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10 years ago+13 13 0Killer robots: If no one pulls the trigger, who's to blame?
Humanoid robots raise all sorts of ethical and legal questions.
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10 years ago+6 7 1Russian Tampax Commercial
In the U.S., tampon ads are usually over-saturated with women in white spinning, horseback riding, and doing yoga. That's why people started freaking out upon getting wind of a darker look at tampon marketing. A Russian ad for Tampax shows two w ...
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10 years ago+16 16 0Marijuana Legalization Bill Introduced in New York Senate
New York State Senator Liz Krueger introduced a bill Wednesday to tax and regulate marijuana for adult use. The bill would end the criminalization of adults 18 years and older who possess up to two ounces of marijuana and would create a regulatory sy ...
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10 years ago+23 23 0Astronomers may have found the first-ever exomoon seen by humans
We’re living in an age where astronomers can find exoplanets that we can’t actually see. What we haven’t seen yet though, is an exoplanet’s moon, as they’re much smaller than the exoplanets themselves. Now, though, astronomers at University of Notre ...
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10 years ago+15 15 05 Shocking Failures in 2013 We Should Have Seen Coming
Here are five of the most ridiculous questions we were asked in 2013 that we should've already known the answers to.
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10 years ago+18 18 0What's on Every Bank Robbers Wish List this Xmas?
The technology works by running a current through a special polymer applied to the vehicle before painting. This polymer contains particles of ‘paramagnetic’ iron oxide. With the application of an electric current, the spacing of the oxide’s crystals ...
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10 years ago+25 25 0 x 2I bought fake job references on the Internet—and it worked
Sites like CareerExcuse.com promise to not only craft an elaborate lie based on your exact job specifications but to see it through to the end.
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10 years ago+8 8 0Microsoft blasts "government snooping," pledges to enhance encryption
Xbox maker says it is "alarmed" by recent allegations of government's attempts to collect private customer data, vows to expand encryption for products and services.
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10 years ago+15 15 0Obama’s Secret Iran Détente
Long before a nuclear deal was in reach, the U.S. was quietly lifting some of the financial pressure on Iran, a Daily Beast investigation reveals. How the sanctions were softened.
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10 years ago+13 13 0FDA wants limits on most prescribed painkillers
The Food and Drug Administration is recommending new restrictions on prescription medicines containing hydrocodone, the highly addictive painkiller that has grown into the most widely prescribed drug in the U.S.
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10 years ago+9 9 0The Secrets of Online Money Laundering
Money laundering is increasingly becoming a cybercrime. Gone are the days when the bad guys would pop down to the casino and hope to convert their loot into a clean win on the roulette table. And less popular is the old scam of taking out an insuranc ...
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10 years ago+13 13 0Biggest Star Ever Found Is Ripping Apart
The largest star ever discovered may give scientists a better sense of how massive, dying stars seed the universe with the ingredients for rocky planets and even life. W26 is about 1,500 times wider than the sun, making it the biggest known star in t ...
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10 years ago+8 8 0Watch Felix Baumgartner's POV as he jumps from the stratosphere
The whole breathtaking feat, which took place in October last year, was sponsored by Red Bull and required months of training, several practice jumps, and lots of rescheduling due to gusty wind. Intermittent footage of the scary nine-minute jump had ...
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10 years ago+13 13 0Why Confidence Is So Important (and How to Improve Yours)
"Have confidence!" is one of the most essential pieces of advice you'll receive in life that makes no sense if you've never done it. You know what confident people look like, the advantages they get, and that it's something w ...
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10 years ago+11 11 0Turkish Government Aims To Create 6000-Strong Social Media Propaganda Squad
In the recent demonstrations in Istanbul, the Turkish government may have had superior police and security forces on the streets, but one area where it lost the battle was on social networks, which anti-government protesters used adroitly to get...
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10 years ago+6 7 1The ice is not melting, yet still the scaremongers blunder on
The real global warming disaster: green taxes, a suicidal energy policy and wasting billions on useless windmills.
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10 years ago+14 14 0Hong Kong's human battery hens
Claustrophobic images show how slum families squeeze their lives into the tiniest apartments
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10 years ago+5 5 0Russia Says It Will Implicate Syria's Rebels In Chemical Attack
Russia's top diplomat says his nation will give the U.N. Security Council evidence that implicates Syria's rebel forces in the Aug. 21 chemical weapons attack near Damascus, the BBC reports. Word of what Syrian President Bashar Assad's ...
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10 years ago+7 7 0Dear Apple: Good Luck Against The Smartphone Black Market
The new iPhone's fingerprint recognition technology is the company's first major effort to combat smartphone theft. But with an insatiable global appetite for the devices, will it really make a difference?
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10 years ago+9 9 0Silicon Valley's muddled quest to 'disrupt' the food world
Silicon Valley's forays into the food world have always been driven by that spirit of rebellious innovation — and are often accompanied by a lot of hyperbole.