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9 hours ago
Analysis ApolatiaShould a self-driving car kill the baby or the grandma? Depends on where you’re from.
The infamous “trolley problem” was put to millions of people in a global study, revealing how much ethics diverge across cultures.
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2 days ago
Analysis Apolatia
Netflix Could Lose 8% of Consumers with $1 Price Increase: Study
Research firm The Diffusion Group conducted user survey just before the streaming service upped its monthly subscriber cost.
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2 days ago
Analysis Apolatia
Twitter warns private tweets went public
A security flaw meant many private messages were readable for years said Twitter.
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2 days ago
Analysis Apolatia
Delivery Drones Use Bird-Inspired Legs to Jump Into the Air
Passerine's fixed-wing drones can take off (and land) using a pair of legs.
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5 days ago
Analysis Apolatia
China's cotton seeds sprout on Moon
The seeds, inside a sealed container, are the first plants ever grown on the Moon's surface.
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6 days ago
Current Event Apolatia
Tidal under criminal investigation in Norway over 'faked' streams
It's accused of meddling with Beyoncé and Kanye West's play counts.
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6 days ago
Current Event Apolatia
Egg picture beats Kylie Jenner as most-liked Instagram post of all time
‘What a time to be alive’
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9 days ago
Expression Apolatia
The Rise and Demise of RSS
Before the internet was consolidated into centralized information silos, RSS imagined a better way to let users control their online personas.
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9 days ago
Analysis Apolatia
Software patents poised to make a comeback under new patent office rules
New rule narrows landmark 2014 Supreme Court decision limiting software patents.
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11 days ago
Analysis Apolatia
Before Electric Cars Takes Over, Someone Needs to Reinvent the Battery
Solid-state technology could help speed the demise of the combustion-engine car.
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2 weeks ago
Analysis Apolatia
Facebook Knows How to Track You Using the Dust on Your Camera Lens
Facebook has long said that it doesn’t use location data to make friend suggestions, but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t thought about using it.
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2 weeks ago
Expression Apolatia
The fate of self-driving cars hangs on a $7 trillion design problem
Waymo One is the world’s first self-driving taxi service. Just two rides in, and we’re already bored of the future.
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2 weeks ago
Expression Apolatia
Happy 10th birthday, bitcoin. It’s amazing you still exist.
The cryptocurrency has survived false prophets, blaggers and fiendish technical complexity, writes novelist Tibor Fischer
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2 weeks ago
Analysis Apolatia
Mickey Mouse and Batman will soon be public domain—here’s what that means
The Internet stopped another copyright extension without firing a shot.
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3 weeks ago
Video/Audio Apolatia
Late 1890s - A Trip Through Paris, France (speed corrected w/ added sound)
A collection of high quality remastered prints from the dawn of film taken in Belle Époque-era Paris, France from 1896-1900. Slowed down footage to a natural rate and added in sound for ambiance.
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3 weeks ago
Analysis Apolatia
As Bitcoin sinks, industry startups are forced to cut back
Bitmain, Huobi, ConsenSys and Steemit are among the cryptocurrency startups to complete layoffs in the last month.
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3 weeks ago
Analysis Apolatia
PewDiePie's Battle for the Soul of the Internet - Quillette
This is a story about the question of who holds power over what we can say, hear, watch and read on the internet—an increasingly urgent issue that many ordinary people have cause to think about every day. And yet the protagonist in this story, the man whose fate symbolizes the future of social media and the corporate web that controls it, is unknown to the vast majority of educated readers. That man is PewDiePie, a Swedish comedian whose real name is Felix Kjellberg. With 77-million subscriber...
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3 weeks ago
Comment Apolatia
Nightmares suck so I'm happy smart people are looking into limiting or eliminating them.
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3 weeks ago
Analysis Apolatia
Facebook is not equipped to stop the spread of authoritarianism
Facebook isn't responsible for government decisions to clamp down on free expression. But the question remains: How can companies stop assisting authoritarian governments, inadvertently or otherwise?
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3 weeks ago
Analysis Apolatia
The year social networks were no longer social
The term “social network” has become a meaningless association of words. Pair those two words and it becomes a tech category, the equivalent of a single term to define a group of products.
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1 month ago
Current Event Apolatia
Apple confirms some iPad Pros ship slightly bent, but says it’s normal
Apple’s newest iPad Pro might have a small bend out of the box.
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1 month ago
Current Event Apolatia
Army called in to help with Gatwick airport drones problem
Airport still closed after what police describe as deliberate attempt to disrupt flights
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1 month ago
Current Event Apolatia
Amazon error allowed Alexa user to eavesdrop on another home
A user of Amazon’s (AMZN.O) Alexa voice assistant in Germany got access to more than a thousand recordings from another user because of “a human error” by the company. The customer had asked to listen back to recordings of his own activities made by Alexa but he was also able to access 1,700 audio files from a stranger when Amazon sent him a link, German trade publication c’t reported.