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This subreddit documents the most delightful fuckups on Google Maps

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by on August 13, 2019 at 3:28 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Shareables


What do a couple of kids pointing guns at an adult, a man about to fall off stairs, a group of people wearing pigeon masks, and a taxi driver pissing himself have in common? These are the type of unusual moments curated by a small Reddit community known as Google Maps Shenanigans. The subreddit, which recently passed the 50,000 subscriber mark, has been documenting some of the most bizarre captures on Street View for nearly two years. “I was reading through the comments of a post where people were wishing for a subreddit about funny things found with Google Maps, and the name r/googlemapsshenanigans was…

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A San Francisco startup guide for international entrepreneurs

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by on August 13, 2019 at 3:05 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Podium


San Francisco is hallowed ground for tech entrepreneurs. Every year thousands of founders travel to the city, set on starting the next unicorn. However, while the birthplace of Twitter and Uber certainly can provide connections, investors, and talent to help entrepreneurs take their businesses to the next level, it’s also an extremely difficult ecosystem to survive in.  To start, living costs are incredibly high. According to SF Gate, studio apartments in the city rent for an average $2,500 per month. On top of that, businesses face challenges such as retaining top talent, as well as competing with other startups for…

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I turned my bedroom into a cinema for shitty reality TV with this easy-to-use projector

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by on August 13, 2019 at 2:44 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


I have several passions that I would say define the core of my personality: Hawaiian pizza, scatological talk, and reality TV. When I was given the chance to review the Leisure 510 projector from Vankyo, I knew immediately what I would use it for: building the reality TV cinema of my dreams. And by god, it worked. Here’s how I did it. First, let’s start with this speaker Vankyo’s Leisure 510 projector is, for all intents and purposes, a no-frills, excellent projector.  A quick rundown of the numbers:  4000 Lux LED light 1280×768 pixels resolution 3000:1 contrast 300” max screen…

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Here’s how to listen to articles on your phone

Aug13
by on August 13, 2019 at 1:08 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Basics


Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff.  Although you can probably read a lot quicker than you can listen, sometimes it’s just too much effort to stare at your phone screen to read a long-form article after a hard day at work staring at your computer screen. Maybe you catch yourself drifting off, your mind wanders to the weird corners of your brain, or you’re just bored of the sound of the voice in your head — and of course, you…

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Cloudflare’s Magic Transit lets you push your entire IP traffic through its servers

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by on August 13, 2019 at 12:59 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev


Cloudflare today announced the launch of its latest network security product, called Magic Transit. This service allows organizations to send their entire network traffic through Cloudflare’s secure and performance-optimized network, offering protections against DDoS attacks, while simultaneously boosting speeds. Magic Transit supports any IP protocol or standard, so you could just as easily connect games or email servers to it as you would a standard web server. That’s important because, as we’ve seen in recent years, DDoS attacks have morphed to include other common networked applications, like DNS servers (the Mirai attack of 2016 being perhaps the best example of…

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