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How has this not been invented yet?! Jenny Chang / BuzzFeed This is the Robin. It’s a new Android phone that has smart software, so you don’t have to worry about running out of space. Robin is made by a company you've never heard of called Nextbit. I know what you're thinking: Another Android device? […]
Bettmann/CORBIS New York Construction Workers Lunching on a Crossbeam is one of the most enduring images of American industry. Now, perhaps fittingly, it has followed in the footsteps of so much of the country's industrial capacity and headed to China. Rights to the picture are owned by image licensing business Corbis Images, which has been […]
Warner Bros / Via HBOGO You're in a desert, walking along in the sand, when all of a sudden you look down and have to solve a CAPTCHA. The ubiquitous authentication method is meant to distinguish real live humans from bots trying to overload a form on a website. It is always annoying, but never […]
It’s like Russian roulette but with whipped cream, and Hasbro can’t make it fast enough to satisfy raging demand. Sapna Maheshwari/BuzzFeed News A game that revolves around the eternal human desire to fling piles of whipped cream into the faces of friends and enemies is flying off shelves this holiday season. Such is the strange […]
OfferUp co-founders Arean van Veelen and Nick Huzar. OfferUp Craigslist is the crocodile of the tech industry — a perfectly evolved beast that has outlived competitors trying to buy into it, decimated an entire industry, and withstood the rise of mobile. It did all that while looking more or less exactly the same as it […]
A company called uBiome wants to bring microbiome testing and research to the masses. But there are limits to what you’ll learn, and unlike in traditional research, you pay to participate. Mheim3011 / Getty Images The bacteria in your gut, long overlooked and considered unglamorous, is now one of the hottest subjects in biology. These […]
(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) Jacquelyn Martin / AP For years, the ed-tech start up Knewton has been content to stay behind the scenes, lending its adaptive-learning technology to big-name education publishers like Pearson and Houghton Mifflin. But Knewton is stepping out of the shadows with a plan to take its technology to the masses. Today, the […]
“For Snake People, A Generational Divide.” H/T creator @ericwbailey. You know that wrathful feeling you get when you see yet another article making broad, sweeping generalizations about so-called “millennials”? Time Inc. / Via wordpress.com Curb your angry, eye-rolling urges with this delightful Chrome extension that replaces the m-word with… “Snake People.” Via chrome.google.com Revisit Google […]
Apple loyalists will be pretty “pissed” about this. UPDATE: This has since been removed and was not the work of a Google employee. But it’s still hilarious. It is a well-known fact that Android vs Apple is one of the most intense feuds in this day and age. The decision is too hard to make, […]
“Hello? History?” Roberto Baldwin Every so often, a photograph comes along that defines an era. Maybe it's Alfred Eisenstaedt's V-J Day snap of sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square. Maybe it's a man standing in front of a tank in Tiananmen Square. Though these images will live forever and their significance will only grow, […]
“To borrow a millennial phrase, we’re on cleek,” said Taco Bell’s incoming CEO. “Not everybody know’s what I’m talking about right now. That means you’re on point.” In the eyes of young people, Taco Bell is “on cleek,” its incoming CEO told investors on a call earlier this month, explaining that it’s millennial speak for […]
The Federal Trade Commission is preparing for a New Year’s spike in weight-loss scams. This year’s highlights included a cream inspired by lobster hormones, and a magical pill that claimed to strip the calories from a plate of spaghetti. ftc.gov ftc.gov As Americans resolve to lose weight and diet this year, scammers are at the […]