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Environmentalists Are Furious with the Coast Guard's New Plan for Fracking Waste
The regular procession of barges up and down the Mississippi River may soon have new cargo: fracking wastewater. Via USDA/Flickr As America’s hydraulic fracturing boom continues unabated, the catalog...
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Dogecoin Brings the Cryptocurrency Craze to Its Logical Conclusion
I don’t know what Bitcoin will end up being. It could be a currency or a commodity, a fad or a revolution, the future of money or a total waste of money. What I do know is that Dogecoin could be just...
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Slow Burns: Motherboard's Essential Long Reads from 2013
Photo via Flickr/CC. A lot happened this year. I won't even begin to try and sum it all up. That would take a long time. Besides, it would be pointless. And yet if it was a time for anything, 2013 was...
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With a Billion Dollars from Warren Buffett, Wind Turbines Look Better Than Ever
Wind power was already the fastest-growing source of energy in the US, then Warren Buffett opened his checkbook. With a billion-dollar deal for a whopping 1,050 MW of wind capacity inked with Siemens,...
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The Number of People Living in "Absolute Water Scarcity" Could Double Thanks...
Image: Wikimedia Climate change is beginning to suck the world dry. At least, in coming years it's going to leave hundreds of millions of people without access to water. A new paper published in the...
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The Cash Value of Our Digital Privacy
Image via flicker/Gesa Henselmans Unless you’ve been living under a proverbial rock where there’s no internet, news, or other people, you’re quite familiar with this narrative by now: Privacy online is...
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Syracuse, Home to an Air Force Drone Squadron, Banned Drones
An Air National Guard MQ-9A Reaper drone at Hancock Air Field, located a few miles from Syracuse. Via Wikipedia The city council of Syracuse, New York yesterday passed a resolution to bar its police...
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How Google Will Manage Its Role as a Defense Contractor
Image via Wikimedia Commons. This past Saturday, The New York Times reported that Google had purchased robotics maker Boston Dynamics. The tech giant stated that it would honor Boston Dynamics’...
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Amidst the Console Wars, Getting Into Dota 2 Gets Even Easier
via Wikimedia Commons As the misfiring launch of Healthcare.gov handily teaches, if you build it, make sure it can fit everyone who comes. It was a lesson that Valve Corporation knew all along. That's...
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Indigenous Tribes and Teddy Roosevelt Totally Called This "New" Tapir Species
Camera traps capture photos of the new tapir, via the Journal of Mammology. A new species of tapir has been discovered in the Brazilian Amazon, the first new tapir species described in nearly 150...
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Things That We Might Put In Our Cart
There are too many things, and increasingly many of them aren't things. The internet may be coming to the things, but the things are already all over the internet. And all things deserve some...
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Of Course There's a Smart E-Cigarette to Shame You Into Quitting Smoking
Image via Smokio Isn't the whole point of vices that we're supposed be all sneaky about them in order to stay in perpetual denial that we have these dirty habits? Not in the 21st Century world of big...
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Why Penguins Do the Wave, As Explained by Traffic Jams
Emperor penguins stay warm in brutal Antarctic winters by huddling together in huge packs, a fact so well-known it's been the subject of more than a few movies. Yet as cool as that is, it gets cooler:...
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What Would an Edited Twitter Actually Look Like?
Image: Flickr Seeing how our propensity for human error runs at least as deep as our collective obsession with social media, a feature that's often been kicked around as a suggestion for Twitter is an...
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The Year in Pop As Told By the Artists of Search-Engine Optimization
via Wikimedia Commons Ever since the search field usurped the role of smug record shop clerk, there have been musicians eager to game the system and get you to listen to them by mistake. In February...
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China Just Popped the Bitcoin Bubble
Photo via Flickr/CC. Chinese banking officials are clamping down on Bitcoin, sending the volatile cryptocurrency tumbling to prices not seen since November. Regulators have banned domestic payment...
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In the Fukushima Fallout, Meet the Hackers Building a Sensor Network for...
A new video about the Safecast DIY radiation mapping project, by VICE Japan TOKYO— After the tsunami and explosion at the Fukushima nuclear plant in 2011, radiation instantly became, once again, a...
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In the Face of Tightening Regulations, Bitcoin Needs to Become Useful
For all its promise, Bitcoin still needs its killer app. Via Jonathan Waller/Flickr China’s brief love affair with Bitcoin is officially over. It’s now illegal to buy stuff with BTC and by Chinese New...
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The Smithsonian Just Added Video Games to Its Permanent Collection
via the Smithsonian and Ed Fries Parents trying to drag an 11-year-old to a Washington, DC, museum just got another piece of enticement to add to “But R2D2 and C-3PO are there!” The Smithsonian...
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How the Beatles Gamed Copyright
Fifty years ago it was the end of 1963. The Beatles were about to come to America and kick off the "British Invasion" that would eventually bring the Stones, the Who, Zeppelin, the Kinks, and Pink...
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