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What Strange Magic Did This Kid Do On His Paper Airplane? 

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What Strange Magic Did This Kid Do On His Paper Airplane?  One student in Japan made this amazing paper aircraft that flew for 24 seconds, and then, somehow, flew back to him! If you plan on topping this dude, you better get folding. March 14, 2016 at 04:02PM

What Strange Magic Did This Kid Do On His Paper Airplane? 

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What Strange Magic Did This Kid Do On His Paper Airplane? 

Can an Indie ISP Beat Comcast?

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Can an Indie ISP Beat Comcast? For nearly two decades, Monkey Brains has slowly built up a an alternative to getting reamed by mega-monopolies that usually control access to the Internet.

Can an Indie ISP Beat Comcast?

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Can an Indie ISP Beat Comcast?

Everything You Know About Artificial Intelligence is Wrong

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Everything You Know About Artificial Intelligence is Wrong That fateful day when machines finally become smarter than humans has never appeared closer — yet we seem no closer in grasping the implications of this epochal event.

John Oliver Explains The Importance Of Encryption

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John Oliver Explains The Importance Of Encryption

Mathematicians Discover Prime Conspiracy

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Mathematicians Discover Prime Conspiracy A previously unnoticed property of prime numbers seems to violate a longstanding assumption about how they behave. March 14, 2016 at 01:42PM

Facebook, Google and WhatsApp plan to increase encryption of user data

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Facebook, Google and WhatsApp plan to increase encryption of user data Spurred on by Apple’s battles against the FBI, some of tech’s biggest names are to expand encryption of user data in their services. March 14, 2016 at 11:30AM

Teenager wins $250,000 in biggest drone race yet

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Teenager wins $250,000 in biggest drone race yet 15-year-old Luke Bannister piloted his drone to victory, scoring a quarter million dollars at Dubai's inaugural World Drone Prix. March 14, 2016 at 05:13AM

How Toxic Masculinity Poisoned the 2016 Election

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How Toxic Masculinity Poisoned the 2016 Election Toxic masculinity is not a phenomenon limited to American politicians, of course, but they have come to represent its consequences all too perfectly. Men and women are in a state of unprecedented flux — economic, sexual, and political — which amounts to a more or less complete reevaluation of gender. March 13, 2016 at 10:05PM

Why do so many white people claim to be Native American?

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Why do so many white people claim to be Native American? Why are so many white Americans claiming to be part Indian, even as Native people are telling each other they’re not Indian enough? March 13, 2016 at 06:09PM

Neurasthenia: The Disease That Shaped American Ideas About Health and Happiness

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Neurasthenia: The Disease That Shaped American Ideas About Health and Happiness During the 19th-century, a nervous condition shaped the way modern Americans think about health and happiness. Modern society was beginning create new wonders — or, seen differently, new things to be anxious about. March 13, 2016 at 05:09PM

John Oliver Explains The Importance Of Encryption

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John Oliver Explains The Importance Of Encryption As the legal battle between Apple and the FBI escalates, John Oliver wades into the debate over digital privacy versus the interests of law enforcement. March 14, 2016 at 05:21PM

Mathematicians Discover Prime Conspiracy

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Mathematicians Discover Prime Conspiracy

Facebook, Google and WhatsApp plan to increase encryption of user data

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Facebook, Google and WhatsApp plan to increase encryption of user data

Teenager wins $250,000 in biggest drone race yet

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Teenager wins $250,000 in biggest drone race yet

How Toxic Masculinity Poisoned the 2016 Election

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How Toxic Masculinity Poisoned the 2016 Election

Why do so many white people claim to be Native American?

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Why do so many white people claim to be Native American?

Neurasthenia: The Disease That Shaped American Ideas About Health and Happiness

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Neurasthenia: The Disease That Shaped American Ideas About Health and Happiness

injurious: Word of the day for March 15, 2016

injurious , adj : Causing physical harm or injury; harmful, hurtful. Causing harm to one's reputation; invidious, defamatory, libelous, slanderous.

Picture of the day for March 15, 2016

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Picture of the day on March 15, 2016: Trees in the morning fog in the hamlet Welte, Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Article of the day for March 15, 2016

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Article of the day is California State Route 78. Check it out: http://ift.tt/1oWeX6W

Article of the day for March 15, 2016

The Article of the day for March 15, 2016 is California State Route 78 . State Route 78 is a state highway in California that runs from Oceanside east to Blythe, a few miles from Arizona. Its western terminus is at Interstate 5 in San Diego County and its eastern terminus is at Interstate 10 in Riverside County. The route is a freeway through the heavily populated cities of northern San Diego County and a two-lane highway running through the Cuyamaca Mountains to Julian. In Imperial County, it travels through the desert near the Salton Sea and passes through the city of Brawley before turning north into an area of sand dunes on the way to its terminus in Blythe. Portions of the route existed as early as 1900, and it was one of the original state highways designated in 1934. The freeway section in the North County of San Diego that connects Oceanside and Escondido was built in the middle of the 20th century in several stages, including a transitory stage known as the Vista Way Freeway,...

injurious: Word of the day for March 15, 2016

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Word of the day is injurious : Causing physical harm or injury; harmful, hurtful. Causing harm to one's reputation; invidious, defamatory, libelous, slanderous.

Picture of the day for March 15, 2016

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Trees in the morning fog in the hamlet Welte, Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Everything You Know About Artificial Intelligence is Wrong

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Everything You Know About Artificial Intelligence is Wrong

Everything You Know About Artificial Intelligence is Wrong

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Everything You Know About Artificial Intelligence is Wrong

Everything You Know About Artificial Intelligence is Wrong

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Everything You Know About Artificial Intelligence is Wrong That fateful day when machines finally become smarter than humans has never appeared closer — yet we seem no closer in grasping the implications of this epochal event. March 14, 2016 at 05:37PM

My PC Upgraded To Windows 10 Without Asking, Then Immediately Broke

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My PC Upgraded To Windows 10 Without Asking, Then Immediately Broke "I had plans to stop being an old dinosaur and upgrade to Windows 10 last week. What I didn’t expect was to wake up on Thursday morning and find out Windows had taken care of that for me."

My PC Upgraded To Windows 10 Without Asking, Then Immediately Broke

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My PC Upgraded To Windows 10 Without Asking, Then Immediately Broke

Inside the elite, super-secret world of L.A.’s coolest girls on Facebook

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Inside the elite, super-secret world of L.A.’s coolest girls on Facebook To gain entry into the most exclusive club in Los Angeles, there is no need to wear a trendy outfit or to slip the bouncer a Benjamin. In fact, there isn’t even a line. Instead, admission to the "Girls Night In" Facebook group requires the approval of its 1,500 members.

Inside the elite, super-secret world of L.A.’s coolest girls on Facebook

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Inside the elite, super-secret world of L.A.’s coolest girls on Facebook

Wikipedia's first words: Hello World

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Wikipedia's first words: Hello World

Wikipedia's first words: Hello World

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Wikipedia's first words: Hello World Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales can't remember what the first article on Wikipedia was. He does remember the first words of Wikipedia, though.

Gawker Trial: Editor Admits Hulk Hogan’s Penis Isn’t Newsworthy

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Gawker Trial: Editor Admits Hulk Hogan’s Penis Isn’t Newsworthy

Gawker Trial: Editor Admits Hulk Hogan’s Penis Isn’t Newsworthy

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Gawker Trial: Editor Admits Hulk Hogan’s Penis Isn’t Newsworthy A.J. Daulerio, who wrote the story about Hogan's sex tape, testifies that he was "amused" by it, and faces a tough cross-examination.

Tumblr Party at SXSW Includes ‘Pizza Fairies’ and Queer Rap

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Tumblr Party at SXSW Includes ‘Pizza Fairies’ and Queer Rap Tumblr never took off the way Yahoo (and outsiders) expected as a business, and its value is still declining. Still, the blogging service remains popular with teens and a blowout party at SXSW is a good way to remind people that Tumblr is still alive and kicking.

Tumblr Party at SXSW Includes ‘Pizza Fairies’ and Queer Rap

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Tumblr Party at SXSW Includes ‘Pizza Fairies’ and Queer Rap

Google car crash 'not a surprise' - US transport secretary

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Google car crash 'not a surprise' - US transport secretary Anthony Foxx told the BBC that accidents were inevitable, but that the emerging technology should not be compared "against perfection."

Google car crash 'not a surprise' - US transport secretary

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Google car crash 'not a surprise' - US transport secretary