There’s an addictive new YouTube channel dedicated solely to melting stuff
Not a day goes by when I don’t praise the heavens for YouTube. Why? Because without YouTube, countless oddballs who have strange fetishes for crushing things with hydraulic presses and pouring molten copper onto food would never be able to share their passions with the world. I recently discovered yet another addictive YouTube channel that’s simply called “LET’S MELT THIS” and its sole purpose is to, you guess it, show videos of stuff melting.
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The iPhone SE will launch in the following countries as early as April 4
Given that Apple sold 30 million 4-inch iPhones in 2015, it’s a good bet that the upcoming iPhone SE is going to be the company’s sleeper hit of the season. In fact, iPhone SE pre-orders out of China have already hit the 3.4 million mark, an impressive figure given that the technology housed within the iPhone SE isn’t entirely new.
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Watch Ashton Kutcher and Jimmy Kimmel compare their Uber pasenger ratings
Appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live yesterday, A-list celeb Ashton Kutcher and Jimmy Kimmel decided to check their respective Uber ratings live on the air. While passenger ratings on Uber used to be a closely guarded secret that were only accessible via various hacks and work-arounds, the ridesharing company this past September finally made such information easily accessible.
Kutcher obviously didn’t show up to talk about Uber, but as one of the company’s early investors, it’s not at all surprising that the topic veered in that direction.
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The iPhone SE is more important for Apple than you think
The iPhone SE isn’t the kind of device that will generate long lines around Apple stores. But some new research indicates that the device will be a small but important part of Apple’s iPhone lineup. Analysis from research firm Slice Intelligence shows that the iPhone SE has generated significant interest since its announcement, particularly from people who haven’t bought a new phone in a couple of years.
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Project Apollo 17 might be the most impressive interactive experience on the Internet
44 years. That’s how long it’s been since Apollo 17, the last manned mission to the Moon, returned to Earth. With all of the technological advancements that have come about in the past four decades, you might think that a trip to the Moon would be a walk in the park, but NASA’s priorities lie elsewhere.
Thankfully, those same advancements have made it possible for us to relive the Apollo 17 mission without ever leaving our homes.
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Apple can’t force the FBI to reveal how it broke into the San Bernardino iPhone
The FBI confirmed on Monday what many people suspected: The San Bernardino iPhone can be unlocked without Apple’s help.
Using the services of a security company familiar with the inner workings of iOS 9 and the iPhone, the FBI cracked Apple’s security features. The agency bypassed the San Bernardino iPhone’s encryption and was able to retrieve the data stored on the iPhone using a mysterious technique that rendered phone’s the PIN protection useless.
As much as it would obviously like to, Apple can’t force the FBI to disclose the security hole, which means others could use a similar hack to break into iPhones in the future until Apple discovers the vulnerability and patches it.
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The Best 1970 Boss 429 Mustang in the World
This Grabber Blue 1970 Boss 429 is the one and only 1970 Boss 429 to date that has ever won an Authenticity Award in Mustang Club of America judging.
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Our very first look at the deleted scenes from ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’
We now live in a world where deleted scenes warrant their own trailer. On Thursday, Disney shared a short preview video with footage from the deleted scenes that will appear on the Star Wars: The Force Awakens home release.
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This shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise after a 30-second production announcement managed to rack up over 11 million views, but it’s further proof that Star Wars really is back. Here’s the short teaser:
The list of deleted scenes expected to appear on the digital and disc releases also made its way around the Internet earlier this month:
- Finn And The Villager (0:31)
- Jakku Message (0:47)
- X-Wings Prepare For Lightspeed (0:22)
- Kylo Searches The Falcon (0:50)
- Snow Speeder Chase (0:48)
- Finn Will Be Fine (0:23)
That’s less than four minutes of new footage, but hopefully it’ll be enough to tide us over until the first trailer for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story drops later this year. At this point, we’re basically trapped in an endless cycle of Star Wars.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens has already leaked to torrent sites, but it will be available online legally in Digital HD on April 1st and will hit store shelves in Blu-ray and DVD formats on April 5th. If you want to see all the other special features and bonus content that comes with the home release, check this post.
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Watch: Siberian wind pulls 41-ton Boeing 737 along the runway like it’s a toy
Planes and high winds aren’t the best of friends, especially when the aircraft is grounded. We’ve seen storms lift parked planes off the ground in the past, but that’s nothing compared to what you’re about to see in this video. Hurricane winds in the Siberian city of Norilsk were able to pull a Boeing 737-800 jet along a runway while witnesses recorded the whole thing.
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Empty, the airliner weighs some 41.5 tons, RT reports, and as much as 79 tons when fully loaded at takeoff. But the high-speed Siberian winds have no problem moving the plane along the runway.
“The first time I see such a thing. Northern elements are unleashed in earnest,” Kraina Kalinushkina said on Facebook when posting the video embedded below.
The entire event was recorded at the Alykel airport, located west of Norilsk, a region that’s facing some bad weather at the moment. Winds were reaching speeds of 33 meters per second on Wednesday when the video was uploaded, which translates to speeds of up to 120kmh, or about 74mph. RT says that on the same day, a roof fragment was torn from one of the city’s buildings and dropped on a car, killing a 32-year-old woman and injuring three others.
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FBI’s secret iPhone hacking method may not be a secret for long
With the FBI reportedly employing the services of an Israeli forensic software company to access the San Bernardino shooter’s locked iPhone, you might be forgiven for thinking that the back and forth legal battle between Apple and the FBI is finally coming to an end.
The reality, though, is a bit more complex. Even if the FBI successfully manages to access the iPhone 5c used by San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook, Bloomberg relays that the FBI might be obligated to divulge the mechanics of the hack to Apple.
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“The FBI’s new tactic may be subject to a relatively new and little-known rule that would require the government to tell Apple about any vulnerability potentially affecting millions of iPhones unless it can show a group of administration officials that there’s a substantial national security need to keep the flaw secret,” the report states. “This process, known as an equities review, was created by the Obama administration to determine if new security flaws should be kept secret or disclosed, and gives the government a specific time frame for alerting companies to the flaws.”
Now imagine if the FBI is ultimately forced to reveal the workaround to Apple, what happens next? Well, more than likely, Apple would take immediate steps to patch up the means by which the FBI was able to circumvent iOS’ security protections.
And next thing you know, we’re right back at square one. Indeed, this is precisely why the issue of mobile encryption isn’t going to go away until Congress figures out a way to handle it. Notably, Apple has already indicated that if the FBI’s workaround solution proves successful, it would like to be aware of the methods involved.
One wrinkle to be aware of, according to former FBI special agent Leo Taddeo, is that if the hack used by the FBI is sufficiently complex such that it can’t be easily replicated by laypeople, the FBI may not be forced to reveal its tactics to Apple.
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