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You Can Now Drive a Tesla from Vancouver to LA Without Stopping for Longer...
Image: Wikimedia Tesla Motors just opened a new Supercharger station in Oregon last Thursday. That means it's now possible to drive a Tesla from Vancouver, Canada on down Los Angeles without ever...
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Every Year, Beijing Uses 400 Billion More Gallons of Water Than It's Got
The words “impending water shortage,” bring to mind arid places in the Middle East or Las Vegas. But in Beijing, the per capita annual water availability is well below the United Nations’ absolute...
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Relax, a Minimum Wage Hike Won't Bring on the Robot Overlords
Screenshot of robot chefs in a Beijing noodle bar, via YouTube Fast-food workers in 60 cities across the US went on strike yesterday, to demand a livable salary and benefits, and the ability to...
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Janelle Monáe Is Looking Forward to the Singularity
Ever since her debut album The ArchAndroid brought Janelle Monáe and her robotic alter ego, Cindi Mayweather, to the public’s attention three years ago, the pop star hasn't so much as been redefining...
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Air Pollution Kills 200,000 Americans Every Year
Image: Thomas Crenshaw/Flickr We know that air pollution causes the early deaths of millions of people around the globe every year. But even in the United States, which has comparatively decent air...
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Scientists Are Looking for Aliens from the Dark Side of the Moon
Picture by Sean Smith via NASA There's a $100 million project underway to bring a telescope that will search for extraterrestrial communications to the far side of the moon. The International Lunar...
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Australia Has a $200 Million Plan to Save Its Dying Great Barrier Reef
via Wikimedia Commons. The Australian Labor Party announced that another $200 million would be spent to improve the health of the Great Barrier Reef over the next five years, but environmentalists...
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Drinking Red Wine Fights Depression, Science Says
Image: Philip Bitnar/Flickr Put another check in the healthy column for boozing with extreme moderation: A new study published in the journal BMC Medicine found that drinking a glass of wine each day...
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There Is a Website Called Shark Tracker and Guess What It Does
Rizzilient the Mako Shark's path off the coasts of New York and New Jersey. Each dot represents a moment where the shark surfaced for long enough that its rough geo-location could be obtained. Shark...
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Japan's Maglev Rail Is Officially the Fastest Train in the World
Japan's maglev train is now operating trial runs. Image via Wikimedia While futurists anxiously wait to see if Elon Musk's hyperloop proves to be the next transportation revolution or just vaporware,...
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Will Robots Replace Rent-a-Cops?
Image via Flickr Has a fear of robotics ever kept anyone from robbing banks? I'm not talking about the surveillance systems, laser-armed tripwires, noisy alarms, or automated locks on the doors. I'm...
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Lockbox Aims to NSA-Proof the Cloud
Image via Flickr Fewer words will have as much import in the coming months and years as encryption. In the post-NSA-leaks world, encryption isn't just a buzzword, it's a necessity. Even more, it's a...
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With Too Many Lawyers on Earth, You Can Now Become a Space Lawyer
There’s just too many lawyers on Earth and especially in America. I’ve got nothing against lawyers, but that’s just the truth—there are more than two law grads for every estimated job opening,...
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The HIV Problem in Porn Is More Complicated Than Condoms
An HIV-infected t-cell, via Wikimedia Last year, when the AIDS Healthcare Federation (AHF) poked their heads into pornography and started the initial push for Measure B, a rarely enforced law that...
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OS X Mavericks Is the New Wave, Goodbye Big Cats
Via Imageshack Apple announced its next operating system, OS X Mavericks, a couple months back, and we're getting closer to the public release date. But a post on Slashdot today reminded me that this...
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The Feds Aren't What Legal Weed Needs To Worry About
I can't really begrudge anyone for feeling pretty good about yesterday's Obama administration announcement that it wouldn't challenge Colorado and Washington's new marijuana legalization laws. Those...
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Is This a Murder Confession on PostSecret?
Image via Shashi Bellamkonda on Flickr. Last night, PostSecret founder Frank Warren completed the website’s weekly update. The long-running site, an interactive art project in which people send their...
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Climate Change Is Helping Crop Pests Spread Around the Globe
It’s estimated that enough crops are lost every year to feed nine percent of the global population. This should be a startling figure. That’s about 600 million persons worth of food, or enough food to...
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Patrón Zone: Study Finds That Musicians Reference Top-Shelf Drinks Most
via TipsyCake Chicago/Creative Commons Drake learned on his last album that "Hennessy and enemies is one hell of a mixture," but researchers have learned something else about Henn: musicians reference...
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SuperDots Are Here To Spy on Your Innerspace
Here's your uncomfortable thought for the day: many cancer treatments are a total gamble (and nearly all are a sometimes-gamble). Some treatment approaches can even scrape 10 percent success rates,...
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