TIL that Nintendo Switch is basically indestructible

YouTuber UnlockRiver.com drops expensive tech from great heights, just to see what happens. That’s the whole schtick for this channel. It’s great.

A Nintendo Switch was the latest victim and, astonishingly, it survived a 1000-foot plummet into an asphalt parking lot. The left Joy-Con controller ripped right off and shattered, but the console itself — screen and everything — seems just fine. 

Are you going to come across many situations in life where this might happen to you? No, probably not. But if it can withstand that, it can definitely hold up against the trials of everyday fumbles we’ve all been guilty of. Read more…

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Reporters trying to pronounce ‘covfefe’ is the only funny thing about covfefe

President Donald Trump tweeted the word “covfefe” early Wednesday morning in an attempt to criticize the press. 

Instead, Trump confused the world, and made the press look like idiots while attempting to pronounce the word.  Read more…

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‘House of Cards’ throws shade at Theresa May for ducking UK debate

UK Prime Minister Theresa May was called out by House of Cards on Twitter after she didn’t appear at a general election debate Wednesday.

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Here’s the tweet, which hit a little more than a week before the June 8 election.

@theresa_may They respect you more when you show strength. Or show uphttp://pic.twitter.com/mNXXDKL0xd

— House of Cards (@HouseofCards) May 31, 2017

The Netflix show may be about American politics, but everything is politics these days. (To be fair, it was based on a British mini-series.) The tweet to May called her out with a GIF from the show and quick caption, “They respect you more when you show strength. Or show up.” Read more…

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Even for LeBron James, ‘Being black in America is … it’s tough’

You can be LeBron James. You can be an all-time great at your profession, and a man idolized by millions. You can be a role model and a gentlemen and a champion and a millionaire many, many times over.

But you’re still a black man in America, and that can be tough.

This was illustrated to grotesque effect on Wednesday. A day before James and the Cleveland Cavaliers were set to take on the Golden State Warriors in the NBA Finals, a racial slur was spray-painted on house James owns in Los Angeles.

Addressing reporters Wednesday afternoon, James appeared somber and clearly affected by the incident police were reportedly investigating as a hate crime. But he also addressed the bigger picture head-on.  Read more…

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Google’s cool new art search helps even couch potatoes get cultured

Now you can easily explore the world’s best museums from your couch. 

Google launched a new experience for searching art work from museums, the company announced Wednesday in a blog post. 

“Starting today, when you search for art-related things, you’ll have access to more relevant results and the ability to dive deeper into topics of interest,” wrote Google, which says it gets 500 million art-related searches each month. 

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The project is a collaboration between Google’s Arts & Culture, Search, and Maps teams. Searching for an artist now leads to an interactive result that allow you to see collections of the artist’s work or scroll through museums to view the paintings on the wall. Some of the pieces also include high-resolution images. Read more…

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Cadillac tech ‘talks’ to traffic lights so you don’t run them

Cadillac’s cars are getting even chattier. 

Now they can “talk” to traffic lights to let drivers know when the light is going to turn red, a feature meant to cut down on dangerous last-minute decisions. Cadillac announced this week that it successfully tested the technology, called vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication. 

The V2I test comes after the luxury automaker rolled out a feature to enable vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication back in March, which made its 2017 CTS sedan the first car on the market with the ability to “talk” to other enabled vehicles in its vicinity by sending data about road conditions back and forth through a connected system.  Read more…

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6 innovations that help artists control their environment

Art and technology have a lot in common.   

Both have a way of pushing boundaries, of helping us look at the world in new ways, and of generating the Next Big Thing.   

Artists and creators alike – whether that means sculptors, animators, museum curators, illustrators, and everyone in between – are constantly looking to new technologies as a way to keep pushing beyond what’s been done before. But this level of innovation requires precise control, whether that’s through the environment or at artist’s tools.   

Here are seven innovations that help artists manage their environment – and the creative process – in entirely new ways.    Read more…

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