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Anonymous Hacked FEMA, Leaked Hundreds of Email Addresses
ASCII art from the top of the Anonymous leak Anonymous breached FEMA servers and pulled information on hundreds of agency contacts worldwide. According to the hacker collective, it was in response to...
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The Sober Designs of Nixon-Era 'Psychedelic Devices'
Patent sketch for the Psychedelic Clock It's 1969, and the flower vibes are peaking. Richard Nixon is president. Martin Luther King has been assassinated. The conflict in Vietnam rages. Debate over US...
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'Betting Bad': Fantasy Football For the Final Season of 'Breaking Bad'
Anticipation surrounding the impending final episodes of Breaking Bad just got even more exciting: Die-hard fans of Vince Gilligan's addicting series just launched Betting Bad, a Web app that turns the...
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Global Warming Is Making Life Hell for Firefighters
Image: Wikimedia Firefighters already spend the key moments of their professional lives on the brink, sweating profusely in scorched rooms and inferno fields. The last thing they need is for anyone to...
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A New Battery Will Let You Power Your iPhone with Your Own Pee
Image Near the end of his life, the eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes was known to collect his urine in jars. New research suggests that he might not have been crazy—just ahead of the time....
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If You Love Spicy Food You Just Might Love Adventure
Photo via D Sharon Pruitt/Flickr Well, another year and another Institute of Food Technologists conference is packing up in Chicago. Nadia Byrnes, a doctoral student from Penn State, presented a paper...
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Will Augmented Reality Books Bridge the Digital-Physical Divide?
Board game pieces are augmented with interactive projected imagery, via Disney Research. Disney is going for a ride on the augmented-reality bandwagon, and it's betting the future of play will involve...
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Lost in a Loop: A Chat with Andrew Bujalski About 'Computer Chess' and Other...
Computer Chess is Andrew Bujalski's fourth film and first to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize. I've seen it three times and highly recommend...
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Björk's Musicology App-Album Biophilia Is on Android Now
You no longer need an iPhone to study Musicology 101, courtesy of Björk's strange genius tripped-out imagination. The singer's acclaimed app suite, Biophilia, is now available for Android users for a...
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New FDA-Approved Brainwave Hat Tests Kids for ADHD
Over the past five years, ADHD has become the default diagnosis for small children who can't sit still, with nearly 10 percent of kids ages 4-17 labeled as having the disorder since 2007. Obviously...
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Every Time We Look at Neptune, We Find More Moons
A composite showing Neptune, its fuzzy rings, and some moons. via Though we’ve been exploring space for over a half century, there’s still plenty to find in our own backyard. Case in point: last week,...
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Stratfor Founder George Friedman Says PRISM Is American Citizens' Fault
Curious as to what happened Stratfor after LulzSec's infamous hack, and WikiLeaks attendant Global Intelligence Files release, I thought I'd check in to see what the company was up to. And what, to my...
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These Vintage Weather Hat Patents Are Too Chill
This man wishes that hat was climate controlled, via Flickr / CC. So I'm sweating. If you're pretty much anywhere in the eastern half of the United States right now, you're probably a fetid and hot...
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How to Change Your Car's Oil
Photo via Bryan Rosengrant/Flickr Being an adult is hard. And in our vast techno-digital landscape, there are millions of screaming voices, but too few voices to tell us what we need to know to be...
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Inside the DIY Weapons Workshops of the Free Syrian Army
Finished DIY mortars loaded onto a pickup truck at the Free Syrian Army's secret munitions factory in Aleppo. VICE— During my five months in Syria, there's one remark I keep hearing from the rebels:...
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Elon Musk's Hyperlooped Dream: Concorde Jets, Rail Guns, & Air Hockey as the...
Image: Vintage Futures Elon Musk said he'd make electric cars both sexy and viable, and he did. He also said he'd send a privately-funded rocket into space, and he's doing that too. So when Elon Musk...
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The Cancer-Smelling iKnife Could Be Used by Robots
In a study published yesterday in Science Translational Medicine, a group of medical researchers based in the UK announced the iKnife, a potentially radical innovation in electrosurgery. The product,...
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Wall Street Is Mock-Hacking Itself to Prepare for a Potential Massive...
When 50 major financial firms, the Department of Homeland Security, the US Treasury, and the Federal Reserve team up to see if they could to keep the market from crashing in the event of a major...
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Anonymous Dropped Another FEMA Leak
ACII art from yesterday's leak After leaking a document of contact info and user data allegedly swiped from FEMA servers yesterday, Anonymous today released another set of swiped data contact info for...
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The Birth of the Paradigm Shift
Photo via Wikimedia Commons. By this point, we could almost file away paradigm shift away alongside other cheapened buzzers the likes of synergry and disruptive. But like all good, bad, and...
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