Disney Is Engineering Acrobatic Robots, And Oh God, We’re So Screwed
They’ll be doing backflips while they take your job, which just feels like salt in the wound.

June 29, 2018 at 09:36AM
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Why Tech’s Favorite Color Is Making Us All Miserable
The cold blue light of modern touchscreens may be aesthetically pleasing, but it poses health problems. Designers and technologists should take cues from military history and embrace the orange.

June 29, 2018 at 08:52AM
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$41 Million Vaporware Tells ICE To Detain Immigrants Indefinitely No Matter What
ICE officially started using the custom-made tool, called the Risk Classification Assessment (RCA), back in January 2013 in response to a 2009 era internal review of the department’s immigration detention practices.

June 29, 2018 at 06:15AM
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No, Facebook Did Not Patent Secretly Turning Your Phone Mics On When It Hears Your TV
Facebook filing a patent application on a backend ad-recognition system doesn’t mean really much of anything except Facebook’s lawyers are busily patenting every piece of smart speaker tech they can think of.

June 28, 2018 at 06:18PM
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A German Student Came Up With This Incredibly Clever Invention To Protect Smartphones From Breaking
In a perfect world, nobody would drop their smartphones on the ground and risk breaking them. Unfortunately, we don’t live in that perfect world. Fortunately, we live in one where this has been invented.

June 28, 2018 at 01:19PM
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This Desktop Engine Moves Crazy Fast For Something With Such A Simple Design
With just the fuel of a small flame, the whole engine can go up to 2,000 revolutions per minute.

June 28, 2018 at 12:53PM
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‘Pokémon Go’ Creator Demos An Incredible AR Update That Lets Pokémon Hide Behind Real-World Objects
Niantic calls the tech “AR with Occlusion,” and these demos look super impressive.

June 28, 2018 at 12:22PM
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AT&T Is Sneakily Raising Almost $1 Billion With A Higher Fee Buried On Wireless Bills
The carrier quietly raised its “administrative fee,” a tiny line item at the bottom of monthly bills, to $1.99 from 76 cents.

June 28, 2018 at 08:02AM
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A New Smartphone Found A Novel Way To Make The Entire Front Of The Phone One Giant Screen
In a bid to make their screens as big as possible, manufacturers have been finding ways to wrap their displays around the front-facing cameras. Vivo, however, has taken another tack.

June 28, 2018 at 06:57AM
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How Computers Parse The Ambiguity Of Everyday Language
Words with multiple meanings pose a special challenge to algorithms.

June 28, 2018 at 06:57AM
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