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Vine Users' First Posts Are a Fascinating Peek at Our Collective Social Media...
Imagie via Esther Vargas on Flickr. Prior to joining Vine, I couldn’t understand the six second constraint, just like prior to joining Twitter, I couldn’t grasp the significance of 140 characters. I...
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Hacktivists Want to Free the Net by Building a New One From Scratch
If there’s something good to come out of the revelation that the NSA can watch basically everything we do online, it’s getting more people riled up about the increasingly not private, free, or neutral...
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Our Cars Are Driving Us to Dystopia
Image: Flickr It takes many different ingredients to mix up a proper dystopia; the only requirements, really, are a ruined landscape, an eroding society, and a yawning chasm between the remaining...
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London Shut Down Its Data-Collecting Recycling Bins
Image via Renew London. Renew London remained quiet on the virtual front over the weekend after news broke about the company’s recycling bins-cum-data collection devices last Thursday. Despite the...
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Which of These Edward Snowden Video Games Is for You?
Why doesn't "Where In The World Is Edward Snowden" exist? Edward Snowden’s story sounds great, except for all those weeks spent moldering in the Moscow airport and the fact that he’s probably never...
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This Compact Solar-Powered Car Turns Into a Tiny Power Plant
Images: P-MOB Our cars may be driving us to dystopia, but we should still welcome cleaner, more efficient alternatives—hybrids and electric cars are improvements over their internal-combusting...
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Cash2BTC's Briefcase-Sized ATM Is Bitcoin Banking Made Portable
Video by Cash2BTC Cyprus never saw its bitcoin ATM arrive. Jeff Berwick and his company, Bitcoin ATM, insisted the nation, embroiled in harsh economic circumstances—would be the first to see a...
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North Korea's First Smartphone Probably Isn't North Korean or Connected to...
Via KCNA After years of cracking down on consumer tech, North Korea’s starting to flirt with the idea of embracing new technology. But, like many the egocentric suitor, it's only doing so on its own...
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The British Are Cycling, The British Are Cycling!
These people are the future via Wikimedia Commons Even though my route to work is almost all bike lanes, I suspect that everyday I ride into work, I almost die. The ostensible “bike lane” is full of...
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The Government Wants the Media to Stop Covering Barrett Brown
Image via Nikki Loehr Barrett Brown has been sitting in prison, without trial, for almost a year. In case you haven’t followed his case, the 31-year-old journalist is facing a century of prison time...
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So You Want to Abolish Mandatory Minimums for Small-Time Drug Dealers
This guy says he does, too. Photo via US Embassy, New Zealand. It's a tall order, and probably high time. Roughly half of the 219,000 inmates currently in federal lock up are serving time on drug...
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Elon Musk's Hyperloop Would Launch Pod Cars from San Francisco to LA at 700 MPH
The wait is over: Hyperloop's here. As promised, Elon Musk, everyone's favorite superhero entrepreneur, released the open source plans for what he has deemed a "fifth mode of transportation." He...
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What It's Like to Be Tumblr Famous
Molly Soda, who is big on Tumblr. Photo by Nick Koenig “How do you know if someone is kind of flirting with u thru Tumblr?” read an email forwarded to me by my friend group's resident internet expert,...
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The Beijing Man Who Built a Fake Mountaintop on His Penthouse Now Has to...
In a bid to create the most outlandish residence possible, a wealthy Chinese man built his own mountaintop on the roof of a Beijing apartment building—a villa replete with foliage and fake craggy...
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No, I Will Not '#pray4u'
Photo via Flickr / CC. Something is happening to the way we make ourselves out to be in trouble. At least I think something is happening to the way we feign distress, and that's only some, not all, of...
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The Hyperloop Might Actually Work—and It's Less Radical Than You Think
Images: Hyperloop John Gardi is a tinkerer and jack-of-all-trades currently living in Canada. He garnered himself a slice of internet fame when he made a mock-up for Elon Musk's mysterious Hyperloop...
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Israel's Iron Dome Destroyed a Rocket Headed to the Resort Town of Eilat
Early Tuesday morning, Israel's latest Iron Dome missile defense installation, located outside the resort city of Eilat, destroyed a rocket fired out of the Sinai Peninsula. According to the Israeli...
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The Future of American Prisons Is Old People
Photo via Dave Nakayama/Flickr In 2013 in America, our population is aging and our prisons are full, so we probably should have anticipated that a surplus of elderly prisoners would pose a problem to...
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The First "Practical" Jetpack May Be on Sale in Two Years
The elusive jetpack is one of those overpromised sci-fi toys most of us will probably never get to play with—though not for lack of trying over the last half century. Humans have imagined, researched,...
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To Make Fish Farming More Efficient, Carnivorous Fish May Become Vegetarians
Image via Virginia Sea Grant on Flickr It’s not just humans who are being encouraged to embrace a plant-based lifestyle anymore. Certain breeds of carnivorous farmed fish are being pushed towards...
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