Post Overview
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7 years ago+5 5 0US quits Unesco over 'anti-Israel bias'
The UN cultural organisation says the withdrawal is a loss to the "UN family".
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7 years ago+14 14 0Kurzweil Claims That the Singularity Will Happen by 2045
At the SXSW Conference in Austin, Texas, Ray Kurzweil made yet another prediction: the technological singularity will happen sometime in the next 30 years.
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7 years ago+15 15 0Yahoo now believes all 3 billion of its accounts affected by 2013 breach
Yahoo’s massive data breach revealed last year affected all of its 3 billion accounts, the company announced on Tuesday, triple the number that it had said were impacted when it revealed the breach last year.
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7 years ago+25 25 0Tesla is sending hundreds of battery packs to power outage-ridden Puerto Rico
Earlier this month, we reported on survivors of hurricane Irma, which hit the islands of Caribbean communities, including Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, writing ‘SEND TESLA’ with the debris of their destroyed home.
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7 years ago+16 16 0Caffeine and Parkinson’s: One researcher, two studies, and opposite results. What happens?
In August of 2012, Ronald Postuma, MD, a neurologist from McGill University, performed a study along with several coauthors which suggested that caffeine improves debilitating movement symptoms in people with Parkinson’s disease.
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7 years ago+17 17 0Elon Musk’s new plans for a moon base and a Mars mission by 2022
SpaceX aims to launch spaceships to Mars within five years with a new rocket design that could also be used on Earth to make rapid around-the-globe trips
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7 years ago+25 25 0Dildon'ts of Bluetooth: Pen test boffins sniff out Berlin's smart butt plugs
You've heard of wardriving – say hello to screwdriving
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7 years ago+26 26 0Internet-wide security update put on hold over fears 60 million people would be kicked offline
ICANN delays KSK rollover after new data derails plans
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7 years ago+21 21 0Alleged dark web drug baron cuffed – after he flew to US for World Beard Championships
Hirsute French hipster 'found with $500,000 in BTC'
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7 years ago+18 18 0Giving you more characters to express yourself - Twitter
Trying to cram your thoughts into a Tweet – we’ve all been there, and it’s a pain.
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7 years ago+24 24 0CBS's Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers' web browsers
Who placed the JavaScript code on two primetime dot-coms? So far, it's a mystery
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7 years ago+20 20 0NBD: Adobe just dumped its PRIVATE PGP key on the internet
Change the name to A-d'oh!-be
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7 years ago+21 21 0Distrustful U.S. allies force spy agency to back down in encryption fight
An international group of cryptography experts has forced the U.S. National Security Agency to back down over two data encryption techniques it wanted set as global industry standards, reflecting deep mistrust among close U.S. allies.
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Analysis
7 years ago+18 18 0Is this Britain’s most influential bridge?
Nestled upon the banks of the River Severn lies the Shropshire town of Ironbridge, a modest Victorian settlement with a world-changing history.
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7 years ago+30 30 0 x 1Toys 'R' Us files for bankruptcy in US
The once dominant toy retailer has struggled against larger rivals such as Amazon and Walmart.
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7 years ago+13 13 0The Science Museum And The Natural History Museum Are Fighting On Twitter, And It's Amazing
London has two of the most glorious and wonderful museums the world has ever seen: the Natural History Museum – full of dinosaurs and volcanoes – and the Science Museum, full of bright lights, rockets and shiny things. It’s difficult to say which is ...
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7 years ago+10 10 03% of scientific papers deny climate change — and evidence shows they are flawed
It is, in fact, getting hot in here.
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7 years ago+15 15 0Intelligence director pulls national security BS on spying question
Senator Wyden not happy with continued obfuscation
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7 years ago+24 24 0Mysterious lights in the sky seen after Mexico’s huge earthquake
Magnitude isn’t the only demonstration of an earthquake’s power. For centuries, mysterious lights have popped up in the wake of strong quakes
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7 years ago+38 38 0 x 1Using DNA As a Memory Drive
Scientists have successfully encoded a simple movie in bacteria DNA, and played it back. Using DNA for data storage is not as crazy as it sounds...