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We’ve hit peak fidget spinner, with some schools even banning the gizmos. Now a design team is hoping adults will want in on the fidgeting action, but instead of spinning, they’ll be cubing.  

The Infinity Cube is essentially another fidget toy — something to distract and occupy your restless hands and mind during calls, meetings, and presentations. But instead of a $4 toy, this design team is raising money to produce the gadgets for adults — and at adult prices.

The cube is made out of aluminum and brass pins and is apparently soothing and calming for even the most stressful office environment. It better be since it starts out at $65 a cube on their Kickstarter page. They’ve already raised nearly $30,000, which means they’ll also make a case to carry the fidget cube. Read more…

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Personal advice from one of the biggest business icons in all of tech history is difficult to come by, but Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is making it easy for newly minted college graduates via Twitter. 

On Monday, just a week before the graduation ceremonies at Harvard, the school he famously dropped out of to create Microsoft, Gates offered his pearls of wisdom to new college graduates around the country. 

Beginning with a reference to the classic film The Graduate about giving market trend advice to newbies (plastics!), Gates launches into his tweetstorm by first noting the areas he thinks we should be focused on in the coming years.    Read more…

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As a self-made millionaire, I am devastated every day when I see the foolish spending and saving habits of millennials. That’s why when I saw fellow rich person Tim Gurner scold young people for buying avocado toast, I screamed “yes” so loud my butlers came into my morning den to check on me. 

After firing them for not knocking, I decided to write some advice of my own because millennials are so rampant and irresponsible with their income that buying avocado toast is really just the tip of the iceberg.

As a millionaire, I am begging millennials to stop doing the following things with their money.  Read more…

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In addition to re-reviving The X-Files and passing on American Idol, Fox’s new 2017-2018 season lineup is all about sci-fi, hot doctors and superheroes — what’s not to love?

The broadcast network is following in the footsteps of sister channel FX with The Gifted, a drama set in the X-Men universe, along with several high-concept new series. They include:

• The Orville, Seth MacFarlane’s Galaxy Quest-esque sci-fi series that gives the space travel tropes of Star Trek a comedic twist.

• Ghosted, a buddy comedy starring Craig Robinson and Adam Scott as a pair of Mulder and Scully-lite paranormal investigators.

• The Resident, starring The Good Wife and Gilmore Girls‘ Matt Czuchry as a rebellious doctor who breaks the rules and, judging by that artful stubble, probably breaks a few hearts along the way. Read more…

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Hillary Clinton hasn’t only been walking in the woods since her unexpected loss last November. She’s also been putting together a new political action group, Onward Together, which she unveiled Monday.

With the tag line “Resist, insist, persist, enlist,” Clinton has formed her version of a resistance group. With a logo and branding reminiscent of her presidential campaign slogan, “Stronger Together,” Onward Together says it’s a way for Americans to “organize, get involved, and run for office.” Read more…

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U.S. Rep. Rod Blum, R-Iowa, asked the worst hypothetical question about women’s health care at a town hall in Iowa last week, but he got the best response for the ignorant statement — and it’s going viral.

Blum asked at a Dubuque, Iowa, town hall, “Why should a 62-year-old man have to pay for maternity care?” If you didn’t know, Blum just turned 62 last month and identifies as a man. 

Barbara Rank, one of his constituents in the audience, had some thoughts stemming from this question and let her local newspaper know. In the Telegraph Herald on Friday she wrote, “I ask, why should I pay for a bridge I don’t cross, a sidewalk I don’t walk on, a library book I don’t read?” Read more…

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Hackers make it their life’s mission to remain anonymous, but we allllllll know exactly what they look like. I mean, come on. We’ve all seen the pictures.

They are a shady-looking individuals often found lurking in darkened rooms illuminated by nothing but the glow of menacing green binary code. Hackers are faceless creepers hidden by the invincible cloak of a hoodie, almost always typing on their keyboards.

Duh. Everyone knows that, because this stereotypical hacker image shows up in essentially every article ever written about hacking or cybersecurity attacks — from iCloud breaches and DDoS attacks to the recent WannaCrypt ransomware attack. Read more…

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So Trump reportedly revealed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador during a meeting last week, as you do.

The U.S. press was barred from the meeting — only their Russian counterparts were invited, naturally — but multiple officials revealed the news to the Washington Post for a report published Monday.

The news was met with various shades of dismay and disappointment from pretty much every quarter as the enormity of Trump’s latest actions set in. Read more…

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For people with diabetes, the Apple Watch could soon become indispensable. 

BGR claims to have “exclusive” information from a source “familiar with Apple’s plans” about the company’s efforts to develop groundbreaking new ways to harness the Watch’s health-tracking potential.  

Apple aims to introduce the first-ever method for non-invasive glucose monitoring as a feature in an upcoming version of the Watch, according to the source. The introduction of tech like that would be a major breakthrough for those living with diabetes, who are typically forced to track their glucose through a variety of more invasive means, like pricking their fingers for blood tests. Read more…

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Toyota is getting in on the flying car craze—but with an Olympic twist.

The Japanese automaker backed a project called Cartivator, which wants to build a tiny flying car to light the Olympic flame for the 2020 Summer Games.

Cartivator is made up of over 30 volunteers, all donating their time to build the Skydrive car, which they hope to prep for a manned flight by the end of 2018.

Toyota’s financial contribution to Cartivator is relatively small if you’re Toyota: around 40 million yen (a tad over $350,000). But for Cartivator, which has relied on donations and online crowdfunding, it’s a huge help towards financing the prototype which they’re claiming will be the smallest flying car developed yet. Read more…

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