Turn Your Roomba Into A Knife-Wielding Killing Machine For Amusement
We’ve had worse drunk ideas than this one.

July 27, 2014 at 2:56PM
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Should You Trust Health Apps on Your Phone?
Medical devices are generally regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and although the FDA reviews some apps, experts say the agency’s power and efforts aren’t nearly enough to cover the 97,000 and counting health apps out there that are transforming consumer health.

July 27, 2014 at 5:54AM
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Cheering robots replace real fans at Korean baseball
A struggling Korean baseball team have invented a novel way to improve atmosphere at their matches — by bringing in a crowd of robot fans.

July 26, 2014 at 7:42PM
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A Made-For-TV Compression Algorithm
Meet the man behind the “Silicon Valley” technology. Well, theoretical technology.

July 26, 2014 at 5:26PM
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How spy agencies keep their ‘toys’ from law enforcement
The prospect that the classified capabilities of the FBI, CIA and NSA could be revealed in a criminal case has meant that the most sophisticated surveillance technologies are not always available to law enforcement.

July 26, 2014 at 4:23PM
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How Hackers Hid a Money-Mining Botnet in the Clouds of Amazon and Others
Hackers have long used malware to enslave armies of unwitting PCs, but security researchers Rob Ragan and Oscar Salazar had a different thought: Why steal computing resources from innocent victims when there’s so much free processing power out there for the taking?

July 26, 2014 at 3:16PM
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The Emoji Have Won The Battle of Words
Even long stories can be reduced to a small string of symbols. Comprehension may still be a problem, however.

July 26, 2014 at 3:15PM
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