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Christmas in Antarctica
Santa might live at the North Pole, but there are also plenty of people celebrating the festive period at the southernmost point of the globe. I spoke to two researchers currently at the Rothera...
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The Robots of Christmas
The Mistletoe Drone by San Francisco artists George Zisiadis and Mustafa Khan. 'Tis the season for Santa bots and Christmas drones. As spectators debate whether Christmas gifts will soon be drone...
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An Interview with the Norwegian Guy Who Made the Best Winter Video of All Time
Sometime early last year, I came across the above video by a Norwegian man by the name of Tor Eckhoff, as many of us did. It was probably attached to a tweet or blog post calling it "the funniest...
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Merry Christmas from the Moon
The third stage of the Saturn V rocket shortly after separating from the Apollo 8 Command/Service Module, which was on its way to the moon. It would reach lunar orbit on Christmas. Nineteen-sixty-eight...
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Why Economists Hate (and Love) Christmas
Christmas shopping may not be as big of a boon as thought. Photo via iolanda/Flickr Anecdotal evidence would suggest that the holiday season is a boon for the economy. After all, according to one...
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Edward Snowden Says Our World Is Worse Than '1984' in Grim Christmas Message
Edward Snowden gave the world lots of presents this year, and he took to the United Kingdom’s Channel 4 yesterday to remind us all about it. For the channel’s annual “Alternative Christmas Message,”...
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What's the Sexiest YouTube Video Titled 'MVI 0069'?
Spend enough time on the internet after drinking three cups of coffee while watching your disembodied brain swirl through the Technicolor pain vortex of a hangover, and you might find yourself...
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First-Person Video Makes the Beautiful Game Even Prettier
Nothing quite compares to the immersive potential of first person perspective. via YouTube The rise of affordable consumer video technology, from the GoPro to Google Glass, has ushered in a revolution...
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Six Photos to Shoot with Your New Camera
Give it a few months and you'll be one of these people. (Totally awesome, that is.) Via William Warby/Flickr Congrats! You got a new camera. Isn't it shiny and awesome? Doesn't it take great pictures...
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Humans Are Really Good at Facial Recognition
Over the past year or so we’ve seen machines get creepily good at picking out faces in digital images. A couple of months ago, for instance, we saw face-scanning screens at Tesco supermarkets that...
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Watch a Code Worm Do the Locomotion
A code worm is simulated as if it's swimming in shallow water. Video via Youtube/Mike Vella OpenWorm is a project by a team of 39 scientists and engineers to build the first virtual organism entirely...
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Bitcoin Needs Women
"Bits or GTFO." Image courtesy Pua Pyland, the Bitcoin Wife When I went to London’s 2013 Bitcoin Expo at the end of last month, the thing that surprised me most of all wasn’t the cryptocurrency’s...
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The Kalashnikov Legacy, in One GIF
Ever feel like you can't keep up with all the doom and gloom echoing around the internet? Motherboard's here to help. With GIFs. Welcome to THIS WEEK IN HELL, a feature that brings you hard-hitting...
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The Best Map Porn of 2013
Via Science This was a good year for map lovers. The Internet is increasingly awash in awesome visualizations, charts, old maps newly digitized, animated histories, geographics of patterns and trends,...
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I Went to Texas and a Bunch of Exotic Animals Said Hello
My favorite media trend of 2013 was the rise of Business Insider editor Henry Blodget's own blogging microgenre. Best known for airline reviews, Blodgeting strips away the surly snark that's endemic to...
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Just Because You Give Someone Cleaner Technology Doesn’t Mean They’ll Use It
Cleaner cookstoves aren't always a perfect replacement for traditional open fire stoves. Photo via TREEAID/Flickr With 2013 all but fully wound down, there’s an important lesson to take forward into...
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A Federal Judge Ruled NSA Surveillance Legal, Will the Supreme Court Follow...
Image via Wikimedia Commons This morning, US District Judge Willaum Pauley ruled that the National Security Agency's dragnet phone surveillance is legal—just weeks after US District Court Judge Richard...
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The Year In GIFstagrams
What to make of all these Instagrams? GIFs! All images via Instagram. Collage and GIFs by the author. I made myself sad last year when I chronicled 2012 in 50 GIFs. A lot of awful dark shit happens...
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The Pentagon's Vision for the Future of Military Drones
Image: Department of Defense The Defense Department released its updated roadmap for the future of military drones this week, outlining the 25-year plan to "take the 'man' out of 'unmanned'" warfare,...
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Future Spies Will Mine Your Eyes for Data
Dan Foy/Flickr Without thinking about it, without even trying, we’ve created a surveillance apparatus more impressive than any new technology or any misreading of a law could dare to provide. We’ve...
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