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This week Tim Cook unveiled a new Apple MacBook starting around $1,300. it’s super thin (13.1mm), super light (2 pounds), and includes a completely redesigned keyboard with a “Force Touch” track pad.

It has a 12-inch retina display and shockingly includes only one port (a USB‑C port) which “provides charging, speedy USB 3 data transfer, and video output in a small, reversible design that’s one-third the size of the current USB port.”

Oh and you can also get one in gold now, which has become a standard option lately with most Apple products, including the new Apple Watch which sells for $10k.

Ok now that those facts are out of the way, take a look at this parody video of an “apple engineer” talking about the behind-the-scenes design process in Spanish.

His laugh will haunt you for days.

And, of course, someone has already broken the news to Adolf Hitler as well, which you can watch below.

Spoiler Alert: He isn’t pleased.

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Dog lovers, have you ever taken your dog in the car as you run certain errands, and found out that some establishments give the dog a treat when you drive through? The first time I took my dog with me to drive through at the bank, I found a milk bone in the pneumatic tube along with my bank envelope. Surprisingly, I found the same thing happened when I went to the drive-through pharmacy at Walgreens. My dog had always loved car rides, but after those unexpected treat windfalls, he was more enthusiastic than ever. 

This article mentions fifteen examples of restaurants that have secret menu items for their canine clientele. Check them out to see if there's any place you frequent that will accomodate your "best friend" as well. 

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Facebook isn't exactly a stranger to the courtroom, but it'll soon have another legal headache to deal with thanks to a recent court ruling out of San Jose, California. You see, US District Court Judge Beth Labson decided on Tuesday that in spite of ...

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Archaeologists and carb lovers are excited over a recent find in Bavaria, where scientists unearthed a 250-year-old pretzel, still in pretty good shape — all because whoever made it biffed in the kitchen, burning the pretzel during the baking process.

Dubbing it the oldest pretzel in the world, archaeologists dug up the bit of burned dough along with several rolls and croissant-shaped dough during excavations in Regensburg, Germany, reports NBC News.

“It is an archaeological sensation,” Silvia Codreanau-Windauer, from the Bavarian State Department of Monument and Sites, told NBC News. “In my 30 years in the business I have never found an organic object.”

Carbon dating shows that the food was made sometime between 1700 and 1800, and have survived until today due to bad baking technique.

“The baked goods, which were typical for the religious fasting period, are very well preserved because they were originally burnt in the baking process,” Codreanau-Windauer said, adding to The Local that it’s “definitely the oldest pretzel ever found.”

The mayor is psyched about the aged dough, because everyone loves pretzels.

“This discovery is really extraordinary, because it depicts a snippet of everyday life,” Mayor Joachim Wolbergs told The Local.

I’m willing to bet at least one of those archaeologists was like, “Hey… dare ya to take a bite.” But clearly that would only happen if cheese sauce was available. You know, to cover that burned taste.

250-Year-Old Pretzel Unearthed by German Archaeologists [NBC News]
Bavarian archaeologists find 250-year-old pretzel [The Local]

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The most expensive peanut butter in the world is sold by the U.S. government. The $761 jar of peanut butter, created to calibrate machines in food science labs, went viral last month. But "Standard Reference Material 2387," aka peanut butter, is only the tip of the iceberg of a strange and fascinating world.

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Some child advocates are clamoring for Mattel to halt production of a new "smart" Barbie that can have conversations with your kid. The Barbie's powered by voice recognition artificial intelligence that's becoming increasingly prevalent in our everyday gadgets, but that doesn't mean it doesn't freak people out. Especially when kids are involved.

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I never noticed it before, but these guys have a point. Ladies seem to be immune to this theory though, Michonne and Sasha are still alive after all.

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Back when high fructose corn syrup hadn’t yet been invented, the phrase “Mountain Dew” meant something very different. While that name now reminds us of a highly caffeinated soft drink, originally it referred to homemade corn-based booze, or moonshine. Mountain Dew’s new limited-edition product is supposed to evoke moonshine while removing corn from the beverage altogether.

The beverage comes in four-packs of glass bottles, and is clear and vaguely citrus-flavored. So it’s malt liquor, then? No. It’s Mountain Dew. Its trademarked name is Mountain Dew Dew Shine, but it contains no alcohol despite being named after two different classic homemade intoxicants. (Yes. “Dew dew.” We had the same thought.)

What we don’t know yet is whether this sort of Mountain Dew will contain caffeine. If it follows the pattern of the previous Mountain Dew “heritage” flavor, Johnson City Gold, in 2012, it will be caffeinated. Dew Shine is packaged like a craft-style soda, and sues cane sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup.

The beverage goes on sale later this month. We do not know how it tastes mixed with whiskey, which was the original purpose of the soft drink invented in Johnson City, Tennessee that eventually became the Mountain Dew that we know and either love or hate today.

New Mountain Dew “DewShine” to Hit Shelves Later This Month [Brand Eating]

This is a video of piñata mishaps (mostly people hitting bystanders) with Street Fighter II graphics and sound effects added. It brought me great joy. And I'm allowed to say that because my longtime friend Tyson gave me a black eye swinging a curtain rod at the piñata at his 6th birthday party. I think there's even some video of me walking around with an ice pack on my face afterwards. I should try to get that video and post it on Geekologie. Or destroy the master copy and keep repressing the memory, I go back and forth. Keep going for the video.

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At a press conference on Tuesday, Hillary Clinton tried to assure the public that there were "no security breaches" on the private server she used to send and receive emails during her time as secretary of state. 

But cyber experts are saying that there is no way she could know whether her account was ever compromised by hackers, who constantly attempt to detect security holes in email servers and stealthily exploit them.

"There have been times when I've hacked into a customer's server, collected data, and gotten out, and the customer never had any indication that their system had been compromised," ethical hacker David Chronister of Parameter Security told Business Insider.

"There's this misconception that if someone is attacked they'll know right away, but unless the hacker really screws up, the target won't know until it's too late."

The 2016 Democratic presidential front-runner also said that the personal server "was on property guarded by the Secret Service."

However, the former secretary of state did not provide details about the technical team that oversaw the personal system, which would involve several experts constantly looking for hackers if it was a government system.

"You can never lock down a network enough to fully avoid the truly stealthy hackers," Chronister said.

Once hackers gain access to an entire server, cyber criminals go to great lengths to remain undetectable as they sift through their new goldmine of information. Instead of extracting the "gold" all at once, they take it little by little over months to avoid detection, rerouting traffic from the target's server to their own, in low enough numbers to stay under the radar.

Clinton says she never sent nor received any classified information that might be valuable to foreign spies. But access to a Secretary of State's inbox, even if it only contains private and nonclassified emails, is still worth quite a bit to an adversary.

"To say it wasn't compromised is to say, 'I don't know if it was compromised,'" Stewart Baker, who served as general counsel to the National Security Agency under George W. Bush, told Politico. "It would be pretty easy for a nation-state to compromise that account, and easy to hide the fact that they'd compromised that account."

In any case, the concerns surrounding a high-ranking White House official with a private domain that wasn't nearly as protected as government servers will serve as a warning.

"We'll just have to wait and see what comes out," Chronister said. "Hopefully this will teach government officials that even they have to follow the rules."

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As we spelled out explicitly and succinctly late last month, there is one overriding and extremely simple reason why seemingly every central bank in the developed world is bound and determined to move heaven and earth in the pursuit of generating a “healthy” level of inflation. With 9 countries sitting on debt-to-GDP ratios of 300%+, it’s either inflate the debt away or be crushed under the sheer weight of it. 

Below is a map showing just where all of the red ink is concentrated and as The Telegraph notes, “not one developed economy (and only five emerging markets) has managed to reduce debt-to-GDP ratios which include both household and government debt. When taken together, this total debt mountain has grown by $57 trillion since 2007, far outpacing global growth.”

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This explosion in public debt levels has come about as countries have been unable to "inflate away" their liabilities. Instead, a global deflationary spiral has amplified the amount of countries owe and the interest they pay to service these debts.

 

By and large, the story of the world economy has been one in which emerging markets have loaded on debt, while the developed world has struggled to reduce the burdens it amassed in the wake of banking bail-outs and years of stagnant economic growth.

 

... and here's what Europe would look like if country size approximated debt loads...