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A small group of pediatricians wanted to tackle a question many of us may not think about. Does eating a Lego mess up our bodies at all? They actually ate some pieces and tracked how long it took them to poop it out. If you have kids who like eating everything on the floor, this one’s for you. Read more…

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We regret to inform you that yet another Baby Boomer doesn’t understand websites. 

Last week, someone turned one of Rudy Giuliani’s Twitter typos into a website that declares, “Donald J. Trump is a traitor to our country.” 

But Trump’s lawyer and informal cybersecurity adviser doesn’t understand how the internet works and seems to be convinced that “Twitter allowed someone to invade” his tweet with a “disgusting anti-President message.” 

Giuliani inadvertently added a live “.in” link to a tweet complaining about Robert Mueller’s investigation into the Trump campaign as the president traveled to the G-20 summit. Then a brilliant soul got hold of G-20.in and turned it into a page calling out the president (.in is the internet domain for Indian sites). Giuliani finally responded to the sneaky move on Tuesday — and he desperately needs a lesson on how website domains work. Read more…

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Time will tell whether Mahershala Ali or Claire Foy might make it to the Oscars stage this year—but whatever happens, we know for sure that Kevin Hart will be there.

The comedian has just been set as the host of the 91st Academy Awards. Hart posted on Instagram to mark the occasion.

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Although the PlayStation Classic is a faithful miniaturization of the original console, it’s simply an emulator, and the people at YouTube channel Retro Gaming Arts have managed to find a way to access the console’s secret menu.

Using a simple USB keyboard (although the video creators note only Corsair and Logitech keyboards seem to work) and hitting the Escape key when a game boots up, you can access the menu which allows you to manipulate frame rates and what appears to be the ability to enter cheats. 

Of course, there’s the risk of messing up your system, so be wary if you’re going to try this at home.  Read more…

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It turns out that hackers are an equal opportunity bunch. 

During the lead up to the 2016 U.S. election, much ado was made of the hack of the Democratic National Committee and subsequent publishing of stolen emails. 

Now, thanks to a report by Politico, we know that in 2018 the National Republican Congressional Committee suffered a security breach of its own. 

Specifically, email accounts belonging to four senior aides working for the House Republican campaign organization were said to have been “surveilled” for months. Yup, you read that right: The Republicans’ emails were hacked, too. 

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Hollywood chimed in Tuesday on something it actually knows a thing or two about: film and video technology. And you should be glad it did.

In a short video attached to the home video release of Mission Impossible: Fallout, ageless star Tom Cruise and director Christopher McQuarrie explain, plainly and directly (from the set of Top Gun: Maverick no less), the modern scourge of TV technology: video interpolation, better known as the “soap opera effect.”

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An e-scooter is an e-scooter is an e-scooter. Right?

It may seem that way, but companies are developing new designs for the two-wheeled machines. As the scooter-share industry continues to grow, it’s becoming clear that the motorized devices are increasingly important. 

Superpedestrian, a transportation robotics company, works behind the scenes on scooter development. This week it introduced its vehicle intelligence software system that the Cambridge, Massachusetts company wants to pair with a new rugged, “industrial-grade” e-scooter. It thinks it can take on fundamental flaws with scooters: overuse, quickly drained batteries, easily hackable, and more. Read more…

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What’s your hottest take? 

Whether it’s putting pineapple on pizza or actually liking Ed Sheeran’s sense of style, everyone has a divisive opinion that’s bound to tear apart families. And why keep your terrible thoughts to yourself when you can share them on the internet in glorious meme form? 

The meme prompts viewers to “find the people” who identify with certain traits, only to present them with a crowd of diverse emoji. 

“Can’t find them?” the meme asks. “That’s because they live among us, looking like normal people. The only difference is they’re going to hell.”  Read more…

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The Festival of Lights is upon us.

Revelers are frying latkes and lighting candles at sundown for eight nights to celebrate Hanukkah through Monday evening. 

They’re also playing dreidel — a four-sided top spun as a holiday game — in AR and texting Hanukkah-themed stickers thanks to a boatload of apps themed for the Jewish holiday.

Here are a few of our favorite Hanukkah apps to download this week:

Dreidel, dreidel, dreidel I spun you with AR

iGevalt is a free App for iOS and gives you the bare bones dreidel experience. You can’t keep score or have multiple players since there’s no built-in profile settings. Even so, it’s still a fun and entertaining experience. While some AR apps are limited as to where they work, in my testing, iGevalt worked on both a physical table and my closed laptop lid on the train. Read more…

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False advertising is not a good look, Samsung.

Photographer Dunja Djudjic is accusing the world’s largest smartphone maker of using one of her photos and presenting it on their website as a photo taken with its Galaxy A8 Star phone. 

In a post on DIY Photography, Djudjic explains how Samsung is using her photos, taken with a DSLR camera, to showcase the Galaxy A8’s portrait mode. The photographer made the discovery after noticing one of her pictures uploaded to the photo community EyeEm was sold through its partner, Getty. 

Excited to see who purchased the photo and find out how they were using it, Djudjic executed a reverse image search. That’s when she discovered the image being used on the Samsung Malaysia website, presented as a photo taken with the Galaxy A8 Star. Read more…

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