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10 years ago+14 14 0Teen Posts Joke on Twitter, Internet Orders Her to Kill Herself
On January 1st, Twitter user Safiyyah Nawaz started a joke, which started the whole world crying for her head on a silver platter.
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10 years ago+19 19 0 x 1This pickup truck is made of ice and you can actually drive it
Behold the first self-propelled ice sculpture ever—a truck made of ice that actually works! It's a real truck, using 11,000 pounds of ice over a regular truck chassis complete with engine and electrical system. Check out the videos to see how th ...
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10 years ago+9 9 0Former US drone operator: 'We always wonder if we killed the right people'
As the debate over military drone use rages on, The Guardian has published an unexpected voice on the topic, that of a former US drone operator who openly questions the program. An imagery analyst for the Air Force from 2009 to 2012, Heather Linebaug ...
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10 years ago+24 24 0The NSA Actually Intercepted Packages to Put Backdoors in Electronics
The NSA revelations keep on coming, and if you're feeling desensitized to the whole thing it's time to refocus and get your game face on for 2014. Because shit continues to get real.
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10 years ago+14 14 0N.S.A. Phone Surveillance Is Lawful, Federal Judge Rules
A federal judge in New York on Friday ruled that the National Security Agency’s program that is systematically keeping phone records of all Americans is lawful, creating a conflict among lower courts and increasing the likelihood that the issue will ...
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10 years ago+21 22 1Government Scientists Created Crude Oil from Algae in Mere Minutes
Be excited, Earthlings, because science has a surprise for you. Engineers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have devised a way to turn algae into crude oil in less than an hour. That oil can then be refined into ...
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10 years ago+19 19 0Here’s Digg founder Kevin Rose’s idea for a new blogging platform called Tiny
Digg founder, Google Ventures partner, and Web personality Kevin Rose has a new blogging platform idea called Tiny. He published a prototype video on YouTube today which offers a glimpse into his thinking. In his mind, the idea would be to allow read ...
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10 years ago+20 20 0 x 4Meet the Robot Telemarketer Who Denies She's A Robot
The phone call came from a charming woman with a bright, engaging voice to the cell phone of a TIME Washington Bureau Chief Michael Scherer. She wanted to offer a deal on health insurance, but something was fishy.
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10 years ago+18 18 0Why You Might Want to Rethink Going Gluten-Free
Going gluten-free is all the rage these days. It's the diet of choice for Hollywood starlets and health nuts alike; supermarket aisles are packed full of products touting their lack of the stretchy protein. But for a lot of people, the gluten-fr ...
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10 years ago+44 44 0 x 1FBI can secretly turn on laptop cameras without the indicator light
Scary. Insane. Ridiculous. Invasive. Wrong. The Washington Post reports that the FBI has had the ability to secretly activate a computer's camera "without triggering the light that lets users know it is recording" for years now. What i ...
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10 years ago+9 9 0New Hi-Res Footage Shows Saturn's Mysterious Hexagon Like Never Before
You're looking at a newly released 8-frame movie of Saturn's enigmatic "hexagon." It is the highest-resolution footage ever acquired of the massive six-sided maelstrom atop the ringed planet's north pole, and boy howdy is it ...
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10 years ago+14 14 0 x 2A Glittering LED Wonderland That People Are Waiting Hours to See
Walking into one of Yayoi Kusama’s infinity rooms is like walking into a completely different universe. The door shuts behind you, and suddenly you find yourself surrounded by what appears to be a galaxy of shimmering LEDs. The scene is beautiful, in ...
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10 years ago+12 12 0Microsoft’s Project Spark DIY Game Creation Software Beta Begins Today
Microsoft has recognized that people appreciate the chance to make their own stuff, possibly due to the success of PlayStation exclusive LittleBigPlanet, and that's why it created Project Spark, previewed back in June at E3. Spark is an even mor ...
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10 years ago+13 13 0 x 1Delivery drones are coming: Jeff Bezos promises half-hour shipping with Amazon Prime Air
Jeff Bezos is nothing if not a showman. Amazon's CEO loves a good reveal, and took the opportunity afforded by a 60 Minutes segment to show off his company's latest creation: drones that can...
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10 years ago+13 13 0Xbox One Has The Best Error Messages
If you swear in a private Skype call on the Xbox One you get this half-sentence
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10 years ago+12 12 010,000-year-old house among amazing finds unearthed in Israel
Archaeologists say they've uncovered some stunning finds while digging at a construction site in Israel, including stone axes, a "cultic" temple and traces of a 10,000-year-old house.
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10 years ago+16 16 0Art Makes You Smart
FOR many education advocates, the arts are a panacea: They supposedly increase test scores, generate social responsibility and turn around failing schools. Most of the supporting evidence, though, does little more than establish correlations between ...
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10 years ago+13 13 0City Bans Residents From Smoking In Their Own Homes
The California city of San Rafael might be one of the more beautiful places in the country, but if you’re a smoker, it might not be the place for you. Last week, the San Francisco suburb made active a smoking ban that officials say is the strictest i ...
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10 years ago+29 29 0 x 2NSA infected 50,000 computer networks with malicious software
The American intelligence service - NSA - infected more than 50,000 computer networks worldwide with malicious software designed to steal sensitive information. Documents provided by former NSA-employee Edward Snowden and seen by this newspaper, prov ...
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10 years ago+12 13 1US and UK struck secret deal to allow NSA to 'unmask' Britons' personal data
The phone, internet and email records of UK citizens not suspected of any wrongdoing have been analysed and stored by America's National Security Agency under a secret deal that was approved by British intelligence officials, according to docume ...