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Japan's Smart Rocket Is Having Trouble Getting to Space
Japanese engineers working with Epsilon's second and third stage connection, via JAXA Japan's bid to become a bigger force in commercial spaceflight suffered a setback today, when its first new rocket...
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Wake Me Up When People Are Sleep Sexting
Photo via BdwayDiva1/Flickr You thought that all you needed to control while you slept was your bladder, it turns out people need to control their fingers too—people are sending texts in their sleep....
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Not Even a 55-Character Password Is Safe Anymore
Photo via Flickr Passwords are already scorned as an increasingly faulty and antiquated way to protect your private information online. A few guesses can be all it takes to give hackers free reign over...
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Japan Is Opening Internet Fasting Camps Because 500,000 Students Are...
Image: Flickr Internet addiction is still a festering concern across the world, and Japan, at least, is taking it seriously. Between the fall and spring of last year, researchers at Nihon University...
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The Olinguito Was Found in the Wild the First Day Researchers Went Looking...
Photo: Mark Gurney/Smithsonian It's been a little over a week since the world was introduced to the olinguito, the world's most recently-described carnivore and the first mammalian carnivore discovered...
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India, the World's Second-Largest Shark Fishery, Banned Shark Finning
Photo: Nicholas Wang/Flickr In an effort to protect endangered sharks as well as better monitor how many and what species are being caught, India has announced a ban on the practice of shark finning....
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Wind Turbines Don't Decrease Property Values
Photo via Wikimedia Commons Donald Trump and other NIMBY-types who fear that building wind turbines near their property will devalue it can rest easy. A new study from the Berkeley Lab looked at...
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Bitcoin Isn't the Criminal Safe Haven People Think It Is
Image via Wikimedia What we knew would someday happen has started happening—the cyberpunk cryptocurrency of the internet Wild West is under the federal government's microscope. And since the Feds are...
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Nissan Plans to Sell a Self-Driving Car in Just Seven Years
Nissan's autonomous Leaf testbed, via the company The past few decades of car innovation has been dedicated to removing drivers from the act of driving as much as possible, whether it be cruise...
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The NY Times, Twitter and HuffPo UK Appear to Have Been Stolen by the Syrian...
The Syrian Electronic Army—"or someone trying very hard to be them"—has taken over the domains of Twitter, the New York Times and the Huffington Post, and is tweeting about it: After claiming multiple...
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Girls Aren’t Afraid of Math, They Just Think They're Supposed To Be
Photo via Flickr When I was little, I really wanted to play the bass. But as a meek middle-schooler that hadn't yet discovered the joy of rejecting social norms, I didn't pursue it. Girls don't play...
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'The Bureau: XCOM Declassified' Is the Sears Roebuck Catalog of...
Images via 2K. I’ve never played an XCOM game. I have no love for the franchise, no vested fandom to flame. If you’re an old time fan, I think 2K themselves have clearly pointed to last year’s XCOM...
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Copyright King: Why the "I Have a Dream" Speech Still Isn't Free
Martin Luther King Jr.‘s “I Have a Dream” speech is considered one of the most recognizable collection of words in American history. It’s the rhetorical equivalent of a national treasure or a national...
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The Most Stylized Video Out of War-Torn Syria
There is no such thing as non-brutal video coming out of Syria right now. Of the dribs and drabs being uploaded (typically against serious odds) to YouTube, we get the difficult sights and sounds of...
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The Syrian Electronic Army Says Its Servers Couldn't Handle the NY Times Traffic
Yesterday, the Syrian Electronic Army appeared to have taken over the New York Times, Twitter, and Huffington Post UK domains. At the very least, the SEA wrote its name as the registered owners of the...
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Expect Fukushima's Radioactive Ocean Plume to Hit the US Next Year
Pacifica, CA via Franco Felini/Flickr Within days of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear plant disaster, radiation could be detected in the atmosphere all the way from the America’s West Coast. But the plume of...
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If Martin Luther King Were Around Today, He'd Be Spied On by the NSA
Fifty years ago today, Dr. Martin Luther King delivered his stirring “I Have a Dream” speech during the 1963 March on Washington. The speech would go down in history. It would also trigger a sketchy...
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No, Twerk Isn't In the Oxford English Dictionary Yet
James Murray, via Wikimedia Commons. By now you’ve no doubt heard the buzzworthy story about the words "buzzworthy," "bitcoin," and "twerk" making it into the Oxford dictionary. But just in case you’re...
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Pufferfishes Build Fantastic Nests
A male pufferfish digging away, by K. Ito We humans tend to think of ourselves as rather unique creatures. But even as we stand in our crystal skyscrapers, flexing our muscles out floor-to-ceiling...
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NASA Smashed a Helicopter and It Was Surprisingly Underwhelming
For the crash test, skip to 13:00. Video via NASA A helicopter crashed this afternoon in Hampton, Virginia. But not to worry: no one was injured and it wasn’t for real. Engineers at NASA Langley’s...
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