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Dogs Do Not Like Hugs And Other Facts, The MakerBot Obituary, A Shoe Startup With A Bold Style And Bold Agenda, The Future Of Shopping: Trapping You In A Club You Didn't Know You Joined, A DNA Sequencer In Every Pocket, The Bumpy History Of The Baby On Board Sign The Daily Digg Friday, April 29, 2016 WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK Dogs Do Not Like Hugs And Other Facts digg.com Welcome to What We Learned This Week, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week: dogs hate hugs, smart people aren't happy and exercise does not lead to weight loss. MAKERBOTCHED The MakerBot Obituary hackaday.com MakerBot is not dead, but it is connected to life support waiting for a merciful soul to pull the plug. SHOES WE DIGG SPONSORED A Shoe Startup With A Bold Style And Bold Agenda inkkas.com Inkkas shoes are handcrafted, sustainably-made and honor the workers and communities that produce them. Designed with indigenous materials and a bold style, they're also super comfortable. Digg readers use promo code DIGG15 and get 15% off your entire purchase. A CUSTOMER FOR LIFE The Future Of Shopping: Trapping You In A Club You Didn't Know You Joined bloomberg.com A group of buzzy Internet retailers are being accused of sometimes placing customers into unwanted and hard-to-cancel retail subscriptions. IT'S IN OUR JEANS A DNA Sequencer In Every Pocket theatlantic.com A biotech company is building devices that will allow people to decipher genes in remote jungles, at sea, or even in space — and they say they're just getting started. SAFETY FIRST The Bumpy History Of The Baby On Board Sign mentalfloss.com From the mid to late 1980s, the most ubiquitous road sign didn't advise you to stop, obey the speed limit, or be mindful of crossing deer. Get more stories on Digg.com FIRE AND ICE ​In this picture made available Friday, April 29, 2016 anti-frost candles burn in a vineyard in Flaesch, in the Swiss canton of Grisons, Thursday, April 28, 2016. Due to unusual low temperatures wine growers try to protect their grape shoots with anti-frost candles. Credit: Gian Ehrenzeller/Keystone via AP Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2016 Digg Inc. 50 Eldridge St, NY, NY 10002

Running Around A Soccer Pitch Naked Is Okay If You're A Dog

This Dog Interrupted A Soccer Match And No One Got Mad Because He Is So Darn Happy, This Inventive, Cooperative Dunk Is Also Very Illegal, Have You Ever Heard Of Peer Lending?, The Full Trailer For The R-Rated Animated 'Batman: The Killing Joke' Is Here, Post-Apocalyptic Festival Celebrates 'Mad Max' Style Cars And Culture, Scientist Turns A Jägerbomb Into An Actual Bomb Today's Top Videos Wednesday, April 27, 2016 NO BONES ABOUT IT This Dog Interrupted A Soccer Match And No One Got Mad Because He Is So Darn Happy digg.com Deportivo Táchira F.C. and Pumas UNAM were playing a soccer game on Tuesday. It was an OK game, but then a very good dog ran onto the field and things got a whole lot better. TECHNICALLY A TECHNICAL This Inventive, Cooperative Dunk Is Also Very Illegal digg.com These Australian junior basketball players are nothing if not resourceful. Unfortunately, lifting a teammate up in the air is against the rules of basketball at all levels. The nice (or maybe blind?) ref let this one count though. Have You Ever Heard Of Peer Lending? SPONSORED Have You Ever Heard Of Peer Lending? lendingrobot.com Peer Lending an asset class where investors make money by investing small amounts in thousands of different loans. And LendingRobot is the first robo-advisor that uses stats and machine-learning to automate the best investments for your portfolio. *EVIL LAUGHTER* The Full Trailer For The R-Rated Animated 'Batman: The Killing Joke' Is Here digg.com Mark Hamill stars as the Joker in Warner Bros. first ever R-rated Batman movie based on the acclaimed graphic novel. What more could you possibly want? DOOMSDAY DRIVING Post-Apocalyptic Festival Celebrates 'Mad Max' Style Cars And Culture digg.com Held in the Southern California desert, the festival attracts thousands of people from around the country. It's basically a giant celebration of end-of-the-world culture. MY NEW HAIRCUT TURNS EXPLOSIVE Scientist Turns A Jägerbomb Into An Actual Bomb digg.com Jägerbombs are all good and fun, but let's up the ante and add Sodium and Potassium to the mix. Get more stories on Digg.com THIRTY YEARS ON A haunting journey inside Chernobyl's exclusion zone. Credit: National Geographic Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2016 Digg Inc. 50 Eldridge St, NY, NY 10002

Let Us Google That For You

Is New York City Becoming An Experimental Lab For Google And Friends?, America's Juvenile Justice System Is Broken — How Do We Fix It?, This Is One Helpful Robot, Fear This Hacker, Crash Tests For Autonomous Cars Are Going To Be Way Weirder Than You Think, Mapping The Rise And Fall Of Slavery Between 1790 And 1870 The Daily Digg Wednesday, April 27, 2016 BROUGHT TO YOU BY   LET ME GOOGLE EVERYTHING FOR YOU Is New York City Becoming An Experimental Lab For Google And Friends? placesjournal.org Hudson Yards, the world's most ambitious "smart city" project, is here. Should we worry that New York City is becoming an experimental lab? DIGG DIALOG America's Juvenile Justice System Is Broken — How Do We Fix It? digg.com Join us today between 11 am and 5 pm ET for the third installment of our Justice Talk series with the Marshall Project, a chat with experts about the major, systemic problems facing America's juvenile justice system. INVESTMENTS WE DIGG SPONSORED This Is One Helpful Robot lendingrobot.com LendingRobot is the first robo-advisor that uses stats and machine-learning to automate the best Peer-to-Peer Lending investments for your portfolio. HACKING TEAM CAPTAIN Fear This Hacker foreignpolicy.com To spies, David Vincenzetti is a salesman. To tyrants, he is a savior. How the Italian mogul built a hacking empire. ONE DOES NOT SIMPLY CRASH IT Crash Tests For Autonomous Cars Are Going To Be Way Weirder Than You Think jalopnik.com You're just testing the body, but autonomous cars mean you have to crash-test the mind as well. 1860: 4 MILLION; 1870: ZERO Mapping The Rise And Fall Of Slavery Between 1790 And 1870 radicalcartography.net How and where did slavery grow in the 1800s before the Emancipation Proclamation? Radical Cartography maps it out. Get more stories on Digg.com MATH IS COOL How does the Bell Curve work? Here's an incredibly simple visual explanation. Credit: IMAmaths Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2016 News.me Inc. 29 Little West 12th Street, NY, NY 10014

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Runner Stages Incredible, Last-Gasp Comeback In 4x400 Relay, Magic Leap's Real-Life Augmented Reality Demo Is Jaw-Dropping, 80% Of People Don't Fit Into Industry Standard Sizes. Do You?, Army Humvees Crash Into A Million Pieces After Failed Airdrop, http://digg.com/video/titanic-real-time-sinking-animation, This Kid's Cardistry Skills Are Completely Mesmerizing This Week's Best Videos Sunday, April 24, 2016 'FROM THE DEPTHS OF HELL!' Runner Stages Incredible, Last-Gasp Comeback In 4x400 Relay digg.com When she took the baton, University College Cork's Phil Healy wasn't even in contention. With 200 meters left, she still wasn't even in the picture. And yet, somehow, she pulled it out — to the massive delight of the commentators. LITERALLY LOOKING AT THE FUTURE Magic Leap's Real-Life Augmented Reality Demo Is Jaw-Dropping digg.com Reportedly shot through Magic Leap's augmented reality lens, what you are watching is not simulated. This is real. We can still hardly believe our own eyes. T-SHIRTS WE DIGG SPONSORED 80% Of People Don't Fit Into Industry Standard Sizes. Do You? sonofatailor.com There's a good chance you've been buying the wrong size t-shirt this whole time. Son Of A Tailor designs custom-fitted tees, so they know a thing or two about fit. Take their four-question quiz and see what your ideal shirt size is. OFF TO A FLYING START Army Humvees Crash Into A Million Pieces After Failed Airdrop digg.com The onlooking soldiers couldn't hold it together. *YES, 2 HOURS AND 40 MINUTES http://digg.com/video/titanic-real-time-sinking-animation digg.com Looking for something to do tonight? Watch this gorgeously animated Titanic suffer the same fate as the its real-life counterpart over the same amount of time. THE SLEIGHTEST OF HANDS This Kid's Cardistry Skills Are Completely Mesmerizing digg.com We know it's not magic. But we don't really have another explanation for how Zach Mueller pulls off these unbelievable cardistry techniques. Get more stories on Digg.com GOODBYE, PRINCE Watch Prince's incredible solo and disappearing guitar trick while performing "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" at the 2004 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Credit: Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2016 Digg Inc. 50 Eldridge Street, 2nd Floor, NY, NY 10002