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To Star on the Reality TV Show on Mars, You'll Need to Be a Good Person and...
We’re sort of obsessed with Mars, and rightly so. It’s close, it’s not shrouded in a layer of impenetrable clouds, and we stand to learn a lot about the Earth and our place in the solar system by...
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Letter from CES: Here's a Dancing, Fedora-Wearing Speakerbot
It's hard to describe just how bewildering CES can be. The major manufacturers have giant booths like at any other show, and for the most part it seems that their big announcements have already...
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Stephen Hawking Versus the Robot Apocalypse
The faux apocalypse has passed, praise Xenu, but there are plenty of real ones left to worry about. That's precisely what the folks at the Cambridge Project for Existential Risk do—they're full time...
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Future Sex: What Booth Babes Say About Tech
When I clicked on Business Insider’s example of illustrious, hard-hitting journalism that is an advertisement-ridden slideshow, “Meet the Booth Babes of CES 2013,” I"m not quite sure what happened....
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Here's the Set That Got DJ Shadow Kicked off the Decks
If if you somehow missed it: DJ Shadow, the turntablism pioneer and author of such classics as Entroducing, got kicked off the decks at a Miami bottle service-type club called Mansion. In the middle...
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Ones and Zeros: Google North Korea, Fake Women and Twitter-Cockroach Cyborgs
IMAGE: Superhero #100 ONE: The many affairs of Zeus There's certain benefitis to being god of gods, a concept Zeus was clearly privy to. This interactive map charts his massive web of lovers and...
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NASA Wants to Give Our Moon Its Own Moon
Above image via A manned mission to an asteroid has been bandied about for a while as the next big human spaceflight venture. But getting to an asteroid is tricky. They’re small and quick, making it...
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Scientists Made a Laser-Controlled Graphite Hoverboard
Scientists have successfully piloted a small piece of graphite around a bed of magnets with nothing but a laser. Yeah, it's a tiny, laser-controlled graphite MagLev hoverboard. The researchers, as you...
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The TSA Confiscated a Record Number of Guns in 2012, Isn't Sure Why
The TSA has been finding a lot more firearms lately, so many that 2012 set a record for confiscated firearms from the agency. Holy shit, right? Exactly why a record level of guns are being confiscated...
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New Global Warming Apocalypse Scenario: Ice Melt Causes Up to 10 Times More...
Add another entry to the ever-lengthening list of apocalyptic scenarios global warming might bestow upon Earth: massive volcanic eruptions all around the world. In a recent study published in the...
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The Twitter Archive at the Library of Congress Won't Actually Be Very Useful
A couple years ago, everybody lauded the Library of Congress when it announced it would be archiving all of the tweets in the world in one convenient place. And who could argue that storing hundreds...
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Here's Some Robots Crushing Motorhead's "Ace of Spades"
Rise of the machines indeed. No longer are the robot kind shackled to avant garde composition and pop covers at Chucke E Cheese's. Here we have the robot band Compressorhead--performers in which come...
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Bacteria Leads the Way to Ultra-Efficient and Affordable Solar Energy
Solar energy is sort of a silly challenge, not because it's not important or interesting even innovative. It's simply silly that it's so challenging. The sun produces a ridiculous amount of energy! In...
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Tedium Is Torture: What It's Like to Have Severe ADHD
It comes on as a heat. A warmth starts in my chest and gradually spreads into my neck and arms. For me, ADHD is not a static condition. It comes in squalls. My life is lived between the poles of who I...
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Inside the Pocket-Sized, Dystopian Internet of North Korea
Conventional wisdom never gets you very far when you’re trying to understand the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Take, for example, the bizarre, self-contained universe that is the North Korean...
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Dogs Are More Popular Than Cats on the Internet
The Internet is obsessed with the idea that the Internet is obsessed with cats. Perhaps it's because we're all infected with the parasite Toxoplasma, which turns people into cat-loving zombies, but...
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Against All Odds, John McAfee Is a Terrible Spy
John McAfee knows you've missed him. The aging software entrepreneur has been relatively silent since Guatemalan officials deported him to the United States for entering their country illegally nearly...
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'Zero Dark Thirty' Made Me Write This
What more can be said about the controversy over Zero Dark Thirty? Not much it seems, but maybe something can be sung about it. The debate centers around a harsh set of scenes at the start of the...
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Does the World Really Need Smart Silverware?
It's that time of year again, boys and girls. Time for hundreds of gadgets geeks to descend upon Las Vegas for the annual International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and see what kinds of weird crap...
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When Does an Animal Become a Drone?
Call it a sign of our weird times: Last month, around the same time Iran claimed to have captured a small American spy drone, officials in Sudan captured a strange flying thing of its own: a living...
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