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Will Bitcoin Thefts Hurt the Cryptocurrency’s Growth?
Image via Flicker/antanacoins When Bitcoin was making news back in 2012, fascination seemed to be fueled by either crypto-anarchist dreams or Ponzi scheme fears. Anonymous, secure, and insulated...
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Enterprise Hard Drives Aren't Worth Paying More For
via Wikimedia Commons It’s a question that pops up on almost every IT message board across the web: are enterprise-class hard drives worth paying more for than desktop hard drives? The cloud-storage...
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Contempt Of Court Applies to Twitter Too
Accidentally breaking the law with a tweet is a big Twitter fail. Image via Flickr/Tom Raftery Ah, Twitter. The perfect place to tell the world what you’re eating for breakfast, stalk Bill Nye, or...
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It's Still a Pain to Buy and Sell Bitcoins
Bitcoin prices across exchanges can vary widely, and are susceptible to fluctuations in fiat currency exchange rates. Screenshot from bitcoincharts.com What is a bitcoin worth? It’s not meant to be a...
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How to Raise Your Own Zombie Drone Army
Forget the internet; the sky is the new lawless frontier thanks to the proliferation of commercial and DIY drones. And like the early days of cyberspace, that means businesses will try to squeeze...
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Meet YouTube's Pie-Exploding, Urine-Igniting "King of Random"
It takes some real chutzpah to declare yourself “the king” of anything, much less the “King of Random,” especially on the internet, land of the non sequitur. Yet while scrolling through Grant...
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British Language Is Only Getting Posher
Will all Brits sound like Benedict Cumberbatch one day? Image via Flickr/honeyfitz Contrary to popular opinion, not all Brits speak like a Jane Austen character or sound like the sort of person who...
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If You Want to Deathproof Cities, the First Step Is Kicking Out Cars
Image: Flickr When we talk about keeping kids safe in 2013, we're usually talking about guns. Reducing gun violence, preventing mass shootings, getting illegal firearms off the streets. All timely,...
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The Dirty Truth Behind Colorado's Legal Weed Growhouses
A cannabis jungle, somewhere in Denver. Photo: Chris O'Coin/MOTHERBOARD. The green, it turns out, is not always so green. Despite a bumper crop of cutting edge, energy efficient grow technologies,...
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We've Completely Neglected to Preserve America's Silent Films
Poster for silent film "Suds" starring Mary Pickford. Image via Wikipedia. The demise of the American silent film is a story well trodden. Once popular enough to draw in 50 million tickets per week,...
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You Can Now 3D Print with Metal at Home
An action shot of the welder-powered printer, courtesy Michigan Tech Dazzle someone with a tale of the 3D-printed future, where everyone, everywhere prints their own goods at home, and after the...
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The New FCC Chairman Is Cool with Pay-to-Play Internet
A satirical visualization of a cable package-style internet, via reddit Anyone that likes the internet the way it is should probably care who Tom Wheeler is. He's the new chairman of the Federal...
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The 'Trollocaust' Is the Dumbest Internet Controversy in Days
Trolls be trollin'. Via Justin Taylor/Flickr Tuesday, November 3, 2013 will forever be known in the annals of ridiculous web history as the “trollocaust,” when more than 45 Twitter accounts owned by...
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Two Brothers Built Their Own Internet Service Provider on the Roof of a...
Red Hook's high speed internet starts here. Image Flickr There’s a distinct kind of rage that bubbles up whenever a cable company politely tells you that the soonest they can send a technician to fix...
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What Four Months of Cleared Internet Cache Looks Like As a Physical Object
‘Cleared Cache’, Compressed laser print, 9cm x 22cm x 5cm, Courtesy XPO Gallery Evan Roth bills himself as a hacker-artist. And, like all digital natives, he's a product of the internet age. Using his...
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The Perfectly Reasonable, USDA-Backed Dead Mouse Parachute Drop
via USDA It’s just a matter of time before someone uses the US Department of Agriculture dropping 2,000 dead mice attached to parachutes on Guam as an example of government waste. But would you...
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Do Wearable Computers Need a Car Mode?
Cecilia Abadie rocking Glass, via TEDxOrangeCoast About a month ago, a California woman named Cecilia Abadie was ticketed for driving while wearing Google Glass, a story that quickly tore across the...
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People Were Vaping Indoors at New York City's Hearing on Whether to Ban...
Photo via Flickr/CC. For a city with so many vices, New York is no friend to the repudiated cigarette. Smoking is prohibited in parks, public squares, beaches, and any indoor public space, not to...
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Why Smart Bras and Wigs Will Never Take Off
Image via Flickr/Mike Licht Somebody has to say it: enough with the novelty wearable tech. Fitness monitors, smartwatches, and Google Glass were one thing, but now major tech companies are coming out...
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New Math Suggests Zombies Won't Kill Us All
Scene from Night of the Living Dead. Still via Wikipedia If physics is for understanding the mechanics of the TARDIS, apparently math is for understanding the zombie apocalypse. In a paper published on...
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