How can humans clean up our space junk?
Humans filled waterways, landfills, and streets with trash, so it’s no surprise the same thing happened in Earth’s orbital neighborhood. Now our species will finally take a crack at cleaning up.

January 2, 2017 at 03:28PM
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How 1980s Light Guns And Light Pens Work
These old solutions allowed for experiences that are pretty close to the more sophisticated touch and visual sensing options available in today’s hardware. That’s pretty cool for simple light sensors.

January 2, 2017 at 12:14PM
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Music streaming hailed as industry’s saviour as labels enjoy profit surge
Some record labels have had their biggest rise in revenue in over a decade thanks to services such as Spotify and Apple Music.

January 2, 2017 at 12:12PM
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The Bot Politic – The New Yorker
As bot writers like me have struggled to create entities whose fundamental quality — captivity — must entice consumers rather than unnerve them, some have alighted on gender as a solution.

January 2, 2017 at 11:08AM
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In 2017 cars are at the frontier of technology
The biggest shift in the perception of the automobile in America is that in 2016 cars became part of the tech industry’s mission.

January 2, 2017 at 07:57AM
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Inside the Lab that Grows Human Skin to Test Your Cosmetics
If you’ve had a circumcision or tummy tuck or breast surgery, especially in a Boston-area hospital, your cells could have made it to MatTek, been expanded to cover two football fields worth of skin, and been sent all over the world to labs that test chemicals and skin creams and drugs.

January 1, 2017 at 08:31AM
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South Korean government shuts down controversial fertility map
South Korea is struggling to boost its rock bottom birth rate, one of the lowest among rich nations.

January 1, 2017 at 08:31AM
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The End of Tech Optimism
2016 killed the notion of technology being an intrinsically positive force for good.

December 30, 2016 at 03:59PM
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Amazon’s Virtual Assistant ‘Alexa’ Might Have Been a Witness to a Murder
Authorities in Arkansas are investigating the death of a man whose body was recently found in a hot tub, and they think the suspect’s Amazon Echo speaker — and the voice-activated software that controls it — might have been a witness to what happened.

December 30, 2016 at 03:59PM
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Maybe Don’t Let Your Kid Talk To Your Amazon Echo
This kid just wanted Alexa to play “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” for him. He got something very, very different.

December 30, 2016 at 11:18AM
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