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A day in the life of New York City subway conductor requires much carefully planned repetition — stop, go, make an announcement, repeat . Part of a conductor's daily routine includes pointing at a black-and-white sign positioned at the center of every stop. Repeating this motion dozens of times each day could feel monotonous, but one group of playful jokesters decided to spice it up. See also: Wet Paint Bench Prank Leaves Its Mark Participants in this subway experiment created signs that pointed towards the black-and-white signs, aiming to imply that the conductors agreed with whatever was written on their own signs. The signs forced the conductors to reveal a major Harry Potter spoiler, proclaim their love for New York and admit their affection for Thomas the Tank Engine, among other things. BONUS: YouTube Picks the 10 Best April Fools' Prank Videos 1. Golden Eagle Snatches Kid Video courtesy of YouTube, MrNuclearCat 2. YouTube … [Read more...] about The Single Greatest Way to Make a Subway Conductor’s Day

Facebook , Google and seven other major Internet companies are allowing the National Security Agency direct access to a wealth of users' data, according to a report. Called PRISM, the program involves the NSA accessing the emails, documents, photographs and other sensitive data of users from all nine involved companies, according to a PowerPoint presentation obtained by The Washington Post and The Guardian . The PowerPoint was provided by a whistleblower in the intelligence services. Microsoft, Yahoo, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube and Apple are also party to the program, the report alleges. Dropbox is reportedly "coming soon," while the PowerPoint document reveals that Apple held out for five years before finally relenting. A Google spokesperson told both newspapers that "Google does not have a back door for the government to access private user data," but did admit that the company discloses "user data to government in accordance with the law, and we review all such … [Read more...] about NSA Leak: Internet Giants Let Government Tap Your Data

Le téléviseur OLED enroulable de LG est certainement l'un des téléviseurs les plus fascinants de 2021. Avec sa capacité à s'enrouler et se dérouler comme un tapis, il se dissimule aisément dans la pièce hôtesse lorsque vous ne l’utilisez pas. Pourtant, le Korea JoongAng Daily rapporte que seulement 10 unités de ce modèle révolutionnaire ont été vendues jusqu'à présent, un chiffre dérisoire si l'on considère les deux millions de téléviseurs OLED expédiés dans le monde par LG Electronics l'année dernière. Voici les meilleurs téléviseurs OLED de 2021 Comment bien régler l'image de son téléviseur ? Achat d’un nouveau téléviseur : quelle taille d’écran choisir ? Le LG Signature OLED R, pour reprendre sa dénomination complète, a été lancé en octobre 2020, mais il reste aujourd’hui exclusif au marché coréen - ce qui limite forcément sa disponibilité. Ce volume minimum de ventes n'a pas encore été officiellement confirmé par LG, qui rappelle néanmoins que “ la priorité … [Read more...] about Le nouveau téléviseur OLED révolutionnaire de LG ne trouve pas acheteur

YouTube's clone of TikTok, "YouTube Shorts," is rolling out to the US as we speak. The feature launched in India this September and was first spotted on US devices by XDA Developers. Just like TikTok, Shorts lets users make and share bite-sized, one-minute videos, and users can swipe between them on the mobile app. The YouTube Shorts section shows up on the mobile apps section of the YouTube home screen and for now has a "beta" label. It works exactly like TikTok, launching a full-screen vertical video interface, and users can swipe vertically between videos. As you'd expect, you can like, dislike, comment on, and share a short. You can also tap on a user name from the Shorts interface to see all the shorts from that user. The YouTube twist is that shorts are also regular YouTube videos and show up on traditional channel pages and in subscription feeds, where they are indistinguishable from normal videos. They have the normal YouTube interface instead of the swipey TikTok … [Read more...] about YouTube’s TikTok clone, “YouTube Shorts,” is live in the US

In 1974, Stephen Hawking theorized that the universe's darkest gravitational behemoths, black holes, were not the pitch-black star swallowers astronomers imagined, but they spontaneously emitted light — a phenomenon now dubbed Hawking radiation. The problem is, no astronomer has ever observed Hawking's mysterious radiation, and because it is predicted to be very dim, they may never will. Which is why scientists today are creating their own black holes . Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology did just that. They created a black hole analog out of a few thousand atoms . They were trying to confirm two of Hawking's most important predictions, that Hawking radiation arises from nothing and that it does not change in intensity over time, meaning it's stationary. "A black hole is supposed to radiate like a black body, which is essentially a warm object that emits a constant infrared radiation ," study co-author Jeff Steinhauer, an associate professor … [Read more...] about Lab-grown black hole behaves just like Stephen Hawking said it would