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Wale Will Be Encased in Carbonite: The Imaginary Future of Record Industry...
NOISEY— Usually large institutions, especially those that are pillars of an industry, do not enact proactive, sweeping change. In fact, their ways usually get lambasted for being antiquated—because...
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New Wind Power in India Is Now as Cheap as New Coal
Photo: Land Rover Our Plant/Flickr India has crossed an important renewable energy milestone: A report from HSBC finds that the cost of producing electricity from new wind power is not more expensive...
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'Mirror City' Shatters Everything We See in Iconic American Spaces
The problem with some of America's most recognizable architectural and cultural centers is precisely that they've become so recognizable. These are insitutions in their own right, visited and...
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General Motors Wants to Learn from Tesla
Touchscreen navigation in the Tesla Model S, via Wikimedia Commons Here's a peak into the future of the car industry. On the same day Motor City historically filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy, Bloomberg...
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Here Is a Jaguar Tripping on Yage, the Ayahuasca Vine
I've written a bit about why we see what we see when tripping on psychedelics. But what about animals? What does, say, a big cat see after munching down some hallucinogenic jungle leaves? We can only...
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The Future of the Internship: An Intern Chats with the Founder of 'Intern'...
Image courtesy Alec Dudson Unpaid internships run the gamut from rewarding to thankless. I once interned at a fashion magazine where I was instructed not to look the editor in chief in the eye (so...
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Intuitive, One of the Nation's Largest Robot Surgery Companies, Is Having a...
Intuitive Surgical Inc., makers of one of the nation's most popular robotic surgery platforms, has been having a difficult year. Following the release of data showing an increase in injuries during...
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Poor Diet Is Killing More Americans Than Smoking
Photo: SteFou!/Flickr You probably know by now that the standard American diet is really pretty awful and that people aren't getting enough exercise. Even then, a new study from the Institute of Health...
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The Millennial's Hi-Tech Guide to This Super-Gross Heat Wave
Image: Flickr Today, I arrived at the office for the fourth day in a row covered in a thin film of salty body moisture, huffing like I'd just completed a challenge on a reality show set in a jungle....
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Mauna Kea in the Round
Telescopes point us to the many wonders of the cosmos, but the inside of one of these tools is a weird and wonderful place worth exploring itself — and now you can. Thanks to the folks at Science on...
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Google Is Emailing Ads to Gmail Users Now
Image via Flickr I’ve used Gmail for years, and can safely say it does a pretty great job filtering out spam. Only recently, the spammy emails have started coming from Google. There’s nowhere to hide...
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Why Won't Cops Share the License Plate Data They Collect?
A license plate scanner's interface, from Coban Tech A report released this week by the ACLU explores the widespread deployment of automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) scanners by law...
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The White House Hosted a Google Hangout to Find the Next Real-Life Superhero...
Images: Screenshots from Google Hangout With San Diego Comic-Con as its theme, the White House is using science to try to build a real-life superhero. Today, the White House's official YouTube channel...
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The Navy's New Communication Satellites Have 16 Times More Bandwidth Than the...
A MUOS satellite being built, via Lockheed Martin An Atlas 5 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral this morning with one of its heaviest payloads ever: a new US Navy communications satellite that's far...
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A Brief Guide to Surviving Comic Con
Photos by the author Everyone at Comic Con mentions feeling overwhelmed, especially if it's their first time. And how can anyone reasonably prepare to not be blown away by the size and spectacle of it...
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It's Too Hot to Do Anything but Watch 'Under the Dome'
Stephen King is here to save you from droll summer TV reruns with “Under the Dome,” his horror sci-fi miniseries for CBS and Amazon, of all places. So it’s not quite Breaking Bad, Arrested...
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Tumblr Is Making Its Porn Disappear
When Yahoo! acquired Tumblr in May, panic and promises ensued. Marissa Mayer promised to "not screw it up" and to "let Tumblr be Tumblr." David Karp promised the site wouldn't "turn purple." Users...
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The Director of National Intelligence Asks Why People Trust Facebook More...
Image: A Facebook data center, via Wikimedia At the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., Robert S. Litt, General Counsel of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, delivered a speech...
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Will Anti-Shark Wetsuits Fail Like Other Shark Shields?
Image via Flickr Creative Commons In 2002, scallop diver Paul Buckland was making a typical dive off South Australia's west coast when something went wrong. He was wearing his SharkPod, a device that...
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The Curator Behind 'Music From Saharan Cell Phones' Is Getting Hassled By...
Image via Kirkley: "The above photo is from a recent meeting with a Homeland Security agent in Minneapolis." Christopher Kirkley is making an important mark in many worlds at once with his Music From...
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