- newThis $100 subscription helps protect against identity theft and financial fraud
TL;DR: If you regularly bank, shop, and manage your finances online, this discounted 15-month subscription offers an affordable way to monitor your identity and respond quickly if fraud occurs—grab it now for just $99.99 (reg. $187.35).With Life…
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- newDoing no "evil," Google proposes paving over protected wetlands for a data center
Google has a difficult engineering problem at its enormous Fort Wayne data center: some of the land it wants to build on is protected wetlands.The search giant's solution is simple: build anyway. In the permitting documents for the not-evil-mastermi…
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- newCan you guess Rock Hard's branding problem?
Los Angeles' stiffest self-proclaimed superhero is fighting a branding problem of his own devising. Based on the name alone, I had already imagined an incredible origin story involving the ever-popular fateful tumble into a vat of chemicals. His cra…
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- newNever lose your wallet again with this $32 smart tracker
TL;DR: Never lose your wallet or ID cards again with this Gen 3, 1-pack KeySmart SmartCard for just $31.99 (reg. $39.99).The KeySmart SmartCard is a credit-card-thin, IPX8 waterproof, rechargeable smartcard that works with Apple Find My or Googl…
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- newMeta pays 16.2 million accounts, including neo-Nazi-linked pages
Meta is paying for posts that appear to break its own rules, according to an ABC (Australia) New Verify investigation by Lucy Carter. The report cites four accounts that have received payment from Facebook's invitation-only Content Monetization progr…
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- newMark Twain wrote a story in 1898 that describes the internet
"From The 'London Times' in 1904" is an 1898 Mark Twain short story set six years in the future, and it describes something very close to the internet. It opens as a murder mystery. Clayton, a hot-tempered army officer, is accused of killing Szczepan…
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- newA Dutch doctor translated acupuncture through four languages
De Acupunctura is a 1683 book by the Dutch physician Willem ten Rhijne, and it came out of one of the most roundabout translation jobs on record. Ten Rhijne was living at Dejima, the artificial island off Nagasaki that was the only piece of Japan ope…
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- newA Kentucky water tower says "Y'all" because of a legal problem
The Florence Y'all Water Tower stands beside Interstate 75 in Florence, Kentucky, and it says "Y'all" because of a paperwork problem. When it went up in 1974 it read FLORENCE MALL. The developers had given the city the land for the tower on the condi…
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- newTake a seat and watch the trailer to Primetime
There's been some speculation about exactly what Primetime, A24's movie about the hit show To Catch A Predator, is going to say. Having seen the trailer, I figure that if you were skeptical of host Chris Hansen's motives and character, this movie sha…
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- newHear what the Odyssey may have sounded like as a song
Georg Danek and Stefan Hagel have worked out a way to sing Homer, and Open Culture has their recording. Danek teaches at the University of Vienna and Hagel is at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. What they recorded is lines 267 to 366 of book 8 of th…
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