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Human or Machine: Can You Tell Who Wrote These Poems?
Can a computer write a sonnet that's indistinguishable from what a person can produce? A contest at Dartmouth attempted to find out. With our online quiz, you too can give it a try.
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Here’s What Happened the Day the Dinosaurs Died
An impact calculator helps scientists paint a vivid picture of the immediate aftermath of the deadly asteroid strike.
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Fire-arrows!
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What Would Happen To You If All The Bees Die?
Bees are essential for human existence, but sadly they're all dying. Why are they dying, and what happens if they disappear?
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A Fresh Mobile Experience & Our Upcoming Community Expansion
TL;DR: Mobile browsing is better than ever. Tribes are getting more functionality and will be easier to discover. And finally, tribe leadership is getting more power to better organize, moderate, and spread/share the content posted in their communities.
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Alien life on most exoplanets likely dies young
Astronomers have found a plethora of planets around nearby stars. And it appears that Earth-sized planets in habitable zones are probably common.
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You Are Two
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Toyota is closing in on a deal to buy Google's robotics company Boston Dynamics, and the...
Google is in talks with the Toyota Research Institute to sell its robotics division Boston Dynamics, a source familiar with the matter told Tech Insider. A price for the deal has not yet been disclosed, but this person says the "ink is nearly dry." Tensions between Google and Boston Dynamics have been brewing since 2014, but a video released by Boston Dynamics in February of its humanoid robot, Atlas, was the tipping point for the separation, according to a Bloomberg article written in March.
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The inside of a Leatherback Turtle's mouth
The nightmarish interior of the Leatherback Turtle's mouth
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How dogs find their way home (without a GPS)
There is more than pure instinct helping lost dogs find their homes.
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Pluto Is Looking More Like A Planet After All
Pluto may have recently been demoted to the status of dwarf planet, but as astronomers learn more about this distant body, they are learning it behaves more like a planet than once believed. This frigid globe is able to interact with solar wind in a way that is much like its larger cousins. The New Horizons team is still interpreting vast amounts of data recorded by the spacecraft as it whizzed past Pluto in the summer of 2015.
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Should We Really Be Keeping Cats And Dogs — And Geckos — As Pets?
Bioethicist Jessica Pierce includes pets — or "animal companions" — among her family members: a cat, two dogs and fish. So, it's startling to read this passage near the beginning of her new book released this week, Run, Spot, Run: The Ethics of Keeping Pets...
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NASA stitched together thousands of Hubble images to create this mesmerizing galaxy zoom
Now you can experience what it's like to travel to the center of the galaxy in a video that NASA created from images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Disney files patent for near instantaneous 3D printing
Disney Research has filed a patent for a 3D printing technology that uses high-intensity light to harden photo-sensitive resin in a single process, removing the need for layer-by-layer printing. The patent describes a machine for printing in "a nearly instantaneous manner." "Presently, 3D printing is extremely slow and time consuming. For example, it may take several hours to print a single 3D object even if the 3D object is relatively small (e.g., several inches...
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Becoming Conscious: A Neurosurgeon Discusses His Transformational Experience
In 2008, neurosurgeon Eben Alexander, MD, woke up in excruciating pain. Within hours, he was in full grand mal seizure and was rushed to the hospital. The diagnosis was a rare and usually fatal form of E. coli bacterial meningitis, and his prognosis was grim. For seven days he lay in a deep coma. Despite the overwhelming odds against his survival, he not only woke up, but...
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Sites that block adblockers seem to be suffering
Alexa figures for sites deterring adblocking users seem to show some correlation between the blockades and declining figures.
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Why Luck Matters—Much More Than You Think
I'm a lucky man. Perhaps the most extreme example of my considerable good fortune occurred one chilly Ithaca morning in November 2007, while I was playing tennis with my longtime friend and collaborator, the Cornell psychologist Tom Gilovich. He later told me that early in the second set, I complained of feeling nauseated. The next thing he knew, I was lying motionless on the court. He yelled for someone to call 911, and then started pounding on my chest...
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The Mysterious Death of the First Man in Space
On April 12, 1961—55 years ago today—Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin launched into the great beyond, becoming the first human in space. When he came back to Earth, Gagarin was looked upon as not just a hero, but the very embodiment of the Soviet Union's power. Streets were named after him. Monuments were erected. Khrushchev called him the Russian Christopher Columbus. And then he was gone. Less than seven years after his history-making mission, Gagarin died in a plane crash at only...
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The Strange Case of the Woman Who Can’t Remember Her Past—Or Imagine Her Future
Meet the first person ever diagnosed with severely deficient autobiographical memory. She knows facts about her life but can't mentally relive any of it.
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Giant, Slo-Mo Kitty Demonstrates Why Cats Always Land on Their Feet
Ever wonder why cats always land on their feet? It's an amazing ability that has given them the reputation for having "nine lives," responsible for hours of internet cat video viewing.
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Finally, You Can See Dinosaurs in All Their Feathered Glory
A new exhibit in New York challenges the popular view of dinos as green, scaly beasts and showcases their links to today's birds.
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"TED CRUZ"
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The Panama Papers Could Lead to Capitalism's Great Crisis
It’s hard to know where to start in tallying up the explosive revelations in the Panama Papers, an analysis of leaked documents from global law firm Mossack Fonseca revealed by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Yes, we’ve known for a while now that the shadow financial system was growing. But it’s another thing to take in 11.5 million documents showing the way in which Mossack Fonseca was working with big name financial groups like UBS...
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The Poisons, Potions, and Charms of Shakespeare’s Plays
Potions, poisons, and symbolic herbs are frequent plot devices in the plays of William Shakespeare, and reflect the medical knowledge of his time.
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400 reporters kept the Panama Papers secret for a year. Here's how they pulled it off.
First: invite only journalists known for collaboration.
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A New Way of Walking
Artist-explorers called psychogeographers are changing the way we experience the city
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Do we live in a special part of the universe?
We've already talked about how you're living at the center of the universe. Now, I'm not going to say that the whole universe revolves around you… but we both know it does. So does this mean that there's something special about where we live?
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Border Wall (HBO)
Donald Drumpf wants to build a wall on the U.S-Mexico border. Is his plan feasible?
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[Optimization] This morning we released an update optimizing content creation and editing amongst...
Hi everyone, we are back!
This morning we released a performance update that targets content creation areas like the SCP (Snap Creation Process) as well as the process of editing content (snaps / text posts) and or using the bookmarklet function in general. Doing the following things should be significantly faster for everyone:
- Using the bookmarklet - It used to take an average of 15-20 seconds to process a page and create a snap for editing, now we hope it takes 1/4th that even during peak hours!
- Adding or Editing Snap title & intro - There was an issue that caused saving the title take an unacceptable amount of time, we hope to be hovering at around 1-2 seconds for this now.
- Adding/Searching Tribes - Prior to the update we experienced delays in searching and adding tribes to snaps, at times it took a while for tribes to appear when being added, this should be fixed now as well.
- Adding/Editing Content Modules - All content modules should be working faster!
Even after extended sandbox testing we can never be 100% sure that we wont run into any performance issues, so if you notice something taking a longer then expected please get in touch with us by shooting off an email to support@snapzu.com or you can PM /u/drunkenninja directly to describe the problem.
There is however some bitter with the sweet in this update. The search function had to be disabled for a number of reasons as we work to overhaul our platform's backend for better performance and optimization. We should have the search functionality back in no time at all however, we expect it to be offline for no more than a few days, a week at most.
Thanks everyone, and happy snapping!
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