The US Government Believes Self-Driving Cars Are The Future
The Obama administration says self-driving cars “will save time, money and lives,” and issued policy endorsing the technology on Monday.
September 19, 2016 at 09:05PM
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Speedrunner Uses Glitch To ‘The Legend of Zelda’ In Three Minutes, Takes 11 Minutes To Explain How It Works
Just a few short years ago, speedrunning was largely about skill — players who could beat games fast required skills largely defined within the limits of the game. These days, the fastest speedrunners rely on injecting their own code into the game using nothing but controller inputs to glitch into the game’s win state. It’s just incredible.
September 19, 2016 at 04:58PM
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The F-35 Stealth Fighter May Never Be Ready for Combat
The Air Force recently declared a variant of the F-35 “ready for combat.” But a memo issued from the Pentagon’s top testing official, based largely upon the Air Force’s own test data, showed that the declaration was wildly premature.
September 19, 2016 at 03:26PM
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Educational Toys Are Dumb
You weren’t fooled by educational toys as a kid. And neither is your kid.
September 19, 2016 at 02:22PM
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Could And Should We Bring Extinct Animals To Life?
Right now, we couldn’t quite bring back a real Wooly Mammoth, but we could resurrect something pretty close.
September 19, 2016 at 11:34AM
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iPhone 7 hissing: Probably nothing to worry about
The hissing is likely some kind of coil noise, which you’ve probably heard hundreds of times before — but usually from a desktop or laptop, or another piece of consumer electronics gadgetry, rather than a smartphone.
September 19, 2016 at 10:27AM
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Rush to Take Advantage of a Dull iPhone Started Samsung’s Battery Crisis
Anticipating that the iPhone 7 would be a dull release, Samsung pushed to release the Note 7 — a decision that has led to the recall of some 2.5 million phones.
September 19, 2016 at 09:24AM
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The Tallest Building In The World Is Now The Largest LED Screen In The World
The Burj Khalifa in Dubai is far and away the tallest building in the entire world, rising 2,722 feet in the air. One world title was not enough for its engineers, who made a team of brave souls hook themselves onto the building’s façade in order to construct the massive 33,000 square-foot LED wrapper, hoping that no sandstorms would come through.
September 19, 2016 at 09:17AM
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The Tallest Building In The World Is Now The Largest LED Screen In The World
The Burj Khalifa in Dubai is far and away the tallest building in the entire world, rising 2,722 feet in the air. One world title was not enough for its engineers, who made a team of brave souls hook themselves onto the building’s façade in order to construct the massive 33,000 square-foot LED wrapper, hoping that no sandstorms would come through.
September 19, 2016 at 09:17AM
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I Used to Be a Human Being
An endless bombardment of news and gossip and images has rendered us manic information addicts. It broke me. It might break you, too.
September 19, 2016 at 07:26AM
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