The Challenges for Smart-Gun Makers
Facing down angry gun-holders and shaky promises of support from the federal government, it will be some time until the smart-gun goes mass market.

January 15, 2016 at 10:36AM
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Meet The Best Female First-Person View Drone Racer In America
An avid motorcyclist, a medical complicate left Zoe Katherine bedridden and in immense pain. And then she discovered drone racing.

January 15, 2016 at 09:57AM
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Tinderization of Feeling
Tinder’s binary mechanisms can be a template for a whole way of life in which everything is an option and processing beats choosing.

January 15, 2016 at 09:32AM
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Can Virtual Sex Prevent Pedophiles from Harming Children in Real Life?
Unable or afraid to access resources like therapy and support groups, some pedophiles insist that virtual sex with child avatars helps them mitigate their desires. Professionals think it’s more complicated than that.

January 15, 2016 at 04:45AM
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The Bitcoin Believer Who Gave Up
A nasty fight has torn apart the core software developers of Bitcoin, exposing fundamental differences about the virtual currency’s future direction and raising questions of its long-term viability

January 14, 2016 at 07:05PM
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NBC Says Netflix Doesn’t Yet Pose a ‘Consistent’ Threat to Broadcasters. Here’s Why
While conventional wisdom has it that broadcast TV is on the ropes thanks to Netflix and other video on demand services, NBC’s ratings guru made a strong case for his network’s continued resiliency.

January 14, 2016 at 07:05PM
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Hot New Game “Stolen” Is Already Dead
The viral success that let you own other people shuts down after just two weeks.

January 14, 2016 at 06:09PM
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Netflix Will Block VPNs for Now. But Its Real Goal Is Global TV
In a blog post the popular streaming video company said it would begin to block certain VPNs.

January 14, 2016 at 06:09PM
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Don’t Worry, The Boat Is Designed To Do This
This is the Seaspan Pheonix, a Canadian ship that can carry a huge amount of logs. How it unloads those logs is as strange as it is smart.

January 14, 2016 at 04:46PM
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A VFX Breakdown Of ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’
It seems “The Force Awakens” learned a lot from the overwhelming flatness in the prequels and landed on a perfect blend of practical and digital.

January 14, 2016 at 02:55PM
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