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A manufacturing slipup by Quanta has resulted in a rare, unstaged glimpse into HP’s assembly process. Typically when the outside world gets a look inside Chinese factories, it’s a highly-coordinated affair planned well in advance; those in charge have ample time to ensure visitors are witness to nothing short of an ideal working environment. So we imagine Reddit user Malplace was rather shocked to come across the innocuous video clip you see below, which was located in the My Documents folder on his new HP laptop.

Unfortunately for those hoping such a blunder would blow the roof off treacherous working conditions, it seems life at Chongqing Manufacturing City largely resembles what we’ve seen before. Rather than a scandalous exposé,…

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Ever wanted to see a picture of a bee trailing abdominal tissue after stinging a person’s arm and losing its stinger? Me neither, yet here we are. Funny how the little twists and turns in life have brought us to this very moment, isn’t it? Like that one country song goes, ♫ God blessed the broken road — that led me straight to you ♫ I’m joking, he did not bless that road. It’s been nothing but potholes, unsanitary gas station bathrooms, and serial killer hitchhikers. Fingers crossed it ends when I plummet off an unfinished bridge.

Thanks to Lauren, who doesn’t purposefully let bees sting her because she’s not a f***ing crazy person.

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This is a rarely seen Deepstaria enigmatica jellyfish spotted some 5,000-feet below the ocean’s surface by an unmanned sub inspecting a deep-sea drill off the coast of the UK. You’ve just gotta watch it to appreciate how freaky it is. It looks kinda like…there’s a leak in that pipeline somewhere that’s mutating sealife.

Hit the jump for the video. Bonus closeup of its reproductive organs at 5:09. Kidding, I don’t know WTF those were (besides nasty).

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Y Combinator might be best known for software plays like Dropbox and Airbnb. But it’s also harbored a few hardware companies, notably the one that blew out Kickstarter funding records with Pebble Watch this month.

There’s actually one more waiting in the wings.

Per Vices is a startup from the latest class that’s looking to disrupt how wireless communications are sent. They’ve built a device called Phi that can interact with any wireless or radio signal. It’s a transceiver that can demodulate and process signal data up to 4 Gigahertz.

In plain English, that means one of Per Vices’ devices can re-route your cell phone calls through your landline connection, if for example you have bad 3G service in your house. In theory, that means you could set up a decentralized wireless network where mobile devices and desktops are sending communications to each other instead of one where all mobile phones have to send and receive signals from carrier-operated cell phone towers. It’s a critical issue the industry needs to solve as data-hogging mobile subscribers eat into the profit margins of the carriers.

For now, however, the company is focusing on the hacker and hobbyist market as the device is a PCI card that supports Linux machines. (So yes, that limits the current potential audience size).

However, the longer-term goal is to build something that’s both accessible and affordable to the mainstream market. On their site, Phi retails for $ 666 for just the card or $ 750 with antennas, but the cost of producing it (as with many interesting hardware products) is getting lower every year. Comparable products from rivals like Ettus Research sell for $ 1,300 or higher.

They’ve hacked a few demos with the product, including one where you can pick-up HDTV transmissions and watch shows on your phone or call a walkie talkie using your mobile phone. They’re hoping that hackers will find even more interesting ways of using the Phi, like how some developers figured out how to subvert Microsoft’s Kinect.

Per Vices founders, Victor Wollesen and Yi Yao, are a physicist and an electrical engineer who used to work in the defense industry. But sales cycles there are endlessly long, so going the consumer route promises a faster time to market.

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