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Lice Are Evolving Faster Than Humans
Wikipedia About six million years ago there was a grand split in the fates chimps and humans. Leaving behind the last common ancestor between the two, humans went on to become the weird beings...
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CGI Federal Is Crappy Because We Made It Crappy
Walmart in Luray, Virgina/Wikimedia Commons Finally, after months of fumbling and ungainly public web design, CGI Federal, the lead contractor on healthcare.gov, is getting the boot. It's only...
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With Overstock on Board, Bitcoin Begins To Resemble a Legitimate Currency
Using Bitcoin has never been more convenient. Via Beyond the hype and wild speculation, Bitcoin is beginning to look like conventional money—that is, people are spending it for the exchange of common...
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Internet Activists Look Back at Aaron Swartz's Life as 'The Day We Fight...
Image via Wikimedia Commons On January 11, 2013, federal prosecutors, in an aggressive campaign to bring high-profile convictions against hackers, finally broke the spirit of talented internet activist...
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Fire Made from Water May Solve Our Sewage Treatment Problems
NASA Trust NASA to figure this one out: how to start a fire with water. Astronauts onboard the International Space Station are now in the second round of experiments designed to shed light on this...
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The Real Promise of Hydrogen Fuel Cell Cars Is Further Off than 2015
Tokai University's solar car "Tokai Falcon"/Wikipedia The race to put a hydrogen fuel cell car on the market has been long and painful, almost obligatory. No matter the challenges, a car that ditches...
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The Best Drones Money Can Buy
Parrot's Mini-Drone. Photo: Derek Mead From cheap toy robo-balls to expensive camera-mounted octocopters, unmanned aerial vehicles swarmed the nation's preeminent orgy of electronics; drones of every...
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The Scariest Thing About Cybersecurity Is How Unprepared We Are
Cyber threats will only get worse in 2014. Image via Flickr/Marsmett Tallahassee Once relegated to the opaque realm of IT geeks and reclusive white-hat hackers, the idea of cybersecurity became...
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Let's Talk About Womb Transplants
Womb transplants could help women who don't have a uterus get pregnant. Image via Flickr/Teza Harinaivo Ramiandrisoa In the first major project of its kind, nine women have received womb transplants...
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You'll Never Guess How Many Terrorist Plots the NSA's Domestic Spy Program...
Image via Wikimedia At the end of this week President Obama is expected to finally answer the mounting calls to curtail the NSA's bloated power to invade its citizens' privacy by spying on millions of...
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Robots Have Their Own Wikipedia
Handing a human a bottle of water is a task for experienced robots. Image via Eindhoven University of Technology This week, a European team is set to present an online platform that will act as a...
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MTV Shows About Teen Moms Helped Drop the Teen Birth Rate
Image via Flickr/Jason Coleman The birth rate to teenage mothers in America has declined almost continuously over the past 20 years, according to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of...
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In the Future, Will We Still Buy Weed with Cash?
Photo via Flickr/CC. Cannabis has always had a credit card problem. But now that weed is legal in Colorado and Washington, both medicinally and for recreational use, the pot industry is beginning to...
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Why Aren't Consumer Electronics Generating Our Power Yet?
The Lotus Mobile. Photo: Derek Mead. We've long since reached the point where consumer electronic products run our lives. We rely on gadgets to communicate, to organize our routines, to keep up with...
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Angry Cab Drivers Did Uber a Favor By Attacking One of Its Cars
Image via flickr/jean pierre gallot Taxi drivers pretty much hate Uber. The analog and digital transportation services' battle for who gets to haul our asses around town came to a head this morning in...
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A $6,000 Robot Baby Seal Thawed Our Cold Cynical Hearts
Paro, the robot seal. Photos: Derek Mead It's Monday, and, thus, stressful as hell. About now, I'm wishing I was back at CES, just for a second. Not to wade through the distracted, wearable...
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Spinach Genes, Ladybugs, and Pesticides: The Cocktail That Might Save Orange...
An infected orange via California Department of Food and Agriculture “People are either going to drink transgenic orange juice or they’re going to drink apple juice,” a pessimistic University of...
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When to Launch Your Cyber Attack: A Scientific Guide
Image via Wikimedia Commons Interested in launching a cyberattack but not sure when to pencil it into your schedule? A new study released Monday might help you decide when an attack is likely to have...
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Eventually, Exhaling Onto the World's Tiniest Wind Farm Could Charge Your...
Image: University of Texas Tiny, nigh-invisible power sources are becoming a powerful fixture in electronics research. From piezoelectrics that charge gadgets with tiny personal movements to...
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Google Thinks You and Your House Should Talk
Image: Author After investing millions into smart thermostat company Nest, a shining star of the "internet of things" megatrend, Google just bit the bullet and decided to buy the company today, for an...
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