A Robot With a Little Humanity
At almost a foot tall, the Jibo robot wirelessly connects to the Internet and has a moveable LCD screen that in demonstrations displays an expressive orb, but not a human face.

July 17, 2014 at 11:39PM
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The Details About the CIA’s Deal With Amazon
A $600 million computing cloud built by an outside company is a “radical departure” for the risk-averse intelligence community.

July 17, 2014 at 8:14PM
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What Sort Of Weapon Shot Down Flight MH-17?
It’s unlikely it was a portable missile launcher.

July 17, 2014 at 7:08PM
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WTF Just Happened: My Gadget Charged Very Slowly (Or Not at All)
You plugged in your phone or tablet hours ago, and the battery has recharged about 10 percent. Maybe the needle didn’t even move at all. The connection between the cable and the device seems fine, the charger’s plugged in, and the battery indicator says your device is charging. What the hell went wrong?

July 17, 2014 at 3:37PM
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Edward Snowden urges professionals to encrypt client communications
In an exclusive interview with The Guardian, Edward Snowden accepts the real possibility that he will spend the rest of his life in Guantanamo Bay, and urges professionals to shore up security for the sake of their clients.

July 17, 2014 at 2:30PM
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A Song About The New Airbnb Logo
Brett Domino, like many others, thinks the new logo looks like genitalia. And that might just have been the kind of controversy they wanted.

July 17, 2014 at 1:31PM
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Climate change: Could we engineer greener humans?
What if instead of trying to fix the world, we fixed ourselves?

July 17, 2014 at 1:31PM
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