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9 years ago+16 16 0‘Imagination gap’: We need more radical science fiction to inspire future technology
Radical sci-fi ideas are key to predicting and shaping the future of technology but technology might be outpacing our imaginations, warned Philip Byrne and Jed Hallam yesterday.
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9 years ago+19 19 0Japan Sinks Into Recession (Again)
An unexpected contraction in quarterly GDP shows that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s radical economic program is badly broken.
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9 years ago+16 16 0Top London hotel stops selling alcohol because 'owner does not want to make profit from it'
Alcohol is no longer being served at the bar and grill of a top London hotel because its new owner 'doesn’t wish to make a profit from it', according to staff.
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9 years ago+24 25 1 x 1Japan's levitating train tops 310mph
Train fans have experienced the speed of super-fast maglev trains, during test runs for members of the public in central Japan. One hundred passengers whizzed along a 42.8km (27 mile) route between the cities of Uenohara and Fuefuki, reaching speeds ...
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9 years ago+10 10 0Banning begging in super-wealthy Norway
Residents here know Margel Nikoleta as the last beggar in town. On a recent weekday, she set up camp on Arendal's main square to ask passersby for money. Some greeted her warmly and dropped a few coins in her paper cup. Today, the way Nikoleta s ...
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9 years ago+19 19 0Report: The U.S. is putting fake cell towers in planes to spy on people
The U.S. Department of Justice is putting devices that emulate cellphone towers in Cessna aircraft and flying them around the country to track the locations of cell phones, a practice that targets criminal suspects but may also affect thousands of U. ...
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9 years ago+14 15 1How the Word “OK” Was Invented 175 Years Ago
"OK" is one of the most common words in the English language, but linguistically it's a relative newbie. It's just 150 years old, and traces its roots back to 19th century Boston. Rather than anyone purposefully inventing "OK ...
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9 years ago+17 17 0Yes, Time Travel Is Possible; Here's How
Time travel's been one of man's wildest fantasies for centuries. It's long been a popular trend in movies and fiction, inspiring everything from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol to H.G. Wells' The Time Machine to the Charlt ...
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9 years ago+15 15 0After Snowden slams Dropbox (twice), CEO responds: 'It's a trade-off'
Edward Snowden has thrown rocks at file storage service Dropbox on two occasions. The first time, the U.S. surveillance whistleblower called it "hostile to privacy." The second? He simply called on its users to "get rid" of it.
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9 years ago+15 15 0 x 1The people who want their language to disappear
It's not unusual to hear about attempts to save a disappearing language - but in one place in rural California, some Native Americans actually want their language to die out with them.
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9 years ago+10 10 0Google reveals first working Project Ara prototype
Just six months since Google unveiled designs of its Project Ara handsets, engineers have already created the first working prototype. Dubbed Spiral 1, an engineer is shown turning on the device, unlocking it and launching an app during a video filme ...
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9 years ago+14 14 0What is antimatter?
R. Michael Barnett of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Helen Quinn of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center offer this answer, portions of which are paraphrased from their book The Charm of Strange Quarks
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9 years ago+1 2 1The Red Cross’ Secret Disaster
N 2012, TWO MASSIVE STORMS pounded the United States, leaving hundreds of thousands of people homeless, hungry or without power for days and weeks. Americans did what they so often do after disasters. They sent hundreds of millions of dollars to the ...
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9 years ago+25 25 0 x 4Stop Buying DLC
To really understand the vastness of the Video Games industry, you need to know some numbers. $22.2 billion annually in North America alone. Hundreds of millions of players worldwide. Million-dollar prize pools. International sales projected to doubl ...
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9 years ago+11 11 0Verizon's 'Perma-Cookie' Is a Privacy-Killing Machine
Verizon Wireless has been subtly altering the web traffic of its wireless customers for the past two years, inserting a string of about 50 letters, numbers, and characters into data flowing between these customers and the websites they visit.
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9 years ago+25 25 0 x 1New York axe attack: Man dead, two police officers injured
A MAN wielding an axe has turned a busy New York street corner into a scene of bloody chaos, chopping one cop in the back of the head and slicing a second cop in the arm before two other officers shot him dead on the spot.
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9 years ago+11 11 0China is staging a nationwide attack on iCloud and Microsoft accounts
China got its first official shipments of new iPhones last week, but a new report from web censorship watchdog Great Fire indicates Chinese users may be facing an unpleasant surprise when they try to connect to Apple services at large. As of last nig ...
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9 years ago+24 24 0 x 2How Is a Genius Different From a Really Smart Person?
The most intelligent two percent of people in the world. These are the people who qualify for membership in Mensa, an exclusive international society open only to people who score at or above the 98th percentile on an IQ or other standardized intelli ...
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9 years ago+12 12 0Google's Project Ara has a projected release date: January 2015
The most exciting innovation in the mobile market finally has a release date. According to CNET, Google announced today at the Project Ara developers conference that its first modular smartphone will go on sale in January 2015 for the low price of $5 ...
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9 years ago+14 14 0Tasmanian devil killed in violent attack in US zoo
A Tasmanian devil has been killed in a US zoo by an unknown attacker who struck it on the head with a block of asphalt. Jasper, a four-year-old male, was shipped to Albuquerque BioPark Zoo from the Healesville Sanctuary in Victoria last December.