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The 10 Best Deals of May 1, 2019
We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today.
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Radioactive Carbon From Nuclear Tests Found in the Mariana Trench
Scientists found a radioactive signature of atomic bomb blasts in crustaceans living in the ocean’s depths, according to a new paper.
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Officials Warn That Midnight Audience for Avengers: Endgame May Have Been Exposed to Measles
More than 700 cases of the measles have been reported in the United States this year, according to federal health officials, with hundreds in quarantine. It’s been characterized as the largest outbreak of the preventable disease since 2000, the year that it was declared eliminated from the country. But it’s continuing…
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The Fun Story Behind an Avengers: Endgame Cameo You Probably Didn't Notice
There’s a scene about a third of the way into Avengers: Endgame that has three levels of surprise. Two of them, everyone gets. But the third one is only for a very select group of people: fantasy football players.
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Amazon's Discounting Bonsai Trees and Succulents for Mother's Day
Succulents are basically the moms of plants: always there to brighten up a room and (mostly) thrive on their own. Today’s Gold Box lowers the price on a bunch of them (plus a few Bonsai) for Mother’s Day.
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Tesla Autopilot Malfunction Caused Crash That Killed Apple Engineer, Lawsuit Alleges
Apple engineer Walter Huang was driving his 2017 Tesla Model X on U.S. Highway 101 in Mountain View, California, the morning of March 23, 2018, when the car steered left into a concrete median, killing Huang in the resulting crash.
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Astonishing Denisovan Fossil Discovery Traced Back to Buddhist Monk
The archaeology world is abuzz today with news of the first Denisovan fossil found outside of Siberia. The 160,000-year-old jawbone was uncovered by a Buddhist monk in a Chinese cave nearly 40 years ago—an aspect of this story that’s as intriguing as it is frustrating.
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Google Introduces New Feature to Auto-Delete Your Location and Activity Data
Knowing that our apps gather boatloads of information about us—some for years—can be unsettling. Google’s various apps are chief among these, and the company said it has heard user requests to make managing their data a simpler process. The company announced Wednesday that it’s rolling out a new feature to allow users…
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Turn Any Wall Into a TV With Anker's $80 Projector
Anker’s Nebula Capsule raised the bar for portable projectors, and now, they’ve taken the guts of that soda can, and put it into a much less expensive home projector.
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Scientists Locate Neutron Star Collision That Could Have Created Our Solar System's Plutonium
In 2017, observatories around the world observed a high-energy collision between a pair of dense objects, each slightly more massive than the Sun but only the size of a city. A similar collision closer to home could have been responsible for producing some of the heaviest elements in our own solar system—and…
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'Incredible' Drone Footage Shows a Tornado Tearing Across Oklahoma
I’ve never seen a tornado, and I don’t have much interest. Those things are terrifying. The Midwest saw some 25 tornadoes Tuesday as storms broke out in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas, reports AccuWeather. One tornado, in particular, that formed near Sulphur, Oklahoma, was caught on camera—and the…
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The Very Best Smart Home Gadgets
The first smart home gadgets from a few years ago weren’t actually very smart, but times have changed, and there’s now plenty of good reasons to upgrade your vacuum cleaner, microwave, and even your sound system, with a bit of AI-enhanced smarts.
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Had a Hard Time Seeing Last Week's Epic Game of Thrones Battle? Well, Maybe You Should Upgrade to This 65" Monster
TCL’s affordable 6-series TVs are a favorite of ours since they offering every form of HDR (including top-shelf Dolby Vision), local dimming zones for better contrast and black levels, and Roku software.
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Intriguing New Drug Therapies May Boost Social Skills in People with Autism
New research seems to show encouraging progress in helping treat the complex neurodevelopmental disorder autism. Two unrelated clinical trials, involving men and children with autism, suggest that using drugs to interact with a hormone called vasopressin could improve the social functioning of people living with the…
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The 13 Most Notorious Deleted Tweets in History
Everyone makes a bad tweet now and then. And sometimes a tweet is so bad, that the user has to delete it forever. But the internet never forgets.
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How to Prevent Google from Saving Your Voice Recordings
The unfortunate trade-off of a smart speaker is clear: for the convenience of having something to yell at that can tell you what the weather is, what the traffic is like, and whether your front door is unlocked or not (to name a few items), you have to give up your privacy to a giant corporate entity.
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Amy Pascal Is Leaving Sony for Universal
Amy Pascal has wrapped up her tenure at Sony Pictures after more than 20 years, and announced she’s moving her Pascal Pictures into a first-look deal at Universal.
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Congrats to Maine, the First State to Ban Styrofoam
Maine has become the first state to ban food containers made from polystyrene, which in most cases is not recyclable and in all cases wreaks havoc on the environment.
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The Royals Have Unfollowed Each Other on Instagram and All Hell Is Breaking Loose
There is very little in the gossip world that causes me to gasp audibly, but this one did: Meghan Markle and Prince Harry unfollowed Kate Middleton and Prince William on their official Instagram accounts (Sussex Royal and Kensington Royal, respectively). This is actually more shocking to me than the news that Meghan…
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Senator Hirono Came for Attorney General Barr's Neck
So how did the Barr hearing go, on a score of 1 to 10? One being shitty, 10 being shitty but with juicy bits.
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The 10 Best Deals of May 1, 2019
We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today.
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Where Is the Hair?
While Senate Judiciary Committee member Ted Cruz was blabbing on during the testimony of Attorney General William Barr this afternoon, I found myself feeling distracted by something important: What’s up with the wide expanse of bare skin in the middle of his Wolverine beard?
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Sara Nelson Wants to Run That Militant Line All The Way to the Highest Seat in Labor
There is an argument to be made—a plausible argument, even a strong argument—that the political environment is ripe for a revival of organized labor in America. Only one thing is lacking: a truly charismatic national leader. Many people believe that Sara Nelson is that leader. If she wants that title, she must first…
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Of Course Brett Kavanaugh Has Inspired Roy Moore to Think of Running for Senate
Former Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, whose campaign was derailed after it was publicly revealed he has a history of preying on teenage girls as a grown man, is continuing the hallowed tradition of bad man comebacks by considering another run for Senate. And his reasoning seems to be—if Brett Kavanaugh could…
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This $9 Moon Lamp Deal Is Not a Hoax
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Traeger grills were already about as smart as smokers and grills could get, but for 2019, they’re raising the bar with Wi-Fi and an all-ne...
