Racing Camels With Robot Jockeys
Some owners said quietly that they still might prefer to have human jockeys — though none would say so publicly — but the majority, perhaps recognizing the troubling perception of using children to ride animals that stand 6 feet tall and can run up to 40 miles per hour, unabashedly praised the technology that is now in widespread use: robots.

December 28, 2014 at 10:21PM
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Twitter error kicks Android app users out of their accounts
The social network’s official Android app is currently kicking users out of their accounts, blocking their progress with an error when they try to log back in. Twitter-owned Tweetdeck client is reporting that every new tweet is more than 365 days old.

December 28, 2014 at 09:00PM
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Chaos Computer Club claims it can reproduce fingerprints from people’s public photos
Chaos Computer Club, Europe’s largest association of hackers, claims it can reproduce your fingerprints from a couple of photos that show your fingers. At the 31st annual Chaos Computer Club convention in Hamburg, Germany, Jan Krissler, also known by his alias “Starbug,” explained how he copied the thumbprint of German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen.

December 28, 2014 at 04:53PM
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The Chemical Reactions That Make Hand Warmers Heat Up
A little science goes a long way when it comes to keeping your hands warm.

December 28, 2014 at 08:57AM
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2014: the year Elon Musk went mainstream
In 2014, Elon Musk evolved from being one of the most exciting entrepreneurs in tech into one of the most important figures in global business.

December 28, 2014 at 05:33AM
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Internet Crashes in North Korea as 3G Networks Fail
Three days after an apparent denial-of-service attack halted its Internet connections, North Korea suffered another Internet outage and the country’s only wireless phone network was reportedly down.

December 27, 2014 at 03:30PM
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Keyboard Waffle Iron Selling Like Hotcakes,
Well, there is good news for those that prefer their breakfast in QWERTY form. As of Christmas, the effort had raised more than $66,000, thanks to a late rush of orders.

December 27, 2014 at 02:24PM
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Hybrid-Electric Airplane Successfully Tested In The UK
After hybrid cars, has the time come for hybrid aircrafts? It’s still to early to tell, but researchers of Cambridge University, working in association with Boeing, have just announced a first inportant step in this direction.

December 27, 2014 at 04:12AM
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Home for the holidays, and for a 20-year-old issue of PC Magazine
When I’m home for the holidays, one of my most beloved traditions involves sifting through my time capsule of a bedroom, where decades of PC Magazines, PC Worlds, Windows Magazines, and Visual Basic Programmer’s Journals collect dust.

December 26, 2014 at 10:21PM
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Optical Illusions That Fool Google-Style Image Recognition Algorithms
Humans and software see some images differently, pointing out shortcomings of recent breakthroughs in machine learning.

December 26, 2014 at 07:15PM
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