One Right Makes It Alright

Google, Twitter and Facebook workers who helped make technology so addictive are disconnecting themselves from the internet.

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NOTHING TO SEE HERE 'OUR MINDS CAN BE HIJACKED' The Tech Insiders Who Fear A Smartphone Dystopia theguardian.com Google, Twitter and Facebook workers who helped make technology so addictive are disconnecting themselves from the internet. 157 SHADES OF GRAY How Google Created The Least Offensive Design Ever fastcodesign.com Google tested many, many shades of gray to develop the Mini, a $49 home assistant that's meant to fade into the background of everyday life. EXTREMELY CREEPY WATCH: Woman Films Hacker Taking Over Her Webcam, Taunting Her digg.com ​The Internet of Things is notoriously insecure, but a recent incident experienced by Rilana Hamer in the Netherlands takes things to the next level. LULL MATTRESSES | SPONSORED Help! I Love This Mattress So Much I Can't Get Out Of Bed digg.com It took me 27 years and a mattress sent to my house in a box, but I finally got the best sleep of my life. Without further ado, a Lull mattress review from someone who's actually slept on one. THE WEEK IN PICTURES MORNING METEOR SHOWERS ON MERCURY The Week's Coolest Space Photos digg.com Every day satellites are zooming through space, snapping incredible pictures of Earth, the solar system and outer space. Here are the highlights from this week. CURATED BY VIEWFIND The Best Photography Of The Week digg.com What Puerto Rico looked like when Trump came to visit, the daily battle to survive along the Virginia Pike and the story behind the most haunting photos from the Las Vegas shooting. SMALL TOWN BLUES GETTING BY ON $700 A MONTH After The Check Is Gone washingtonpost.com The underground economy has long been a part of rural America, where some receiving disability benefits are forced to work to survive. IN A DREAM My Pilgrimage To A Viral Holy Site: The Little Caesars Of Passaic, New Jersey nymag.com A little before 4 p.m. on September 16, a Twitter user called @lordflaconegro tweeted at the chain's parent company. "Hey @littlecaesars," he wrote, "I left my phone at one of your establishments and this video was uploaded on my iCloud help." AFTER THE FINAL WHISTLE There Is Something About Football si.com Every small town has that football team that brings everyone together on Friday nights. Tim Layden tracked down the fellow seniors from his 1973 high school team to find out where they are now. THE NATURAL 'Walden' Wasn't Thoreau's Masterpiece theatlantic.com It was in his 2-million-word journal that the transcendentalist discovered how to balance poetic wonder and scientific rigor as he explored the natural world. VIDEO OF THE DAY NO SWEAT This 200-Foot Truck Making A Sharp Right Turn Is The Most Impressive Thing We've Seen All Week digg.com ​The thing with transporting wind turbine parts is that they're really damn long and at some point, you're going to have to make a sure turn. Here's how that works. FROM THE DIGG STORE Everything You Need To Know About Investing In Cryptocurrency store.digg.com This step-by-step guide includes 27 lectures and 2.5 hours of content showing you proven  methods for investing successfully in altcoins. Avoid the dystopia of your smartphone and have a great weekend. View the Edition at Digg.com »

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A Very Fall Windfall

Fall is in full swing. That means it's time to… break out the same old thrift store flannel from last year? No, of course not. You want to feel fresh as a newly-picked apple this fall.

Make Like A Tree And Leaf Your Old Life Behind You want to feel fresh as a newly-picked apple this fall. We all do.

Don't worry; it's not just you. Temperatures are dropping. Leaves are falling. Radio pop music is getting moodier. Fall is in full swing. That means it's time to… break out the same old thrift store flannel from last year? No, of course not. You want to feel fresh as a newly-picked apple this fall. We all do. But buying a new wardrobe/wine collection/furniture set is a little too expensive to pull off each time the seasons change. That's where Digg comes in. We're giving away an avalanche of gift cards that will (pumpkin) spice up your life. That includes: • $200 toward a new watch from AVI-8 • $200 worth of Maison Noir Wines • $300 to makeover your life at Kaufmann Mercantile • $250 to knock out all your holiday shopping in one go at Cool Material • $250 to get something truly one of a kind at Custom Consortium • A $200 AmEx giftcard to spend on whatever you want, wherever you want That's… *quickly counts on fingers* $1,400 worth of prizes that will be sure to make this fall an autumn to remember. GET YOUR AUTUMN ON

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Not With A Bang, But A Melt

Welcome to What We Learned This Week, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week: NJ Transit truly sucks, Santa Claus is dead and buried, and farmers markets are full of frauds.

Digg Editions Morning · Fri, Oct 06

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SOME BAD APPLES WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK Your Farmers Market Might Be Full Of Frauds, And Other Facts digg.com Welcome to What We Learned This Week, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week: NJ Transit truly sucks, Santa Claus is dead and buried, and farmers markets are full of frauds. ON THE ALT-RIGHT TRACK Here's How Breitbart And Milo Smuggled White Nationalism Into The Mainstream buzzfeed.com A cache of documents obtained by BuzzFeed News reveals the truth about Steve Bannon's alt-right "killing machine." THE NAZIS AMONG US I Snuck Into Seattle's Super Secret White Nationalist Convention thestranger.com It only took me about an hour to change my identity from David Lewis, Seattle historian, to Dave Lewis, Neo-Nazi film editor and aspiring book critic from Charlottesville, currently living in Los Angeles. FINANCING WE DIGG | SPONSORED This Financial Firm Does What Your Bank Can't aspiration.com The Summit Checking Account from Aspiration has free access to every ATM in the world, no monthly service fees, and — here's the best part — you earn up to 100x more interest on your checking account. HOW IT WENT DOWN INNER SMILE The Science Behind Mona Lisa's Smile theatlantic.com How Leonardo da Vinci engineered the world's most famous painting. IF THE SHOE FITS... WATCH: Why People In The Middle Ages Walked Differently Than We Do Now digg.com A difference in footwear may have led people in the modern era to develop a different gait than people in medieval times. WILL IT END WITH A WHIMPER? The Universe Began With A Big Melt, Not A Big Bang nautil.us There are two tantalizing mysteries about our universe, one dealing with its final fate and the other with its beginning, that have intrigued cosmologists for decades. The community has always believed these to be independent problems — but what if they are not? BIKES, BREASTS, BAD IDEAS 'It Made Absolutely No Sense:' The Story Of 'BMX XXX' motherboard.vice.com How a room full of guys and one joke created a big controversy and a video game that made nobody happy. VIDEO OF THE DAY NOBODY MOVE A Really Quick, Really Cool Demonstration Of Inertia digg.com ​We all know how inertia works, but it's always cool to find a nifty new way to visualize the effect. IN THE NEWS Nobel Peace Prize Awarded To Anti-Nuke Group US Economy Loses 33,000 Jobs After Hurricanes, First Decline In Seven Years What To Know About Bump Stocks, The Firearm Modification That Republicans Are Open To Banning Russia Used Security Software To Steal NSA Tactics — Here's What You Need To Know Trump Administration Set To Roll Back Birth Control Mandate Trump At Gathering With Military Leaders: 'Maybe It's The Calm Before The Storm' DIGG PICKS This Gadget Will Chill Your Beer Almost Instantly amazon.com Here's to never drinking another room temp beer again. We'd love to stick around, but our inertia is taking us to the weekend. View the Edition at Digg.com »

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