The holidays are coming up fast, but let’s take a step back for a moment before you rush out and buy the same ugly lights as everyone else. Check out these TaoTronics Dimmable Copper Wire LED String Lights instead. We guarantee two things: First, you’ll use them year-round, not just during the holidays. Second, you’ll have way more fun with them than you’ll be willing to admit.
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Online banking can make life more convenient although it does come with annoyances of its own, including requirements for two-factor authentication and security questions. Capital One has just implemented technology called SwiftID that aims to eliminate these burdensome procedures by working securely through your device.
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If you’re reading this post on an old laptop right now that takes forever to load each page, don’t just the gun and purchase a new notebook PC just yet. If your computer is just a few years old, you can often save some serious money by upgrading a few key components instead of buying a whole new computer. You’ll probably want to install some more RAM, but upgrading your storage is even more important if you have an old spinning hard drive.
This weekend only, you can save big on an OLALA CS820 512GB SSD Drive on Amazon.
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Microsoft wants you to think its new Surface Book absolutely smokes Apple’s MacBook Pro in terms of performance — but does it? You won’t be surprised to learn that this question simply isn’t easy to answer given all the variables that pop up when running performance tests for both laptops. PCWorld gave it a shot, however, and tried to conduct the fairest apples-to-apples comparison of the Surface Book and the MacBook Pro as it could… and even then it ran into some difficulties in delivering a definitive answer.
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No one goes into an Aaron Sorkin movie expecting to learn the full, true story behind the life of a well-known individual, but in the case of his latest movie, Steve Jobs, there might actually be more fiction than fact.
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Know what everyone hates? Robocalls. The Federal Communications Commission knows this which is why it’s creating tools that will hopefully help you block both robocallers and telemarketers for good.
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Enjoy your music in wet places like the shower, by the pool or while you’re kayaking with a bright green waterproof portable Bluetooth speaker. The Mengo AquaCube Waterproof Portable Bluetooth 4.1 Speaker is on sale for half off its list price — for $19.95 with free shipping for Amazon Prime members.
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For Star Wars fans, the Death Star needs no further introduction. For anyone else, the Death Star is a planet-shaped space station capable of destroying entire planets. But there’s an actual phenomenon out there in space that really is capable of mass destruction: a black hole. Most recently, the characteristics of black holes were explained in the movie Interstellar, though not in a scientific manner.
NASA has actually been able to observe a black hole in action, and it even captured the moment when a black hole tore through a star. Using that observation, the space agency put together an animation that shows what a black hole would do to a star like the Sun.
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Last month, the Internet went into full outrage mode when it learned that Turing Pharmaceuticals decided to jack up the price of an important AIDS-related drug called Daraprim from $13.50 per tablet to $750 per tablet. The company did this despite the fact that this is not a new medicine, it isn’t facing massive shortages, and it doesn’t cost anywhere close to $750 per tablet for the company to produce.
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What will warships look like in three decades? Meet the next-generation HMS Dreadnought.
The British Ministry of Defence and Royal Navy challenged young scientists and engineers to design a future warship and the results may surprise you. Defense procurement specialist Startpoint has released stunning images of what the futuristic ship could look like.
This cutting-edge ship concept has been dubbed Dreadnought 2050 in honor of the 1906 HMS Dreadnought, a Royal Naval battleship that eclipsed all other warships at the time.
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