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December 3, 2013
Goodbye High-Speed Car Chases: This Pulse Tech Shuts Down A Car's Engine
The RF Safe-Stop can stall the engine of a vehicle by confusing its electronic systems with radio frequency.
High-speed car chases could be a thing of the past. A U.K. company has developed a prototype that could stop cars in their tracks by blasting electromagnetic waves.
Netflix Gets Its First Original Kids Series: "Turbo FAST"
Five episodes will be available Christmas Eve, with additional episodes released in 2014.
Netflix has another original up its sleeve.
The 10 Most Viral Tumblr Blogs Of 2013
Brides Throwing Cats, Hot Dog Legs, and The Worst Rooms Ever make the list. Plus, Fast Company senior editor Jason Feifer's Selfies At Funerals gets an honorable mention.
Among the many Top 10 lists featured in Yahoo's Year In Review recap of search trends in 2013 is a new addition to the 13-year-old report: a look into some trends on Tumblr, the blogging platform that Yahoo acquired in May.
Inside Microsoft Research's First Artist-In-Residence Program
An exclusive first look at what happens when you give an artist unrestricted access to Microsoft's researchers and technology.
You may not know the name James George, but you probably recognize his art. Working out of Golan Levin's lab at Carnegie Mellon alongside Jonathan Minard, he created some of the most stunning digital portraiture of our era--which then became a documentary--using little more than a Microsoft Kinect and a stock dSLR camera.
The Evolution Of Major League Baseball Was A Hot Mess
This infographic traces 100 teams through 140 years of professional baseball and the sport's evolution was anything but logical.
Today, there are 30 teams in Major League Baseball. 15 belong to the American League, and 15 to the National League. With the exception of the designated hitter, baseball is a simple and tidy system. But that wasn't always the case.
You'll Be Seeing This Scary Japanese Tire Commercial Again In Your Nightmares
There's no reasonable explanation for why a tire ad should be this terrifying.
No matter how seasoned a driver you are, the threat of a car accident is always lurking. Even if you're in no way impaired or distracted and your car is up to code, there are still so many other cars and their drivers and the elements. It is for this reason that so many car commercials can easily tap into the primal fear of protecting one's family. A new ad for tires is making waves in Japan, however, with another kind of fear entirely.
Commuting Sucks. This Interactive Window Would Make It Better
Imagine an interactive window on a public bus that shows the history of the city as you drive by.
It's a fact of life: commuting sucks. And this isn't just hyperbole. Research links commuting to issues ranging from loneliness to obesity and one study even found that it increases the likelihood of divorce by as much as 40%.
UPS Is Researching Drone Deliveries, Too
Experiments in drone-based deliveries are taking off as UPS reveals it, too, is looking into systems for flying parcel-carriers.
Amazon isn't the only company exploring options for the future of flying parcel-carriers. UPS, the world's largest parcel-delivery company, has also been experimenting with various drone-based delivery solutions.
We Just Found This Hidden Location-Tracking Map Inside iOS 7
Buried inside System Preferences on your iOS device is a list of places you frequently go--with a surprisingly useful (or creepy) amount of data. Here's how to find it.
Both iOS 7 and Android (via Google Now) are constantly logging all your locations as a first step in offering useful contextual information about your surroundings. And while it may still seem a bit high on the creepy scale, it can also be really useful to have access to the same location information your phone does.
December 2, 2013
Amazon Chat Support Gave This Man "The Worst Customer Experience"
"Do not use Amazon chat support," Chris Williams warns. "This just happened to me."
Anyone who's spent several hours on the phone with their local Internet provider during an outage can tell you: There's little more frustrating than bad customer service. Chris Williams knows this feeling of frustration well, if his account of a recent encounter with Amazon chat support is legitimate.
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