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“The death of the PC,” writes Davey Alba, “has not been greatly exaggerated.”Research outfit Gartner tracked a 9.5 percent decline in shipments in the second quarter of this year compared to the same time a year ago, posting a tally of 68.4 million units. Read the rest

Ariel Waldman and Lisa Ballard’s lovely designs are also available as posters, tees and other useful things. Read the rest

The compromised data includes Social Security Numbers, Dates of Birth, and Home Addresses. Read the rest

That smile!Read the rest

In Tahlequah, Oklahoma, things escalated quickly at a local Taco Bell when Amber Henson discovered the fast food restaurant’s WiFi wasn’t working. Read the rest

The raccoon’s name is Melanie. (more…)

I have taken whale-watching boat rides off Newport Beach many times, and seen many beautiful things. But there’s always new beauty nature has ready to surprise us. Read the rest

Not sure why this is so cute or entertaining, but it’s very much both.(more…)

Photo and print dealer Limited Runs is touring a fantastic collection of jazz photos from the archives of Metronome, an influential music magazine that published from 1881 to 1961. Read the rest

“You’ve been here, but you don’t know this story,” says Mark Hamill, in this behind the scenes mini-documentary just released at ComicCon. (more…)

“A Series of Tweets from the CEO of Frito Lay that He Meant to Type into the Google Search Bar”Update: an earlier version of this post failed to indicate that the linked item was satirical and not really the Frito Lay CEO. Read the rest

This 1987 nightmare achieved immense commercial success in the UK and Australia. I’ve just listened to it for the first time in a couple of decades, and found it genuinely difficult to get through. Read the rest

Now with distinct surface features! [NASA]

Medium has the entire collection. His searches are crazily mundane, and he is interested in steampunk girls.

They’re just cheap clip-ons that write to SSDs and have no tamper-evident measures. Read the rest

If working as an EFF activist isn’t your thing, perhaps helping to run the Free Software Foundation in Boston will be more to your liking? Read the rest

Gissur Simonarson shot this in Gjerdrum, near Oslo, Norway. WAY more interesting than watching grass grow. (more…)

Dronestagram and National Geographic posted the winners of their “2015 Drone Aerial Photography Contest.” Read the rest

Enjoy this early internet guide to the subversive world of "erotic disks" and "teledildonics." Read the rest

A short film from a few years ago by 39 Degrees North: GUNDOG. “Part dog, part gun, all cop!” (more…)

“Wheeee.”(more…)

Just sayin'. Read the rest

In children, symptoms of sleep deprivation include hyperactivity and impaired interpretation of social cues. Read the rest

Here’s episode 6 of Circuit Playground, a charming show that teaches kids about electricity. It’s produced by our friends at Adafruit. In this episode, Ladyada teaches Adabot about electrical grounding.

Fun with poop and bats and flesh-eating plants of the Pacific. Read the rest

The embattled interim CEO of Reddit, who became all the more embattled after the sacking of a popular admin left unpaid mods outraged, is leaving the company. Read the rest

I’ve taken a couple of lockpicking workshops. It was supremely rewarding when I successfully opened a lock using lockpicking tools. Here’s a transparent padlock that shows you how the internal components work, making it easier to learn how to pick locks. Read the rest

The American Psychological Association asked a former US attorney to investigate ‘collusion with the Bush administration to promote, support or facilitate’ torture. Read the rest

This quacked me up.

Stephenson’s new novel doesn’t generate the kind of excitement for the future that we’ve come to expect from the author of Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, and Anathem. Read the rest

Logos flicker on failing monitors, propped up in a quilt of urban junk. Light glitters on seawater beneath jutting pylons. Flowers swell up from the broken floorboards of an abandoned church… Read the rest

“Once I started playing the role of Invisible s.o., it was strange and, due to a five-minute timer on every message, stressful.” Read the rest

On July 14, 2015, New Horizons will take the first close-up pictures of Pluto, exactly 50 years to the day after Mariner 4 flew by Mars and took the first close-up pictures ever of another planet.Read the rest

The Danish Sculpture by the Sea festival includes a massive piece called Infinite Bridge extending out into the Thors Møllebæk River. Read the rest

After doing some digging, why not relax with some charcuterie and vodka? A knife acts as a cap for a handle flask on this clever Russian shovel.

Sharkcano! National Geographic ocean engineer Brennan Phillips sent a camera into Kavachi, an active underwater volcano in the Solomon Islands. He was surprised to find species of sharks living in the volcanic plume. Read the rest

Alex of Weird Universe wrote: “Sounds to me like Anna Hindman had good cause for wanting to divorce her husband [in 1938], namely a) his belief that 4 hours sleep is all anyone needs, and b) wiring her bed to shock her every 4 hours to prevent her from sleeping longer than that. Read the rest

Quora asked the question. Bits & Pieces selected a few example answers:Read the rest

Schuylkill County Prison in Pennsylvania feeds inmates portions that are “not even enough to fill a 5-year-old child,” according to a group of prisoners who have filed a federal civil rights lawsuit. Read the rest

“It doesn’t matter if I know the person: I’ve walked right past my husband, my own mother, my daughter, my son, without being able to recognize them.” — 47-year-old consultant, writer, and part-time EMT, with developmental prosopagnosia. Alexa Tsoulis-Reay interviewed her for Science of Us.Image: Shutterstock

Ted Cruz must not have a lot of confidence in his new book, A Time For Truth. Rather than let the book makes its way to the top on its own, he and his publisher Harper Collins resorted to sneaky tactics to ensure high sales. Read the rest

A Gallup poll reports that half of Americans don’t worry that our roads will become less safe as more states legalize weed. Read the rest

It’s been extra windy in Denmark recently, and the country’s 3,768 wind farms are producing more power than its residents can use. Read the rest