat rather than choose breast reconstruction surgeries — the Oct.
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[Link] I Tried the Satisfyer Pro 2 Vibrator to See Why It's a Cult Fave Sex Toy
Read: 21/10/2021 www.vice.com
In the world of sex toys, the Satisfyer Pro 2 is lauded—nay, worshipped—for giving a Come Unto the Jizzy Light user experience without ever making direct contact with the clitoris, thanks to its revolutionary form of light suction.
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[Link] Apple launches new AirPods and revamped MacBook Pro laptops
Read: 19/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Apple has announced new third-generation AirPods and its much-anticipated new MacBook Pro laptops, with new screens and high-end M1 Pro and M1 Max chips.
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[Link] PineTime Smartwatch And Good Code Play Bad Apple
Read: 17/10/2021 hackaday.com
PineTime is the open smartwatch from our friends at Pine64. [TT-392] wanted to prove the hardware can play a full-motion music video, and they are correct, to a point.
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[Link] These Companies Are Making Physical Goods Out of Thin Air
Read: 13/10/2021 www.vice.com
The Next 50 Years explores the technologies changing and improving our world. Lanzatech uses industrial facilities, bolted onto other infrastructure like steel mills and landfills, to collect these emissions and break them down into ethanol using bacteria.
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[Link] Trump Called to Insist His Penis Didn’t Look Like a Toadstool, Press Sec Says
Read: 28/9/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. For a former press secretary who held zero briefings during her 9-month tenure, Stephanie Grisham certainly has a lot to say about the culture of the Trump White House in her new book, namely that it was a pit of sexual harassment.
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[Link] Chrome will now let you keep searching without hitting the back button
Read: 2/9/2021 www.zdnet.com
Google has announced three new experiments to play with in Chrome beta, with the first allowing users to keep searching without needing to hit the back button.
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[Link] New Part Day: DLP300s The Next Big Thing For Low Cost Resin Printing?
Read: 1/9/2021 hackaday.com
The majority of non-SLA resin 3D printers, certainly at the hacker end of the market, are most certainly LCD based. The SLA kind, where a ultraviolet laser is scanner via galvanometers over the build surface, we shall consider no further in this article.
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[Link] Spaghetti Detective Users Boiled By Security Gaffe
Read: 22/8/2021 hackaday.com
For readers that might not spend their free time watching spools of PLA slowly unwind, The Spaghetti Detective (TSD) is an open source project that aims to use computer vision and machine learning to identify when a 3D print has failed and resulted in a pile of plastic “spaghetti” on the build p
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[Link] How to Find the Perfect Plain White Tank Top
Read: 18/8/2021 www.vice.com
Summer in New York is a lobster pot of sweat, poppers, and rogue AC unit drips. I love it. I fear it. I need to be better equipped for it, as a Californian who just moved to Brooklyn who is still learning the ropes of Heattech, rolling carts, and flirting with your bodega cat.
[Link] A New Service Promises to Make Getting a Divorce Cheap and NBD
Read: 18/8/2021 www.vice.com
That is, according to science, which says that 'tis the most popular season to consciously uncouple. Look, we’re not here to judge anyone getting divorced, especially since about half of American marriages end up that way, according to the World Population Review.
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[Link] Take Note: An E-Ink Tablet From Pine64
Read: 17/8/2021 hackaday.com
Over the years we’ve seen a variety of interesting pieces of hardware emerging from the folks at Pine64, so it’s always worth a second look when they announce a new product.
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[Link] Plex just changed the game when it comes to music playlists that aren't terrible
Read: 15/8/2021 www.androidauthority.com
When you create an automatic playlist on your music streaming platform of choice, it is almost certainly based on metadata. In other words, a track by Radiohead will get paired with tracks by artists in similar genres, as well as other Radiohead tracks.
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[Link] I can't stop laughing at how small Nvidia's new graphics card is
Read: 13/8/2021 www.pcgamer.com
It's not often nowadays that we end up with a GPU that's comically small, but here we are: the Nvidia RTX A2000.
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[Link] Yes, another streaming service is launching in Australia today
Read: 11/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Here's your Shortcuts Guide to the new service. It's the new streaming service owned by US media giant ViacomCBS.
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[Link] Get ready for 'Vaxzevria', AstraZeneca's rebranded COVID-19 vaccine
Read: 8/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
AstraZeneca has become a household name, but its COVID-19 vaccine will soon be rebranded to help smooth the pathway for millions of Australians hoping to travel overseas once the international border reopens.
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[Link] You should download the new Google Drive for Desktop
Read: 8/8/2021 www.popsci.com
You might be familiar with Google Drive from its web interface or its mobile apps. But desktop software is available as well, allowing you to seamlessly sync files stored in your Google Drive with the file system on your Windows or macOS computer.
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[Link] Super Monkey Ball x Jet Set Radio Crossover Is Like A Tasty Peanut Butter Cup
Read: 7/8/2021 kotaku.com
Jet Set Radio protagonist Beat will appear in the upcoming Super Monkey Ball: Banana Mania as a playable character, Sega announced this morning.
[Link] Back 4 Blood's PvP Versus mode has too many hiding places for humans
Read: 7/8/2021 www.rockpapershotgun.com
I had a grand old time blasting through the open beta of Back 4 Blood's campaign mode earlier this week, and I'm pretty sure everyone from Left 4 Dead diehards to complete newbies like myself will have an equally fun romp with it when the open beta starts for real on August 12th.
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[Link] The Best Unique and NSFW Board Games for You and Your Awful Friends
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
Board games and card games hold a special place in our hearts. They remind us of simpler times, like when Dad would get angry and flip over the game board when he wasn’t winning Clue, or when the drunk adults would viscously shame children who lost at Monopoly around the dinner table.
[Link] Evil Dead: The Game slipped to 2022, but at least now it’ll have a solo option
Read: 7/8/2021 www.destructoid.com
Evil Dead is one of those entities that I just can’t shake (not that I’m trying to), and all these years later, a whole lot of other people still seem to feel the same way.
[Link] The Best Men’s Underwear, According to Men
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
Collectively, we as a society don’t spend much time worrying about men’s underwear. Movies made before 2010 tell us that most men wear the same baggy, white boxing shorts (oh… that’s why they call them “boxers”) underneath literally every piece of lower-body clothing they own.
[Link] 'Mini Motorways' Is a Beautiful Game About the Futility of Roadbuilding
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
As the centerpiece of its act, Mini Motorways crafts the same cruel illusion as its predecessor, Mini Metro.
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[Link] F.E.A.R.-inspired FPS Selaco adds its iconic Nailgun and a killer banana
Read: 3/8/2021 www.pcgamesn.com
There are loads of great indie FPSs out there or on their way – from classics like Dusk to more recent releases like Vomitoreum – but Selaco is looking truly special. It’s somehow running on the Doom engine and is heavily influenced by Monolith’s classic F.E.A.R.
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[Link] DuckDuckGo tackles email privacy with new tracker-stripping service
Read: 2/8/2021 www.engadget.com
DuckDuckGo, which is best known for its privacy-focused search engine, has announced a new service that aims to thwart email trackers. Email Protection is now available in beta.
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[Link] Xiaomi's next smartwatch might have a wraparound screen – but is it a good idea?
Read: 1/8/2021 www.techradar.com
Xiaomi may be planning to launch a new fitness tracker with a 360-degree wraparound screen – which would make it the first commercially available watch of its kind.
[Link] The Pokémon Company Made a Real-Life Version of the Gen 1 Bike
Read: 31/7/2021 www.ign.com
The Pokémon Company has made a real-life version of the bike in the Gen 1 Pokémon games and they're giving it away to one lucky winner. Before you get your hopes up, the company is not offering international shipping so the winner must be located in Japan, as reported by Kotaku.
[Link] Microsoft's new 'power app converging model' hits public preview with Custom Pages
Read: 30/7/2021 www.theregister.com
Microsoft's Custom Pages, an effort to converge its two different low-code Power App platforms, are now in public preview - though it is more hybrid than truly converged.
[Link] From disaster to inconvenience — Zerto adds near-instant ransomware restore
Read: 30/7/2021 blocksandfiles.com
Disaster recovery specialist Zerto aims to deal with the corporate data cancer of ransomware by providing automated virtual machine protection, with restoration within seconds of an attack. Version 9.
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[Link] Corning Made a New Type of Gorilla Glass Just for Smartphone Cameras
Read: 28/7/2021 www.gizmodo.com.au
Corning’s Gorilla Glass has long been used to create super-strong see-through panels used on the front and back of phones, tablets, and more, but now Corning has created a new version of its durable silica designed specifically for use in smartphone cameras.
[Link] Google Maps Now Helps You Avoid People On The Train
Read: 28/7/2021 www.gizmodo.com.au
The world is slowly opening back up. You might be finding yourself using public transit for the first time in ages and trying to figure out how to get around. Some helpful new Google Maps features could help us all navigate through this time, both literally and figuratively.
[Link] 7 Cool Pixel Features You Can’t Get on Other Android Phones
Read: 28/7/2021 www.gizmodo.com.au
The Google Pixel series of phones hasn’t really caught the imagination or attracted the sort of sales in the same way that its big-name Android rivals have, but Google actually introduced Android features first on its Pixel lineup.
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[Link] Vilo’s mesh Wi-Fi router is dirt cheap ($20) and stupidly simple
Read: 27/7/2021 thenextweb.com
Routers are pretty boring to write about, but every once in a while I’ll make an exception, as is the case with the new Vilo mesh Wi-Fi system. Why? Because it’s dirt cheap and stupidly simple to set up — and I mean that in the best way possible.
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