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6 years ago+12 12 0As Hawaii Aims for 100% Renewable Energy, Other States Watching Closely
How to incorporate solar and wind while keeping the electricity grid stable is a key question
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6 years ago+17 17 0Lifefaker.com makes faking perfection easy
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6 years ago+16 16 0Instagram launches “Data Download” tool to let you leave
Two weeks ago TechCrunch called on Instagram to build an equivalent to Facebook’s “Download Your Information feature so if you wanted to leave for another photo sharing network, you could.
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6 years ago+39 39 0 x 1Don’t Give Away Historic Details About Yourself
Social media sites are littered with seemingly innocuous little quizzes, games and surveys urging people to reminisce about specific topics, such as “What was your first job,” or “What was your first car?” The problem with participating in these info ...
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6 years ago+19 19 0Productivity
I think I am at least somewhat more productive than average, and people sometimes ask me for productivity tips. So I decided to just write them all down in one place.
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6 years ago+37 37 0 x 1Credit Card Signatures Are About to Become Extinct in the U.S.
The major credit card networks are ending a requirement that people sign for most card transactions — the latest blow to the signature.
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6 years ago+16 16 0 x 1Older Americans Are ‘Hooked’ on Vitamins
Sixty-eight percent of those 65 and older take vitamin supplements. Much of what we once believed about the benefits is wrong.
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6 years ago+28 28 0Will This “Neural Lace” Brain Implant Help Us Compete with AI?
Smarter artificial intelligence is certainly being developed, but how far along are we on producing a neural lace?
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6 years ago+23 23 0Rolling Clouds Over Mt. Halcon
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6 years ago+23 23 0Denounced by His Party as a Nazi, Arthur Jones Wins Illinois G.O.P. Congressional Primary
Mr. Jones, a Holocaust denier and former member of the American Nazi Party, was the sole Republican candidate in a suburban Chicago congressional district.
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6 years ago+32 32 0 x 1For $15,000, GrayKey promises to crack iPhone passcodes for police
This palm-sized box can break your iPhone's password, giving police full access to a device's file system -- messages, photos, call logs, browsing history, keychain and user passwords, and more.
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6 years ago+32 32 0 x 1A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “100 percent fatal”
The startup accelerator Y Combinator is known for supporting audacious companies in its popular three-month boot camp.
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6 years ago+38 38 0 x 1Google will ban all cryptocurrency-related advertising
Google will stop serving any ads related to cryptocurrencies.
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6 years ago+28 28 0 x 1'Pharma bro' Martin Shkreli sentenced to 7 years in prison — says, 'This is my fault'
Shkreli was convicted last summer of securities fraud charges linked to hedge funds and a drug company he founded.
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6 years ago+34 34 0 x 1Public Invited to Come Aboard NASA’s First Mission to Touch the Sun
NASA's Parker Solar Probe mission will launch in summer 2018 to travel closer to the Sun than any spacecraft before it, facing brutal heat and radiation conditions. And you can send your name along for the ride.
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6 years ago+32 32 0 x 2The Dirty Secret of ‘Secret Family Recipes’
Surprisingly often, they're copied from mayo jars and famous cookbooks.
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6 years ago+12 12 0Why almost no one is making a living on YouTube
A new study finds that the odds of striking it rich on the video service, or even making a modest living, are tiny.
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6 years ago+32 32 0 x 1LSD is 'harmonizing' for the brain — and can change your personality for years, studies find
Your brain on LSD is kind of like jazz improvisation. That’s according to Selen Atasoy, a research fellow at the Center for Brain and Cognition at the Pompeu Fabra University in Spain. She was among the authors of a study published in the journal Sc ...
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6 years ago+35 35 0 x 2Late sleepers are tired of being discriminated against. And science has their back.
Some people have a biological clock naturally set to a later time.
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6 years ago+10 10 0Facebook's algorithm has wiped out a once flourishing digital publisher
Facebook's recent algorithm change severely throttled traffic to LittleThings and caused its profit to plummet, the company says.