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Grid Lock: Starbucks Covers Electrical Outlets to Curb Laptop Lingerers
At Starbucks, there are laptop users, and then there are those laptop users.
Save A Tree, Teach Through The Cloud: South Korea Schools First To Go Paperless
By 2015, South Korea has vowed that their entire school system will be paperless.
Is Google Hiding Its Gay Pride Support With a Disappearing Doodle?
Until now, it seemed Google could doodle no wrong.
Japanese Scientists Build a Perfect (and Fake) Pop Star
Eguchi Aimi is your typical Japanese pop star: perfect skin, high-pitched girlish voice, lithe figure, and a team of computer designers, photographers, and other pop stars artificially constructing her every movement.
Cutting Edge: $100,000 Iridium Razor Goes On Sale
Shaving will never be the same again.
Google Doodle: Happy Superflat Summer Solstice!
What is a midsummer night’s dream like? Just ask Japanese artist Takashi Murakami, who’s created a fantastical Google doodle to celebrate the summer solstice.
YouTube: Teaching You More About Microwaves Than You Wanted to Know
Where’s the best spot in a microwave to heat up food? If you answered the middle, you are about to learn something you never knew about the machine you use every day.
Is This What Flying Will Look Like in 2050? Airbus Imagines ‘Plane of the Future’
Sure, air travel these days can be uncomfortable, expensive and downright stressful. But with a new futuristic concept, Airbus gives travelers something to look forward to — so long as they can wait until 2050.
U.K. Juror Admits to Contacting Defendant on Facebook
A $10 million UK trial involving police corruption, a $32,000 BMW and Premier League match tickets collapsed after a juror admitted to contacting the case’s defendant on Facebook.
Watch: The World’s Fastest Toy Car Hits Speeds of 161 MPH
Kids, be aware; this “toy” car is not an actual toy. The ultra-aerodynamic RC—short for remote controlled—car will whoosh out of your backyard at a blink of an eye.
Unborn Child Racks Up More Than 260 Facebook Friends
If you’re a Facebook user of a certain age, your news feed is undoubtedly clogged with ultrasound photos from parents-to-be you haven’t seen for years.