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I Tested Google's Augmented Reality Game in Vienna
Ingress is somewhere between collective clicking and geocaching. Image: Niantics Labs I’ve never talked to him, but I know what time he gets up in the morning, what time he leaves his home, and where...
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Britain's Alien Squid Mystery
Video of the weird glowing creature/object. Via Youtube/John Tombe Is it a jellyfish? A squid? An alien? Or just a prank? Social media has been aflutter with sightings of this weird "creature" in the...
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The Unlikely Death Spiral of Driving in America
Image: Wikimedia Cars are in the midst of a surprising decline in the US. Yes, here, in America, home of NASCAR and American Graffiti and the drive-thru window. After a century of reliable...
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Why Dinosaur Fans Should Be Excited That Crocodiles Use Tools
via Wikimedia Commons For the first time, crocodilians have been shown to use tools. University of Tennessee professor Vladamir Dinets observed two different groups of the reptiles—American alligators...
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Stealing a Truckload of Radioactive Material Is a Bad Idea
This video from the Post highlights just how serious the cobalt-60 disappearance was. Earlier this week, a pair of thieves near Mexico City stole a cargo truck. Big deal, right? But what may appear to...
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Most of the $450 Million "Civic Tech Sector" Has Nothing to Do With the...
Photo via Flickr A new report purports to illustrate the rise of the "civic tech" industry. The report, released yesterday by the Knight Foundation, a journalism and media nonprofit that invests in...
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Programmable Beat Tech Didn't Kill the Flesh-and-Blood Drummer
Full disclosure: I am a drummer. A somewhat lapsed drummer, but a drummer nonetheless, so whatever. For as long as I can remember, I've been told that drum machines are my enemy. That programmable...
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Great Moments from the Congressional Hearing on Aliens
Carl Sagan gif via GifMovie The spirit of Carl Sagan was alive yesterday in the halls of Congress, as the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology held a hearing on aliens. As dry and...
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Eighteen Years After First Experiments, FBI Pushes to Deploy Drones Across...
Judge orders release of hundreds of heavily-redacted documents The FBI has been contemplating using aerial surveillance drones since 1995, and are investing heavily in the technology as a cheap and...
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Raptors Will Wreak Havoc Upon Amazon's Drones
Screengrab of an osprey going after a quadcopter, via. Jeff Bezos and his (still grounded) Prime Air drone delivery service will have more than gun-toting anti-drone Coloradans and a whole lot of the...
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Following Plea Bargains, PayPal 14 Members Can Avoid Felony Charges
Composite of the PayPal 14's mug shots, via the Smoking Gun When it comes to acts of civil disobedience by hackers and online activists, the US government has a history of levying huge charges. But...
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Culling Wildlife to Prevent the Spread of Disease Makes Everything Worse
Virginia McKenna at an anti-badger-cull demonstration in London, June 2013 via Wikimedia Commons Trying to prevent the spread of a disease by culling a wildlife population is not only viscerally...
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Pierre Omidyar's Leaky Struggle to Become a Press Freedom Fighter
Image via Flickr On Tuesday, Pierre Omidyar, the chairman of eBay, called for leniancy in the case of a group of Anonymous hackers who pleaded guilty today to waging a denial-of-service attack on...
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The UK Just Threw Down the Driverless Car Gauntlet
A driverless car in the US. Image via Flickr/Melody Kramer While the jury’s still out on whether people will actually buy self-driving cars, the race is hotting up for countries looking to take the...
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Spotify's Attempt to Win Over Artists Isn't Going So Well
Via Wikimedia It's easy to hate on Spotify for exploiting artists, even for the millions of people who use the service to stream cheap/free music, and especially for the musicians themselves, who we...
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Drums Sound Different Everywhere
Just in case you didn't think the hidden physics of drums were fascinating enough, there's this: French video house Audio Zéro filmed a guy playing a rather straightforward beat in a bunch of...
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Climate Change Will Hit New Jersey Hard
Photo via Flickr/US Fish and Wildlife Service The Mid-Atlantic states may see up to 15 inches more sea level rise than the global average over the next century, new research published in the journal...
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DNA Testing Is Not Why 23andMe Is in Trouble
Screenshot of a video for 23andMe's national ad campaign that's since been pulled, from the company's blog It’s been a rough couple of weeks for 23andMe, Silicon Valley’s favorite genetic testing...
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NASA's Going Moon Gardening
Image: Jay Spahr Two years from now, there may well be a turnip garden sprouting forth from a tiny sealed pod on the surface of the moon. NASA launched a proposal to send a self-contained and...
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Meet the Robots Battling to Become the Future of Disaster Response
Images via DARPA Later this month, 17 robots will show off their skills at the DARPA Robotics Challenge trials to try to convince the judges that they're are the toughest and cleverest androids of the...
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