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Mongolia: A Land of Strong Women

"My name is Nomin, and I am forty-two years old ..." Nomin is the thirty-fifth woman our team has interviewed on a five-week journey across the Gobi Desert to research women's and girls' uses of...

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Will Your Children Be Able To Get A Good Job In The Age Of The Smart Machine?

Are you aware that smart robots and other smart machines have skills that we used to think of as exclusively human? Machines powered by artificial intelligence are reading MRIs and writing news...

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New Phone Charging Bracelet Is Brilliant, Makes Us Want More Charging...

As much as we'd like to deny it, we live in a social-media obsessed world where phone outlets are as coveted as a pair of Louboutins. No matter how many times we're exposed to the benefits of...

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This Guy Should Be On Fire

Baby, you're a firework -- literally. Or, at least inventor Colin Furze is. In this video, Furze dons a self-made steel suit and steps safely inside a fireworks display. Furze creates the suit using a...

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Transphobic Edits Made To Wikipedia Appear To Have Come From Capitol Hill

Computers at the U.S. House of Representatives have been blocked from editing Wikipedia entries after controversial changes were made to transgender pages, including those with information about...

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To the Brand Behind Me in the SERPs on Google

Dear Brand Behind Me in the SERPs (search engine results pages) on Google, You don't know me. You have no clue what my life has been like since January of 2014. You have no clue that my website has...

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Emojis for Parents

Recently, a massive new batch of emojis was released on the social media world, but I can't really find much emotive use for an acorn, eggplant, or cat face with hearts over its eyes. I pretty much...

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The Academy's Tribute Tweet for Robin Williams Backfired. So Why Did People...

What happens when you write a tweet meant to pay tribute to one of the greatest and most beloved comedians in the world, the tweet is viewed 78 million times, and it turns out that you might have...

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Artificial Intelligence May Doom The Human Race Within A Century, Oxford...

An Oxford philosophy professor who has studied existential threats ranging from nuclear war to superbugs says the biggest danger of all may be superintelligence. Superintelligence is any intellect that...

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Are People Ditching Banks and Going Online for Loans?

In the past, if you needed a loan for your car, home improvements or to consolidate your credit cards, you would need to get dressed up and head down to the bank to beg for money. The Internet has made...

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WATCH: What Is A 'Sexy Body'? This Remarkable Model's Photos Are Redefining...

What if you could choose body parts like you choose a pair of shoes? And what if these prosthetics could help you do new things and express new parts of yourself? Aimee Mullins shares what she calls...

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Parents Gave Their 6-Year-Old A Camera To Capture What A First Grader Really...

Tim and May Weber of Tampa sent their 6-year-old son Andrew to his first day of 1st grade with more than just a new backpack. They strapped a GoPro camera to Andrew's body so that he could capture all...

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The Funniest Someecards Of The Week

Ice bucket challenge. Ice bucket challenge. Ice bucket challenge. Ice bucket challenge. Oh we're sorry, did you say that there was some other news this week besides the ice bucket challenge? Chaos in...

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Kenya Recycles E-Waste From Around The World, Keeping Pollutants Out Of...

MACHAKOS, Kenya (AP) — In an industrial area outside Kenya's capital city, workers in hard hats and white masks take shiny new power drills to computer parts. This assembly line is not assembling,...

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4.7- or 5.5-inch -- Which iPhone 6 Should You Buy?

In a few weeks, I and millions of other iPhone owners will be facing a vexing purchase dilemma. On September 9, Apple will -- reportedly -- announce not one, but for two new iPhone 6s, a 4.7-inch...

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Here Come the Robots in Retail

Delivery drones are so 2013. The big news in technology in retail in 2014 and beyond is robots replacing humans. Starting just this week, right across the road from Apple in Cupertino, the Aloft hotel...

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Time to Rethink Technology at Summer Camp?

Sitting with my wife by the lake in Northern Michigan at the beginning of the summer I listened as the director of our family camp, Camp Michigania, recited the rules for the week. "One final thing we...

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Meri Woods Downloaded Child Porn To Frame Hubby: Jury

A Pennsylvania jury convicted a woman on Wednesday of downloading child pornography onto the family computer and trying to blame it on her husband.

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What Happens When Kids Go Cold Turkey from Their Screens for 5 Days?

We all stare at screens more than we would like to, and many of us rely on these tools to communicate with others, even during times when we should be spending quality time with our families and...

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It's Getting Tougher to Quit Social Media

Let's face it -- we are all on social media, in one form or another. The list is huge: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Four Square, and a myriad of others. Everyone from almost every age group...

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