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Beating the Heat before Central Air
How does one beat the dog days of August? It's easy! Open your Westinghouse refrigerator, prop a fan in front of it, and let the cool air do the rest. At least until your mother finds out. Jane...
View ArticleAnti-Semitic Hate Speech Online Prompts Renewed Efforts To Fight It
BERLIN (RNS) It’s been 17 years since Suzette Bronkhorst co-founded the Dutch Complaints Bureau for Discrimination on the Internet, but she said she doesn’t remember the level of anti-Semitic speech on...
View ArticleWe May Soon Be Able To Charge Our Phone Using The Sound Of Our Voice
What if you could charge your phone just by yelling at it? That's the idea behind a recent collaboration between scientists at Queen Mary University of London and Nokia. The team is working to develop...
View Article(VIDEO) Facebook Closes on LiveRail Acquisition, our Interview with CEO Mark...
SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook's acquisition of LiveRail for a reportedly $400 - $500 million, which was announced on July 2, closed yesterday, reports TechCrunch. Last week in San Francisco, we interviewed...
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Mobile Phones Save Lives in Timor-Leste
A pregnant woman has one foot in the grave. This common saying reflects the reality in many developing countries: bearing a child is one of the main risks to a woman's life. In the poor countries of...
View ArticleElon Musk Fulfills Ice Bucket Challenge With A Little Help From His Five Sons
Tech titan Elon Musk became the latest celebrity to complete the "ice bucket challenge" Saturday, aided by a delightful contraption that allowed his five sons to dump water on him simultaneously. The...
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Multi-collaborative Virtual Visual Inspiration Boards
Co-written by Marc Marheineke Designers harness inspiration from all sorts of things, including visual images. A designer's workspace walls are plastered with images of abstract art, photos of fashion...
View ArticleWatch The Pokémon World Championship Finals Right Now!
We haven't been this excited about Pokémon since we traded a Bulbasaur for a first-edition Charizard with that naive little kid at recess. Yes, Pokémon is still a thing. Yes, thousands of people are...
View ArticleMysterious Shifting Lights Observed Near Huge Black Hole
A NASA spacecraft has spotted strange light shifts near the heart of a supermassive black hole that could help scientists better understand the inner workings of these monstrous objects. The agency's...
View ArticlePolicing "Stop and Frisk" with "Stop and Track" Policing
The events in Ferguson, Missouri between Officer Darren Wilson and Michael Brown are tragic, chaotic, and unfortunately part of a larger pattern of police-citizen conflict that occasionally escalates...
View ArticleNAACP'S Net Failure in Ferguson
How the Civil Rights Organization's hypocritical stance on Net Neutrality Hurts Activism in Ferguson The shooting of teenager Mike Brown by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri has mutated from a...
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3 Reasons Why All Entrepreneurs Deserve Silicon Valley Access
Globally, we are experiencing a groundswell of entrepreneurship. It is on every university campus, in skunk works projects in every corporation, and in discussion at the highest political level. There...
View ArticleRussian Astronauts Conduct Spacewalk Outside International Space Station
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Spacewalking astronauts launched a tiny Peruvian research satellite Monday, setting it loose on a mission to observe Earth. Russian Oleg Artemiev cast the 4-inch box off...
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6 Ways for Self-Published Authors to Handle Bad Reviews
For a self-published author, receiving a bad review feels a lot like taking a kick to the stomach. It hurts deeply and often takes the wind right out of you. Anger is usually the next emotion, followed...
View ArticleTeens Create 'Five-O' App To Help Document Police Brutality
Meet the teens who are taking on police brutality with a little digital innovation. Inspired by the civil unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, the three high schoolers from Decatur, Georgia, built "Five-O," a...
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Facebook Is Labeling Posts From The Onion As 'Satire' So You Don't Get Confused
Even the smartest among us can have a hard time detecting sarcasm on the Internet. We should all be able to identify jokes when we see them, though, right? Wrong. Even with over-the-top ridiculous...
View ArticleNike's LED Basketball Court Makes The Sport Look Like A Video Game
Thanks to a new project by Nike, real-life basketball looks more like a video game than a sport. As a part of its "Nike RISE" campaign in China, the company has built an absolutely mesmerizing...
View Article5 Tools for Empowering and Protecting Citizen Journalists in Ferguson
This post was originally published on The Toolbox, a technology and social change site founded by Peter Gabriel. Since the fatal shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown took place in Ferguson,...
View ArticleSan Jose Mayor Chuck Reed Endorses Ro Khanna
Ro Khanna (D) received a key endorsement on Friday from San Jose, California, Mayor Chuck Reed (D) in his bid to unseat Rep. Mike Honda (D-Calif.). "I am happy to endorse Ro Khanna because his pro...
View ArticleEncourage Women's Involvement in Tech at an Early Age
The U.S Department of Labor predicts that the country will add 1.2 million tech-related jobs by 2022. However, you don't need hard data to tell you that all facets of the burgeoning economy will be...
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