The Military Just Asked Harvard To Make Them a Spiderman Suit
The average spider can stay perched in a web for long hours waiting for prey and can lift eight times its own body weight. The average soldier — cannot. The military is trying to change that.
September 12, 2014 at 12:08PM
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Facebook tells drag queens to use their legal names or risk losing their profiles
If there were ever a group of individuals not to piss off, it’s drag queens. These personalities and performers have fought too long and too hard for acceptance, let alone stage time, to go down without a fight. Yet Facebook is doing just that: blocking performers from using their assumed names rather than their legal ones. Performers including Sister Roma.
September 12, 2014 at 12:08PM
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A History Of The MP5 In Video Games (And Real Life)
In games and in actual military application, almost no gun has as much association with counter-terrorism than the MP5. How’d it earn this distinction? And what’s up with the slap?
September 12, 2014 at 11:16AM
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Larger iPhone 6 Plus Sells Out Amid Strong Demand for Apple’s Latest Crop
Yep, lots of people tried to order new iPhones as pre-sales began just after midnight on Friday.
September 12, 2014 at 10:37AM
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Uber Drivers “Strike” – And Switch To Lyft – Over Fares And Conditions
A group of Uber drivers, who say they number about a thousand, are attempting to organize a strike against the booming taxi company over complaints of falling fares and unfair working conditions.
September 12, 2014 at 09:34AM
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How I Rebuilt Tinder And Discovered The Shameful Secret Of Attraction
Why we swipe the way we swipe.
September 12, 2014 at 06:23AM
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Where New York City’s Poop Goes
In Greenpoint, Brooklyn, the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant borders Newtown Creek and Long Island City to its North. The facility opened in 1967 and, since then, has undergone several renovations and expansions — including its massive silver digester eggs—to accommodate NYC’s constant growth and evolution. Oh and in case I wasn’t completely clear: It’s entirely full of shit.
September 12, 2014 at 06:23AM
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How Instagram’s drug deals go undetected
It’s no secret: Instagram has a drug problem.
September 11, 2014 at 7:51PM
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iPwned: How easy is it to mine Apple services, devices for data?
High-end tools and simple hacks can still make iPhone data less private than we’d like.
September 11, 2014 at 6:37PM
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What Exactly Is the Facebook Messenger App for iOS Tracking?
iOS forensics and security researcher Jonathan Zdziarski spent Tuesday morning disassembling Facebook Messenger’s iOS binary, at one point declaring via Twitter that “Messenger appears to have more spyware type code in it than I’ve seen in products intended specifically for enterprise surveillance.”
September 11, 2014 at 4:15PM
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