Forget Apple vs. the FBI: WhatsApp Just Switched on Encryption for a Billion People
In other words, WhatsApp has no way of complying with a court order demanding access to the content of any message, phone call, photo, or video traveling through its service.

April 5, 2016 at 12:48PM
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Touching robots can arouse humans, study finds
Researchers discover that touching the areas where a robot’s genitals or buttocks would be provokes a physiological response in humans.

April 5, 2016 at 11:40AM
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Peering Inside The Brains Of Vintage Calculators
If math is, as Ada Lovelace opined, “the language of the unseen relations between things”, peering at the inner workings of these machines allows us to glimpse the abstract in simple cogs, buttons and metal.

April 5, 2016 at 11:40AM
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Inside the 122-year-old company that makes sure our electronics don’t blow up our homes
You’ve seen the sticker, now read about the folks who want to keep you safe at Underwriters Labratories.

April 5, 2016 at 09:54AM
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The TSA Spent $1.4 Million On An App That Takes 10 Minutes To Build
At least $336,000 of the $1.4 million went to actual development costs, but the rest of the amount’s exact relevance to the project is still unknown. Regardless of where that money went, this is shameful.

April 5, 2016 at 09:34AM
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The Scarlett Johansson Bot Is the Robotic Future of Objectifying Women
As robotics and 3-D printing technologies become more accessible to home tinkerers, men are (of course) building robots of beautiful women.

April 5, 2016 at 09:34AM
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Twitter Said to Win NFL Deal for Thursday Night Streaming Rights
Twitter, making a strategic push into online programming, won a deal to show Thursday night National Football League games online, a person familiar with the matter said.

April 5, 2016 at 07:25AM
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Is Digital Mourning Unifying Or Just Empty? 
As terrorism sweeps the globe, society has been turning to the internet to grieve. Is digital mourning our new universal sadness, or is it just another automated part of our digital routine.

April 5, 2016 at 04:54AM
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Sound and Fury: Inside the Low-Tech Ballpark of Beep Baseball
How one man used the guts of a 1960s telephone to invent a ball that beeps and gave the visually impaired a way to play America’s pastime.​

April 5, 2016 at 03:51AM
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How Hollywood Gives Actors Plastic Surgery With a Mouse Click
Spaceships and giant robots are old news. Now, Hollywood special effects can shave years off an actor’s life, reshape a performance, or even recast a role after a movie’s been shot.

April 4, 2016 at 07:02PM
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