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Silicon Valley Titans Think This New Stanford Grad Can Make Wallets Irrelevant
Clinkle founder Lucas Duplan, via Clinkle The rise of the smartphone has meant that we have, slowly but surely, had to carry around less and less stuff around with us. No more iPods. No more cameras....
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Voyager 1 Is Still Broadcasting As It Nears the Great Void
Voyager 1: almost ready to cross into interstellar space. via NASA/JPL It looks like Voyager 1 is getting ready to make good on a months-old promise. More than 11 billion miles from the Sun, it’s...
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Video: How to Give Zero Shits While Riding Motorcycles in India
And you thought Russian motorists had mastered the art of urban shredding. What were you thinking? India is taking it to entirely new levels. Just look at homeboy up above, ghosting casually. Or...
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The Defense Department Is Blocking the Army from Reading the Guardian
No embarrassing news reports in the Pentagon, please. Via Terrified of another leak, the US Defense Department doesn't want members of the Army to read the Guardian's ongoing news coverage about how...
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'Idiots Fighting Things' Is a Triumphant Commentary on the Human Condition
The last time I peed myself with excitement over a new subreddit, I spent about a week poring over the annals of /r/WhereDidTheSodaGo, obsessing over the sheer insanity of our infomercial-infested...
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Hello, NSA
An NSA SIGINT station at Sugar Grove, West Virginia (via) Presenting Hello, NSA, an app for sharing your thoughts with the world, using keywords the government is listening for. Thanks to recent...
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'Streamloading' Circumvents Copyright Law to Kill Video Buffering and Data...
Image: NYC Media Lab/Flickr For nearly as long as people have used the internet, they have suffered through buffering and downloading delays to watching their favorite videos. These days, bandwidth has...
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This New Mapping Project Drills Home the Threat of Fracking
Image via Flickr / CC. It's seemingly everywhere: Fracking. It’s gotten national attention with the possible approval of the Keystone Pipeline. It’s seen opposition from West Village residents who...
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X-Ray Vision Is Coming to Your Cell Phone
MIT researchers are working to bring short range radar to the masses. Photo: Flickr/BenFrantzDale. Ready for x-ray vision on your cell phone? Good news for all you creepsters out there, because it's...
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Baba Jukwa, a Mysterious Facebook Muckraker, Is Shaking Up Politics in Zimbabwe
Robert Mugabe, via Al Jazeera's Flickr Is he a political Robin Hood, sharing insider info to the masses? Is he an attention whore with far too much time on his hands? Is he even a he? The only thing...
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David Lynch Blends Digital and Analog in Nine Inch Nail's 'Came Back Haunted'...
Since directing the digitally-shot mindbender of a film Inland Empire, David Lynch has turned away from filmmaking and concentrated on his music and art. In 2011, he released Crazy Clown Time, an...
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How to Drive a Stick Shift
There's nothing to be afraid of. Via Jordan Griffith/Flickr Being an adult is hard. And in our vast techno-digital landscape, we've no one to guide us, to tell us what we need to learn to be proper,...
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Judaism Is the Most Respected Religion in America and Other Revelations
Photo via If you’re looking to make some hasty generalizations about Americans, Rice University’s Portraits of American Life survey results just came out. While Americans are becoming more respectful...
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Can Taking Legal Speed Cure Your Coke Addition?
It’s hard to deny the aesthetic appeal of Mia Wallace with her starchy white shirt and black bob haircut kneeling down in the bathroom of Jack Rabbit Slim’s to “powder her nose.” Unfortunately, as even...
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Anatomy of a Number One Post on Reddit
It was about 12:30 at night, and I was reclining in bed, alone and bleary-eyed, hammering out a quick blog post to publish early next morning. Behold the glamorous life of an online journalist. See,...
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Researchers Are This Close To Making Cheap, Portable Desalinization Real
Image: The University of Texas It’s no secret that our freshwater sources are depleting quickly, and we’re all basically fucked unless we can find some way to either slow down the process or manually...
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Riding the Bitcoin Bubble All the Way to Panamanian Paradise
In March I flew from San Francisco to Panama City with less than $200 in my bank account. I wasn’t worried about my lack of funds. A week earlier, a guy I’d met online had bought me a plane ticket to...
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What the iPod as Vinyl Looks Like
Click image to launch interactive version, via Concert Hotels. The 160GB iPod Classic, to be precise. Consider that the ubiquitous portable jukebox stores some 40,000 tunes. (For physical comparison,...
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Go Behind The Scenes Of The Richard Dawkins Internet Meme Show
A few days ago the video for the Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors’ Showcase 2013 hit the internet and was met by a collective "WTF!?", as biologist (and father of the word meme) Professor Richard...
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Notes from America's Forever-Drought
Image: Tim Keegan/Creative Commons The other morning, in my other life, I was planting cantaloupe seeds in the bit of farm I manage. This is within a much larger farm and ranch not far from the...
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