Tom Scott Explains How The ‘Effective Power’ iPhone Bug Might Work
Hint: Is has to do with how iPhones display texts as banners, and how the Arabic language works.

May 29, 2015 at 12:21PM
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No Man’s Sky and the technology that created 18 quintillion planets
Hello Games, the game’s British development house, is more or less attempting to recreate the dream of every 10-year-old: a game world so vast and ponderous that it is virtually endless.

May 29, 2015 at 11:46AM
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Immortal But Damned to Hell on Earth
The danger of uploading one’s consciousness to a computer without a suicide switch.

May 29, 2015 at 10:45AM
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MIT’s Cheetah Robot Nails Running Jumps With Ease
In a *leap* for robotic development, the MIT researchers who built a robotic cheetah have now trained it to see and jump over hurdles as it runs. And it does it very well.

May 29, 2015 at 09:55AM
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A Self-Folding Origami Robot That Can Walk And Swim
How this little bot does anything is beyond our capacity for understanding, since it doesn’t appear to have any form of locomotion. Just don’t put it near acetone!

May 29, 2015 at 09:32AM
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How an artificial language from 1887 is finding new life online
Like its vastly more successful digital cousins — C++, HTML, Python, Linux — Esperanto is an artificial language, designed to have perfectly regular grammar, with none of the messy exceptions of natural tongues.

May 29, 2015 at 09:26AM
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How the New Miata’s Stereo Sounds So Good-With the Top Down
Bose and Mazda have been working on the system for three years, testing in a previous generation Miata in real-world, open-road environments.

May 29, 2015 at 07:28AM
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Google’s Quest For Complete Control Of Your Digital Life
Today’s keynote suggests Google is poised to surpass Apple when it comes to mobile design.

May 28, 2015 at 11:03PM
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Manhood
Badly educated men in rich countries have not adapted well to trade, technology or feminism.

May 28, 2015 at 10:00PM
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DARPA Wants Technology That Could Help Troops See Through Walls
The Pentagon’s emerging technology arm is looking into systems that could reconstruct a 3-D image of a scene from a single vantage point, including objects not visible in the line-of-sight.

May 28, 2015 at 06:57PM
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