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Your Nintendo 3DS Is About To Be Obsolete
That shiny Nintendo 3DS you or your kid got for the holidays is about to be eBay fodder. On Wednesday, Nintendo announced a Feb. 13 release for its new handheld gaming device, dubbed the New Nintendo...
View ArticleU.S. Agent Says He Became Covert Silk Road Employee
NEW YORK, Jan 14 (Reuters) - A federal agent told jurors on Wednesday he covertly became an employee of the website Silk Road, chatting with its operator about "damn regulators" minutes before...
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Hate Yik Yak And Anonymous Gossip Sites All You Want, But They Won't Go Away
Throughout 2014, students at Colgate University in central New York were outraged by a slew of racist comments. They didn't know who said them, just that they came from people on or close to campus....
View ArticlePresident Obama Comes to the Defense of Gigabit Cities
On Wednesday, President Obama called for an end to rules that prevent cities towns and other communities from creating their own high-speed Internet networks. During a speech in Cedar Falls, Iowa,...
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Which New Amazon Original Pilots Should You Stream This Weekend?
Fresh off of winning two Golden Globes last week, Amazon Prime has a second batch of new original pilots. The seven new comedy, drama and docu-series pilots from the online streaming studio are...
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I'm over six feet tall, and I want to complain about it. I've read blogs and articles detailing the horrific difficulties associated with being racial and ethnic majorities, and minorities. I've read...
View ArticleBaffled QVC Hosts Can't Quite Figure Out What The Moon Is
Here's a video that has us more than a little bit concerned about the state of science education in America. During Monday's broadcast on the QVC shopping network, host Shawn Killinger and designer...
View ArticleThe App That Could Be A 99 Percent Effective Form Of Birth Control
In many ways, family planning based on keeping track of one's fertility is about as old-school as it gets. By paying attention to fluctuations in body temperature or cervical fluid, women can track...
View ArticleCrazy Slo-Mo Video Explains Why Rain Has That Distinctive Smell
Have you ever smelled that distinctive, sweet aroma that lingers after it rains? Scientists call it "petrichor," and since the 1960s, they've believed it comes from oils and chemicals that are released...
View ArticleApple Wants To Beam Your Fingerprint To New Devices
Apple may be envisioning a world where buying a latte is as easy as holding up your index finger. A patent application published online Thursday by the United States Patent and Trademark Office would...
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Prisoners Sending E-Cards Actually Makes A Lot Of Sense
It'll be a long time before Bretton Link can be with friends and family again. The 47-year-old is locked in the North Dakota State Penitentiary on a 40-year sentence for dealing meth, with an expected...
View ArticleThis Will Be The Best Year To Ditch Your Cable Subscription
One day we may look upon 2015 as the year that pay TV began embracing the cord cutter's dream: to pay only for the channels you actually watch. January kicked off with Dish’s announcement that it would...
View ArticleHow Technology Will Eat Medicine
The most significant announcement that Apple made in 2014 wasn't a larger-sized iPhone. It was that Apple is entering the health care industry. With HealthKit, it is building an iTunes-like platform...
View ArticleGoogle Glass As You Know It Is Gone
It looks like Google may be giving up on getting people to buy Glass -- for now. The company is shifting strategies, shuttering the Google Glass "Explorer" program and halting sales of the $1,500...
View ArticleTaxis To Use Uber-Style Apps In Los Angeles
By Michael Fleeman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Taxi drivers in Los Angeles will be required to use an Uber-style app allowing riders to hail cabs from mobile phones, city officials decided on Thursday, in...
View ArticleUCB's 'Catchy' Trailer Shows The Real Danger Of Songs That Get Stuck In Your...
Friends don't let friends get songs stuck in their heads. It starts innocently enough. "Hey listen to this," your friend says. "You'll like it," they say. Now it's in your head. Then you play it for...
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Before They Break: Biggest Crowdfunded Gadgets of 2015
We've scoured the web sifting through hundreds of unreleased products to uncover those with the 'coolest' crowdfunding potential for 2015. In other words, hardware products with the potential to...
View ArticleIndian Woman Allegedly Raped By Uber Driver To Sue In U.S. Courts
NEW DELHI, Jan 16 (Reuters) - A woman who was allegedly raped by an Uber taxi driver in India's capital has hired a prominent lawyer to sue the online-hailing taxi service in U.S. courts. The financial...
View Article9 Witty Someecards To Send You Laughing Into The Weekend
What's the only thing better than a Friday? A Friday before a long weekend. Duh. Get the party started early with the week's most LOL-worthy Someecards. TGIF, y'all!
View ArticleAutonomous or 'Semi' Autonomous Weapons? A Distinction Without Difference
Over the new year, I was fortunate enough to be invited to speak at an event on the future of Artificial Intelligence (AI) hosted by the Future of Life Institute. The purpose of the event was to think...
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