Wind Turbine Catches On Fire And Creates A Swirling Vortex Of Smoke
Due to a technical problem, this wind turbine began spinning so fast that it caught on fire. The camera operator infuriatingly misses the part where the propellor goes flying off, but there’s still some excellent smoke vortex action.

August 3, 2016 at 01:17PM
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Microsoft Keeps Dossiers on Journalists and Sent Us One By Accident
Email can be a slippery beast, and one thread of messages Gizmodo recently received — seemingly by mistake — has given us a window into how Microsoft prepares its employees for the apparently terrifying prospect of talking to the press.

August 3, 2016 at 12:53PM
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How Hackers Could Get Inside Your Head With ‘Brain Malware’
Researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle say that we need to act fast to implement a privacy and security framework to prevent our brain signals from being used against us before the technology really takes off.

August 3, 2016 at 12:53PM
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Welcome to the Cyborg Olympics
The Cybathlon aims to help disabled people navigate the most difficult course of all: the everyday world

August 3, 2016 at 12:53PM
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Wal-Mart in Talks to Buy Web Retailer Jet.com
Wal-Mart is in talks to buy online discount retailer Jet, according to people familiar with the matter, in what would mark a disappointing end for one of the most ambitious challengers to Amazon.

August 3, 2016 at 11:42AM
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GRAIL Text Recognizer
When you watch a demo of the GRAIL system today, it still feels elegant and magical. Here’s a look at how it worked.

August 3, 2016 at 11:42AM
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Facebook Is Not a Technology Company
Nor Google, nor Amazon. Here’s why that matters.

August 3, 2016 at 09:41AM
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Moon Express becomes first private company to get US approval for lunar mission
Spaceflight venture Moon Express wants to be the first private company ever to land on the Moon in 2017 — and now the company has been granted approval by the United States government to launch to the lunar surface.

August 3, 2016 at 08:38AM
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Unless You Hate Money and/or Yourself, You Should Sign Up for Project Fi
It starts at $20 a month for unlimited talk and text, and then costs $10 per gigabyte (or essentially a penny a megabyte) after that.

August 3, 2016 at 08:38AM
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Funny Feelings – Real Life
Your life’s a joke anyway, you may as well tweet about it.

August 2, 2016 at 06:18PM
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