The Wild Government Projects You’re Funding With Your Taxes
Most tax money goes to Congress-approved discretionary funding — a pile of money that pays for stuff you’d never OK if you were in charge, including a lot of intangible salaries and upkeep. But that’s not all. A hefty chunk funds awesome R&D and sci-fi toys that’ll make you proud to be an American.
April 13, 2015 at 01:21PM
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Maglev Trains Are Incredibly Fast, As Little Girl Learns
Both the train this is filmed on and the passing train were going over 250mph. Before this girl knew what was happening it was already over.
April 13, 2015 at 11:42AM
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The world’s first hologram protest held in Spain
A protest group pulled off an undeniably futuristic stunt this weekend in Spain: they sent thousands of holograms parading past the lower house of the country’s parliament.
April 13, 2015 at 10:57AM
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Report estimates almost 1 million Apple Watch preorders on the first day in the US
The most popular model purchased was the Space Grey Sport, followed by the normal stainless steel Apple Watch, then the Silver Sport.
April 13, 2015 at 07:36AM
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Everything We Know About the Stingray, the Cops’ Favorite Cell Phone Tracking Tool
While Edward Snowden gives interviews to John Oliver and the NSA continues to gobble up our data, local police departments are quietly spying on people without public oversight, often thanks to a little device known as a Stingray.
April 13, 2015 at 06:42AM
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A Horror Story Constructed Entirely from Actual Sentences in Reviews of the Apple Watch
“The watch wants and needs you now.”
April 12, 2015 at 11:30PM
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NSA’s Grand Plan to Snowden-Proof Its Data Using the Cloud
Within NSA’s Fort Meade, Maryland, headquarters, no one wants to face another Snowden. With NSA’s widespread adoption of cloud computing, the spy agency may not have to.
April 12, 2015 at 09:07PM
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California Looks To The Sea For Drinking Water
Every time drought strikes California, the people of this state cannot help noticing the substantial reservoir of untapped water lapping at their shores — 187 quintillion gallons of it, more or less, shimmering so invitingly in the sun.
April 12, 2015 at 04:38PM
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Boeing’s new patent might actually help you sleep on planes
Sleeping in a cramped, upright airline seat is a unique form of torture, but Boeing has an idea that could one day fix that. A recent patent from the company reveals a “sleep support system” that unfolds into a pseudo massage table with a “a face relief aperture.”
April 12, 2015 at 02:40PM
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IBM’s AI supercomputer has come up with some pretty incredible food pairings
What separates Watson from the average computer (or chef) is its ability to find patterns in vast amounts of data. It’s essentially able figure out, through sheer repetition, what combinations of compounds and cuisines work together.
April 12, 2015 at 01:29PM
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