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The High Price of Streaming Porn When It Falls Foul of Copyright Laws
It’s bad times for people who stream video content online (which is, by my very rough estimation, pretty much everyone). In the UK, a whole host of streaming sites were recently blocked by internet...
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Finally: A Drone Farewell to 5Pointz, NYC's Whitewashed Graffiti Mecca
You might remember Team BlackSheep for shooting such gorgeous drone videos as the sinking of Venice and the wreckage of the Costa Concordia. (That's when they weren't harrassing French cops.) Well,...
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PewDiePie Is the Most Famous Web Celebrity You've Never Heard Of
PewDiePie’s “Bro Army” fanbase is taking over YouTube. This is not PR hyperbole or marketing bullshit; the 24-year-old Swedish gamer—real name Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg—is literally the biggest thing...
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We Still Don't Know How Many Civilians Have Been Killed by Drones
President Obama meets with President Abdo Rabu Mansour Hadi of Yemen in August, via the White House A truck full of 14 people is bumping its way down rural Yemen when, out of nowhere, a missile...
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Snowden's Gambit Is Working
Snowden's revelations have had a far-reaching impact, as evidenced by the above German protest, and are finally effecting change in the US. Via Mike Herbst/Flickr Edward Snowden opened his pilfered...
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At the Mall in Israel, Window Shopping for War Drones
On November 26, at the Cinema City Mall in Rishon LeZion, Israel, between the sunglasses stand and the entrance to the movie theater, exactly where you might expect to find a shiny new Nissan, a...
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Apple Won't Explain Why It's Against Bitcoin
Image via Youtube/Rob Boudon When the Bank of America announced earlier this month that Bitcoin had “clear potential for growth,” it's fair to say it was stating the obvious. After all, eBay president...
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Mile Hi: Why It's Suddenly Safe to Use Cell Phones on Planes
Image via Flickr When the Federal Communications Commission said earlier this month it would consider allowing airplane passengers to use their cell phones in flight, people basically freaked out....
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Oh Kaplan, My Kaplan!
body {background: peachpuff;} div {text-align: left; font-size: 100%;} On the legacy and obsessions of the last great pre-Internet editor, who died last week at 59. If anyone knew the real Kaplan, it...
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At Least Twitter Can Listen
via Pixelant/Flickr Despite all the language of disruptive innovation and the future and all that, when it comes to social networks, internet users are incredibly adverse to change. It happens every...
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SpaceX Will Lease NASA's Most Famous Launch Pad
Space Shuttle Endeavour on LC-39A in Febuary 2010. Via NASA/Bill Ingalls Another milestone in the private space race was reached today: NASA announced that it will open negotiations with Elon Musk's...
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All the Wind Currently Blowing Around Earth
GIF via Dan Stuckey It's a lot like the aptly-named Wind Map, only it's not for just the US. It's for the entire world. Indeed, the folks behind this incredible global wind current visualization took...
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When Video Games Go Board
The world wants a Mega Man board game, and what the world wants—and is willing to Kickstart—the world will get. Which is good, because apparently the world wants this bad. Within 24 hours of going...
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Soon Your Old Smartphone Will Let You 3D-Print a Selfie
Images: ETH Zurich The future is a place where I see something I want and I simply wave my smartphone over it like a wand and presto I obtain a complete 3D model of it. Any sufficiently advanced...
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Inside the New Effort to Jailbreak iOS7
Open internet advocate Elizabeth Stark had just formed Threshold, a new Kickstarter meets XPRIZE platform, and was looking for a test project. Something to follow Threshold’s soft launch. It had to...
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Bitcoin Homeless Shelters, Onion Knockoffs, and Scary Spice: This Week in BTC
Image: Flickr A little over a month ago, thanks to a fortuitous convergence of events, Bitcoin's value leaped to what was then a record high: $240. By Thanksgiving it had cleared $1,000. Since everyone...
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The Repressed Debate Over Repressed Memories Returns
Image via Wikimedia Commons. Repressed memories have been controversial since they were first mentioned by Freud in 1896. Now you probably hear more about them on crime procedurals than anywhere else....
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China Pulled Off the First Soft Moon Landing in Almost 40 Years
The Chang'e-3 and Yutu rover. Photo via the Beijing institute of Spacecraft System Engineering. The Chang'e-3 spacecraft landed safely in the Bay of Rainbows early this morning, further cementing China...
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The Malaria Killing Machine Is Finally Weakening
EAB Province The worldwide fight against malaria is one that’s being won, but is far from over, according to the latest report from the World Health Organization. After examining the stats from 2000 to...
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With Thermionic Generation, the Steam Age Is Looking Sad
The Abbey Pumping Station/geograph.org.uk The vast majority of electricity in the world is funneled through one general technology: the electrical generator. Some source of mechanical energy is...
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