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The U.S. Government Is Suing Barrett Brown's Intelligence Research Site
Image via Nikki Loehr Over the past couple of weeks, the controversy surrounding the case against Barrett Brown—the journalist charged with three crimes, including spreading stolen credit card...
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Why Bitcoin’s Price Is Skyrocketing
Bitcoin's rise this year. Each point represents three days. Via Clark Moody's tracker. Bitcoin hasn’t stopped surging, but that’s only increased calls that the bubble is going to burst. Could this...
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Things Are Getting Orwellian at Exxon's Arkansas Oil Spill
Image: YouTube screenshot Exxon Mobil's Pegasus pipeline just ruptured and spewed toxic oily muck all over Arkansas. It ran like a river through the suburb of Mayflower, pop. 2,000. Now, Exxon has...
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The Critically Endangered Sumatran Rhino Has Been Given a Glimmer of Hope
A Sumatran rhino in Way Kambas National Park in Sumatra, via Willem Strien/Wikipedia The rhino poaching crisis mainly affects white rhinos (and black rhinos to a lesser extent) largely because they're...
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Who Showed Up to the FAA's Virtual Drone Town Hall?
Photo via Flickr / Editor B Don't blame the Federal Aviation Administration for not trying to loop the general public into the domestic drone debate. There's the agency's drone-focused "request for...
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A Japanese Asthma Drug May Help Curb Meth and Heroin Addiction
Pills could be the cure for addiction. Image via epSos/Flickr A Japanese drug, used for over two decades to treat asthma, might find a new use in the treatment of amphetamine and opioid addiction....
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The Facebook Takeover Is Going Precisely as Planned
Image via YouTube / Facebook Facebook did something rather curious on Thursday. It introduced a new kind of mobile product, one not quite like anything we've seen before. It's not an app. It's not an...
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What the Media Talks About When It Talks About Robots
Image: Wikimedia Most real-life robots are boring. They regulate subway trains and operate vacuum cleaners, and nobody wants to read or hear about them. But just consider this: ROBOT. Now what sort of...
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The Mt. Gox DDoS May Be a Play to Manipulate the Bitcoin Market
Earlier this week, Motherboard's Alec Liu detailed how bitcoin--the open-sourced, decentralized peer-to-peer cryptocurrency--could potentially crash and burn. One of Alec's more notable predictions...
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In His Final Days, Roger Ebert Despaired Over Global Warming and a Do-Nothing...
Image: Wikimedia Commons Roger Ebert, who is synonymous with 'American film critic', died yesterday. There are already droves of nice obituaries and pieces celebrating his life and work; even the...
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Video: Get Eaten Alive by a Bunch of Carnivorous Plants
As snot-nosed youths, my sister and I got a kick out feeding hapless crickets to a line Venus flytraps stationed on a windowsill in our folks' kitchen. It was grim and pretty sadistic, the more I look...
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The "Six Strikes" Copyright System Is Already Being Used in a Lawsuit
The copyright library at the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco, via Michael Mandiberg When we last heard of the "six strikes" copyright alert system–which set up a framework for ISPs to...
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Your Body Is Home to Trillions of Microbes, So It's Time You Met Them
So that bag of flesh and bones you call your body is actually made up of something like 10 trillion individual cells, all working in concert. Pretty impressive, right? Well, try this on for size:...
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This Man Was Sent to Federal Prison After Publishing a Blog on the Huffington...
Image: If a Tree Falls screenshot Earth Liberation Front activist Daniel McGowan has served nearly seven years in prison for arson and for what amount to major vandalism charges. But he's also in...
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These Are the Biggest, Most Insane and Totally Overused Adjectives on the...
Image via Flickr / procsilas The internet is not to be trusted. It's always hyping things up, begging us to click away, and, inevitably, letting us down. It does this primarily with adjectives. The...
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Back Off, Tooth Fairy, Those Baby Teeth May One Day Save a Life
Next time your kid loses a tooth, keep that window locked at night. That dollar the tooth fairy may leave under the pillow isn’t worth a fraction of what that baby tooth could worth be in the future....
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If You're Not Careful, Bitcoins Aren't As Anonymous As You Think
Image created by the article's author Have you bought drugs on The Silk Road with bitcoin, or made other illicit transactions on the dark web using the crypto-currency? Have you simply been trying to...
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Non-Invasive Mind Control Lets Humans Wag a Rat's Tail
Let me tell you a mind-bending story about mind control. This is a sci-fi idea that's quickly becoming a reality as scientists better understand that grey matter between our ears, and this year has...
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Ground Beneath Japan Still Hasn't Settled Since the Sendai Earthquake
The Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011 rocked the island country for 6 full minutes, wreaking devastation that is still being cleaned up, cleared away and paved over today. But even as...
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Researchers Claim Nuclear Power Has Saved 1.8 Million Lives
Nuclear power. When things go wrong as they have in places like Fukushima and Chernobyl, they get really scary, really fast. People die. They get radiation poisoning. The damage it wreaks is so...
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