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10 People That Used Their Pets As Pretend Machine Guns
Spend enough time trolling YouTube and you're bound to find that no idea, no matter how obscure or inane, is unique. No matter the video, there will be at least half a dozen others paying homage or...
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Brooklyn Has Not Yet Begun to Gentrify
Williamsburg is a funny, fucked up place. As a years-long resident of the Brooklyn neighborhood, I say this affectionately. When I started hanging out in the hipster enclave back in the early aughts,...
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Here's What Happens When Social Media and Russian Project Housing Collide
We all know about flash mobs. They’re those quasi-spontaneous group demonstrations or performances that quickly materialize then disperse, organized for reasons ranging from political dissidence to...
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Hong Kong Is Now Jailing China's Baby Formula Smugglers
If you’re an immigrant, or the child of one, you’ve probably had to fill your share of suitcases with American goods to lug back to the motherland. For me, this meant M&Ms and Kit-Kats and Nike...
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Static Electricity Brought Down the Hindenburg, Engineers Say
It's never too late to shed light on old mysteries. Take for example the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa, a labor leader with mob ties who vanished in 1975. An elderly mafia captain dropped a hint about...
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Is It Time To Take Bitcoin Seriously?
The second bitcoin bubble may not burst. Image via Flickr/zcopley Bitcoin’s value has steadily climbed over the past few months with no signs of stopping as the currency has managed to avoid major...
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Bangability: A Klout Score For Bang With Friends
Can one really turn attractiveness into a metric? Well, sure. Image via Cybertect In the past 24 hours, I've received the same email from pimpin@bangwithfriends.com five times. Seriously. It reads...
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Fiber, Glasses, and Cars: We're Nearing Peak Google
Sergey Brin wants to own your life. Image: Paul Sakuma/AP Obviously every single one of Google's "oh man, look at the crazy thing Google's doing now" projects is expressly designed to enable we awed...
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All Hail the Telepod: Steve Jobs's Discarded iPhone Names Are Horrible
Yesterday, former Apple advertising head Ken Segall spoke at the University of Arizona's Department of Marketing and shared a few factoids about the iPhone's development under Steve Job's watch....
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It Wasn't Us
Believe it or not, we're smack in the midst of the longest lull in US drone strikes in Pakistan's tribal belt since late 2011. Crazy, right? For all the breathless chatter marking a drone debate...
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Two-Thirds of Africa's Forest Elephants Were Killed in the Last Decade
A pair of African forest elephants, by Thomas Breuer Following a bit of good news for elephants yesterday, here comes another heaping dose of the bad new we've come to expect. According to research...
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A Drunk 62-Year-Old Shot a Police Robot and Got Charged With Vandalism
A police surveillance bot. Would you get hostile if this guy invaded your home? Image: PoliceMag This is a thing that happens now, in our recently-arrived future: A drunk, gun-wielding maniac of a...
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Was the North Korea Hoax the Best the Pirate Bay Can Do?
The Pirate Bay turned heads on Monday when it announced the latest safe haven for its file-sharing servers: North Korea. "But that doesn't make any sense!" said everybody. "North Korea is home to the...
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How SpaceX Tamed a Finicky, Orbiting Dragon
A SpaceX Dragon capsule is grappled by the Canadarm in May 2012. via On Sunday morning, a SpaceX Dragon capsule delivered over a half-ton of supplies and scientific hardware to astronauts on the...
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Do We Live in a Post-Cure World?
Timothy Brown is one of two known cases of HIV being cured. Image: Heidi Schumann/The New York Times Most of the things we die of now don't have cures, at least in any historical sense of "cure."...
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The FBI Wants Your Help Tracking Down the Brooklyn Drone
It's rare to see things flying outside your airplane window. A far off craft, a flock of birds — whatever else is zooming through the clouds at high speeds is going to feel a little dangerous. So when...
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The Final Tweet of Hugo Chavez
Hugo Chavez, the beloved and deplored outspoken socialist strongman, has died. He had been ailing for months, and recently underwent surgery for cancer in Cuba. Chavez had just returned to Venezuela...
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The Sobering Trademark Saga of Power Hour
Ali Spagnola, who freed the phrase "power hour" from absurd trademark limbo. “Power hour,” as anyone who has ever drunk Busch Light out of a red Solo cup knows, is a drinking game in which you take a...
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Is Your Language a Shakespearean Feast, or Have You 'Stol'n the Scraps'?
Moth: (Aside to Costard) They have been at a great feast of languages, / and stol'n the scraps. Costard: O, they have liv'd long on the alms-basket of words. —William Shakespeare, from Love's Labor's...
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The Museum of Modern Art Is Playing Games
If you’ve been following the cultural plight of the videogame at all in the last eight years, you are surely aware of the art school sophomore and serpentine “what is art” argument instigated by...
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