They Welcomed A Robot Into Their Family, Now They’re Mourning Its Death
The robot showed up at Kenneth Williams’ doorstep when he needed it most. Williams had just been laid off from his job when he plugged in Jibo, a social home robot, on November 1st, 2017.

June 19, 2019 at 03:58PM
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How to Turn a Quantum Computer Into the Ultimate Randomness Generator
Pure, verifiable randomness is hard to come by. Two proposals show how to make quantum computers into randomness factories.

June 19, 2019 at 01:52PM
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What ‘Smart House’ Got Right—And Didn’t—About The Future
The Disney Channel Original Movie, which turns 20 this month, predicted a world that in some ways resembles our present and in other ways looks far off.

June 19, 2019 at 12:42PM
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Iceland’s Data Centers Are Booming — Here’s Why That’s A Problem
Bitcoin miners and data scientists love cheap, green Icelandic processing power. Maybe a little too much.

June 19, 2019 at 11:37AM
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John Deere’s Promotional USB Drive Hijacks Your Keyboard
Tractor-maker John Deere distributed USB drives that hijacked users’ keyboards and loaded its official website onto the browser.

June 19, 2019 at 10:35AM
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Craftsman Builds An iPhone-Controlled Loom
Through a mix of laser cutting and 3D printing, this maker has build a cool iPhone-compatible loom that can weave abstract patterns quickly and easily. This oddly suspenseful video shows off what he’s done.

June 19, 2019 at 10:22AM
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The Invisible Battle For America’s Airwaves
How a rush of new industrial Internet of Things devices turned up the heat on a decades-old fight for spectrum.

June 18, 2019 at 06:16PM
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Apple Is Trying To Save My Hearing After I Spent Years Ruining It
New tools in watchOS and iOS make hearing health harder to ignore.

June 18, 2019 at 06:16PM
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Three VFX Artists Evaluate The Effects In The ‘Star Wars’ Prequels
From “totally revolutionary” to “entirely off,” the prequels serve as master classes in what to do and what not to do in visual effects.

June 18, 2019 at 12:34PM
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Onn Tablet: Cheap, With A Side Of Walmart Ads
At $64, Walmart’s exclusive 8-inch Onn Android Tablet is cheap with a capital C. That’s not necessarily a bad thing — the Amazon Fire tablet is similarly inexpensive and there’s something to be said for comfortably disposable tech.

June 18, 2019 at 09:09AM
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