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Are We in the Midst of a Vinyl Bubble?
I'm surprised this essay didn't get more traction in the couple of months since it's been out, as it's pretty much on point about something very dear to a great many people highly talented in spreading...
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NSA Spying Has Turned Silicon Valley Into a Political Machine
Photo Credit: slworking2/Flickr Public outrage over the federal government’s surveillance programs reached a fever pitch last week, with revelations that the National Security Administration illegally...
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Did Steve Jobs Eat Just Any Old LSD?
Neither of these are CLEARLIGHT LSD, nor is that the late Apple co-founder on the left. Although later-years Jobs did bear a certain likeness to Albert Hofmann, the Swiss scientist credited with first...
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Can Germany Really Tax Bitcoin?
Image: YouTube screengrab Germany's finance ministry recently announced that the country has rethought its position on digital currencies and will, henceforth, recognize bitcoins as "units of account"...
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Blocking Pirate Sites Does Nothing to Stop Piracy
Photo via Flickr Has Big Media learned nothing from the War on Drugs? Try as it might, the law can't seem to stop people from enjoying the finer things in life. Like marijuana. Or BitTorrents. But that...
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Oil Companies Want to Drop Acid in California
Image: Flickr Nobody seems to like fracking these days, so maybe they'll like dropping acid better. That's actually the strategy a crop of oil companies are planning to use to get at the vast store of...
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The World's Smallest Autopilot Aircraft Can Fit In Your Front Pocket
image via TU Delft The Micro Aerial Vehicle Laboratory at TU Delft has designed and built the world's smallest, open source, autopilot, and (*gasps for air*) unmanned aircraft. The Micro Aerial Vehicle...
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Anyone Can Legally Be a Gaymer Now
Image via Wikimedia Commons Trademarks can be a tricky situation, especially when it comes to moving a word from the vernacular to a brand–and it gets even trickier when its the handle for a budding...
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A Chat with the Icelandic MP Who Wants to Ban Porn
The last time we touched on the proposed Icelandic porn ban, we asked if it really matters. This time around, we catch up with Ögmundur Jónasson, an Icelandic MP and the former interior minister who is...
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The Giant Magellan Telescope Will Capture Earth-Sized Planets and the...
Images: GMTO.org It was a busy weekend at the Steward Observatory Mirror Lab. On Saturday, the lab's technicians cast 20 tons of molten glass into an ultra-precise parabolic mirror—the third of seven....
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Google Palestine Was Hacked in a Plea for Statehood
The local domain for Google Palestine, google.ps, was hacked this afternoon by Palestinian supporters. The defaced webpage showed a message reminding Google "that the country in Google Maps is not...
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When This Amazon Data Center Sneezed, Instagram, Vine, and Others Got Sick
Photo via labsji/Flickr Sunday afternoon, around 4 EST, Instagram, Vine, Netflix, Airbnb all snagged, slowed, and left their users waiting for log-in pages that never seemed to load. It sure ruined my...
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The Deep Web's Newest Drug Mecca Is the Facebook of Virtual Black Markets
Image is a screen shot of Atlantis's video ad spot. The Deep Web, or Darknet, is on the minds of many in this post-PRISM world. A virtual underworld where all is allowed, and Big Brother cannot so...
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Haters Gonna Hate Because They're Haters, Says Science
Image: Flickr Finally, we have proof that people are just self-absorbed douchebags who don’t really like, or dislike much, they just sort of walk around reacting like they’re predisposed to. It’s not...
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Tens of Thousands of Wild Horses Are Causing a Crisis Out West
Photo via Flickr What’s the American West if not a place where mustangs run wild and free through the open land? Unfortunately, the post-Cowboy 21st century reality of the situation is less idyllic....
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What Playing Soccer Looks Like from a Robot's Point of View
If you were a robot, this is approximately what it would feel like to play soccer. It's a POV look at matchup in the most recent RoboCup, an annual international event that sees nations from around...
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To Unlock Mars's Wet Past, NASA's Next Orbiter Will Scan the Martian Sky
MAVEN with one solar panel deployed. via When it comes to Mars, we typically get more excited about landers and rovers than orbiters. But there’s an orbiter mission launching later this year that’s...
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Now You Can Decorate Your Crappy Apartment with These Glossy Gun Schematics
Some say the classics never die, or go out of style. Just ask Justin Janes, the brains behind LA-based Calibur Prints. As it's name suggest, Calibur designs highly-detailed and "stylistic" renderings...
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US Authorities Receive Data on Tens of Thousands of Facebook Accounts a Year
President Obama on the campaign trail with Mark Zuckerberg in 2011, via Obama's Flickr Facebook released its first-ever government data requests report, and as we've come to expect, the United States...
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Why the U.S. Is Building a High-Tech Bubonic Plague Lab in Kazakhstan
The Central Reference Laboratory, in Almaty, Kazakhstan, is due for completion in 2015 (Photo by Ben Dalton) In 1992, Dr. Kanatjan Alibekov, a biologist from the Soviet Union, boarded a flight in...
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