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10 years ago+11 11 0Incredible colorized historical photos make the past seem incredibly real
Over the last couple years, an increasingly popular trend online has been to create and share colorized photos from history. Artists such as Dana Keller and Sanna Dullaway take intriguing old black-and-white photos and bring them to life with color a ...
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10 years ago+10 10 0Cop Resigns After Alleged Affair With Drug Dealer
An undercover Arizona police officer has resigned and is under investigation following allegations that she had an affair with a drug dealer she was investigating, jeopardizing the months-long investigation and blowing the cover of fellow officers.
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10 years ago+23 23 0 x 1Google engineers issue 'fuck you' to NSA over surveillance scandal
Two Google engineers recently took to Google+ to give blistering public critiques of the ongoing NSA surveillance scandal. Both posts come in the wake of last week’s Washington Post story that outlined the NSA’s clandestine interception of Google and ...
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10 years ago+12 12 0A Brief History of Dude
Contemplate this, dude: that when I call you dude, there’s a whole range of things I might mean—you’ll understand me from my intonation and the overall context—but each time, I’m also reinforcing a specific kind of social relationship. No matter how ...
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10 years ago+10 10 0Biohacker Implants Smartphone-Sized Sensor Into His Arm
Biohacker Tim Cannon, the so-called “DIY Cyborg," implanted a Circadia 1.0 computer chip the size of a smartphone under the skin of his forearm. The wirelessly charged sensor, developed over the course of 18 months by Cannon and his fellow hacke ...
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10 years ago+11 11 0 x 1Exclusive images show skydivers' terrifying collision and chaotic plunge
The cameras strapped to the skydivers' helmets were supposed to memorialize their perfectly timed jumps and exhilarating descent from two small planes to the earth 12,000 feet below.
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10 years ago+14 14 0The Scientifically Best Time to Drink Your Coffee
Many coffee drinkers roll out of bed and get their daily dose of java as soon as possible. Because of the way coffee affects our bodies, though, there may be more ideal times to drink it.
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10 years ago+15 15 0 x 1After I Saw This, I Put Down My Phone And Didn’t Pick It Up For The Rest Of The Day
I am guilty of this, so seeing this made me sad. I'm going to try to change my habits - for my family, my friends, and myself. How about you?
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10 years ago+10 10 0Olivet Middle School Football Players Create Secret Play For Teammate With Disabilities
Jocks don't have a reputation for always being nice to the little guy. But this middle school football team went above and beyond for a teammate, and their plan to lift up a student with behavioral and learning disabilities is an amazing example ...
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10 years ago+10 11 1 x 1How One Hacker's Mistake Fashioned the Internet You Use Today
The Department of Defense thought the Russians were attacking. An MIT computer called PREP was the first to be penetrated. It was Nov. 2, 1988, and the time was approximately 8 p.m. Within hours and into the following morning, an estimated 10% of all ...
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10 years ago+15 15 0Supermodel's Awesome Halloween Transformation Into Old Lady
For Halloween this year, Heidi Klum didn't really dress up. It's more accurate to say she transformed herself for her annual New York City bash. Klum amazed onlookers as she arrived as an old lady and was completely unrecognizable.
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10 years ago+20 20 0 x 1A Real-Time Map of Births and Deaths
In 1950, there were 2.5 billion humans. Today there are just over 7 billion. In another 30 years, according to U.S. Census Bureau projections, there will be more than 9 billion. Brad Lyon has a doctoral degree in mathematics and does software develop ...
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10 years ago+9 9 0When, if ever, will Facebook contain more profiles of dead people than of living ones?
Currently, there aren't many dead people on Facebook, which is largely because its user base is so young. But time marches on and death is inevitable, so will there ever be more dead than live people on the social network?
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10 years ago+16 16 0 x 1How to Build an Amazing Secret Monitor Only You Can See
This video shows you how to create a secret LCD monitor. The first time I read that you could do this, I just had to try. The results are amazing. If you are going to try and make your own, there are a few things to keep in mind. First, I would reco ...
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10 years ago+14 14 0Who Has The Right To Know Where Your Phone Has Been?
You probably know, or should know, that your cellphone is tracking your location everywhere you go. But whether law enforcement officials should have access to that data is at the center of a constitutional debate. Matt Blaze, a professor of computer ...
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10 years ago+12 12 0 x 1Relive the '80s and Run Windows 1.01 in Your Browser
In these smartphone-studded days, it's easy to forget how computers worked. Once you had to run programs off of floppy disks and wait ages for everything to load. Luckily for your nostalgia, some bored developers are keeping the past alive with ...
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10 years ago+13 13 0Computer Scientists 'Prove' God Exists
Two scientists have formalized a theorem regarding the existence of God penned by mathematician Kurt Gödel. But the God angle is somewhat of a red herring -- the real step forward is the example it sets of how computers can make scientific progress s ...
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10 years ago+15 15 0 x 1Fifth-grader pleads guilty for role in Anonymous attack
Parents who worry their kids are accessing porn on the Internet may have a new concern on their hands: whether their little hackers have joined Anonymous. That’s what one father had to contend with Thursday when he accompanied his fifth grader to cou ...
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10 years ago+20 20 0 x 1Man Goes Back Into Burning House To Save Beer
Budweiser phased out its "Real Men of Genius" commercials in 2008, but this man may be enough to bring them out of retirement. In that vein, today we salute you, Mr. "Run Into a Burning Building to Save a Beer" man. While others a ...
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10 years ago+5 5 0'Never Say Goodbye': A Love And Life Kept Vivid
When we first met Danny and Annie Perasa in 2004, we heard about how their first date unfolded into an on-the-spot marriage proposal. We got a sense of Danny's big personality and his deep love for his wife. And we heard about his daily love not ...