Leslie Katz

Crave giveaway: Hipster

You’ve got your flannel shirt, your facial hair and your man bun. What’s missing from your hipster ensemble? A fixie bike, that’s what. Luckily for you, there’s the Crave giveaway. This week, we have a Critical Harper fixie bike worth $330 from Critical Cycles, a bicycle maker based in Los Angeles. Critical recently tweaked its …

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Crave giveaway: Ventev Powercell 10000+ portable battery pack

Editors’ note: This giveaway has a Twitter component, so please read the below rules carefully. We’ve turned off comments on this post to avoid confusion as to how to enter the contest. Congratulations to Charles Y. of Monterey Park, California, for winning a Rachio Smart Sprinkler Controller in last week’s giveaway. This week, we’ve got some extra power for you …

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Pot

Want to give your Passover seder a higher purpose? Perhaps adding a sprig of cannabis to your seder plate and sprinkling in some reefer references will do the trick. That’s what Roy and Claire Kaufmann suggest. The husband and wife from Portland, Oregon, have created a cannabis-themed Passover haggadah prayerbook in hopes of sparking discussion about US drug policy (yes, …

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If Moses could breakdance: A modern video take on Passover

How does Israel’s version of MIT tell the Passover story? With a high-tech light show, of course. The eight-day holiday, which commemorates the Jews’ liberation from slavery in ancient Egypt, begins next Friday. Technion – Israel Institute of Technology posted a video to YouTube and Facebook Wednesday that tells the basics of the story with motion-gesture graphics and other special …

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Computer

Meet Sofia. She is 7 years old and standing in a rubber boat with water up to her knees. She is cold and afraid. Only she isn’t real. She’s computer-generated and animated in 3D. UNICEF Sweden created Sofia from images of 500 real children facing emergencies around the world. Places like Ethiopia, Ukraine and Fiji. The hyper-realistic girl appears in …

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These words make you sound rude in emails, or do they actually?

You might not realize it, but you’re probably sending rude emails. Using more than one exclamation point? Rude!! Using the word “need”? Do you really need to be so demanding? The word “actually”? Dropping that one in emails is actually impolite. This public-service announcement comes courtesy of Outsource-Philippines, a provider of global outsource solutions. It’s circulating an infographic titled “These …

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Vid of Sad Affleck sends 1966 Simon & Garfunkel song to top of charts

Sad Affleck has made Simon & Garfunkel very happy. The folk duo’s version of the song “Sound of Silence,” released in 1966, is experiencing a resurgence in 2016, likely thanks to a viral video that features the tune playing over an image of Ben Affleck looking sad, oh so sad, when asked about unfavorable reviews of his new film “Batman …

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Crave giveaway: DJI Phantom accessories from Drone World

Congratulations to Tim L. of Pembroke Pines, Florida, for winning an Arccos Driver golf-performance-tracking system in last week’s giveaway. So you have a DJI Phantom 3 or Phantom 4 drone, but you wish it could travel farther from the remote than the standard 1.2 or 3.1 miles the gadgets can venture respectively. Read on. Drone World, an authorized retailer of …

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See Sheryl Sandberg, as photographed by Annie Leibovitz

You’ve seen Sheryl Sandberg’s photo on the cover of Fortune, Forbes and Time. Now you can see her through the eyes of Annie Leibovitz. While the famed photographer is known for placing her subjects in bold poses, sometimes draped in snakes and diamonds, she opts for a more familiar setting, an office, for the Facebook chief operating officer and author …

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Crave giveaway: Arccos Driver system for tracking your golf performance

Congrats to Robert K. of Pulaski, Mississippi, for winning 32GB of computer memory from Crucial in last week’s giveaway. With the 2016 Masters tournament starting next week, you may have golf on the brain. Luckily, so do we. This week, we’re giving away an Arccos Driver, a brand new performance-tracking system from Arccos Golf. The system includes a tiny, super …

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