Want to Understand What Ails the Modern Internet? Look at eBay
EBay, in obvious and subtle ways, has served as a model well beyond the world of commerce, inspiring the systems that play host to discourse, media, culture and communication online.

June 20, 2018 at 03:40PM
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This Is Why Cars Use AC-Producing Alternators When They Run On DC Power
If everything in your car runs on 12 volts of DC current, why do carmakers no longer use generators, which produce rich, creamery DC electricity? Why would it make any sense to generate AC, and then have to convert it to DC?

June 20, 2018 at 02:40PM
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Researchers Are Developing A Curiosity-Driven Artificial Intelligence Program
YouTuber “Two Minutes Papers” gives an easily digestible explanation of the recent scientific paper, “Curiosity-driven Exploration by Self-supervised Prediction,” another very cool development in AI technology.

June 20, 2018 at 02:28PM
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Artist Superimposes SpaceX Rockets Over Different Locations To Give A Sense Of How Freakin’ Huge They Are
Alright, Elon, we’ll give you this one.

June 20, 2018 at 01:36PM
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This Brain Implant Is Reanimating The Limbs Of People Suffering From Paralysis Due To Injury
“It’s the first step towards a future where a broken connection between mind and body doesn’t have to be permanent.”

June 20, 2018 at 01:31PM
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EU Votes For Copyright Filtering Law That Could Ruin The Internet — Here’s What To Read
​On Wednesday morning, the European Parliament voted in favor of a proposal to change EU copyright law, known as the Copyright in the Digital Single Market. Copyright and internet experts believe it will destroy the web as we’ve come to know it.

June 20, 2018 at 11:48AM
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How science fiction is training us to ignore the real threats posed by AI
Clara Labs’ Maran Nelson on why movies like “Her” and “Ex Machina” miss the point.

June 20, 2018 at 10:17AM
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This Jet Suit Agility Test Looks Like Something Straight Out Of An Action Film
Probably the closest we’ll ever get to actual flying.

June 20, 2018 at 10:11AM
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Microsoft CEO Downplays ICE Contract in Email to Employees
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella downplayed his company’s work with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement in a company-wide email, saying that Microsoft’s contract with ICE deals only with email, calendar, and messaging — not with separating children from their parents.

June 20, 2018 at 08:03AM
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Mechanical camera sliders are the coolest terrible idea of 2018
Oppo’s Find X and Vivo’s Nex are the two most recent and exciting Android devices of the year. Why exciting? Well, they bring us closer to the dream of a truly bezel-less phone, and they do it in dramatic style.

June 19, 2018 at 07:15PM
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