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Amazon Plans to Close Up Shop on Wickr’s User-Centric Encrypted Messaging App
A little more than a year ago, Amazon, specifically Amazon Web Services, flashed its stacks of cash as it announced it was buying up the end-to-end encrypted messaging app Wickr. AWS users could suddenly use Wickr’s services, and some reporters speculated Amazon could have been trying to make a move in the increasingly crowded encrypted…
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What’s The Most Dangerous Food Of All Time?
Surveying the whole scope of human history vis-à-vis food, a couple of themes emerge. One is that humans like their food to taste good. Another is that they like it to not kill them. These two qualities often cohere in the same foodstuff—apples, for instance, taste great, and are not to my knowledge toxic —…
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Attaching Razor Blades To A High-Speed Spinning Top Is The Best Worst Idea
Video: If the internet is remembered for anything, it will be as humanity’s most comprehensive archive of things you probably shouldn’t try at home. Like making your own high-speed spinning toy that can reach speeds of over 100,000 RPMs, and then attaching razor blades to your creation to see what it can destroy.
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Watch A Chainsaw Open A Beer In Glorious Slow Motion
First off, don’t do this. Seriously. Don’t. It’s an old trick, and probably a great way to stab yourself in the eye with a flying bottle cap. But it sure looks pretty in slow motion, as the goofballs at Slow Mo Lab are here to show us.