A Minnesota woman killed her boyfriend Monday by shooting at a book he was holding over his chest, in a YouTube video stunt gone wrong.

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Submitted on June 29th 2017 by rhingo with 11 comments

Area 120 is the name for Google’s in-house startup incubator that has developed a variety of odd apps. These include Uptime, a social YouTube app that recently opened to the public; the voice-based...

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Submitted on June 28th 2017 by rookshook

Big data helped New York's cops bust Bobby Shmurda. But as the NYPD's contract with tech giant Palantir comes to an end, things could get messy.

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Submitted on June 30th 2017 by messi

Expensive smartphones have become a new normal. So why do we keep buying them?

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Submitted on June 29th 2017 by LisMan

Does Donald Trump deserve to tweet? Between the string of Mika Brzezinski insults and that WWE/CNN video, Twitter would have a strong case to delete or suspend the president's account, according to its rules for combating abuse on the platform.

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Submitted on July 3rd 2017 by iamsanchez with 2 comments

The order was carried out in 2016 as part of a federal narcotics investigation.

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Submitted on July 1st 2017 by Apolatia

15 years on, Winamp "still lives"—but mismanagement blunted its llama-whipping.

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Submitted on July 3rd 2017 by aj0690 with 1 comments

IBM and the Tribeca Film Festival asked a small but prestigious group of artists and scientists to help make the Watson supercomputer a better storyteller.

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Submitted on June 29th 2017 by TheSpirit with 1 comments

Modern missiles make them vulnerable. A $13 billion price tag makes them expensive. New technology may make them unnecessary. By Justin Bachman.

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Some things really, really shouldn’t be turned into IoT devices – including vending machines

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Submitted on June 30th 2017 by sjvn with 1 comments

Orwl is a new kind of PC that takes a "die trying" approach to physical device and data security. The palm-sized computer is security-focused from the ground up. It comes with several layers to put a stop to even the most ardent of hackers gaining access to a user's precious data. Not only do you need a password and a corresponding wireless keyfob just to turn on the puck-like PC, the processor goes to sleep and the USB and HDMI ports shut off whenever the keyfob moves out of range, stopping anyone from snooping in.

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Submitted on July 4th 2017 by TNY

The budget computer wins 2017's MacRobert Prize at a ceremony in London.

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Submitted on July 1st 2017 by Apolatia

Artificial photosynthesis, a process that uses sunlight to produce hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon, has potential Bill Gates calls "magical." If we can improve the efficiency of the process, we may produce ample clean fuel for the vehicles of tomorrow.

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Submitted on July 3rd 2017 by zyery

If everything is too good, you’re probably stuck not being awesome.

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Submitted on July 4th 2017 by rookshook

For drivers of electric cars, going green is starting to take more green. A growing number of states are imposing new fees on electric vehicles as officials scrounge for ways to pay for infrastructure projects they say are long overdue. At least five states, including California, passed bills targeting the cars this year, bringing the total number with fees on the books to 13. The charges generally range from $100 to $200 a year.

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Submitted on July 4th 2017 by TentativePrince

Open door: Cumulative effect of missteps led the Guardian to overstate the potential impact on the security of users’ messaging

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Submitted on June 28th 2017 by Apolatia

Elon Musk says his tunnel-boring endeavor has started digging underneath Los Angeles.

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Submitted on June 30th 2017 by aj0690 with 2 comments

Senior senator John Cornyn stood before an audience of wonks at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, DC, and warned that America’s openness to investors looking for new ideas in technologies like artificial intelligence was putting it in danger. “Most of what China wants to invest in these days is leading-edge US technology that’s a key to our future military capabilities,” he said. “Unless the trend line changes, we may one day see some of these technologies incorporated in China-made equipment that can be used against our country in the event, heaven forbid, of a military conflict.”

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Submitted on June 30th 2017 by TNY

Using social media comes with the unfortunate risk of encountering hate speech and offensive comments. The companies behind them are constantly looking for new ways to combat hate speech and now Instagram is turning to the logical next step: Artificial intelligence.

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Submitted on June 29th 2017 by TheSpirit

You might think putting a helipad on Trump Tower would give the president's Manhattan residence an added veneer of affluence. After all, nothing conveys wealth and power quite like arriving at your own skyscraper aboard Marine One, right?

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Submitted on July 1st 2017 by 66bnats