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Even If You're Not An Assh*le, You Should Care That Uber Is Rating You, Adam Savage Found The Coolest Way To Go Incognito To Comic-Con, The Truffle Oil Shuffle, How An Oil Engineer Discovered Auto-Tune And Changed The Music Industry Forever, My Weekend In A Massive Room Full Of The PC Gaming Elite, A Surgeon's POV Of A Complete Knee Replacement The Daily Digg Thursday, July 31, 2014 WHY WAS THIS A STORY? Even If You're Not An Assh*le, You Should Care That Uber Is Rating You digg.com Earlier this week, a newly-discovered hack allowed Uber users to reveal their once-secret passenger rating. While the public has known about the rating system for over a year, media outlets still analyzed the implications. Here's what they had to say. ONLY TOOK TEN YEARS TO MAKE Adam Savage Found The Coolest Way To Go Incognito To Comic-Con digg.com "Coolest" may be a poor choice of words since Mr. Savage nearly passed out from heat exhaustion. Nonetheless, he was the envy of all the con-goers. THE ONLY FOOD WE CAN'T TAME The Truffle Oil Shuffle priceonomics.com Truffles are the world's most expensive food. Truffle oil sells for around $10 a bottle. For years, both received rock star treatment in the culinary world. THE GRANDFATHER OF T-PAIN How An Oil Engineer Discovered Auto-Tune And Changed The Music Industry Forever businessinsider.com Before inventing Auto-Tune, the software that would change the music industry forever, Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist in the oil industry. THEY STILL DRINK BAWLS My Weekend In A Massive Room Full Of The PC Gaming Elite kotaku.com Despite PC gaming's increasingly niche status, Quakcon, one of the largest LAN parties in the world, still draws thousands of gamers to Dallas, Texas every year to hang out in a hangar for three days straight, play games, and (hopefully) enjoy each others' company. VERY GRAPHIC (BUT ALSO REALLY COOL) A Surgeon's POV Of A Complete Knee Replacement digg.com A lot like that cabinet you tried to make in wood shop, a knee replacement requires a ton of specialized cutting jigs (who knew?). Unlike wood shop, the cabinet isn't bleeding profusely. Read more on Digg.com → HIGH WIRE ACT Lights flare as Harry Owen of Wales performs on the rings during the Men's All-Around gymnastics competition at the Scottish Exhibition Conference Centre during the Commonwealth Games 2014 in Glasgow, Scotland. Credit: AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014