Bitcoin wallet provider Xapo reckons it's about to accomplish Bitcoin use essentially easier, by teaming up with your added accustomed anatomy of banks to actualize a Mastercard-branded acclaim agenda that'll let you draft your basic money in absolute shops.

The botheration seems to be that no one's told Mastercard about this arrangement. Speaking to Gigaom, a Mastercard adumbrative said the aggregation has "no relationship" with Xapo and that the Bitcoin administration team's claims are accordingly a little on the vapourware ancillary of things.

However, Xapo says it uses a accomplice coffer to authorise the affairs and thinks its debit agenda will be accessible for use aural a brace of months, and is auspicious users to sign up for it appropriate now. There's just the little amount of authoritative it plan to array out. [Xapo via Gigaom]

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Pushing war and apple ache to the aback of the line, the next important affair that technology is arrest is altered and missing socks. A aggregation alleged Blacksocks has developed what it's claiming are the world's aboriginal acute socks that accomplish them around absurd to mis-match, and abundantly simple to acquisition in a bassinet overflowing with laundry.

Spending $189 on ten pairs of arid atramentous socks ability assume a little outrageous, but that amount tag includes RFID buttons sewn assimilate anniversary one, and a handheld wireless detector that can be acclimated to acquisition anniversary sock's able mate—ensuring they all abrasion analogously over time. It can even be coiled over a abundance of agnate searching socks and will automatically beep if a accustomed one's bout is nearby. It's as abundant ability as it is ridiculously over-the-top.

Furthermore, an accompanying chargeless iOS app lets you breeze a photo of an crumbling beat with your iPhone's camera and yield a "black reading" so you can apperceive for abiding if they've achromatic to the point area they'd be awkward to wear. Because that's the allotment actuality you charge to be ashamed about. [Blacksocks]

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Ready for a big number? 502,165. That's the amount of LED lights the ancestors of David and Janean Richards in Canberra, Australia has decked its home in adjustment to assure the 2013 Guinness World Record for a lot of Christmas lights in one display. Whoa.

This is in fact the additional time the Richards accept becoming the title—they aboriginal set a almanac aback in 2011 with 331,038 lights, but were unseated endure year by the Gay ancestors from Lagrangeville, New York. So in October, the Richards got to work installing a abundant bigger and brighter spectacle.

Guinness says the affectation includes added than 31 afar of lights, "520 Lightorama channels authoritative a [164-foot], airing through, multi-coloured awning and an [60-foot] light-controlled timberline (all activated and synchronised to music)." And it doesn't appear cheap, either. Richard says his electric bill runs about $2,291 anniversary ages the lights are up, although a bounded activity aggregation is accoutrement the cost. Ultimately, the Richards' ambition with the affectation is an altruistic one; they're adopting money for a alms alleged SIDS and Kids ACT, which works to abate Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Whatever the motivation, we're abiding Clark Griswold would be actual proud. [Guinness via NPR]

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One of the a lot of advantageous things you can possibly accept if you're up the emblematic brook afterwards aphotic is a antecedent of illumination: award firewood (or just not falling over a cliff) is abundant easier if you can see what you're doing. That's why this adaptation kit, which packs food into the physique of a flashlight, could be appropriate investment.

The VSSL (not to be abashed with that added tech startup project, Vessyl) is adequately simple: an oversized, waterproof aluminium flashlight body, which is mostly alveolate and abounding with adaptation supplies. What you get central depends on which of the four versions you bounce for: Supplies, Shelter, Zombie or Aboriginal Aid all get you altered variations, but they all accept the affectionate of food you'd apprehend from an off-the-shelf adaptation kit. Best of all, the appendage cap is aswell a compass, which should advice beacon you in some affectionate of beeline line.

VSSL Food unpacked

The activity has exceeded its Kickstarter ambition at the moment, but is still demography pre-orders. $40 gets you the abandoned flashlight, with the a lot of big-ticket Food adaptation active $80. That's added or beneath on par with a lot of added off-the-shelf kits; really, the better abeyant atrophy I can see of the VSSL is the size/bulk, which makes it a little harder to bandy in the basal of the backpack as a just-in-case option. On the upside, however, that backpack could appear in accessible for pasting a few zombies. [VSSL]

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Yes, THAT Captain Morgan. He was real, and he was a real, adamant pirate. Archaeologists now accept that they've apparent his 340-year-old address sunk off the bank of Panama. The liquor aggregation even went forth for the ride.

Hailing from Texas State University, the scientists say the address was one of 5 that ran ashore abreast the Lajas Reef in 1671. And you could that appears to smell the treasure. Abreast the bones was a alternation of burden boxes and chests, all unopened and accessible for plundering research. If there's annihilation that looks like this, there's affluence of could cause for excitement. Because first, it's absolutely a pirate-y affectionate of summer. Second, pirates are awesome.

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For Captain Morgan USA's part, they achievement the chests authority a accomplished lot of booze. I achievement not. I'm not a rum affectionate of guy. [The Daily, Discovery News, Image Credit: Claude Beaubien/Shutterstock]

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