Animation Captures The Incredible Process That Happens Every Time You Send A Text
Look at the last text you sent. Now watch this video. Was it worth it? Probably, texting provides a low-barrier to communication that allows people to respond on their own terms unlike other more immediate communication methods.

February 7, 2018 at 04:52PM
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How a Tiny Startup Became the Most Important Hacking Shop You’ve Never Heard Of
Inside the secretive industry that helps government hackers get around encryption.

February 7, 2018 at 03:16PM
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The House That Spied on Me
In December, I converted my one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco into a “smart home,” connecting everything I could to the internet. I soon discovered that the only thing worse than getting a bad night’s sleep is to subsequently get a report from my bed telling me I got a low score and “missed my sleep goal.”

February 7, 2018 at 12:46PM
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A Deepfaking Algorithm Did A Better Job Removing Henry Cavill’s Mustache Than Professional CGI Artists
Turns out a guy with a $500 computer and face-swapping software can digitally remove Henry Cavill’s mustache better than Warner Bros. did in “Justice League.”

February 7, 2018 at 12:46PM
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Meet the Masters of Video Game Remasters
This week’s “Shadow of the Colossus” release marks a precedent-setting remake — and the latest proof that Bluepoint Games’ innovative acts of creation and preservation are far more than mere mimicry.

February 7, 2018 at 11:43AM
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The Engineering And History Behind Britain’s Largest Airship
Everyone’s favorite YouTube engineer, Bill Hammack, dives into the particulars of the R.101, one of the last great airships.

February 7, 2018 at 11:01AM
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Solar power and Tesla batteries will create the world’s largest “virtual power plant” in Australia
If all goes according to plan, the state of South Australia would have, in effect, a distributed power plant that can produce 250 MW of power from rooftop solar panels and store 650 MWh of energy in Tesla batteries.

February 7, 2018 at 08:32AM
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The last scan
Behind a nondescript Manhattan storefront, Chi-Tien Lui is stockpiling objects many people wouldn’t think twice about trashing: cathode ray tube televisions.

February 7, 2018 at 06:30AM
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Model Citizens — Real Life
As simulation and reality become increasingly indistinguishable, video games can hint at the novel configurations of subjectivity emerging from our embeddedness in algorithms.

February 6, 2018 at 06:22PM
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All I need in this life of sin is my AlphaSmart 3000
It costs $30, all you can do is type on it, and I couldn’t live without it.

February 6, 2018 at 05:18PM
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