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In Pictures: Batman through the ages
Lewis Wilson and Robert Lowery were the first actors to play Batman on the big screen, in two 15-part serials. Lewis came first, in 1943, in a series that invented what was then called The Bat's Cave. Produced during World War II, its anti-Japanese sentiments make uncomfortable viewing today. 1949's Batman and Robin was a low-budget affair, in which the Batmobile was simply a Mercury convertible.
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Facial scanning technology inches toward '1984'
The power to have a computer sift through a crowd of faces on camera and pinpoint individuals is closer than ever to becoming a reality—but it's not quite there yet.
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Twitter real-time explores Jack the Ripper murders
It has been 125 years since Jack the Ripper stalked the streets of London, yet the shadow of his gory legacy still looms large.
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Denmark's Little Mermaid turns 100
Celebrations have been taking place in Copenhagen in around the world, marking the one hundredth anniversary of the city's iconic Little Mermaid statue.
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Apple and Microsoft, Then and Now
If you picked up The New York Times in December 2000, you would have seen very different headlines than exist today. Microsoft was projected to generate revenue of $6.4 billion for the last fiscal quarter of 2000, whereas Apple, the company’s almost-lifeless competitor, was clawing to reach $1 billion in revenue.
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The Wild and Crazy Career Paths of 5 Self-Made Billionaires
Epic entrepreneurs Richard Branson, Mark Cuban, Elon Musk started young and started up often.
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Fifty years on: 'King's dream continues to inspire us'
On 28 August 1963, more than 200,000 Americans joined a march on Washington demanding equal justice for all citizens under the law.
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Even in the 1960s, the NSA was sweeping up phone call records 'like a giant vacuum'
Face it: the NSA knows plenty about you, and our growing reliance on technology is only making the agency's controversial surveillance efforts easier. But the National Security Agency has been around for a long time, predating the internet and your email inbox by decades.
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From the Lab to the Street: How 3 Illegal Drugs Came to Be
There's a huge gap, temporally and culturally, between the inventors of illicit drugs - usually rather austere, cerebral, and disciplined - and their consumers.
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CIA Files Prove America Helped Saddam as He Gassed Iran
The U.S. knew Hussein was launching some of the worst chemical attacks in history - and still gave him a hand.
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A Director Peers Into His Past
Brian De Palma Deconstructs Sequences in His Films
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Jobs, Robots, Capitalism, Inequality, And You
Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe everything will be fine. Maybe the "widening gap between rich and poor" is temporary. Maybe the steady growth in the proportion of jobs that are part-time and/or low-paid will soon reverse.
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Meet The Science And Tech Geniuses Who Got High And Solved Amazing Problems
Drugs. Those illegal mind-altering poisons. Can you believe people actually do these things? Believe it. And it's not just the laypeople who are using. There are plenty of brilliant heavyweights in the science and technology worlds that have said they enjoy their drugs.
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Microsoft’s Next Era
The announcement of Steve Ballmer’s retirement from his post as CEO of Microsoft puts an end to one of the most powerful and interesting “regimes” in technology history. Symbolically, this is likely the closing chapter of an era that was led by Bill Gates, then collectively by Gates and Ballmer, and then more recently just Ballmer.
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The NYPD Division of Un-American Activities
After 9/11, the NYPD built in effect its own CIA—and its Demographics Unit delved deeper into the lives of citizens than did the NSA.
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Neil Armstrong's Most Courageous Moments As A Pilot
Neil Armstrong, the first man on the Moon, died one year ago on Aug. 25, 2012, at the age of 82. The pioneering American is remembered as a humble hero; he's often described as a private man who was never comfortable in the public spotlight. When it came to tempting fate, however, Armstrong never shied away.
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How 500 Years Of Weird Condiment History Designed The Heinz Ketchup Bottle
From a 17th-century fish sauce, ketchup evolved into a patent medicine, a carcinogenic health hazard, and eventually, a non-Newtonian fluid. Here’s how ketchup’s rich history is reflected in the design of a bottle of Heinz.
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Is Coke's 127-year-old recipe the same? Not quite
ATLANTA (AP) — Coca-Cola keeps the recipe for its 127-year-old soda inside an imposing steel vault that's bathed in red security lights. Several cameras monitor the area to make sure the fizzy formula stays a secret.
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Weather could be controlled using lasers
Scientists are attempting to control the weather by using lasers to create clouds, induce rain and even trigger lightning.
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The Amazing and Ridiculous Tech From a 30-Year-Old Sears Catalog
Sears didn't sell the Sony Walkman in its catalog. Instead it sold its own SR-branded audio items. Of course, the Sears SR 21162 mini stereo cassette player was probably built by a third party. Regardless of the brand name, portable cassette players were incredibly popular during the '80s.
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