OnePlus draws a crowd in Times Square

It’s been less than a week and over 1 million people have already reserved the OnePlus 2. And that’s without ever having held or used it firsthand. OnePlus‘ second smartphone, which it’s positioning as the „2016 flagship killer,“ has debuted to an incredible amount of buzz — at least among tech enthusiasts. Your average person probably still hasn’t (yet) heard of the company, but it’s still an impressive showing. With the queue system only growing longer, OnePlus held a series of public events today in cities around the world that gave its fans a chance to handle the OnePlus 2 and score an invite of their own.

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Engineers create world’s first white laser beam

Researchers at Arizona State University have created the world’s first white laser beam, according to a new study published in Nature. More work needs to be done to perfect this technology, but white lasers could serve as a potential alternative light source — both in people’s homes and in the screens of their electronics. Lasers are more energy efficient than LEDs, and the ASU researchers claim that their white lasers can cover 70 percent more colors than current standard displays.

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Watch Kendrick Lamar as Uncle Sam in his ‚For Free? (Interlude)‘ music video

Kendrick Lamar has already given us three music videos for songs off his critically acclaimed sophomore album To Pimp A Butterfly, including the tremendous treatment for „Alright,“ which should pull in a VMA Award if there’s any justice in the world. Now Kendrick’s back with a video for „For Free? (Interlude)“ which is one of the boldest and deepest tracks on the album, and the new video is nothing if not audacious. Featuring a choir, a full band, and a rapidly multiplying Kendrick Lamar, the brisk video — directed by Joe Weil & The Little Homies — is the latest addition to one of the best albums to come around in some time.

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