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Upgrade Your Rice by Putting a Whole Tomato in Your Rice Cooker

Rice cookers can make more than just rice, but they make rice really well. To up the flavor factor and make a super tasty, super easy dish using only your rice cooker, you just need to grab a tomato.

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This is the NYPD's official crime-fighting phone

Across New York City, more officers are staring at their phones. On a single day last week, 5,500 NYPD officers logged in and clicked on 39,000 notifications.

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Study: Police using body cameras see huge drop in complaints

LONDON (AP) — A Cambridge University study of British and U.S. police shows a 93 percent decrease in the number of complaints made against officers when they are using body cameras — pivotal findings that suggest the simple devices could reduce conflicts between police and the public.

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VLANs for Surveillance

If you want to pretend to be a surveillance networking expert, just sternly tell people that they need to use VLANs. However, little practical guidance is available to decide why or when users should use them.

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This Homemade Toy Will Keep Your Dog Occupied for Hours

To make it, first decide what size bottles you want to use. For larger dogs, like Bella in the video, you may decide to use 1 or even 2 Liter plastic bottles.

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Meet Visual Labs, a body camera startup that doesn’t sell body cameras

DOS PALOS, Calif.—The streets of this agricultural town in Merced County almost feel like a John Steinbeck novel. The day Ars was in Dos Palos was hot, bright, and quiet. Walking downtown on a weekday, the only people out looked like high schoolers milling around on their lunch break.

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Opera just released an Android app that gives you unlimited free VPN

Opera made waves back in April when it announced the addition of unlimited free VPN service to its desktop web browser. VPN, or virtual private networking, is a technology that allows people to mask their actual IP addresses by routing their internet traffic through a third-party server.

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Discord Is the Voice Chat App I’ve Always Wanted

Discord is a newcomer to the chat scene, but it’s made a big splash. The app provides voice and text chat for groups, with an emphasis on gaming. However, it’s so sweet I’ve already started using it for everyday chat. If you’ve ever used Slack, Discord will feel familiar.

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12 Things You Can Now Do With Windows 10 After the Anniversary Update

It’s Windows 10 update time! The so-called “Anniversary Update” marks a year since the OS officially made it out of Redmond and it’s the biggest update yet.

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Download and Print Your Own Topographical Maps from National Geographic

You can snag good topographic maps pretty easily from outdoor shops and from park ranger offices, but if you want to take a closer look at a place from the comfort of your own home, National Geographic’s released a ton of PDFs.

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Surveillance Recording Mode Statistics 2016

Continuous? Motion? Boost? What recording should be used? What is used?

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Local police department takes unique to fighting crime : WSB-TV

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Pokemon Go: Google Maps hack makes it easier than ever to find Pokemon

The Pokemon Go craze is in full swing, with more than 30 million players hunting Pokemon around the world. However, it might be tough to find new Pokemon to add to your roster, and not everybody has time to walk around town hoping to encounter missing characters.

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Chinese Open Source VMS Software Released

China has disrupted cameras. Can they do the same for VMS software? Two Chinese developers are bootstrapping their own VMS software, that they have made open source and does not require payment.

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She Is Me

Recently, my wife and I started having family worship again, a time set aside each day for us to read the Scriptures and pray together. Although we pray and read on our own, we need time in the Bible together as well. We decided to start light with a seven-day reading plan on marriage.

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How to Change Your Car's Brake Pads

Your car is a big expensive machine that, over its life, will cost you a ton in maintenance. If you learn to do some of those jobs yourself, you can save a ton of cash.

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State Supreme Court limits police authority in traffic stops outside jurisdictions

ATLANTA — A Monday morning ruling by the Georgia Supreme Court limits police power in traffic stops outside their agency’s jurisdiction. The decision is tied to Zilke v.

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Tech’s video board to be replaced due to peculiar flaw

Georgia Tech fans at Bobby Dodd Stadium this fall may not notice much of a difference in the video board above the south end zone. But they might find that their cellphones get better coverage.

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Make This No-Bake Cake that Combines All Kinds of Delicious Snacks

This is not the healthiest thing you could possibly make, but it is one of the easiest and most crowd-pleasing sweet treats around, and any snacks you have already (or the shake at the bottom of bags) are perfect ingredients.

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The Car Brands With the Highest Maintenance Costs Over Time

The true cost of owning a car goes beyond the sticker price. Maintenance, for example, is an expense that can add up quite a bit over time. However, your mileage will vary depending on the car. Mobile car repair provider YourMechanic.

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IPConfigure Free RaspberryPi VMS

IPConfigure has released a version of their Orchid VMS that runs on $50 RaspberryPi hardware and is free for commercial or personal use. Inside we cover how to get it, and what limitations are involved.

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Turn your old Nexus 5 into a Linux computer with Maru OS

Android phones are pretty powerful these days. They have the specs to do just about anything. Including running a desktop OS. In the past, we’ve seen things like Ubuntu on phones, but they never really passed the stage of “experimental.

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Charcoal Grill Anything With This Visual Guide

When it comes to grilling over charcoal, timing is everything, and it can be difficult to know exactly when to start cooking that juicy steak or ear of corn. To help solve this dilemma, the good people at Bon Appetit mapped out a grilling timeline, and put it on a handy printable graphic.

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Portable Power for Video Surveillance 2016

Sometimes you need power for your video surveillance equipment but do not have convenient access to mains electricity, such as: Demonstrating or trying out a camera in the field to see the quality and coverage area of the video Testing cameras to measure relative performance (like our tests) in rem

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William Gibson has written a comic, and you should read it

We're in an exciting time for new comics right now, and I'm not talking about Captain America's reveal as a Hydra agent. No, ditch those superheroes. Authors like Greg Rucka (with Michael Lark and Eric Trautmann) and Brian K.

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5 Hidden Windows 10 Features You Should Use

Windows 10 has officially been with us for close to a year now, but even if you’ve spent a lot of time with the OS since its launch, you may not have found everything it has to offer.

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The Biggest Home Remodeling Mistakes, According to General Contractors

All it takes is one small mistake and your home improvement project can run way over budget. If you want to keep your remodel from eating up your savings, avoid these major missteps before construction even begins.

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How to Use IFTTT to Supercharge Your Kindle

If This, Then That (IFTTT) is a fantastic service for automating all kinds of things, and we’ve written a lot of articles about how it can make your life better. But it’s not just for smart home automation and saving money. It can also improve your reading life and your Kindle experience.

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Foul-Mouthed Worm Takes Control Of Wireless ISPs Around the Globe

Dan Goodin, reporting for Ars Technica (edited and condensed): ISPs around the world are being attacked by self-replicating malware that can take complete control of widely used wireless networking equipment, according to reports from customers.

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Make a Magnetic Parts Tray Out of the Remains of Your Old Hard Drive

When you’re taking your gadgets apart, a magnetic tray for all your screws could come in handy. Fortunately, you can make one by taking more gadgets apart. As the video above from Linus Tech Tips points out, platter-style hard drives (as opposed to SSDs) have hefty neodymium magnets in them.

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Make a Magnetic Parts Tray Out of the Remains of Your Old Hard Drive

When you’re taking your gadgets apart, a magnetic tray for all your screws could come in handy. Fortunately, you can make one by taking more gadgets apart. As the video above from Linus Tech Tips points out, platter-style hard drives (as opposed to SSDs) have hefty neodymium magnets in them.

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Surveillance, public cameras

Purdue University researchers have developed a prototype system that could allow law enforcement and public safety agencies to tap into thousands of cameras located in numerous venues including parking garages, college campuses, national parks and highways.

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Excerpt from the Winds of Winter

All along the south coast of Cape Wrath rose crumbling stone watchtowers, raised in ancient days to give warning of Dornish raiders stealing in across the sea. Villages had grown up about the towers. A few had flowered into towns.

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VRidge Runs PC-Based VR Games On Your Google Cardboard Headset

Android/Windows: If you’ve got a few thousand dollars to shell out for a VR-ready PC and an Oculus Rift headset, you can play in virtual reality right now. If you don’t, VRidge can let you play those same games on your phone inside a Google Cardboard set.

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Body Cameras Win Converts Among Police Officers on the Beat

It was an unusually warm October night, and Patrolman Steven Wilson wasn't thrilled when he arrived for the night shift to find his lieutenant holding a new device called a body camera that his department in South Euclid, Ohio, was trying out.

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Quiet Squeaky Carpeted Floors with This Kit

Over time, as the plywood subfloor under your carpet expands and contracts, the nails can come loose and the subfloor separated from the floor joists. Although it’s not a safety concern, it’s an annoyance: squeaky floors under your carpet.

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Cleveland police ahead of curve on body cameras

CLEVELAND - The Cleveland Police Department is ahead of the curve implementing body cameras among its police force. Months of testing have resulted in big-city police forces across the nation moving to expand their use of body cameras by the summer.

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How new research may extend your dog's life

Just about every "dog person" likes to talk about the bond they have with their pup. But for Rose Bigham it brings her to tears. That's because she has to take you back to the beginning: Nov. 13, 2006. That's not the day she got Rascal. It's the day she lost her sister.

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Learn the Basics of Four Programming Languages to Get to the Early Coder Stage

When you’re just starting to learn to code, it’s hard to tell if you’ve got the basics down and if you’re ready for a programming career or side gig. Learn Python The Hard Way author Zed A. Shaw has a suggestion: Learn the basics of four programming languages.

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When2Leave: Get alerts for traffic level and travel time

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SoloLearn Teaches Coding Basics In Bite-Sized Lessons Every Day

Android/iOS/Windows/Web: Learning how to code is normally a time-consuming process. SoloLearn aims to make it easier by breaking down programming concepts into quick, digestible daily lessons.

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Micropower Fails

Wireless video surveillance is a tough business. Micropower sought to deliver a wireless, turn-key, professional video solution. The most famous wireless failure is certainly Firetide, who after spending $50 million in VC funding, took a small buyout, and fell off the face of the Earth.

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Microsoft’s new tool for building line-of-business apps is now in public preview

Microsoft PowerApps allows anybody to build basic business apps without having to touch any code. These apps can run on the web and on mobile (through the PowerApps apps for iOS and Android).

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Q&A: Python Creator Guido van Rossum on How He Got His Start in Programming

Guido van Rossum is the creator of Python, one of the world’s most popular programming languages. Guido was kind enough to tell us his story, from growing up and discovering computers in the Netherlands, to creating Python and landing at Dropbox in San Francisco. That’s an interesting story.

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A Screenshot Tour of Vivaldi, the New Power-User Web Browser

Bored of Chrome? Sick of the fact you can’t customize Safari? Wish Firefox was just a little better? Vivaldi, a new web browser built on Chromium, wants to tap into your distaste for boring, modern, everyman browsers with a highly customizable, power-user browser. Let’s see how it stacks up.

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Don't Dismiss Georgia Tech's $6,600 Online Master's Degree

A $6,600 master's degree in computer science with a 55 percent acceptance rate and no GRE entrance exam? It's a seductive proposition for an undergraduate, to be sure.

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