Your Car’s LED Daytime Running Lights Are Dangerous And Other Facts
Welcome to What We Learned This Week, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week: LED daytime running lights are bad, how architecture catches thieves and why you shouldn’t hit the trails with a bike from Walmart.

June 30, 2016 at 06:18PM
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Gmail Understood My Breakup Better Than I Did
We already live in a world where machines can figure out what movie we want to watch or food we want to eat. What happens when they start to speak for us.

June 30, 2016 at 02:18PM
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The Entirety Of This Vlog Was Written By Artificial Intelligence And It’s Unsettling
Think computers work need a still petite increment help current mediocrity? Yes certain.

June 30, 2016 at 11:49AM
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Who Cares if Apples Ditches the Headphone Jack? Wireless Is the Future
By yanking the headphone jack out of the iPhone 7, Apple could start a revolution in wireless headphones. Instead of buying a new cord, we might just cut it.

June 30, 2016 at 08:51AM
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What If We Replaced School With A Bot?
Today on Flash Forward: A future without schools. Instead of gathering students into a room and teaching them, everybody learns on their own time, on tablets and guided by artificial intelligence.

June 29, 2016 at 05:07PM
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This Concept Printer Seems Way Less Terrible Than Most Printers
Or maybe we’re just distracted by how orange and elegant it is.

June 29, 2016 at 03:09PM
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The ultimate Apple I/O death chart
The internet has been ablaze the past few weeks about Apple potentially removing the headphone jack from the next iPhone — a move that’s been heavily rumored for months. It wouldn’t be the first time Apple led the industry in killing a legacy I/O technology.

June 29, 2016 at 02:46PM
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‘Mad Scientist’ Is Back With A 200-Watt Laser Bazooka Built Out Of Scrap Metal
Remember when Drake Anthony built a 40-watt laser gun last year? Well, the one he made this year is at least five times as awesome.

June 29, 2016 at 02:19PM
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How Sony, Microsoft, and Other Gadget Makers Violate Federal Warranty Law
If you own a gaming console, laptop, or computer, it’s likely you’ve seen one of these warnings in the form of a sticker placed over a screw or a seam: “Warranty void if removed.” What almost no one knows is that these stickers and clauses are illegal.

June 29, 2016 at 08:07AM
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Facebook is using phone location to suggest new friends
Thanks to tracking the location of users’ smartphones, the social network may suggest you friend people you’ve shared a GPS data point with, meaning your friend suggestions could include someone whose face you know, but whose name you didn’t until Facebook offered it up to you.

June 29, 2016 at 06:59AM
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