Fireball Explodes Out Of A Man’s Second-Hand iPhone
This Chinese man learned the hard way that you shouldn’t attempt to save money by going with a refurbisher that cuts corners.

January 30, 2019 at 09:40AM
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A Grand Plan To Clean The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Can a controversial young entrepreneur rid the ocean of plastic trash?

January 30, 2019 at 09:25AM
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Robocallers blasted Americans with 26.3 billion spam calls last year
Spam monitoring service Hiya has been analyzing calls, and found that many people are just simply not picking up calls anymore.

January 30, 2019 at 08:05AM
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“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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