We All Fall Down

Slipping in the shower, tripping down the stairs, taking a tumble in the supermarket — falls kill over 420,000 people per year and hospitalize millions more. We can't eliminate all falls. So we must to learn to fall better.

Digg Editions Morning · Tue, Jun 06

GOING TOO FAR BRACE YOURSELF How To Fall To Your Death And Live To Tell The Tale digg.com Slipping in the shower, tripping down the stairs, taking a tumble in the supermarket — falls kill over 420,000 people per year and hospitalize millions more. We can't eliminate all falls. So we must to learn to fall better. EVEN WINNERS LOSE SOMETIMES How Not To Leak Top Secret Documents theoutline.com Reality Leigh Winner, a 25-year-old federal contractor in Augusta, Georgia, was arrested Saturday for "removing classified material from a government facility" and sending that material to a news outlet. KING OF CONTROVERSY Bill Maher Knows Exactly What He's Doing esquire.com After the biggest controversy of his career, it's clear: Crossing the line isn't just what Bill Maher does, it's who he is. GIFTS WE DIGG | SPONSORED The One-Stop Accessory Shop For Father's Day hookandalbert.com Hook + Albert products have the uncanny ability to elevate anyone's style. Even dad's. They're offering 25% off everything on the site (including socks, pocket squares, and their famous travel bags and dopp kits.) If you're looking for really excellent accessories, Hook & Albert is a one-stop shop. ANOTHER BITE PADDING THEIR STATS The Second Coming Of iPad buzzfeed.com With new hardware and a next-generation operating system heavy on tablet-specific improvements, Apple is on a campaign to make the iPad your primary computing device. HEY LOOK IT'S A SPEAKER Just The Good Stuff From Apple's WWDC Keynote Yesterday digg.com A brand new smart speaker called HomePod, a new iPad Pro, new MacBooks and iMacs, and a lot of updates to MacOS and iOS. WHAT'S COOKIN' How Apple Sees The Near Future theatlantic.com Without once saying the words "artificial intelligence," a stream of Apple executives described a vision of the near future in which Siri, the company's AI avatar, stitches together the company's many hardware products. VIDEO OF THE DAY NOTHING LOST IN TRANSLATION Polyglot Runs Into Another Polyglot And They Have A Casual Chat In 15 Languages digg.com Dutch polyglot Wouter Corduwener often films himself speaking the various languages he knows with tourists. But recently he ran into another tourist who speaks 35 (35!) languages, and they had a nice, casual chat. IN THE NEWS UK Police Face Questions Over London Attack As Third Suspect Named Top Secret NSA Report Details Russian Hacking Effort Days Before 2016 Election Six Middle Eastern Countries Severed Ties With Qatar — Here's What's Going On Tearful Victim Takes The Stand As Bill Cosby's Sexual Assault Trial Begins Saudis Gave $270K To Trump Hotels While Lobbying Against 9/11 Bill, And Other Trump News From Today DIGG PICKS 13 Useful Gifts Your Dad Wants To Get For Father's Day digg.com Your dad called, and he asked for you to get him something from this list. Also to call your mother. May we all be reality winners, not reality losers, today. View the Edition at Digg.com »

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You Can't Say No To Her

Vietnam Veteran Ray Cocks, who'd eagerly enlisted in 1967, was forever changed by the realities of war.

Digg Editions Morning · Mon, Jun 05

CHANGING A MAN... 'DON'T GO. IT'S BULLSHIT.' From A Hawk To A Dove longreads.com Vietnam Veteran Ray Cocks, who'd eagerly enlisted in 1967, was forever changed by the realities of war. NO SUCH MAN The Myth Of The Kindly General Lee theatlantic.com The legend of the Confederate leader's heroism and decency is based in the fiction of a person who never existed. ENTERING THE ARENA Can This Detroit Twentysomething Change The Democratic Party Before Politics Changes Him? fastcompany.com Moving back home to run for office has never been so important, or fraught. GLASSES WE DIGG | SPONSORED Why Are You Still Paying $300 For Glasses? glassesusa.com GlassesUSA.com offers over 2,500 frames online with high-quality prescription lenses from $24. They've got brand name frames too, with free shipping and returns. Not sure how something will look on your face? Just upload your photo and try out styles before you buy. CHANGING THE MACHINE THE REVOLUTION IS BEING DIGITIZED Crypto-Anarchists Are The New Masters theguardian.com More worrying than the internet's role in the rise of far-right populism is the digital tsunami poised to engulf us: AI and "crypto-anarchists" are radically restructuring life — and politics. THEY LOST CONTROL How Mad Catz Used Up Its Last Life eurogamer.net The company, founded in 1989, was one of the go-to brands for third party controllers and other accessories. They weren't always the best; but they were cheap and generally offered value for money. JOBS IN THE MACHINE Even If The Siri Speaker Sucks You'll Want It gizmodo.com We all know Apple's game by now. Wait in the wings while all of the other companies fuck up while trying to innovate, and then, just when it seems almost too late, introduce a product that does the same thing as everybody else's product, but better. VIDEO OF THE DAY ROCKY ROAD That Is One Hell Of A Bouncy Motorbike digg.com According to the person who uploaded the video, he and his friends were riding their dirt bikes when one of the spokes of his friend's wheels suddenly broke off. IN THE NEWS Trump Tweets That Revised 'Travel Ban' Is 'Watered Down', And Other Trump News From Today Putin Says He's Not Aware Of Kushner's Russia Channel Proposal ISIS Claims Responsibility In The London Bridge Attack, And More 'Wonder Woman' Breaks Record At The Box Office, And Other Stories Are you more of a machine than you once were? Well, it's Monday, so either way you've probably got to be working. So it goes. View the Edition at Digg.com »

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Wait... Is Magic Real?

This Close-Up Magic Trick Is Blowing Our Minds, Crazy Footage Shows Massive Underground Water Main Explosion In Ukraine, Stylish Furniture You Can Actually Afford, Watch A Server Room's Seismic Isolation Floor Protect It During The 2011 Japan Earthquake, Girl Stuns 'America's Got Talent' Judges With Her Mind-Boggling Singing Ventriloquism, Comparing An iPhone 7 Camera To A $100,000 Hollywood-Grade Camera This Week's Top Videos Sunday, June 4, 2017 WE'RE SO CONFUSED This Close-Up Magic Trick Is Blowing Our Minds digg.com Please, no one explain to us how this works — we just want to believe in something magical for a bit. BOOM GOES THE, UH, WATER Crazy Footage Shows Massive Underground Water Main Explosion In Ukraine digg.com Luckily nobody was injured when an underground water pipe in Kiev, Ukraine blew a huge crater in the middle of a street. FURNITURE WE DIGG SPONSORED Stylish Furniture You Can Actually Afford structube.com Structube sells stylish, modern furniture at surprisingly affordable prices. Family-owned and Montreal-based, there's a reason Structube is Canada's go-to retailer for sleek, mid-century furniture. THE CENTER HOLDS Watch A Server Room's Seismic Isolation Floor Protect It During The 2011 Japan Earthquake digg.com In earthquake-prone areas, it's a good idea to design buildings — particularly those with valuable equipment — to withstand quakes. Surveillance video of a server room in Japan during the 2011 earthquake shows how the room's special floor kept the servers basically stationary. DANG Girl Stuns 'America's Got Talent' Judges With Her Mind-Boggling Singing Ventriloquism digg.com Look, if we're being honest, we typically find ventriloquism pretty creepy — chalk it up to watching too many horror movies or something — but this 12-year-old is making us revisit our gut instincts about the art form because she is just so freaking talented. SEEING IS BELIEVING Comparing An iPhone 7 Camera To A $100,000 Hollywood-Grade Camera digg.com It's hard to imagine why any camera should cost nearly $100,000 when you can carry around a 4K camera in your pocket these days. This instinct, however, is wrong and this video makes it crystal clear as to why. Get more stories on Digg.com NSFW: GRANNIE FLASHERS Foo Fighters imagine their future lives as irreverent retirees in new music video "Run." Credit: foofightersVEVO Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2017 Digg Inc. 50 Eldridge Street, 2nd Floor, NY, NY 10002