The Vanishing Idealism Of Burning Man
Artists head to the desert to build a utopia. But does their work hold up in the real world?

August 22, 2018 at 10:30AM
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This Is Why You Can’t Unlock A Car Door If Someone Is Trying To Open It At The Same Time
Why would such a fundamental mechanism of a car have such a frustrating flaw? Well, the answer is simple mechanics.

August 21, 2018 at 10:33PM
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Someone Is Waging A Secret War To Undermine The Pentagon’s Huge Cloud Contract
As some of the biggest US technology companies have lined up to bid on the $10 billion contract to create a massive Pentagon cloud computing network, the behind-the-scenes war to win it has turned ugly.

August 21, 2018 at 09:15PM
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Galaxy Note 9 Water Cooling Tested: Does It Really Work?
The Galaxy Note 9 has a feature designed to keep this flagship cool while delivering consistent speed: Samsung put a water-carbon cooling system in the device to keep it from breaking a sweat while you’re in the middle of an extended Fortnite session. Does it work?

August 21, 2018 at 03:48PM
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In Less Than A Year, The $1,000 Phone Has Become Entirely Normal
Three or four years ago, anyone proposing a four-figure price for a phone would have been laughed out of their boardroom meeting.

August 21, 2018 at 01:47PM
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‘We Are All Accumulating Mountains Of Things’
How online shopping and cheap prices are turning Americans into hoarders.

August 21, 2018 at 12:42PM
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Facebook Is Rating The Trustworthiness Of Its Users On A Scale From Zero To 1
The previously unreported ratings system, which Facebook has developed over the past year, shows that the fight against the gaming of tech systems has evolved to include measuring the credibility of users to help identify malicious actors.

August 21, 2018 at 11:40AM
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Two-qubit chip draws quantum computing closer
Practical entanglement and reprogrammable devices are now on the horizon.

August 21, 2018 at 06:53AM
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The Fight to Secure Vulnerable Medical Devices From Hackers
“The big problem is that hospitals don’t buy new devices, and they keep using really dangerous ones ad infinitum — until they just stop working.”

August 21, 2018 at 06:53AM
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Robot Security Guards Will Be Pointless Until They’re Terrifying
The curious case of the gas station security robot and the surveillance state that ate itself.

August 21, 2018 at 05:36AM
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