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Brazil To Unleash Genetically Modified Mosquitoes
When you think about the deadliest animal in the world, what immediately springs to mind? Sharks? Hippos? Crocodiles? While these animals may look the part, the biggest killer amongst us is much more...
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'Ring Cam' Lets You Record A Marriage Proposal Without Lifting A Finger
In an age when marriage proposals frequently go viral, there's a lot of pressure to capture the big moment in just the right way. But what if you don't have a four-man camera crew or Hollywood-worthy...
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Who Should Decide? States' Rights, Local Authority and the Future of the...
"[W]ithout power and independence, a town may contain good subjects, but it can have no active citizens."Â That was the conclusion of Alexis de Tocqueville after touring a youthful American Republic in...
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This Is What The World Looks Like, According To Quantum Mechanics
The realm of quantum mechanics tells us that humans experience 40 conscious moments per second. These individual frames, or sequences of "now," amount to the way we perceive time flow. We don't realize...
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Artist Launches Bonsai Trees And Other Lovely Plant Arrangements Into Space
We've heard that outer space is, visually speaking, a pretty majestic experience. Yet although the galaxy beyond is undoubtedly filled with stars and misty clouds for days, there aren't any decorative...
View ArticleApple May Be Spying On You Through Your iPhone
By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Personal data including text messages, contact lists and photos can be extracted from iPhones through previously unpublicized techniques by Apple Inc employees,...
View ArticleForget Selfies, Dronies Are The New Must-Take Travel Photo
Selfies are so last season. Meet "dronies," the cooler, more adventurous, amped-up sibling of the oft-maligned selfie. A "dronie" is basically a selfie from the sky, taken not at arm's length from your...
View ArticleAlien World's Size Measured With Unprecedented Accuracy
Astronomers have made the best-ever measurement to date of the radius of an alien world. Using observations by NASA's Kepler and Spitzer space telescopes, researchers determined that the exoplanet...
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Malware Can Hide in the Most Obvious Places
You never know when malware will bite. Even browsing an online restaurant menu can download malicious code, put there by hackers. Much has been said that Target’s hackers accessed the giant’s records...
View ArticleWhat REALLY Happens at Comic Con
San Diego's Comic Con is the premier event for fans of all things comics and action-packed entertainment. Seeing as how there are quite a few fans of "entertaining" things, the crowds that descend on...
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Religion On Wikipedia Is A Recipe For Controversy As 'Edit Wars' Rage On
(RNS) When he was a student at Brigham Young University three years ago, Anthony Willey came across a Wikipedia page on Mormons. What he read filled him with frustration. The article focused on...
View ArticleA GoPro On A Spinning Car Wheel Makes For A Strangely Hypnotic Video
Some day, they will say that GoPros are soooo 2014. Until then, we indulge in visions of the world through tiny cameras that can go nearly anywhere. Below, a steering wheel's point of view, courtesy...
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This App Sort Of Blurs Your Face So You Can Share Your Deepest Secrets
If you have a secret and you want to confess it to the world semi-anonymously, try Awkward, a new app for creating, sharing and watching video confessions. The app, which was created in Germany,...
View ArticleAmazon Fire: Winning In Its Customers' Mobile Sales Moments
I had the opportunity and privilege to get an early look at the new Amazon Fire phone. It delights in many ways, but I'll focus on the shopping experience enabled through Firefly. For those who may not...
View ArticleHow Gchat Is Hurting Your Workplace Productivity
Despite our determined efforts to stay focused and productive throughout the workday, we often find ourselves distracted by the tools intended to make the workplace operate more efficiently....
View ArticleCivil Rights Clash: Transhumanists Prepare to Challenge an Anti-Cryonics Law...
British Columbia, the westernmost province of Canada that is home to over 4 million people, has a law on the books that prohibits the marketing or sale of services for cryonics. You can still...
View ArticleCan Amazon Profit From Porn?
AMAZON!!!! Say it ain't so!!!! "Amazon's Ambitious Bets Pile Up, and its Losses Swell"-- The New York Times Why do we think that in the digital world innovation comes at a profit loss? And why do we...
View ArticleYup, This Sums Up Every Upworthy Video Ever
There's a certain website out there that, before clicking, you already know you're in for an emotional roller coaster ride of some sort. Whether it's a blind man seeing for the first time, a...
View ArticleNo Security: HOPE X Is (Not So) Decadent and Depraved -- Day 3
Day 3 of my filming diary at HOPE X. You can read Day 1 here and Day 2 here. 10:45am- arrived at HOPE X for day 3. I ingested 2 cups of coffee, 1 Lexapro, 2 levocetirizine, 1 vicodin and one apple....
View ArticleThe Real Lyrics To The Clash's 'Rock The Casbah'
Oh, you thought that song by The Clash was about something other than organizing your computer's desktop? YOU THOUGHT WRONG.
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