Young Girls Are Being Asked To Do Sexually Explicit Things On Periscope
Users are swarming young girls and asking them to do inappropriate things. And the live-streaming app hasn’t been able to stop them.

December 16, 2017 at 02:21AM
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Girl Tries To Cook A Thanksgiving Recipe Generated By An AI Bot Trained On The Food Network
This goes about as miserably as you’d expect.

December 15, 2017 at 10:38AM
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Contact lens startup Hubble sold lenses with a fake prescription from a made-up doctor
Despite Hubble’s efforts to model itself on Harry’s, contact lenses aren’t razors.

December 15, 2017 at 10:22AM
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Robots are being used to deter homeless people from setting up camp in San Francisco
A security robot has been put to work in San Francisco in an attempt to deter homeless people from forming tent cities along the sidewalks.

December 15, 2017 at 09:01AM
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Someone Used Wet String to Get a Broadband Internet Connection
Usually, broadband connections rely on wires made of a conductive substances like copper. In the case of the Andrews & Arnold technician, however, they used about 6 feet of twine soaked in salt water (better conductivity than fresh water) that was connected to alligator clips to establish the connection.

December 15, 2017 at 06:55AM
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AI isn’t just taking away our privacy—it’s destroying our free will, too
By replacing human-curated judgement with data-backed judgement, AI ultimately narrows our field of vision and reduces our social and economic choices—in retail, dating, entertainment, education, health care, and job opportunities.

December 14, 2017 at 07:24PM
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In China, a Three-Digit Score Could Dictate Your Place in Society
America invented the three-digit credit score. Now companies in China are taking the idea to the extreme, using big data to track and rank what you do — your purchases, your pastimes, your mistakes.

December 14, 2017 at 01:48PM
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The Bitcoin Paradox
Why cryptocurrency will always be political.

December 14, 2017 at 12:49PM
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The FCC Just Voted To End Net Neutrality — Here’s How It Will Affect You
The move opens the possibility for ISPs like Comcast or Verizon to adjust speed, cost, and access to different websites or types of data. Here’s what that could mean for you and the country.

December 14, 2017 at 12:15PM
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The Race for AR Glasses Starts Now
Though the Next Big Thing won’t appear for a while, we know pretty much what it will look like: a lightweight, always-on wearable that obliterates the divide between the stuff we see on screens and the stuff we see when we look up from our screens.

December 14, 2017 at 11:48AM
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