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Why Is This Artist Burning Bitcoins?
Image courtesy of the artistGeraldine Juarez has set fire to Bitcoins before, and she's about to do it again. On January 29, Juarez will repeat her incineration of a Bitcoin wallet at Transmediale...
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The UK Cut Funding for Climate Change in Half
Owen Paterson, the UK's environment secretary. Photo via Flickr/Policy ExchangeThe UK’s spending on domestic climate change dropped by nearly half in the last year, according to figures revealed in...
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The Techno-Oppression of Ukraine Is Exactly Why Snowden Blew the Whistle
Ukraine riot police containing demonstrators. Photo: photo.ua/Shutterstock.comLast week, Snowden said that one of his biggest concerns with the NSA's operations was how they increased the legitimacy of...
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The US Trashes $165 Billion Worth of Food Annually; This Grocery Store Wants...
More depressing than the fact that people still go hungry, even in wealthy countries like the United States, is the realization that they're experiencing hunger during a time of relative excess. A 2012...
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Bitcoin's Star Entrepreneur Was Arrested by the Feds for Silk Road Money...
Shrem in front of his parents' Brooklyn home last year. Photo: Derek Mead/MotherboardThe Silk Road claimed its latest victim Sunday, this time in the form of Charlie Shrem, CEO of BitInstant, a Bitcoin...
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China's First Lunar Rover Live-Blogged Its Own Death
The Yutu rover on the moon. Photo via Chinese National Space Administration/China Central Television.China's first lunar exploration vehicle, the Yutu rover (or “Jade Rabbit"), is experiencing...
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Missouri Is About to Execute Its Third Death Row Inmate with Dubious Drug...
Missouri State Capitol Building via FlickrDespite questions about the legality of the drugs that will be used, neither the Food and Drug Administration, nor the boards of pharmacies of two states, nor...
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Drones Need to Stop Harassing Hunters, Says Alabama Lawmaker
Photo: Ville Hyvönen/FlickrWe've all heard about the rise of eco drones, but this is something else: In Alabama, the use of drones to harass hunters has apparently become such a problem that a state...
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Google Just Bet $500 Million That AI Can Fix Search
Image via flickr/superbond1It's not really accurate to call Google a "search company" anymore. After all, today's news that the tech behemoth is spending some half a billion dollars to buy the...
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Tech Companies Can Now Disclose How Much Data the NSA Collects
The PRISM slide that started it all, showing tech companies tasked with delivering data to the NSA. Photo: WikipediaFollowing President Obama's promise of NSA reform, major tech companies can now...
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Economics Is About to Trump Ideology on Climate Change
Photo via Flickr/Romana KleeThe fight over climate change is over, or at least it should be. Everyone who has ever trusted a scientist in the least bit is aboard this boat, and we can toss the 23...
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The Found Poetry of "The Sims" and Other Video Games
Compared to movies, literature, and music, the prose stylings of many popular video games can seem terse and ineloquent. There's a valid reason for that: Writing in video games usually has to suit many...
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An Open-Source Community Wants to Fix Your Drone with 3D-Printed Parts
Photo via Tyler OlsenThe rise of autonomous flying robots has piqued the interest of everyone down to US TV personality Martha Stewart, who told Tech Crunch she would like her life “run by drones.”For...
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The NSA Could Spy on You Through Angry Birds
Photo via Flickr/Susanti ChandraNot content with mining your call data, your texts, your social media profiles, your search queries, and basically all the data crumbs you’ve left when communicating via...
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The Problem with Pot Shop ATMs
Photo via Bill Selak/Flickr.There are untold thousands of privately-owned ATMs in Colorado, and nobody has a clue who owns them or where the machines are even located. It's a sticky truth that lies at...
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This Company Will Train You to Be An Astronaut
Photo via Waypoint 2 SpaceLots of companies are plotting how they’ll eventually take tourists to space, and from the looks of websites like Virgin Galactic or Space Adventures, you can just throw down...
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Now You Can Insure Your Bitcoins
Photo via Flickr/antanacoinsBitcoin theft is a growing problem. As the cryptocurrency has vaulted into the mainstream, and risen in value, so too have the number of thefts—including one on live...
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Two New HD Cameras on the Space Station Will Livestream Earth From Orbit
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This Is Your Brain on Bitcoin
Bitcoin has been embraced by merchants from Overstock.com to neighborhood bars and pizzerias, and accepting the cryptographic currency is also proving to be a boon to some charities. Take the...
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Wikipedia Is Building a Repository of Famous Voices
Much-loved entertainer and fan of technology Stephen Fry. Photo via Flickr/DocumentallyEven if you don't get invited to the right parties, you can now hear a famous person introduce themselves to you...
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