What Is an ASIC Miner and Is It the Future of Cryptocurrency?
What are application specific integrated circuits and why are cryptocurrency communities freaking out about them?

April 10, 2018 at 11:03PM
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Jamiroquai’s ‘Virtual Insanity’ Fittingly Performed In Virtual Reality
Chase Holfelder takes one of our favorite mid-90s jams and gives it a very 2018 update.

April 10, 2018 at 04:03PM
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YouTube Is Serving Ads for Hardcore Porn on Trending Videos
The YouTube auto-playing ads lead to a site that shows explicit sex.

April 10, 2018 at 02:13PM
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America’s Virtual Border Wall Is a 1,954-Mile-Long Money Pit
Trump’s wall is on hold, but the push to seal the border with advanced military technology is hurtling forward.

April 10, 2018 at 01:10PM
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Helvetica Is Now An Encryption Device
A new paper by a group of researchers at Columbia University details a method for making tiny changes to fonts that the human eye can’t detect but that look entirely different to a computer vision algorithm.

April 10, 2018 at 10:47AM
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YouTube hack hits popular music videos, causes biggest video ever to disappear
Lots of high-profile music videos have been defaced.

April 10, 2018 at 08:59AM
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Why is Tinder trying to be my life coach?
Datings apps are teaching us self-care. Too bad they’re the reason we need it.

April 9, 2018 at 08:35PM
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Backpage Founders Indicted On Charges Of Facilitating Prostitution
A federal grand jury in Arizona has indicted seven people behind the classified-ads website Backpage.com on 93 counts, including charges of facilitating prostitution and money laundering.

April 9, 2018 at 08:35PM
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This Gently Breathing Robot Cuddles You to Sleep
The chest rises and falls rhythmically, hypnotically. We guess it’s the chest. Nobody’s marketed a sleep robot before, and we’re not even sure it’s a robot. It looks like a pillowy four-pound kidney bean, about the size of a novelty prize at a carnival game.

April 9, 2018 at 04:45PM
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A Long-Awaited Internet Of Things Crisis Is Here, And Many Devices Aren’t Ready
Some network communication protocol vulnerabilities have been known for more than a decade and still aren’t fixed. Now they’re being exploited.

April 9, 2018 at 03:46PM
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