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How to Speed Up Your Internet and Protect Your Privacy With Cloudflare's New DNS Service

Cloudflare has launched its own consumer Domain Name System (DNS) service that not only promises to keep your browsing history safe, but appears …

31 brilliant Blender tutorials

Creating 3D art is not only timely, it can be very expensive. Thankfully, one of the best 3D modelling softwares around won't cost you a penny - with …

Download and protect your Facebook data in just a few clicks

You can't put the genie back in the bottle but you can know what they know about you.<p>The Facebook privacy scandal has users demanding to see how much the social media giant knows about them and how they can limit the amount of data they're giving out.<p>The bad news is that your data may already be …

7 clever ways to use that USB drive again

Thumb drives used to be so cool. They came in every shape and material, from little plastic rectangles to rubber wristbands, novelty animals, and pens sporting a built-in USB-drive. We used to marvel at the data they contained, easily dragged and dropped into a special icon. They were simple and …

VR Enthusiasts Aren’t Happy About the Price of the Vive Pro

When revealing the HTC Vive Pro back in January, HTC left one salient piece of information out of the announcement: the price. After letting …

10 Terminal commands for power users

Apple's Terminal offers a lot of functionality compared to the macOS GUI. Power users and anyone else who wants to work smarter will benefit from …

Sydney Biennale review – Ai Weiwei anchors rewarding show that comes of age in its 21st year

Quantum physics and contradictions unite the vast number of works on display for a biennale that goes beyond mere spectacle<p>There is a simple and quiet work by the Belgian artist Michaël Borremans called The Bread (2012) in this year’s Biennale of Sydney. It recalls the work of Flemish 15th century …

Authentic Tiramisu Recipe

"On my first trip to Italy to meet my husband's family back in 1995, I didn't speak a word of Italian. But I did learn how to make great 'dolci' from …

Here’s how you access the super creepy data Facebook has on you

Since 2010, Facebook allows you to download an archive file of all your interactions with the network. It’s a 5-click easy process that your grandmother can do (more details below).<p>Inside the .zip, lies an ‘index.html’ page that acts as a portal to your personal data. Visually, it looks like an …

How to give your Finder window superpowers

The Finder has been with the Mac since day one, way back in 1984. But just because it’s old, doesn’t mean that it doesn’t have some new tricks. Did you know, for instance, that you can add a path bar to the bottom of the window to show the path of the current folder on your Mac? Or that you can add …

MIT predicts 10 breakthrough technologies of 2018

The MIT Technology Review has released a list of technologies it believes will make the most impact over the next 12 months, including smarter …

Watching That Girl From The Ring Crawl Out of a TV in AR Just Ruined My Day

Augmented reality promises to deliver us a future in which we can simply look through our screens to magically transform the world around us. It also …

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Kentaro Yoshida

Cool Things: The SonorPen is a Creative Alternative to Expensive iPad Styli

I’ve been using an Apple Pencil for a couple of years now, and I have never been anything but happy with it. It is incredibly accurate, tracks fast across the screen, feels good in the hand, and the battery life is just fine considering how well it performs. Lately, my wife and kids have <i>also</i> …

New Textural Sculptures Made With Swirls of Seashells by Rowan Mersh | Colossal

<p>Rowan Mersh (previously) creates textural artworks that toe the line between two and three dimensions, using carefully placed swirls of seashells. …

Photo of a Single Atom Wins Top Prize in Science Photography Contest | Colossal

<p>You might need your glasses for this one. Quantum physicist David Nadlinger from the University of Oxford managed to capture an image that would …

wonderwarhol:Joan of Arc Listening to Her Voices, 1845, by François Rude (1784-1855)

<i>Joan of Arc Listening to Her Voices, 1845, by François Rude (1784-1855)</i>

Michelangelo's 10-bedroom Tuscan villa is for sale — and it's an Italian dream

If you've never dreamed of packing your bags, leaving it all behind, and moving to a villa in the Italian countryside a la "Under the Tuscan Sun," well, congratulations — your life must be pretty awesome.<p>For the rest of us, there's a sprawling 10-bedroom, seven-bathroom "farmhouse" for sale in …

This Pocket PC Could Replace Your Desktop

The Ockel Sirius B runs Windows 10 and fits in any standard pocket.<p>Sometimes it’s the smallest things that can have the most significant impact. A …

Free app turns your phone into a 3D scanner

Here’s how to enroll in the iOS beta program to get updates early

Do you love staying on the cutting edge of all things Apple, including the latest iOS 11.3 changes? Then it makes sense to enroll in the iOS beta …

Virtual reality sheds light on memory recall - Futurity

Having subjects walk into virtual houses may help them understand more about how our brains use context to put memories together.

Here’s a Clever Trick for Adding Life to Eyes in Photoshop

Photographer and retouching expert Matt Kloskowski made this 14-minute video that introduces on technique for adding life back into a portrait …

Vive Focus Standalone VR Headset Launches in China

Vive Focus, HTC’s first standalone VR headset, has officially launched in China. Based on HTC’s new mobile VR platform, which includes a mobile …

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Leigh Whurr a.k.a. Oddly-Spliced is a digital artist from Birmingham, UK.<p>Describing or explaining my work is rarely simple since the very appeal of this type of imagery lies in how it may touch a place that words or logic cannot immediately reach.<p>There is logic to be found, but it is spliced with my own subjective reality. It is an instinctual drive and so any statement about my work usually requires some degree of philosophical leverage, as well as a certain amount of self-analysis. Painting …

Robert Redford shaken up by virtual reality film

Robert Redford was bowled over — literally — by a virtual reality film at Sundance.<p>The fest’s founder was spotted at a screening of the artfully …

Why an Old Theory of Everything Is Gaining New Life

Twenty-five particles and four forces. That description—the Standard Model of particle physics—constitutes physicists’ best current explanation for …

HTC Vive vs. Vive Pro

Although there are a few intriguing virtual reality headsets on the horizon, if you want the best high-end VR headset system right now, we’d …

An 8-Minute Crash Course on Blending Modes in Photoshop

Want to get a good grasp of Photoshop’s Blend modes? Here’s an 8-minute crash course on the subject by the Photoshop Training Channel. They may be …