Can an Indie ISP Beat Comcast?
For nearly two decades, Monkey Brains has slowly built up a an alternative to getting reamed by mega-monopolies that usually control access to the Internet.

March 14, 2016 at 06:06PM
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Nothing About This Documentary On The Fleshlight Factory Is Sexy
The world’s best selling male masturbation toy, the Fleshlight, is made in a very unremarkable brick building in Las Vegas, Nevada. There, unremarkable people do unremarkable things. And that’s how Fleshlights are made.

March 14, 2016 at 05:34PM
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Sony’s Concept N Headphones
At SXSW this week in Austin, Texas, Sony, via their new Future Lab program, unveiled a prototype pair of headphones, codenamed Concept N, that work via Bluetooth and wrap around the listener’s neck, akin to LG’s HBS-760 headset or theMoto Surround.

March 14, 2016 at 04:51PM
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Why Only Apple Users Can Trash Their Files
A 1994 lawsuit by Apple scared other developers away from the garbage can.

March 14, 2016 at 04:51PM
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My PC Upgraded To Windows 10 Without Asking, Then Immediately Broke
“I had plans to stop being an old dinosaur and upgrade to Windows 10 last week. What I didn’t expect was to wake up on Thursday morning and find out Windows had taken care of that for me.”

March 14, 2016 at 03:35PM
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After AlphaGo, what’s next for AI?
AlphaGo’s victories against legendary Go player Lee Se-dol over the last few days mark a major milestone in AI research. But you don’t put some of the most intelligent people in the world to work on artificial intelligence just to beat board games.

March 14, 2016 at 02:10PM
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No Moonshots for Gunshots
“If we can set it up so you can’t unlock your phone unless you’ve got the right fingerprint, why can’t we do the same thing for our guns?”

March 14, 2016 at 02:10PM
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@MichelleObama | The Verge
Michelle Obama became the First Lady of the United States in 2008 — which is also when Facebook and Twitter took off. Luckily, she embraced them.

March 14, 2016 at 02:10PM
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The Chess Engine that Died So AlphaGo Could Live
The fact that we’ve moved from teaching computers chess to training them on how to play the more complex game of Go shows the advances computer scientists have made in programming intelligence. But what happens to the chess programs of yesteryear?

March 14, 2016 at 01:02PM
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Wikipedia’s first words: Hello World
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales can’t remember what the first article on Wikipedia was. He does remember the first words of Wikipedia, though.

March 14, 2016 at 01:02PM
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