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Lady Gaga headlined the Coachella Music Festival last night, and used the opportunity to debut a new song during her set, “The Cure”, which went on sale last night.The song is an upbeat pop number, and a bit of a return to form after the country-influenced Joanne. It’s now available on a variety of streaming services, including Spotify, Apple Music, and Tidal.
Lady Gaga performed during this year’s Superbowl Halftime show, and will go on a major world tour later this year

The Internet Archive is an indispensable resource for web users, backing up websites and documents, but also providing copies of historical software, such as the earliest home console and arcade games. Now, there’s a new collection that should delight anyone who grew up in the 1980s: an entire collection of Macintosh programs, which you can play right in your browser.
Earlier today, the site released a new software library: emulated programs from Macintosh computers dating from 1984 throug

There’s a particular type of lizard that changes the color of its spots as it ages — and researchers have just discovered the mathematical rules that govern this peculiar metamorphosis.Meet the ocellated lizard, a 30-to-35 inch reptile that lives Europe. These lizards are born with unimpressive brown and white polka dots. But as they grow, they develop this beautiful, labyrinthine green and black pattern across their bodies. We don’t know exactly why this happens, but now, we k

Sometimes, older forms of technology are just as fascinating as the latest gadget. A Latvian woodworker named Rihards Vidzickis recently posted up a mesmerizing video of a recent project: creating a dugout canoe from a single tree trunk.Vidzickis is a master woodworker who specializes in green wood (recently cut, as opposed to dried). The accompanying description explains that he earned his doctorate in engineering materials science, and knows the wood down to a scientific level. In the video, h

On YouTube’s Hydraulic Press Channel, we’ve watched as a can of spray paint got crushed. And we’ve watched as obscure athletic gear got crushed. We even watched as a group of gummy bears got crushed. Truth is, we’ve run out of things to crush, and now it’s nostalgia’s turn.Motherboard calls this pressing the “gruesome death” that Furby deserves, and the many YouTube commenters who apparently requested the video seem to agree. “Thank you for t

One of the minor, but under-appreciated luxuries of this world is having two laptop chargers. It is wholly unnecessary in the great scheme of things, given that by their very nature each charger functions equally well. But not having to do the small chore of unplugging my charger from by my bed, wrapping it up, and plugging it in by my desk at work, day in and day out, is just a nice thing to be able to do. It’s one less thing to carry. It’s better for the overall life of the charger

Fact — project management professionals with top-level certifications can make up to 16 percent more than their non-certified colleagues. So jump on board this growth industry today with the Project Management Institute certification training bundle, for just $39 from TNW Deals. You’ll get two courses that’ll have you on your way to being a certified Project Manager, including: Project Management Professional (PMP) – a $1,935 value The backbone knowledge of the disc

In this new documentary from the film group Field of Vision, the leader of a session on content moderation asks a simple question: When you open Facebook, you don’t, as a rule, see pornography. Why?“The Moderators” explores the answer, going inside on office in India where the process happens. Directed by Ciaran Cassidy and Adrian Chen, a journalist who has written about the moderation process, the documentary is a window into a largely hidden part of the internet work force: e

Wisconsin Representative James Sensenbrenner Jr. has been criticized for remarks that he made at a town hall forum earlier this week while defending his vote to repeal an Obama-era rule to prohibit Internet Service Providers from selling browser histories without informing consumers first. During the event, he responded to a constituent’s concerns, saying that “nobody’s got to use the internet,” and went on to say that he was reluctant to regulate internet companies.
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If you thought sideburns were really making a comeback in the first half of the 2000s, it might not have been your imagination. Over at the Data Is Beautiful subreddit, one extremely dedicated user has visualized 100 years of university hairstyles by going through yearbooks and categorizing them by hand. That means cataloguing over 90,000 yearbook photos.Take a look. Mystic Toaster via RedditBelieve me, this was no small feat. User Mystic River went through 100 years of yearbooks at four Canadia

For decades, Jeep enthusiasts from around the country have flocked to Moab, Utah in early April for Easter Jeep Safari to celebrate off-roading, the one activity that has come to define the 75-year-old nameplate. The annual gathering is literally a one-week Jeep extravaganza featuring everything from classic Willys CJs to heavily-modified models of the Wrangler Unlimited set against the breathtaking red-rock terrain that’s made Moab one of the preeminent adventure destinations in the world

Six months ago now, Google launched a VR version of its Google Earth software for the HTC Vive, and it remains one of the best experiences in the industry. There are some updates we’d love to see to the platform, though, and we might get some of them soon.
Google is teasing a “brand new” Google Earth experience that it’s set to unveil at 8:30 a.m. Eastern on April 18 at New York’s Whitney Museum of Art. No other details about the experience have been revealed,

GUEST: “Hey Siri, how’s the weather today?”“OK Google, remind me to pay the power bill.”“Alexa, tell me a joke!”
Bots are eating the world. Whether you are an enterprising app developer building the essential software to bring a virtual Taylor Swift into your Slack chats, or just lonely and in need of a dumb, annoying virtual friend to message you on Facebook, we seem to be clear on one thing: many experiences, app

GUEST: Ever since neural networks began their renewed renaissance in 2012, computer vision has been a ripe field of study and innovation for AI researchers and a fruitful area of applied AI for enterprises. Deep learning enables incredible feats of machine vision, such as classifying image subjects at human parity and dynamically generating completely new imagery.
Brands have quickly recognized this technology as a commercial asset. Clarifai, a leading computer vision company with a popular visu

Two years ago Disney announced that it was planning on adding massive Star Wars-themed expansions to its parks in California and Florida, and today at Star Wars Celebration it revealed some new details — including a behind-the-scenes look at the design and construction of the parks.
The panel itself kicked off with a brief bit of news: that Disney’s Star Tours attraction was going to be receiving a Last Jedi-themed update later this year. The new addition will give visitors the chanc

Despite supposed leaks and legal battles, mixed reality outlet Magic Leap’s  technology remains under wraps, but the company looks like it’s getting serious about creating content for it.
Business Insider is reporting that Magic Leap has acquired Texas-based FuzzyCube Software, a mobile developer that’s worked on apps such as Temple Run 2 and Epic Loot. The report claims that the developer was already connected to the company’s Chief Creative Officer, Graeme Devine,

Samsung's Galaxy S8 blends beautiful design and performance effortlessly, but how much safer is its battery compared to the Galaxy Note 7?
In January, Samsung announced it would implement a new "8-point battery safety check" that would not only put all of its future phone batteries through extreme testing, but also include x-ray and human inspection checks.
A newly uploaded video by the popular "What's Inside?" YouTube channel, done in collaboration with the YouTube channel JerryRigEverything,

Challenging Mother Nature is never a good idea. Legends have been written about arrogant humans who perished trying to defiantly piss into the wind. 
But sometimes you need to show the entire school that you're a badass — pneumonia and skin damage be damned. 
SEE ALSO: One lucky high school just made $24 million in Snap's IPO
That's apparently what one kid recently decided to do when a massive hail storm began pelting students on campus. Instead of fleeing for cover, our unknown

SpaceX has announced another chance for student teams from around the world to race their Hyperloop pod prototypes, with the second pod competition set to take place August 25th-27th in Hawthorne, California.
The first round of the competition started with an open field pitching design specs and concepts at Texas A&M early last year, before judges picked about two dozen to actually build and race their pods. But while SpaceX says the second round of the competition is open to new teams, the