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The New iPhone Just Might Change Everything
Image: Apple Two new iPhones were unveiled today, and they just might change everything. There is a fingerprint scanner, a better camera, a gold-trimmed version, a brand new affordable model for the...
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One of the UK's Largest Supermarket Chains Is Embracing Naturally-Chilled Trucks
Image via Sainsbury's. British supermarket chain Sainsbury’s has taken a major step towards reducing its carbon footprint by engaging in a trial of the world’s first naturally cooled refrigerated...
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Does Earth Live In a Dark Matter-Free Zone?
via JoyfulStock I wish more people were way excited about dark matter—at least as into it as they were the Higgs boson hunt. My sense, however, is that they aren’t—though I did get a kick out of CNN’s...
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Is Elon Musk Already Killing California's High-Speed Rail?
It’s only been just a month since Elon Musk unveiled his plans for Hyperloop—a superfast vacuum train that would theoretically make California’s delayed high-speed rail system obsolete—but his...
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The Perks and Pains of Trying to Live an Open-Source Lifestyle
Image via Sam Muirhead/Vimeo. Sam Muirhead admits that his plan to live an "open-source lifestyle" for one year sounds a bit like a recreation of Super Size Me for privileged techies. But he assures me...
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Long Fall: The Most Famous 9/11 Photo Is Still Suspended
The events of 9/11 remain the most photographed in history. It’s from out of that mass witness and record that one image, the 9/11 photograph that still hardly anyone has ever seen, seemed to challenge...
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Google Street View Is Coming to Machu Picchu, Other Incan Sites
Google's cameras will presumably capture some alpacas and llamas while they're at it. Photo: Flickr/Theodore Scott Soon you'll be able to take a virtual tour through Machu Picchu, as Street View is...
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What Belly Flops Look Like Under Water
I know it's unseasonably warm right now, but let's face it, pretty soon it'll (probably) be too cold to contemplate doing much of anything. What's that? Wear this unwashed flannel and eat hot garbage...
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Arctic Sea Ice May Still Hit Record Low Volumes This Year
Photo via NASA Goddard/Flickr The area covered by Arctic sea ice probably won't set a new record low this year. But according to new satellite measurements from the European Space Agency, the thickness...
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This Clear Snail Was Found Deep Under the Earth
Image courtesy Alexander M. Weigand I will never go into a cave because I’ve watched The Descent too many times, but my own reluctance aside, there is plenty of amazing shit in the gnarly Byzantine...
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NASA's Deep Impact Is Out of Control, Likely Lost
Just like the planet-hunting Kepler mission, NASA’s comet hunter Deep Impact exceeded expectations and extended its mission. Yet, like Kepler, and in fact like all good things, Deep Impact too must...
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With Unprecedented Inequality, the US Looks More Like a Dystopia Than Ever
Image: YouTube Severe income inequality is a cornerstone of our best dystopias—in the ruined future, the rich still live like kings. It's one of the genre's most enduring constructs: technology,...
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Inside the Effort to Crowdfund NSA-Proof Email and Chat Services
Anti-surveillance graffito in Columbus, Ohio, via Wikimedia Commons. Back in 1999, Seattle-based activists formed the communication collective Riseup.net. The site's email and chat services, among...
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Infrared Sensors That Play Tiger Sounds Could Stop Killer Elephants
Photo via Vikram Gupchup/Wikimedia Commons Most home-invading vermin, while obnoxious, can be dispensed with pretty easily—use traps for mice, poison for rats, and if you have roaches, move. But what...
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This Novel Is Made of Code
This article originally appeared in VICE. As a person who grew up playing text-based roleplaying games and trolling BBS sites, I’ve always been obsessed with language generated by computers. I...
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Being Ridden by the Witch: Sleep Paralysis Is the Greatest Nightmare
La pesadilla, Johann Heinrich Füssli Suffocation is a unique pathway to fear. Just the merest hint of it causes an automatic physiological reaction; CO2 levels in the blood rise, even just a little...
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Turns Out Amber Doesn't Hold Our Dinosaur Dreams
Photo: Wikipedia Just in time for the "Jurassic World" announcement comes news every fanboy has long dreaded to hear: Amber doesn't successfully hold DNA. Previous studies have suggested that DNA's...
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Isotype, the Proto-Infographic You Probably Didn't Know Existed
"Number of motor vehicles in the world." From the Isotype Revisited website: "Even if one cannot read German, the subject reveals itself through the 'speaking signs' of the automobiles, each of which...
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Albatrosses Are Full of Our Plastic: An Interview with the Directors of 'Midway'
All photos courtesy the directors The image of a baby bird with a stomach full of plastic is hard to to get out of your head. And the directors of the new environmental animal documentary Midway, hope...
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How We Could Build "Utopia" Based on Real-Time Location Data
When public transit isn't broken, it oftentimes gets us from Point A to B to C in the most assbackwards of roundabouts. This is in no small part thanks to slipshod urban planning. How can we revamp...
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