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How I Became A Casual Esports Fan
MC versus PartinG via Red Bull, used with permission. At the back of the Hammerstein Ballroom, the bartender is watching the monitor, which is showing a blur of tiny explosions. A loose crowd is...
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The NYPD Wants to Fly Spy Drones Over the City, But Refuses to Talk About It
Last year, a 29-year-old art school grad plastered Manhattan with posters for a would-be NYPD drone program, via Flickr/CC. When the Federal Aviation Administration first released its list of agencies...
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Seahorses Have a Built-In Stealth Mode to Capture Speeding Prey
A dwarf seahorse slowly glides into frame before bam, a copepod is eaten. Video by Brad Gemmell, Ed Buskey and Jian Sheng Conjure up an image of a seahorse in your head, and you'll probably envision a...
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Yes, People Will Hack into New Jersey to Gamble Online
Image: Wikimedia Starting today, gamblers in New Jersey can legally squander away their cash without having to leave the living room, thanks to 13 new gambling websites offering poker, blackjack,...
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Order Your Very Own Cold Fusion Reactor
Images: E-Cat There's a nuclear fusion arms race on, you know. Investors are sinking increasingly formidable amounts of cash into companies with ambitious plans for large-scale fusion projects. And...
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Fire Ants Form Body Rafts to Stave Off Watery Doom
In the realm of the everyday, fire ants are better known for their stinging bite than for their contributions to science. However, with more and more studies exploring the fascinating lives of...
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For Porn Enthusiasts, Thanksgiving Is More Important Than Genitals
Image via Flickr/arodlob You might think of Thanksgiving and Christmas as times of over-indulgence, but there’s one area in which people seem to exercise more self-restraint than usual: Online porn....
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The Pentagon Wants Fighter Jets with Lasers in Just 17 Years
Um, they probably aren't going to look like this, via Kevin Baird/Flickr. In this, the futuristic year 2013, the most visible intersection of lasers and airplanes is assholes using laser pointers to...
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A Real-Time Map of Travelers Getting Screwed By the Thanksgiving Storm
This is where the misery was located as of 3PM Tuesday. The sky has decided to barf up a hodgepodge of snow, ice, sleet, rain, and racing winds all over the US this week, just in time to ruin...
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How the NSA Gave Me a Panic Attack Before Anyone Ever Heard of Snowden
Anonymous protests Scientology in 2008. Image: Wikimedia Last week, the literary and human rights organization known as the PEN America Center released their “Chilling Effects” report, a survey of how...
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The Daggum Ol' Dictionary of American Regional English Is Getting an Update
American, no doubt. But which region? via Wikimedia Commons Over the summer, my Facebook feed became dominated by my friends posting where they were from, not necessarily physically, but...
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Post-Mortems Get a Tech Upgrade with Digital Autopsies
Photo via iGene It’s the latest tech must-have for the perished: Before laying to rest in your smart grave and Facebooking from the afterlife, you can now have your post-mortem conducted digitally,...
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Google Earth Images Caught Persian Gulf Fishermen Breaking International Law
Satellite images of fishing weirs, via We hang security cameras in convenient stores to deter would-be thieves, so why not apply the same approach to the world's oceans, to assure fisherman aren't...
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The Taste Police Are Killing the UK's Rude Number Plates
This one got past the taste police. Via Flickr/Tomek Augustyn Brits desperate to show off their puerile sense of humour or offend their straight-laced neighbours are going to have to find some other...
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The NSA Tracked Porn Habits to Embarrass Religious Radicals
Photo via Surian Soosay/Flickr Now that the NSA's broad surveillance operations have been (and continue to be) unveiled, there's an 800-pound, tastefully nude gorilla in the room: What about all the...
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With Bitcoin Worth $1000, Traders Claim It's Fueling the "Best Performing...
Image: Flickr This morning, for the first time in its young history, bitcoin broke $1,000. Today, on Mt. Gox, the highest profile cryptocurrency exchange, the once-obscure online money was trading at...
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Death and the NSA: Motherboard Meets Bruce Schneier
Since Edward Snowden's disclosures about widespread NSA surveillance, Americans and people everywhere have been presented with a digital variation on an old analog threat: the erosion of freedoms and...
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Drones Turned the CIA Into a Paramilitary Force, and There's (Probably) No...
Photo via Flickr/CC. For a long time, the Central Intelligence Agency was in the otherwise quiet business of doing what still lingers in popular consciousness as the stuff of, well, the CIA:...
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This Instagram Supercut Shows Everything Is the Same and We're All Out of Ideas
Instagram is a hugely successful platform, and as successful things tend to, it comes down to a simple premise: People want to share photos of every bit of their lives, and the monstrosities in...
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Will the "Comet of the Century" Be Destroyed by the Sun?
Image: University of Arizona, CaelumObservatory Thursday is a holiday for most of America, but the Universe doesn’t celebrate Thanksgiving. While you’re eating turkey on November 28, comet ISON is...
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