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The Dream of Next-Gen Batteries All Hangs On an Apple Watch
Image: screenshot, iOS 7Compared to often-dizzying pace of evolution in many areas of consumer electronics, there haven't been many leaps and bounds in the advancement of modern batteries in recent...
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It's Not Easy MacGyvering a Backup Internet in Kenya
Image: KickstarterThe West has a lot of plans to bring web access to the swaths of Africa still off the grid. But as thrilling as internet-carrying Google balloons hovering over the desert sounds, the...
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The Tech Giants' New Data on Government Spying Leave More Questions Than Answers
The PRISM slide that first implicated major companies in dragnet surveillance, even if they were forced by law to comply. Image: WikipediaHow many people have had their data lawfully collected by the...
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The Little-Known Feud That's Shaping the Future of Delivery Drones
Doug Bennett, a member of the DC Drone User Group in Washington, DC, flies FPV at a park. Image: authorWhat happens when you take your drone to public land at Northern California’s Lassen Volcanic...
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Scientology's Super Bowl Ad Preached to the Cult of Apple
By now, many will have seen Scientology’s Super Bowl ad “Spiritual Technology.” It played in regional markets like New York City and Los Angeles, and quickly went viral on Twitter. Taking inspiration...
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It's Time to Start Talking About Cars Talking to Each Other
Nissan Leaf via Wikimedia CommonsIn late September, buried in an announcement that its Leaf autonomous vehicle was given road-legal status in Japan, Nissan made a telling statement about the auto...
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Can $1 Billion and a New Federal Plan Bring US Schools Up to Speed on the...
Image: The White House FlickrLast week during the State of the Union address, President Obama promised to help make US schools more technologically competitive in a big way over the next few years....
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To Stop Catastrophic Flooding, the World Needs a Lot More Levees
A man sits on a sea wall in New Orleans. Image: Flickr/James JoelIt’s time to start buildings walls.According to a new study by researchers at Germany’s Climate Forum, it’s going to be very expensive...
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America's 1,700 Mile-Long Climate Denial
A pipeline in Alberta. Photo by Jason Woodhead / FlickrHere comes Keystone XL. That seemed to be the consensus after the long-awaited Final Environmental Impact Statement or the country's most...
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The Grizzled Prospectors of the Internet Land Rush
Image via State Library of South Australia/FlickrThe “biggest internet land grab” is on! The first round of around 1,000 new generic top level domain names—the stuff after the “dot” in .com—are coming...
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San Francisco Is Suing A Social Networking Site Over Sexual Predators
San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera filed the suit against MeetMe. Photo via Flickr/shawncalhounMeetMe, a popular social networking site among teenagers, is being used by sexual predators as a...
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Cyborg Cockroaches Can Now Make Their Own Power
We could turn these regular cockroaches into self-powered cyborg sensor networks. Photo via Flickr/Tjflex2While everyone else has been drooling over the potential battery tech in a...
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From Trash to Punk: The Underside of China's Spectacular Urban Growth
Construction in Beijing. Photo by Matthew NiederhauserBetween concerns about economic bubbles, fears about official corruption, and angst over online censorship, cynicism runs especially deep in China...
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'Outernet' Wants to Free the Internet by Sending It to Space
CubeSats deployed in orbit. Image: WikimediaThis is about as technoutopian as it gets: A group of entrepreneurs want to bridge the digital divide and circumvent censorship by beaming the internet from...
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Bitcoin Price Tags Bring Cryptocurrencies to the High Street
Images: BitTag/Samuel CoxInnovation in Bitcoin-land is usually limited to the development of new, still very Bitcoin-like cryptocurrencies, or fintech startups wanting to get a piece of the pie,...
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The First Weather Forecast for a Distant, Planet-Like Star
Luhman 16B's surface as it rotates about its axis. Image: ESO/I. CrossfieldIf you're not quite a star, and not quite a planet, what do you look like? An international team of scientists has managed,...
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The Burden of Malaria Is Shifting with the Changing Climate
A malaria researcher testing blood samples at the Noguchi Medical Institute of the University of Ghana. Image: Gates Foundation/FlickrThanks to warming climates, malaria will likely spread its...
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The Internet Has Spoken: Can Has More Goats, Pls?
Goat Simulator claims to "bring next gen goat simulation to a whole new level." Video via Youtube/CoffeeStainStudiosA small indie video game studio yesterday discovered something unexpected: people...
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This Parody of NSA's PRISM Was So Good Police Almost Shut It Down
For Art Hack Day's 'Going Dark' hackathon, held late 2013, art hackers Julian Oliver and Danja Vasiliev created PRISM: The Beacon Frame, a rotating prism that shows visitors' smartphone data. All too...
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How the Oregon Chub Wriggled Its Way Out of Extinction
Image: Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife/FlickrCongratulations are in order for the Oregon chub. After its population dwindled to just 1,000 fish in its native Willamette River Valley in Western...
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