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How We Anthropomorphize the Drones We Like
Wake up at 6:03AM. Buzz out of bed. Take dog for morning walk. Warm up some tea. Look for job on Craigslist. Find job (pizza delivery). Fail (you drop the pizza). Back to Craigslist for another job....
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Far Out: This Exoplanet Has the Largest Orbit Even Seen
The thermal infrared image that led to HD 106806 b's discovery, and shows just how unfathomably far it is from its star. Image: Vanessa Bailey It seems like every time astronomers find a new...
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Everywhere the Pirate Bay Set Up Shop in 2013
View The Year in Pirate Bay Domains in a larger map Pirate Bay is back on the URL lam. After its Sint Maarten .SX domain was shut down last night, it’s now available at thepiratebay.AC, a ccTLD for...
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Delivery Drones Are Already Flying in Germany
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a yellow quadcopter filled with medicine! On Monday, the folks over at Deutsche Post DHL, the largest logistics company, conducted its first test flight of its...
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The Ultimate Detroit Ruin Porn
Detroit ruin porn is everywhere. High-res husks of decaying factories are still regular fixtures in photo spreads, and the pixilated, shadowy rubble of freshly razed lots still generates clicks in...
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The Problem with Visiting the Doctor on Your Cellphone
Screenshot via Doctor on Demand It's 2013, so why can't your phone diagnose all your ills? That's the goal of a new app called Doctor on Demand, which lets patients skip the office visit in lieu of a...
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Running a Revenge Porn Site Can Get You Arrested, But Not Because of Revenge...
Image via Flickr/Marsmettin Tallahassee In one of the first prosecutions of its kind, a man has been arrested on suspicion of operating a “revenge porn” site—but it wasn’t actually revenge porn laws...
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The Secret to Keeping Birds from Slamming Into Planes Is in Their Shit
Image via Flickr/Schristia In possibly the most bizarre use for DNA analysis I’ve seen yet, Australian researchers have been sequencing the DNA of bird poop in an attempt to cut down on bird-plane...
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The New Headquarters of One of the World's Top Oil Companies Is a Giant Wind...
Image: SOM If it's possible to build a skyscraper that generates a serious amount of its own electricity and heat, then Indonesia's top oil company wants to be the first to do it. The American design...
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Shooting at Federal Drones Is Neither Legal Nor Smart
This segment about drone hunting from a local ABC affiliate is wonderful Earlier this year, the small Colorado town of Deer Trail made national news when resident Philip Steel called for a town-wide...
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What Happens When Science Journals Start Focusing on Pageviews?
Photo: Altmetrics Science research has gone social. An online analytics company just published a list of the top 100 most-shared academic research articles for the year, a fresh sign that research...
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This New Biosensor Is a Real-Time, Nonstop Drug Test
Right now there are only a couple ways to know if someone is using drugs. One is to look out for the classic tell-tale signs that a person's probably high, and the other is to administer a drug test,...
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All Your Rushing Around Looking Busy Is Doing No One Any Good
Photo via Flickr/CC. They're everywhere. Maybe you've seen one (or 50) of them. It was likely only for a femtosecond—this very important and busy person blew past your desk, brows furrowed, and barked...
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The Bombed-Out Psychogeography of Burial's New EP
Hyperdub released Rival Dealer today, a three-track EP by the elusive and infinitely creative electronic music artist, Burial. As with his last few releases, Rival Dealer dismisses the notion that EPs...
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Lasers, Fireworks and Nets: How to Keep Owls Out of Jet Engines
via Matt MacGillivray/Flickr The public loves snowy owls, but nobody wants to be in the next airliner that goes down in the Hudson River, which means the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has...
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Music Helps Us Remember Our Pasts After Acquired Brain Injuries
Image via Wikimedia Commons. It’s pretty obvious we associate music with particular moments in our lives. A song can take you back to a place, a person, a relationship, a time. It can remind you of...
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The FDA Has Finally Taken Steps to End Antibiotic Use in Livestock
Animals could soon have to be raised without the use of preventative antibiotics under a new FDA guidance. Photo: USDA It’s taken four years, warnings from the World Health Organization and the Centers...
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A Robot Recovered Mexico's Stolen Radioactive Material
The robot in action, via CNS/EPA Mexico's week-long radioactive kerfluffle is over, and it's all thanks to a robot. Last night, a bot handled by Mexican authorities recovered a load of highly...
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Rapping About Weev and 3D-Printed Guns, Childish Gambino Trolls Us Good
The coda of the new album by Childish Gambino, Because the Internet, is called "Life: The Biggest Troll (Andrew Auernheimer)." To rap about what life online has done to life offline, Gambino—that is,...
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The Program That Turned Soviet-Era Nuclear Warheads Into American Electricity...
(via) For the last 20 years, the United States and Russia have been beating swords into ploughshares by turning old Soviet-built nuclear warheads into American electricity. Ten percent of all the...
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