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The Monthly Huckberry Giveaway: August 2018: Below you’ll find some of my favorite recent offerings from Huckberry. Enter the giveaway to win any of... artofmanliness.com/articles/…
Here's the only good use for 'alexa play despacito' in a Tinder message: Though women named Alexa the world over are likely over the Amazon Alexa jokes,... mashable.com/2018/08/02/tind…
Save $150 on an HP Pavilion Touchscreen Notebook while Amazon has the laptop on sale: When it comes to computers, HP is one of the most recognizable and... mashable.com/2018/08/02/hp-p…
Darknet paper, the 3D printed gun edition: In 2002, Microsoft security researcher Peter Biddle (previously) published The Darknet and the Future of Content Distribution, a paper that argued... boingboing.net/2018/08/02/ak…
Facebook takes down a legitimate anti-far-right protest page, calls it "inauthentic": Like Linus Van Pelt searching the pumpkin patch for a really sincere pumpkin, Facebook has been... boingboing.net/2018/08/02/sh…
Musical.ly is officially dead: Musical.ly is shutting down for good. After amassing a sizeable user-base, the lip-sync app (the service had a few others as well) will... engadget.com/2018/08/02/musi…
Facebook launches Digital Literacy Library to help young people use the internet responsibly: There are more young people online than ever in... theverge.com/2018/8/2/176435…
Apple Watch Series 3 with LTE is $100 off at Best Buy: The Apple Watch Series 3 with LTE cellular data capabilities is cheaper... theverge.com/good-deals/2018…
As memes become more complex, creators says they usually have to rely on a suite of apps to craft their memes as no single app fully meets their needs (Taylor Lorenz/The Atlantic): Taylor... techmeme.com/180802/p12?utm_…
The 2018 Top Programming Languages, According To IEEE: New submitter rfengineer shares a report: Welcome to IEEE Spectrum's fifth... developers.slashdot.org/stor…
Lisa Brennan-Jobs shares tangled memories of her imperfect father, Steve Jobs: Growing up, Lisa Brennan-Jobs felt that, to her father, Steve Jobs, she was a... mashable.com/2018/08/02/lisa…
The hallway scene from 'Inception' is a lot less epic without the music: We took out all the sounds from the famous hallway scene in Inception and added our own sound effects,... mashable.com/video/inception…
Lasercut Gears – A Learning Experience: Lasercutters are fantastic tools: they’re highly useful for making flat things, or even flat things that you later bend! This... hackaday.com/2018/08/02/lase…
Samsung says smartphones have the best security for cryptocurrency, security experts disagree: With more than $761 million in cryptocurrency thefts this... thenextweb.com/hardfork/2018…
Sonos surges 8% in its trading debut: * Sonos opened for trading at $16 on Thursday, gaining more than 8%.
* It had priced its initial public offering at $15, below the... businessinsider.com/sonos-ip…
A Chinese 'X-Men' actress has vanished from the public eye, media aren't allowed to write about her, and fans are worried: *... businessinsider.com/fan-bing…
CCleaner promises to give users more control over data after backlash: CCleaner, the popular Mac and Windows system cleaning tool, has... engadget.com/2018/08/02/ccle…
The DNC Enlists Kids in Its Fight Against Hackers: The Democratic National Committee will award $500 to the child who comes up with the best defensive strategy for state election websites at Def Con next week. wired.com/story/dnc-enlists-…
UK report highlights changing gadget habits — and our need for an online fix: A look back at the past decade of consumer... techcrunch.com/2018/08/02/uk…