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By 1857, the New York City police department had a gallery where daguerreotypes of criminals were displayed. The Pinkerton National Detective Agency began using these on wanted posters in the United States. By the 1870s the agency had amassed the largest collection of mug shots in the U.S. In 1888, Alphonse Bertillon invented the modern mug shot featuring full face and profile views, standardizing the lighting and angles. This system was soon adopted throughout Europe, and in the United States and Russia. These examples from the 1920s may even appear as photos from a party or gathering to some, but they're actually real police mug shots. Continue reading for more.

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People in Colorado may soon have an ultra-convenient option to buy their pot: a vending machine that dispenses medical marijuana and THC-laden snacks

The machine, called the ZaZZZ, was unveiled at an event in Avon, Colo., over the weekend. Its creators told NPR that the machine uses biometrics to verify a customer's age. It's also climate-controlled to keep the products fresh.

The ZaZZZ will be available in licensed marijuana-dispensing stores in Colorado and is the first designed for use by medical marijuana patients, not retailers.

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Seat belts everyone! Time for an educational field trip on The Magic School Bus back to the 1990s.

The clunky technology of the '90s paved the way for innovations in today's classrooms, and growing up in that time period was an adventure.

Children today would scratch their heads at a floppy disk. And who would know what to do with Microsoft Encarta when a quick Google search is so much easier?

New gadgets, trends and advancing technology have provided the education system with fancier tools, but we look back fondly at the learning resources of our past. Read more...

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In case you haven’t heard our bazillion reminders up until this point, here’s another: you can now buy the Google Glass, if you want.

The Explorers program is open to anyone willing to drop $1,500 for what’s essentially a long beta test for an emerging product. Of course, you have to live in the US to get in on it (otherwise you’ll want an overseas buddy to help you out if you’ve got the dough), and you’ll also have to do it by the end of the day.

That $1,500 will go toward the initial unit you get and likely any revisions that Google may or may not issue ahead of the device’s consumer release (the date of which we’re still not sure of).

You’ll also be able to choose between one frame or shade attachment, the former of which will be necessary for those who wear glasses and want to get their glass outfitted with prescription lenses. The base Glass unit itself is available in black, white, red, blue or gray.

Hear all you need to know? Get over there to order now, and hurry up because today is the only day you’re guaranteed entry into the Explorers program. Otherwise, you may have to wait for more invites to head out, and there’s no telling when or if that’ll ever happen.

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It isn’t unheard of for some of Google’s acquisitions to come with a bit of unease, but their latest one probably takes the biggest piece of cake of them all. The Mountain View company has confirmed the purchase of New Mexico-based Titan Aerospace, a company that specializes in creating high-altitude drone technology for use in… whatever.

The company is said to begin interfacing with the team working on Project Loon, which is a vision that Google hopes can bring balloon-carried high-speed WiFi transmitters and deliver widespread connectivity for the masses. The Wall Street Journal also reports that Google could work with Makani, an internal team tasked with researching and developing airborne wind-powered turbines for more efficient energy.

All of this sounds quite fine — in fact, it’s all kind of cool — but there’s one other harrowing thing Google could be looking to do with their new-found knowledge of drone technology. It’s said that the drones could likely be put to use for purposes of gathering and collecting data, likely to help improve Google’s mapping business.

Google already employs the likes of self-driving cars and camera-equipped airplanes to take snapshots of the world for use in Google Maps, but Titan’s drones could bring a flexible, modular system that does all of that and more. That “more” could including anything from atmospheric sensors for recording climate data to delivering aforementioned airborne WiFi to countries that aren’t well-equipped for hard-line access.

The drones themselves aren’t your Amazon Drone Delivery or consumer-focused Parrot AR Drone-sized pieces of equipment, either — the smallest drone Titan makes is slightly larger than a Boeing 767, which is a passenger cruiser that can seat anywhere between 181 and 375 people. Let that sink into your brain for just a second.

Of course, Google’s intentions probably aren’t as scary as our brains will make them out to be, so we’ll just have to wait and see what the culmination of all these different pieces (Google has made a strong push to acquire robotics and AI companies recently) ends up being.

Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós has released a haunting version of Game of Thrones' "The Rains of Castamere." The band isn't the first guitar group to cover songs from George R. R. Martin's fantasy lands of Westeros and Essos, but where indie rock outfit The Hold Steady was chosen to produce a deliberately jarring aural effect, Sigur Rós' plaintive and ethereal take on "The Rains of Castamere" slots easily into Martin's medieval-esque world. The song, about the destruction of a smaller house that dared to test the might of the Lannisters, was featured in the powerful new episode of the HBO show, which aired last night in the US.

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In today's installment of 'holy crap I watched someone almost get his face caved in,' an IndyLights driver narrowly misses a loose wheel shooting inches from his helmet.

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No, the image above isn't from an upcoming movie, but rather the new masks that Taiwan special forces soldiers wear. According to some military experts, the masks can shield the soldiers from close-range shots from a .44 magnum, but unfortunately offer very little in the way of peripheral vision. Continue reading to see 7 more awesome military special forces from around the world.

Google makes cool stuff. There's self-driving cars, that funky street view camera, and those experimental glasses anyone will be able to buy for one day only tomorrow, April 15th. Yet for every product that comes out, there's another in the pipeline that may or may not ever see the light of day. Last month we learned of a patent application for a pair of smart contact lenses that would process blinks as input for wearable devices.

• Google Patent Application Shows Multi-Sensor Contact Lenses For Wearable Device Input Via Blinks
• [Make This Now!] Google Previously Filed Patent Application For A Computing Device With Dual E-Ink Displays
• BOLT Browser Closes Shop Due To Economic Circumstances
• More Details And Images Of That Wacky Sony Camera Attachment Leak Out, Rumored Price Of $250-450

Google Patent Application Details Micro Camera Embedded In Smart Contact Lenses That Could Improve Vision, Aid The Blind, And More was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

Deftones frontman Chino Moreno has posted a previously unreleased Deftones song thought to be from the bands shelved album, “Eros“. That effort was originally put aside following the tragic car accident which left their late bassist/vocalist Chi Cheng comatose. The song posted today, April 13th, marks the one year anniversary of Cheng‘s passing as a result of the complications from said car accident. With the song—apparently titled “Smile“—Moreno offered: “Chi, We miss you today and everyday. -deftones.”

"Are you ready? Because I want you to pay attention. This is the beginning of something."

Those three sentences delivered by Freddy Rumsen direct-to-camera lead off a potential ad campaign pitch for Accutron watches. But ultimately, Freddy's speech marks the beginning of the end for AMC's beloved and highly-stylized period drama, Mad Men.

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Mad Men's seventh and final season picks up in January 1969, a handful of months following season six's finale that left Don Draper's personal and professional life in turmoil: the partners at SC&P informed Don that he'll need to take a leave of absence from the company with no set return date following a slew of unprofessional incidents; and Don's marriage to Megan continued to buckle under the weight of his self-destructive ways, climaxing with word that the couple's move to California would have to be cancelled, even though Megan had left her job in New York to start over in Los Angeles. Read more...

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SeaWorld acted irresponsibly as an employer by exposing trainers to "recognized hazards" when they worked with killer whales, a U.S. appeals court in Washington, D.C. confirmed Friday

The ruling, in a case which goes back to the death of a trainer at SeaWorld's Orlando theme park in 2010, could mean the company will have to increase the separation between trainers and whales during its highly successful live shows Reuters reports.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit's ruling upholds a previous finding by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). OSHA fined SeaWorld $75,000 in August 2010 following the death of trainer Dawn Brancheau in February of that same year Read more...

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He started from the bottom, now he's an undercover reporter for Jimmy Kimmel

Rapper Drake appeared on Thursday's Jimmy Kimmel Live to find out what fans really thought of him (what a brave soul). He disguised himself with some hipster shades and a beard, and hit the streets of Los Angeles to ask about fake moments during a yet-to-happen ESPY broadcast — an award show honoring athletes in July, which Drake will host

We found out that people think Drake is a "chicken head" and have no idea what or when the ESPYs are.

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Girl Meets World has dropped its first trailer, giving us a 30-second peek at what's to come in this Boys Meets World spinoff

Cory and Topanga, still the cutest couple in town, are raising their teenager, Riley (Rowan Blanchard). Riley tries to navigate growing up in New York City — alongside her own Shawn Hunter-type BFF — while Cory and Topanga brave the world of parenting

While we can't say whether the show will stay true to the humor and nature of the original '90s ABC sitcom, they are certainly bringing key characters back into the fold. Danielle Fishel (Topanga) uploaded an Instagram photo last month from the show's set, depicting a scene which included Rider Strong (Shawn Hunter) and Cory's BMW parents, Betsy Randle and William Russ Read more...

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The first weekend of Coachella begins Friday, and you don't have to be anywhere near the music festival to watch the action. Three live streams will bring 30 acts to you

Outkast's late-night performance, which is billed as a reunion show for the hip-hop duo after a decade away from the road, appears to be the biggest attraction of day one. Other live-streamed acts will be Zedd, Ellie Goulding, Bastille, Girl Talk, AFI, Aloe Blacc and more.

The three YouTube videos, below, let you choose which performances to watch. We've provided a schedule for each channel to guide your online Coachella experience Read more...

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An eagle-eyed New York City subway rider has spotted and removed what turned out to be a rather sophisticated credit card skimming system from the front of a MetroCard vending machine.

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According to New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) City Transit, an unidentified rider discovered the device at New York's 59th Street Columbus Circle subway station late Thursday. It consisted of a credit card skimmer placed over the vending machine's official card reader and — here's the ingenious part — a credit card camera situated just above the vending machine Read more...

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According to an internal document obtained by The Verge, Google will soon be expanding their current Glass Explorer program in quite a big way. For a limited time, any US resident with $1,500 to spare will be able to purchase Google’s wearable computer. This one day only promotion could start as soon as April 15th according to the document below. To sweeten the deal, Google plans to offer either free frames or free shades to new Glass Explorers.

This is quite the promotion compared to Google’s previous methods to expand the Glass Explorer program. Previously, you had to either register at Google IO 2012, be 1 of 8,000 #IfIHadGlass contest winners, get an invite from a current Explorer, be a Google Play All Access subscriber, be lucky enough to get one from the Glass sign-up page, or win Phandroid’s Great American Glass contest.

It’s worth mentioning that this new promotion isn’t to be confused with a public, consumer launch. Google is just opening the Glass Explorer program up to a larger audience. With the impending KitKat release for Glass, we’re sure Google is trying to get Glass in the hands of as many users as possible to help iron out some final bugs before a future public launch. That said, we still don’t know when the public launch will be and we don’t have any information on the consumer price either.

If you have the cash on hand, will you be purchasing Google Glass and joining the Glass Explorer program? Let us know in the comments.

Update: And, now it’s official.

Next Tuesday, April 15th at 6am PDT, we’re opening up some spots in the Glass Explorer Program. Any adult in the US* can become an Explorer by visiting our site and purchasing Glass for $1500 + tax – and it now comes with your favorite shade or frame, thanks to feedback from our current Explorers. The number of spots available is limited, so mark your calendar if you want to get in. You can find us on Tuesday at: http://google.com/glass/start/how-to-get-one

Source: The Verge

Amazon is taking their digital content distribution one step further with the purchase of Comixology, a popular digital comic book service. Amazon and Comixology announced the news via press release, where Comixology CEO and co-founder David Steinberger says, “we look to accelerate a new age for comic books and graphic novels.”

Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, with the acquisition not becoming 100% official until the second quarter of this year. It’s not entirely clear what Amazon plans on doing with Comixology, given they already sell comic book via their Kindle apps, but Comixology will, in fact, “retain its identity as an Amazon subsidiary.” If nothing else, it’s just one more step in Amazon’s world wide conquest to offer an even wider array of digital goods.

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Google’s had a tough time battling the notion that their mobile operating system is most vulnerable to malware. We’ve seen a ton of cases over the years, though none have impacted the Android community in a meaningful way (partly because Google already goes above and beyond to try and protect Google Play users).

Google has a kill switch that can obliterate any app known to be malicious, meaning it can be wiped from your phone to prevent it from doing any more damage than it already may have. Google has also implemented a built-in malware checker that scans apps at the time of install to warn you of potential danger.

Today, things go a step further with Google announcing a solution that will be able to monitor apps on the device even after install. Should an app be found to exhibit malicious behavior after it’s already made its way into the Google Play Store and onto your device Google can warn you about it the next time you start the app up.

It’s basically anti-malware in mobile form, and no disrespect to some of the more noble antivirus companies out there, but it’s probably a lot better than anything you can download from Google Play. The feature is headed to all Android phones with Android 2.3 or higher that have Google Play installed, so you won’t need to do anything to get setup with this extra bit of security.

[via Google]

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If the Earth were to plunge into another ice age, here is what the beautiful Grand Canal in Venice, Italy would look like frozen over. Fortunately (or unfortunately), this is just the work of art director Robert Jahns, as he's taken photos shot by others, like Venice's Piazza San Marco by Luis Manuel Osorio Fernando, and Russia's Lake Bakail taken by Daniel Kordan, and spliced them together to create these surreal photos. Continue reading for more pictures and information.

A social experiment from the UK shows how a counterintuitive approach to charity marketing can work better than a straightforward pitch

A British charity, Pilion Trust, sent a man out on the streets of London to raise money. First, he wore a sandwich board that bore an offensive message about the poor. As the video shows, he was accosted by passers-by who defended the downtrodden

"They've hit rock bottom," one offers. "There's a reason for that."

"You should be thinking of a better way to get them off the streets," says another. Read more...

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An encryption flaw called the Heartbleed bug is already being called one of the biggest security threats the Internet has ever seen. The bug has affected many popular websites and services — ones you might use every day, like Gmail and Facebook — and could have quietly exposed your sensitive account information (such as passwords and credit card numbers) over the past two years.

But it hasn't always been clear which sites have been affectedMashable reached out to various companies included on a long list of websites that could potentially have the flaw. Below, we've rounded up the responses from some of the most popular social, email, banking and commerce sites on the web. Read more...

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