Love and Sex with Robots conference cancelled in Malaysia
The Love and Sex with Robots conference due to be held in Malaysia has been cancelled by police for being “illegal.”

October 23, 2015 at 04:06PM
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Today’s Best Short: ‘97%’
There’s someone great for you, if you just look around.

October 23, 2015 at 12:43PM
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai Brings in Less Egotistical Leadership
As the company grows, and with new CEO Sundar Pinchai at the helm, the search giant looking is for people who are both intelligent and “emotionally intelligent.”

October 23, 2015 at 11:37AM
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This 1985 RAND Paper on the Future of Email is Still Relevant Today
Never say anything in an electronic message that you wouldn’t want appearing, and attributed to you, in tomorrow’s front-page headline in the New York Times. That was the advice of Colonel David Russell, head of the IPTO at DARPA in the mid-1970s and it still holds true today.

October 23, 2015 at 10:35AM
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The invisible device that powers everything you do
The phone (or laptop) you’re reading this on wouldn’t exist without lithium-ion batteries.

October 23, 2015 at 08:43AM
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We Might Never See Alien Life 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: Searching blindly for signs of alien life, trolling with perpetual motion and ancient crystals.

October 23, 2015 at 06:37AM
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The Work of Drag in the Age of Digital Reproduction
Has drag moved from the performance of gender to the constant, never-ending, technoculture-defining performance of information?

October 22, 2015 at 11:57PM
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Guy’s Wedding Ring Picks Up Radio Signals
We’re both stumped. If any electrical engineers are watching, please let us know just what the heck is happening.

October 22, 2015 at 09:39PM
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Jack Dorsey Gives Back $200 Million in Twitter Stock
Dorsey tweeted Thursday that he’s giving roughly one third of his Twitter stock back to the employee equity pool, meaning it can be dispersed throughout the company to employees.

October 22, 2015 at 09:38PM
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When We Find Aliens, We Might Find Something Like the Borg
If life off Earth exists it has probably transitioned to machine intelligence.

October 22, 2015 at 12:39PM
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