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Why We Should Think Twice About Colonizing Space
My conclusion is that in a colonized universe the probability of the annihilation of the human race could actually rise rather than fall. By Phil Torres.
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The First Augur Assassination Markets Have Arrived
People are now placing bets on whether public figures will be assassinated on decentralized prediction market Augur. By David Floyd.
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More Than Two Dozen Raccoons Died in a Viral 'Zombie' Outbreak in NYC
A few of them have already tested positive for a specific, deadly virus. By Josie Rhodes Cook.
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How to Start a Nuclear War
The increasingly direct road to ruin. By Andrew Cockburn.
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But First, Infrastructure: Creating the Conditions for Artificial Intelligence to Thrive in the Pentagon
Artificial intelligence isn’t sexy. I would know. By Lt. Richard Kuzma.
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U.S. Postal Service worker found dead in Woodland Hills [California] amid Friday’s record-breaking heat
A longtime U.S. postal worker was found dead in her mail truck in Woodland Hills on Friday afternoon amid blistering summer temperatures, authorities confirmed Monday. By Brenda Gazzar.
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We’ve entered the era of ‘fire tsunamis’
Fire tsunamis? Those aren’t normal. By Eric Holthaus.
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Newest NOAA weather satellite suffers critical malfunction
Cooling system isn’t cooling, knocking key sensors offline. By Scott K. Johnson.
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You know that silly fear about Alexa recording everything and leaking it online? It just happened
US pair's private chat sent to coworker by AI bug. By Kieren McCarthy.
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How a Single Swedish Submarine Defeated the US Navy
Real Engineering
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Invasive, Cannibalistic Tree Frogs Are Spreading Across the Gulf Coast
It is a cannibalistic, fist-sized frog covered in a noxious mucous secretion that burns your eyes. Its affinity for human structures leads it to clog drains and short-out the utility switches in which they lurk. They are spreading through the U.S. and we can’t stop them. Several message board commenters report that this proliferation is part of a communist invasion. By Michael Isaac Stein.
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All the rage in Sweden: embedding microchips under your skin
Humans can get chipped, too — just like their dogs. By Victor Tangermann.
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The Surprisingly Solid Mathematical Case of the Tin Foil Hat Gun Prepper
"Do the same math as we did above with the floodplains, in precisely the same way, and we see a 37% chance that any American of average life expectancy will experience at least one nationwide violent revolution." By BJ Campbell.
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How twelve experts would end inequality if they ran America
Everyone agrees inequality is on the rise. Here are proposals to curb it. By Jeff Stein.
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Ford forced to stop all F-150 production because of supplier fire
A fire at a small-town magnesium supplier is rippling disruption across the North American auto industry. By Phoebe Wall Howard.
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Obama reacts to Trump's pullout from Iran nuclear deal
Ex-US president says leaving Iran nuclear deal, which is clearly working, turns Washington's back on its closest allies.
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The Donald’s Fabulous Fiscal Folly And Wall Street’s Wile E. Coyote Moment
There has never been a more fiscally clueless team at the top than the Donald and his dimwitted Treasury secretary, Simple Steve Mnuchin. By David Stockman.
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Industrial software used to run power plants was easily hackable
The bug in the industrial control software could leave power and manufacturing plants exposed. By Zack Whittaker.
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This ‘Demonically Clever’ Backdoor Hides In a Tiny Slice of a Computer Chip
Researchers have built a proof-of-concept processor that uses secretly stored electrical charge to trigger an ultra-stealthy backdoor. By Andy Greenberg.
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A Casino Was Hacked Thanks To The Internet Of Broken Things & A Fish Tank Thermometer
For years we've documented how the internet of broken things industry and evangelists have contributed to a global privacy and security shitshow... By Karl Bode. (Apr. 16, 2018)
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