I'm sorry, but are you suggesting that someone will figure out a way to physically turn on an NFC radio that is not activated, without access to the phone in question? If you can send system level commands to a phone like that, getting a fraudulent charge on your card is the least of your worries.

This device converts the energy in gasoline into electricity, and probably not as efficiently as your alternator.

This microscope is an update of the original, invented by Dutch opticians in the 16th and 17th centuries. Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek (1662-1723) is most often credited with the first really usable microscope, and as the first microbiologist; he was the first to observe single cell organisms, bacteria, and…

With a minimal amount of hardware any vehicle can be armed. So Toyota pickups are basically small tanks. They're definitely built more like tanks than an MRAP, ask Top Gear.

As long as you aren't prone to motion sickness, Fotonica is a delightful little game, ready to deliver small doses of excitement at a moment's notice. I'd rather play this than strap elaborate equipment to my head any day.

Judging by how nervous the dog appears to be, is it Chechen or Ukranian?

I have actually dealt with him (peripherally, on a mead labeling related matter) and he was nothing but direct and helpful. he has a serious job and takes it seriously, and does a damn good job. Would you rather it was up to an entire office of government workers, each with their own arbitrary standards? (PS- that's…

Nice story, anyone have any proof or is this just an attempt to keep the Snowden story relevant?

The moving poem, "In Flanders Fields" is why the British remember that most terrible of wars with poppies. Here are the lines:

Hey dude, just to make sure you read this, I'm sorry I said that, it wasn't my intention to insult you like that, but I did, and I shouldn't have said that. I'm sorry.

In the kind of future where city people are living in windowless one bedroom apartments what makes you think farming will be done like your uncles still do?

Which they already fucking did, in a REAL airplane, and TONS of them have flown fighter jets for years. I went to IFS with them, they are REAL pilots, they had to fly REAL planes and risk death while FLYING. Just because they are in a UAV at the current instant they don't become "almost pilots" it's not a video game,…

My god, even the trailers for his games are obnoxiously long!

Can't believe that no-one has included the Logitech M570 wireless mouse.

I'm not sure if you watched the video, but the menu item is Select > Focus Area... so it literally does the opposite of what you said it does.

it looks real but some part of my brain just goes "Nope, this is not real"

technically no, but similar. You can choose to sent a text to the person instead of a hangout, unlike iphones where you are forced to send an imessage if possible. This has also burned people who jump ship and go android, because their iphone using friends will continue to send imessages to the friend, who never gets…

This is NOT in Hong Kong but in Taiwan.