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Praying mantises get extra-tiny 3D glasses to test their vision
While 3D video may not be very popular these days, someone's still wearing 3D glasses -- or rather, something. Newcastle University scientists are
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This Alaskan Frog Can Survive Getting Frozen and Thawed
While human cryogenics is still in its pie-in-the-sky, butt-of-the-joke phase, a frog that lives in Alaska's subzero temperatures can pull off a surprisingly similar feat. Scientists have now documented the wood frog surviving through its longest and
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Inside the ‘DarkMarket’ Prototype, a Silk Road the FBI Can Never Seize | Threat Level | WIRED
The Silk Road, for all its clever uses of security protections like Tor and Bitcoin to protect the site's lucrative drug trade, still offered its enemies a single point of failure. When the FBI seized the server that hosted the market, the billion-do
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IBM Watson Group to transform the consumer shopping experience
Imagine having access to your own personal shopping assistant anytime, anywhere. Thanks to a partnership between IBM and Fluid Inc., the ultimate shopping advisor, powered by Watson, is poised to transform the consumer shopping experience.
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Lost Andy Warhol artworks discovered on Amiga floppies from the '80s
Rediscovered artwork like a napkin Picasso or unearthed Matisse can be identified on sight, but pieces crafted in the digital age by pop-artist
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Glow-in-the-dark roads hit the streets in the Netherlands
One stretch of road in the Netherlands may make you feel like you're cruising through a video game. A new glow-in-the-dark pavement has replaced
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Here's Amazon's phone: six cameras and a 4.7-inch screen
Rumors of an Amazon-made phone are nothing new, but today the rumors enter reality more firmly: what you see above is what BGR claims is the Amazon's
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Police Are Testing a
In Compton last year, police began quietly testing a system that allowed them to do something incredible: Watch every car and person in real time as they ebbed and flowed around the city. Every assault, every purse snatched, every car speeding away was on
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LogAnalysis maps the structure of gangs using phone records
It's no surprise that law enforcement agencies use mobile phone records to investigate criminal activity, but a platform called LogAnalysis could
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This cool pad and pen lets you sketch in 3D using augmented reality
Gravity is a pen and pad that allows to sketch in 3D space using augmented reality. The cool patent-pending system hardware and software system has gone through several working prototypes and now they are looking to start manufacturing. Check out the vide
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Nakamoto Hires Lawyer in Newsweek Bitcoin Fight
The man Newsweek claimed is the creator of bitcoin has hired a lawyer in an attempt to clear his name, repeating a denial he made to The Associated Press more than a week ago that he has never had anything to do with the digital currency. In a statement i
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This Guy Had a TV In His Taxi Before Most People Had One At Home
Less than 1 percent of American households had a TV set in 1948. But if you were lucky enough to hail a special cab in Chicago during the summer of '48, you got a brief taste of America's television-obsessed future.
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Muscle Made From Fishing Wire Is 100x Stronger Than Yours
Synthetic muscles are generally expensive, weak, and not very durable--not exactly a welcome replacement for natural muscle. Thankfully, a research team led by University of Texas at Dallas Professor Ray Baughman just turned all of that around, making wic
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Why Your Mouse Cursor Is Slanted Instead of Straight
Have you ever wondered why your mouse cursor rests ever so slightly to the left? Chances are, that little arrow on an incline is so ubiquitous that you've never even thought twice about its 45-degree lean. As it turns out, there's a very good reas
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A Gorgeous Inkless Pen That Never Needs a Refill
Pininfarina is known for turning Ferraris and other exotic cars into even more impressive works of art, so it's a safe assumption that its new 4.EVER Pininfarina Cambiano writing instrument is going to cost a small fortune when available. But with an
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DOT and NHTSA push for vehicle-to-vehicle communication
The DOT and NHTSA announce plans to bring rules for making connected vehicles a real thing in the US in the not-too-distant future.
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IBM spins Jeopardy-dominating Watson robot into a billion dollar business group
Ever since it was unveiled four years ago, Watson has been the factotum of the robotics world, working a slew of gigs in hospitals, on Wall Street and
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The World's First Supersonic Private Jet Will Only Cost $80 Million
For the world's super-wealthy CEOs, time is money. To minimize how long corporate leaders are away from the helm of their empires, start-up Spike Aerospace wants to deliver them to their destinations in half the time of conventional planes by shuttlin
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Research shows eye-reflections in photos could be used to identify criminals
Did you ever watch CSI's tech boffins zoom into a photo, grab the reflection in someone's eye, and through processing magic generate a full facial image
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Inside TAO: Documents Reveal Top NSA Hacking�Unit - SPIEGEL ONLINE
The NSA's TAO hacking unit is considered to be the intelligence agency's top secret weapon. It maintains its own covert network, infiltrates computers around the world and even intercepts shipping deliveries to plant back doors in electronics ordered by t
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Scientists develop an 'elixir' that reverses a known cause of aging
To date, we know of only two things that can reverse the effects of aging: caloric restriction and extensive exercise. But in a recent experiment, researchers applied a new compound to 2-year old mice, causing their muscles to regenerate to 6-month old le
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The Bedazzling Charm of Glow-in-the-Dark Sidewalks
U.K.-based resurfacing company Pro-Teq is currently testing Starpath, an ultraviolet-powered glow-in-the-dark pedestrian footpath in a Victorian park in Cambridge, England, that hopes to revolutionize the way we light our public spaces. Starpath is create
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Soviets Spent $1 Billion on
Not to be outdone by U.S. military research that inspired men to stare at goats, the Soviets also seem to have poured a nice chunk of change into investigating telekinesis and mind control. A new survey of Soviet
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What Surveillance Valley knows about you
Google is very secretive about the exact nature of its for-profit intel operation and how it uses the petabytes of data it collects on us every single day for financial gain. Fortunately, though, w...
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Scientists Boil Water in Less Than a Trillionth Of a Second
With a breakthrough that will hopefully eventually trickle down to tea kettles, coffee machines, and even showerheads, researchers at the Hamburg Center for Free-Electron Laser Science in Germany have devised a way to boil water to 600 degrees celsius in
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Bill Gates Was This Reddit User's Secret Santa
Rachel was just one of the thousands of Reddit user's who signed up to participate in the site's annual Secret Santa gift exchange event -- that is, until she learned her own Secret Santa was none other than Bill Freakin' Gates.
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Meet the Robot Telemarketer Who Denies She's A Robot
Our encounter with an all-too-convincing robot.
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Face to Anti-Face
How fashion can be used as camouflage from face-detection technology.
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Over 60 Percent of Internet Traffic Is Now Driven By Bots
Chances are that, if you're visiting this page, you're not a human. A new study reveals that 61.5 percent of all website traffic is generated by automated bots. Hi, robot!
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How do you control a spermbot? Try a magnetic field.
Tiny hybrid robots could shepherd individual sperm to eggs to help fertilisation, or to deliver targeted doses of drugs
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These animated optical illusions aren't actually moving
It's okay to be fooled by these 'animated' optical illusions. They totally look like they're moving. Hell, the cat watching them was fooled too. But the truth is, they're all just a masterful visual trick. The image isn't actually
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It was illegal for Amazon to shoot that drone video in the U.S., so it went abroad
This shows how much the United States lags behind other countries when it comes to drones.
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N3twork: A New Tool for Curating the Unruly Web
A San Francisco start-up is unveiling an iPhone and iPad app to help users more easily find and curate the best content on the Web.
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Waze speeds up its sat nav app with quicker search and simpler interface
Even though Waze is now under Google's umbrella, it's continued to operate as if nothing has changed, other than the fact that it now has a billion
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Megatons To Megawatts: Russian Warheads Fuel U.S. Power Plants
After the Cold War, Russia converted surplus uranium to nuclear fuel for power plants — in the U.S.
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Our Drone Future, A Video That Imagines a Future San Francisco Monitored by Security Drones
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