Watch a Crazy Person Destroy a $10,000 Gold Apple Watch for No Good Reason

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Popular users can make plenty of money from the ads that run alongside their videos on YouTube, but we’re not sure “TechRax” is going to recoup the $10,000 he spent on a gold Apple Watch Edition just to smash it between two neodymium magnets.

What is the purpose of this test? Why did he smash a gold Apple Watch and not a cheap aluminum one? Why is he smashing Apple Watches in the first place? What is a neodymium magnet?

We’re not entirely sure that the answers to any of those questions really matter — the video is embedded below.

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Thanks To Snowden’s NSA revelations, DuckDuckGo’s Traffic Has Exploded

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When it comes to search, there’s really been only one name that has mattered for the last 15 ears: Google. And though Google remains the top search engine on the planet by a wide, wide margin, that’s not to say that there isn’t any competition. There is, of course, Microsoft’s Bing. But also making strides in search is DuckDuckGo, a search engine which prides itself on not tracking users and valuing privacy and pertinent search results above all else.

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Video: The Cast of Silicon Valley Destroys Conan in Halo 5

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Conan O’Brien’s gaming videos are always entertaining and this week’s video of him playing the upcoming Halo 5 against three cast members from HBO’s sitcom Silicon Valley is no exception. Halo 5, which is still months away from being released, has a terrific looking multiplayer mode that Conan played with Silicon Valley stars Thomas Middleditch, T.J. Miller and Zach Woods. Given how Conan is typically a pretty crappy gamer, you won’t be surprised to learn that he spends most of the video getting slaughtered by his rivals.

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Samsung Made a Phone That’s Much Thinner Than the iPhone 6 – Here are the Leaked Pics

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How much thinner can smartphones get? The iPhone 6 is 6.9 millimeters and the Galaxy S6 is 6.8 millimeters, but it looks like Samsung is taking things to a whole new level with a new device called the Galaxy A8. Nowhereelse.fr has posted some leaked pictures of the Galaxy A8 that show an extremely thin device that leaked specifications claim is just 5.9 millimeters thin, or a full millimeter thinner than the iPhone 6.

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Ouch: People are Still More Interested in the iPod Than the Apple Watch

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Is the Apple Watch really Apple’s Next Big Thing, or is it destined to wind up as millions of Apple fans’ favorite desk drawer gadget? Business Insider points us to a chart created by Pacific Crest analyst Andy Hargreaves that shows Google search volume for the Apple Watch right now is actually lagging behind not only the iPhone and iPad, but the iPod as well.

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Mystery Solved: Why Large Dinosaurs Avoided the Tropics For Millions of Years

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New research has revealed why it took more than 30 million years for large Triassic dinosaurs to populate the tropics after they first appeared on Earth, ending a mystery that has kept researchers baffled for decades. Using new geological evidence culled from Ghost Ranch, N.M., researchers from the University of Southampton in the U.K. have found that an extremely unpredictable hot and arid climate due to elevated carbon dioxide levels (four to six times of what they are today) kept large herbivorous dinos at bay until after 200 million years ago.

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