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Google designed an envelope you can use to hide your phone from yourself

Today, Google launched three new experimental apps to help you use your phone less as part of its Digital Wellbeing initiative, including one that actually has you seal up your phone in a phone-sized paper envelope (via Android Police). It sounds similar to the pouches some artists require fans to…

bubmagJanuary 22, 2020

Obamacare

20 years of blogging at Boing Boing

Twenty years ago today, Boing Boing became a blog. Mark Frauenfelder's first post linked to Street Tech, a now-dormant gadget blog. Now there are 160,000 more posts just like it and the impossible task of summarizing the best of them in yet another. Founded …

bubmagJanuary 22, 2020

Black Swan

BTS Announce 2020 World Tour

BTS have announced a world tour. The Map of the Soul Tour will take them across North America, South Korea, Europe, and Japan. Find the dates on their tour poster below, and find tickets here. (Pitchfork may earn a commission from purchases made through affiliate links on our site.) The…

bubmagJanuary 22, 2020

Korean War

‘Chewing Gum Tycoon’ of Lotte Group, Shin Kyuk-ho, Dies at 98

SEOUL — Shin Kyuk-ho, who built a chewing-gum business into the immensely successful Lotte Group in South Korea and Japan, only to see his sons squabble over the corporate empire, died Sunday. He was 98.The company, South Korea’s fifth-largest business conglomerate, announced the death of Mr. Shin, its founder.He was…

bubmagJanuary 22, 2020

Bees

Vomiting bumblebees show that sweeter is not necessarily better

Animal pollinators support the production of three-quarters of the world's food crops, and many flowers produce nectar to reward the pollinators. A new study using bumblebees has found that the sweetest nectar is not necessarily the best: too much sugar slows…

bubmagJanuary 22, 2020

Hrant Dink

The Life Of Mehmed II, From Conquering Constantinople To Waging War On Dracula

One day Constantinople will be conquered. Great is the commander who will conquer it. Great are his soldiers. On January 24, Netflix is releasing a six-part docudrama series, Rise of Empires: Ottoman, that charts the rise of the legendary 15th-century Ottoma…

bubmagJanuary 22, 2020

Google

Netflix uses Google Trends to claim The Witcher was more popular than The Mandalorian

Toss a coin to Netflixs quarterly net income Photo: Katalin Vermes / Netflix Netflix released its quarterly earnings report Tuesday afternoon, including a trove of new data on its latest hit, The Witcher. Among the data points Netflix cites in promoting its…

bubmagJanuary 22, 2020

The Queen

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are reportedly threatening legal action over a paparazzi photo of the duchess, and Canadian law experts say it’s ‘new territory’ for the country

After a paparazzi photo of Meghan Markle taken in Canada on Monday circulated in the media, the Sussexes have reportedly asked their lawyers to take legal action. The Daily Mail was among the UK-based publications that published the paparazzi photo of Markle…

bubmagJanuary 21, 2020

Greta Thunberg

Greta Thunberg Speaks On Climate At Davos 2020

Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg addressed leaders on the climate crisis on the opening day of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, bringing attention to the issue at a conference that will be dominated with reconciling business with carbon emissions. What do you think?“Man, she is really all-in on…

bubmagJanuary 21, 2020

AR-15

[SHOT 2020] Safety Harbor – Grand Power Stribog Glock Magazine AR Lower

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bubmagJanuary 21, 2020

Google designed an envelope you can use to hide your phone from yourself

20 years of blogging at Boing Boing

BTS Announce 2020 World Tour

‘Chewing Gum Tycoon’ of Lotte Group, Shin Kyuk-ho, Dies at 98

Vomiting bumblebees show that sweeter is not necessarily better

The Life Of Mehmed II, From Conquering Constantinople To Waging War On Dracula

Netflix uses Google Trends to claim The Witcher was more popular than The Mandalorian

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are reportedly threatening legal action over a paparazzi photo of the duchess, and Canadian law experts say it’s ‘new territory’ for the country

Greta Thunberg Speaks On Climate At Davos 2020

[SHOT 2020] Safety Harbor – Grand Power Stribog Glock Magazine AR Lower

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