We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today.
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Thursday, 2 May 2019
The 10 Best Deals of May 1, 2019
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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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Tuesday, 30 April 2019
See What Could've Opened Deep Space Nine Season 8 in an Exclusive Clip From What We Left Behind
It’s a miracle that Deep Space Nine got to do what it did with the Star Trek franchise for seven seasons. But what if the series had continued on in the wake of the Dominion War? Part of the incoming extensive documentary What We Left Behind wants to give you a hint—and we’ve got an exclusive look at it in action.
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Anki, Maker of Adorable Robots That Don't Do All That Much, Abruptly Shuts Down
Robotics company Anki, the manufacturer of an adorable line of tiny home robots like Cozmo and its bigger brother, the $250 Vector, has unexpectedly and abruptly folded, Recode reported on Monday.
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What's the Best Place to Order Flowers Online?
With Mother’s Day and graduation season upon us, I assume a lot of you are desperately trying to remember your old passwords or track down promo codes to one of the dozens of online flower delivery services. And with a bouquet’s worth of options to choose from, this seems like a good week to ask you guys who you trust…
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Google Sold Fewer Pixels at the Start of 2019 Than the Year Before, Despite Launch of Pixel 3 Line
Google doesn’t sound like it’s had a great time trying to sell consumers on its Pixel line of phones lately, in part because there’s too much competition for high-end devices—at least according to remarks made during an earnings call with Ruth Porat, chief financial officer of Google’s parent company Alphabet.
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