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1. Pay what you want for these 10 Mac apps & get the most out of your MacBook
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... up with great photo and video enhancers. The best part is that all nine apps are potentially available for pennies. There's a "pay what you want deal" for the bundle that allows you to name your price. ...

2. 'Okami' veterans want to make a sequel
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... Bethesda's E3 presentation), have posted a video... Read all  ...

3. Jim Meskimen impersonates 20 celebs in 2 minutes in remarkable deepfake video
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The deepfake technology in this video is far from flawless, but Jim Meskimen's voices and mannerisms more than make up for it. Watch him recite a poem of his own composition as John Malkovich, Colin Firth, ...

4. Short documentary about people living in tunnels under Las Vegas
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According to this short documentary, there are hundreds of miles of service, storm, and sewer tunnels beneath the glitz and neon of Las Vegas, and these tunnels are home to many people. The video has ...

5. Video demonstration of new "invisibility cloak"
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Canadian camouflage developer HyperStealth Biotechnology Corp released a series of videos demonstrating their new "patent-pending" "Quantum Stealth Light Bending Material (Invisibility Cloak)." Here is ...

6. This gentleman's pleasure in revving his motorcycle is interrupted when it catches on fire
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A young man was having a fine time making a loud noise with his motorcycle for all the neighbors to enjoy. His fun was cut short when the engine caught on fire. The laugh at the end of the video has potential ...

7. Arlo presenta Arlo Video Doorbell
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Arlo Video Doorbell è un nuovo campanello smart con video in grado di offrire filmati in alta risoluzione ed audio bidirezionale. The post Arlo presenta Arlo Video Doorbell appeared first on Webnews. ...

8. NASA video: "Space Is Hard"
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"Space travel is hard and unforgiving," writes NASA, "but we have never been more ready to meet the unknown." Or as William S. Burroughs said, "This is the space age and we are here to go." Read the ...

9. The appendix is not a useless organ
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The appendix has evolved in different animal species at least 29 times, according to this SciShow video, which means it probably serves a function. Scientists who studied appendixes in animals have come ...

10. Video: sea critters chow down on the carcass of a young whale
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Who doesn't love a free meal? From Nautilus Live: During the final dive of this year’s Nautilus expedition season, our team discovered a whale fall while exploring Davidson Seamount off central California’s ...

11. Review: Untitled Goose Game is a difficult delight
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I downloaded Untitled Goose Game to my Nintendo Switch a few days ago. It's the most self-abusive fun that I've had (with a video game, I mean we're all friends here) since I owned an NES back in the day. ...

12. Analogue Pocket
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Analogue Pocket is a forthcoming handheld game console that runs old Nintendo carts and offers a built-in synthesizer and sequencer. A multi-video-game-system portable handheld. A digital audio workstation ...

13. Arlo's first video doorbell provides an extra-clear view of your porch
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Arlo is jumping into the video doorbell arena just a year after releasing its first smart doorbell, and it's claiming to one-up rivals with some hard-to-find features. The simply-named Arlo Video ...

14. MIT scientists develop a way to recover details from blurry images
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A group of MIT researchers have developed a way to recover lost details from images and create clear copies of motion-blurred parts in videos. Their creation, an algorithm called a "visual deprojection ...

15. Amazing dad builds submarine crib for kid
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... gallery with some cool video below. I turned a regular crib into a submarine crib Read the rest Read all  ...

16. Watch: how magazines were produced before desktop publishing
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Bryony Dalefield pasted up the London Review of Books in the early 1980s. In this video she shows how she did it back in the the good old days of rubber cement and X-Acto knives. I laid out the first ...

17. How to sharpen a $13 kitchen knife so it cuts like an expensive one
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... this by matching the edge that the manufacturer put on the knife to begin with. This is the knife used in the video, and these are the two whetstones. Read the rest Read all  ...

18. Law enforcement shuts down largest known child porn site on the dark web
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The US just scored a significant coup against crime on the dark web. Federal agents and international partners have taken down Welcome To Video, believed to be the largest child pornography darknet site ...

19. Watch John Darnielle from the Mountain Goats play a D&D campaign inspired by their newest record
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... can find through communal fantasy gaming. During the video, Darnielle is also gifted a custom figurine which is so eerily accurate that I'm pretty sure it's actually a voodoo doll. I fully plan to steal ...

20. Watch this guy restore a totally trashed MacBook Pro he bought for $100
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... battery, a new bottom case, upper case, top lid, front panel glass, a 500 GB SSD, and a new clutch cover. The video shows how he removed all the broken parts and replaced the new ones. It looks like a ...

21. The worst thing about deepfakes is that we know about them
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... to the growing phenomenon of deepfakes—the manipulation of deep Learning technology to create deceptively realistic videos, like adding Nicholas Cage's face into every movie. The cybersecurity firm DeepTrace ...

22. Google rolls out real-time captioning starting with Pixel 4
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At I/O in May, Google showcased its Live Caption tech, which provides captions for all audio on your device in real-time, except for voice and video calls. Google has now revealed when you'll be able ...

23. Giphy Arcade lets you play, create and share your own bite-sized games
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While it has evolved over the last few years to be more than just a place to find your favorite looping images, Giphy's experiments with short-form video and emoji have felt like an extension of its ...

24. YouTuber, iced out of monetization, looks to China
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Bart Baker is a YouTuber who specialized in vulgar videos and pop-star parodies, but his income withered when the site demonetized all the horrible things we didn't realize our kids were watching. So ...

25. Explosion at California storage tank farm
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... the embedded YouTube video shows the second silo exploding. (Jump to 1:15 and tilt head 90 degrees left). Speculation is that a minor earthquake triggered the blaze. Read the rest Read all  ...