A First Look At PlayStation’s New VR Headset
Journalists got their hands on the PlayStation VR for the first time at this year’s Game Developers Conference, and it’s pretty cool. But perhaps more importantly, the games look great.

March 16, 2016 at 08:49AM
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The World’s Top Fighter Pilots Fear This Woman’s Voice
U.S. Air Force pilots refer to voice of the Super Hornet as “Bitchin’ Betty,” while among Britain’s Royal Air Force she is known as “Nagging Nora.” But a real woman personifies the aircraft, 60-year-old Leslie Shook, and she recently retired after 35 years as an employee of Boeing Co.

March 15, 2016 at 07:12PM
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Forget Lasers, You Should Be Slicing Stuff Up With This Waterjet Cutter
Whatever you do, please don’t use this thing to take a shower.

March 15, 2016 at 03:08PM
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Testing Samsung’s New Waterproof Phone At The Bottom A Fish Tank
Samsung says the Galaxy S7, it’s newest flagship device, is completely waterproof. Will this fish tank prove otherwise?

March 15, 2016 at 12:30PM
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Closing Apps to Save Your Battery Only Makes Things Worse
In the last week or so, both Apple and Google have confirmed that closing your apps does absolutely nothing to improve your battery life.

March 15, 2016 at 10:42AM
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Silicon Valley investor fires back at claims he kept ‘sexual slave’ for 13 years
Michael Goguen, recently fired from Sequoia Capital, describes relationship as “kind and loving,” denying allegations he abused a woman who was a victim of human trafficking.

March 15, 2016 at 07:33AM
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Google’s AI Beats Go Player Lee Sedol Again to Win Tournament 4-1
The final match was close right to the end, when Sedol resigned after a long end game and two byo-yomi overtime periods. The final score after five games was 4-1 to AlphaGo, which won all but the fourth game.

March 15, 2016 at 06:35AM
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Botnets Plague the Web. This AI Is Out to Stop Them
A group of Israeli researchers believe they are the first to have discovered a way to locate botnets and identify who is behind them, by planting honeypots that gather information about attacks carried out by the network, and analyzing that data with machine learning programs.

March 15, 2016 at 04:42AM
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If We Don’t Want AI to Be Evil, We Should Teach It to Read
Smart people have been known to make hyperbolic statements about artificial intelligence. Elon Musk compared the current research around AI to “summoning the demon.” Stephen Hawking said that creating AI “would be a mistake, and potentially our worst mistake ever.”

March 15, 2016 at 01:36AM
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Coding Bootcamps and Emotional Labor
Bootcamps are a micro example of how the tech industry is built on the emotional labor of the same groups who are marginalized within it.

March 14, 2016 at 09:26PM
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