China and Russia Almost Definitely Have the Snowden Docs
Despite the Sunday Times’ factually inaccurate story, in all likelihood, China and Russia have copies of the Snowden documents.

June 16, 2015 at 06:19PM
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How an online music pyramid scheme conned 50,000 people
Multi-level marketing is decades old, and BurnLounge was one of the first companies to bring it into the Internet age. From 2005 to 2007, BurnLounge executives and speakers told anyone who would listen that opening a digital music store, effectively a franchise of BurnLounge, could be the path to riches.

June 16, 2015 at 04:16PM
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3-D Printing Robots Will Build A Bridge In Amsterdam
A 3-D printer that makes steel structures appear out of thin air will try its hand at building — wait, printing — a pedestrian bridge.

June 16, 2015 at 01:40PM
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Expensive Robot Bested By A Pop-Tart
Nao is an autonomous humanoid robot, usually used for research and education purposes. One will set you back several thousand dollars. But even Nao hasn’t quite mastered bipedal motion.

June 16, 2015 at 12:17PM
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Sony To Become First Company To Offer A La Carte TV Service With The PlayStation Vue
Today at Sony’s E3 2015 press conference the company announced that it will unbundle its Vue streaming channels and offer the stations a le carte. In doing so, Sony becomes the first provider to offer (at least some) TV stations to the American consumer without bundles.

June 16, 2015 at 11:14AM
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Will Advances in Technology Create a Jobless Future?
We’re in the midst of a jobs crisis, and rapid advances in AI and other technologies may be one culprit. How can we get better at sharing the wealth that technology creates?

June 16, 2015 at 07:48AM
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Homesick In The Modern World
What does it mean to be homesick in 2015, and does technology help or hinder us when we move to a new place?

June 16, 2015 at 06:08AM
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Elon Musk has launched a competition to build pods for his futuristic Hyperloop
As Musk has hinted, SpaceX will create a one-mile long test track with the hyperloop tube four to five feet in diameter, most likely at the company’s rocket test facility in McGregor, Texas.

June 16, 2015 at 06:14AM
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Want To Build An Underground Park? You’ll Need A Lab First
The designers of a proposed underground park on the Lower East Side of NYC have just launched a crowdfunding campaign to finance a laboratory that would allow them to test technology that can pipe sunlight underground at 30x strength of typical rays.

June 15, 2015 at 10:02PM
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Smart Meters Snitch on Water Wasters in a Drought
Just as blackouts in the early 2000s led to the adoption of smart electric meters in California, droughts will likely encourage water utilities to adopt the technology.

June 15, 2015 at 09:13PM
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