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A teenage cheerleader’s Snapchat post will feature in an upcoming Supreme Court ruling to decide whether children have a right to free speech in the US. A 9th grade girl took to Snapchat to vent her frustrations after learning she hadn’t been selected to the varsity cheer squad at her Pennsylvania high school. While her message was explicit, “fuck school fuck softball fuck cheer fuck everything,” it certainly didn’t appear threatening....

Every 52 minutes, someone in the US dies in a drunk-driving accident… According to theNational Highway Traffic Safety Administration(NHTSA), each year, around 10,000 people are killed due to alcohol-related crashes, which translates into nearly30%of all traffic fatalities. Despite the laws, fines, and penalties that exist to prevent drunk driving, people still get behind the wheel after consuming alcoholic beverages. And if we can’t stop them from making this irresponsible choice, maybe we can stop them from driving altogether....

USB-C is fantastic. As theone-connector-to-rule-them-all, it’s the closest thing to a universal connector tech has seen, able to power everything from earbuds, to phones, to laptops. But despite its increasing ubiquitousness, there are limits to its utility. USB-C Power Delivery has been capped at 100W for a while now, for instance; while that’s enough for most devices, some powerful laptops are still forced to use traditional power connectors that can handle higher wattages....

The Collector USB Flash Drive, designed by Fang-Chun Tsai onYanko Design, is probably one of the most awesome USB concepts I’ve seen to date. The idea behind it is simple — a USB Stick serves as a carrier for small capacity memory cards (microSDs). This way, you don’t have to carry multiple thumb drives for different files. It also eliminates the need to delete files when over capacity — simply swap it with a different microSD and you’re good to go....

Emoji are sets of Japanese pictograms that seem to cover the entire range of human expression. They’ve got symbols for everything from suicide to kittens and enabling them on your iDevices even if you’re not in Japan has become a fairly easy affair. Recently I got a message that used Emoji in the subject line and I thought, hey, this would be great in the subject line of an Email...