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The aircraft known in popular culture as the stealth bomber was built with nearly a decade of work, billions of dollars, and total secrecy from the U.S. government. Even the contractors who worked on it didn’t always know what it was. So how did a Japanese carmaker reveal it before the Air Force?
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via Gizmodo How Honda Revealed The Government’s Top Secret Stealth Bomber First
Watch weapon and prop maker Tony Swatton craft a life-size version of the Sword of Omens from Thundercats. It’s one of his most complicated builds yet, but the result is worth it. MAN AT ARMS HOOOO!!! Hat Tip Link
via The Awesomer Forging the Sword of Omens
Good news, everyone! Wait, no. Not that one. The other one.
Bad news, everyone!
AT&T is considering selling your usage data (location, web browsing history, etc.) to advertisers, having seemingly decided that it’s been too long since everyone was mad at them. Here’s how to opt-out of the program before it begins.
via TechCrunch AT&T Considers Selling Your Browsing History, Location, And More To Advertisers. Here’s How To Opt Out
Picture yourself in this worst case scenario. You’re in your tree stand getting some great video when you see a bear below. Coming at you. Then what? It’s amazing how calm this hunter stayed when faced with a black bear in his tree stand. What would your first reaction be?
via All Outdoor Black bear comes eye-to-eye with hunter
A modern assembly line can churn out a new vehicle every few minutes, but when carmakers want to build and test a prototype, it takes weeks to produce the dies and moulds needed to stamp out a custom one-off part. So Ford has developed a fantastic new prototyping machine that functions kind of like a 3D printer in that it can produce a custom part in mere hours. Except that instead of plastic, it works its magic on sheet metal.
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via Gizmodo Ford’s New Prototyping Machine Turns Sheet Metal Into Custom Parts
Move over, Barbie — there’s a new toy in town now. GoldieBlox, the San Francisco Bay Area startup that has created an engineering-focused toy aimed specifically at little girls, has inked its first nationwide distribution deal with retailing giant Toys ‘R’ Us. The company’s flagship toy, the story-oriented construction set called “GoldieBlox and the Spinning Machine,” is now available at every Toys ‘R’ Us store in the United States for $29.99.
via TechCrunch GoldieBlox, The Toy That Aims To Get Girls Hooked On Engineering, Is Coming To A Toys ‘R’ Us Near You
You probably don’t need to migrate your email accounts very often, but every once in a while, a good reason might come up. In that case, YippieMove is here to help.
The service automatically transfers all of your old emails—attachments and all—to a new account. This can be particularly handy, for example, if you have an old Yahoo! account you don’t use anymore that you’d like to make a backup of in case your address is ever reset and given away. We’ve previously covered Backupify Migrator for getting data out of a Gmail account, but YippieMove allows you to transfer between any combination of a long list of email providers, so most people should be covered.
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via Lifehacker YippieMove Migrates Your Email and Attachments to a New Account
Ars tours Facebook’s DIY-hardware lab to learn why it embraces open source hardware.
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via Ars Technica How Facebook threatens HP, Cisco, and more with its “vanity free” servers
The early morning when the whole city is still sleeping and the sky is changing from black to pink to orange to blue is the best part of the day. For his short movie, Adrift, filmmaker Simon Christen spent two years getting up before the sun to capture a timelapse video of the fog rolling in over the San Francisco Bay.
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via Gizmodo It Took Two Years to Get This Fog-Filled San Francisco Timelapse Right
We’ve shown you how to get your Google Reader data now that the service is dead, but you don’t get everything available. If you really want to sweep up all that data from Google Reader, Reader is Dead is a tool that helps you do just that.
With Reader is Dead you get not only an archive of your feeds, but also: all your read, starred, tagged, and shared items, as well as any comments, read messages, and even preferences. Essentially, you get everything. The archive process takes a while, and it can get up to a few GB of data, so grab a cup of coffee before you let it run. You have until July 15 to grab your data from Google.
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via Lifehacker Reader Is Dead Pulls Out All the Google Reader Data that Takeout Won’t
