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This Algorithm Can Read the Emotions Behind Your Tweets
Image: Opensource/FlickrCan computers read? Sure a machine can recite a block of text in a (less and less) robotic voice and maybe even pronounce all the words right, but most can't pick up on the...
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They're Drones. Get Over It.
Photo by authorUAVs, UASs, RPAs, unmanned aircraft, whatever you want to call them: They’re drones. The guys who are posed to make a killing off them want you to know they’re not going to be doing it...
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Facebook Fondly Remembers Me Using Facebook
The author pictured in a Facebook album he just rediscovered from his freshman year in college. Image: Facebook.Like a lot of people who spend too much time on the internet, I marked Facebook's 10th...
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The Risks of Making Death Fetish Art (Or an Art Film About It): A Chat with...
Screenshot from 24 Exposures trailer (below).Joe Swanberg's latest film 24 Exposures takes an innocently kinky scenario—a fetish photographer who likes the look of gored bodies—and spins it out into a...
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An Oral History of Myself As Told Through Facebook Status Updates
My first Facebook profile picture.Facebook just turned ten years old. There's plenty to say about the world's most influential and widely-used social network; the commentariat is weighing on its...
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Take a Ride Through the Colon With the Newly Approved Camera Pill
Inside a colon, courtesy of the PillCam.I haven’t had the pleasure yet, but the colonoscopy seems like one of the least enjoyable routine medical procedures. WebMD goes so far as to say that many...
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Gesture-Based Computing Is Happening, Just Like Sci-Fi Said It Would
Images: DizmoNerd confession: I once dreamed about controlling a user interface by waving my hands. Not like wished for, but actually went to sleep and had a dream that I was busy at work in front of...
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The Canadian Government Says Metadata Collection Is Totally Legal
John Forster, head of CSEC, testifying yesterday. Image: Canada's Senate/CBCOriginally published on VICE Canada.Last Friday, Canada got its first major taste of Snowden’s trove of surveillance files...
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The DEA Has a Secret Program to Cover Up Its Spy Ops
Image: DEA agents and local law enforcement gather the goods during Operation Raw Deal, via US DEA.At the Drug Enforcement Agency, one hand washes the other. The idea is to spin dual strings of...
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A New, Undetectable Doping Agent Is On Sale for Sochi
The Sochi Games are about to kick off. Image: Martynova Anna/Shutterstock.comOlympic officials recently announced anti-doping plans for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi: they were to be the “most...
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The British Government Used DDoS Attacks Against Hacktivists
Government agents can play at hacking too. Image: Steve Rhodes/FlickrThe British government used hacker tactics including denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against hackers themselves, according to a new...
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Millions of Starfish Are Literally Ripping Themselves Apart, and Climate...
The purple sea star, one of the species most affected by the syndrome. Image: Jonathan Martin/Flickr.Millions of starfish along the west coast of North America are dying in a particularly gruesome way:...
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Watch the UK's New £185 Million Military Drone Take Flight
The Taranis aircraft shows off its skills. Video: BAE Systems/YoutubeBAE Systems, the British aerospace and defence company, today released a video showing off “the most advanced aircraft ever built by...
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This Is What It's Like When Galaxies Collide
The Arp 274 trio of spiral galaxies. Image: the Hubble SiteThe universe is a big place, and we’ve only recently begun unlocking its secrets. Among the still unexplained mysteries is how massive...
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As Journalist Drones Take Off in El Salvador, They Remain Banned in the US
Some of La Prensa Gráfica's drone footage.During El Salvador's recent presidential elections, Salvadoran newspaper La Prensa Gráfica found a unique angle from the skies. LPG used a quadcopter to...
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In One Month, Everyone In Iceland Will Own Cryptocurrency
Auroracoin sure does have a nice logo. Image: AuroracoinThe cryptocurrency craze spun into a new realm of ridiculous with Kanyecoin, Dogecoin, Ron Paul Coin and the bounty of other clone-coins that...
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Join the Fukushima Radiation Watch
Image: Woods Hole Oceanographic InstitutionWhether you’re worried about splashing in a radioactive surf, threats to ocean life, or just like filling up containers with water, you can help scientists...
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The Alternate-Reality Facebook That Almost Happened
Mark Zuckerberg in his dorm room, circa 2003What if da Vinci had built that flying machine he was always rambling on about? What if Tesla got the upper hand over Edison and gave us all free energy?...
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The Best and Wackiest Pieces at Berlin's Art Hack Day
Image: Michael AngLast weekend's Transmediale "Afterglow" festival in Berlin featured a number of hacker art projects created for Art Hack Day. One of the installations, Julian Oliver and Danja...
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The Evolution of the Zamboni
Gold medal skater and Ice Capades performer Donna Atwood poses with a Zamboni, circa 1941. Image: eWillysThe best way to understand the future is usually rooted in the past. Our friends at Yester are...
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