“Learn to Code”: The Meme Attacking Media
Laid-off journalists and their supporters have seen their Twitter mentions littered with a phrase that some are suggesting is part of a targeted anti-media harassment campaign. What does it all mean?

January 30, 2019 at 02:45AM
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The rise and fall of a super-intelligent, self-aware Facebook game
The rise and fall of a super-intelligent, self-aware Facebook game.

January 29, 2019 at 10:33PM
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Neuroscientists Translate Brain Waves Into Recognizable Speech
To devise such a speech neuroprosthesis, neuroscientist Nima Mesgarani and his colleagues combined recent advances in deep learning with speech synthesis technologies.

January 29, 2019 at 07:24PM
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Facebook Pays Teens To Install VPN That Spies On Them
Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a “Facebook Research” VPN that lets the company suck in all of a user’s phone and web activity, similar to Facebook’s Onavo Protect app that Apple banned in June and that was removed in August.

January 29, 2019 at 06:29PM
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Step Inside NYC’s Competitive Slotcar Racing Scene
What New York’s racing scene means for the resurgent hobby industry.

January 29, 2019 at 05:26PM
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The Coder Who Became A Crime Boss
How a brilliant self-made software programmer from South Africa single-handedly built an online startup that became one of the largest individual contributors to America’s burgeoning painkiller epidemic.

January 29, 2019 at 02:00PM
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Is A Slider Better Than A Notch?
Xiaomi’s Mi Mix 3 bets you hate the notch so much you’re willing to deal with a mechanical slider.

January 29, 2019 at 11:37AM
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Here’s FaceTime’s Extremely-Not-Good Eavesdropping Bug In Action
A glitch with FaceTime in iOS 12.1.2 allows a user to call another iPhone and then listen through the other phone’s microphone (and occasionally see through the other phone’s front-facing camera) while the call is ringing.

January 29, 2019 at 07:59AM
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Serious FaceTime bug allows you to listen remotely before anyone answers
In other words, if you see your iPhone ringing with a FaceTime video call, it’s possible that the person calling you could listen to your microphone before you’ve picked up.

January 29, 2019 at 07:40AM
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Scientists Turn Birds Into Activity Trackers For The Sea
This cheaper, easier way to map surface currents could be a boon to the renewable energy industry.

January 28, 2019 at 08:09PM
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