Privacy: The Sequel
One thing that makes caring about tech privacy issues difficult is that rather than getting solved, they often just get replaced with bigger ones.

September 25, 2015 at 02:00AM
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A Compilation Of People Destroying Their iPhones
The iPhone 6S Plus is out today, so we’ve compiled the best clips of people wrecking their old iPhones. While these phones probably could have been donated or sold, we have to admit that there’s something satisfying about seeing last season’s lusted-after piece of tech dropped, smashed, shot, set on fire, or otherwise reduced to metal spaghetti.

September 24, 2015 at 09:50PM
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How Pro Gamers Beat Quickly Games Without ‘Cheating’
Kotaku’s short documentary about mastering video game play. Skilled gamers describe speedrunning, glitching and other techniques they use to shave off hours of playing.

September 24, 2015 at 04:48PM
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Want a portable wind turbine? Now you can have one.
According to the makers, the 400-watt model battery, which can charge in three to four hours, is capable of charging an iPhone at least 16 times. The two largest versions come equipped with the ability to tie into the power supply of homes or RVs and feed electricity straight into outlets.

September 24, 2015 at 03:53PM
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Intent in The Command Line
Slash Keyboard is changing the way you’ll be looking for things, without ever leaving your messaging app.

September 24, 2015 at 01:02PM
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How The Vietnam War Brought High-Tech Border Surveillance to America
From 1968 until 1973, the US military spent about $1 billion a year on a new computer-powered initiative intended to end the war in Vietnam. It went by many names over the years — including Practice Nine, Muscle Shoals, Illinois City and Dye Marker. But today it’s most commonly known as Operation Igloo White.

September 24, 2015 at 12:46PM
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What If Tinder Showed Your IQ?
A report from a future where genetic engineering has sabotaged society.

September 24, 2015 at 11:48AM
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If They Build It, Will We Come? Meet The Tech Entrepreneurs Trying To Take…
Porn has long been a driving force in tech and internet innovation, but the industry now finds itself in unprecedented danger thanks to piracy and free “tube” sites. These are some of the pioneers and entrepreneurs who are trying to fight back.

September 24, 2015 at 10:44AM
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Flying to the edge of space without an engine is an idea so crazy it might just work
If you thought that flying in the earth’s stratosphere requires super-powerful engines, think again. The new Perlan 2 Glider, which completed its first-ever test flight on Sept. 23 in Redmond, Oregon, is a tiny engineless aircraft that’s designed to reach the edge of space by “surfing” the strong air currents of the Polar Vortex.

September 24, 2015 at 09:38AM
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Bloodhound supersonic car unveiled in London
A vehicle designed to reach 1,000mph was put on display in Canary Wharf ahead of plan to break current world land-speed record of 763mph in South Africa.

September 24, 2015 at 08:39AM
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