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New Spy Database? Great! Too Bad You're In It
FBI HeadquartersAude, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Obama administration wants to open financial data to more spy agencies than ever before. Reuters has obtained a Treasury Department document that details...
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Should Kickstarter Be Collecting Your Money For Hollywood Movie Studios?
Veronica Mars CoverThe long-awaited Veronica Mars movie just appeared on Kickstarter, making tons of money. But where's that money going? Veronica Mars was a TV show that aired for two seasons on UPN...
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Could Google Glass Allow Us To Drive Our Wheelchairs With Our Eyes?
Google WheelsSteve McHughEmploying Google's new toy to improve wheelchair control sounds like the least silly way to use $1,500 nerdwear. When Google launched their #ifihadglass campaign asking users...
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Helmets And Mouthguards Don't Prevent Concussions, Doctors Agree
Staying Protected Kids play football at a White House-sponsored event. Helmets and mouth guards are important for protecting against some injuries, but don't prevent concussions, a new consensus...
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Veronica Mars Movie Reaches Goal, Continues Making Lots Of Money
Veronica Mars on Kickstartervia KickstarterTo nobody's surprise, the Veronica Mars movie has continued to attract the interest of everyone with good taste in plucky teenage detectives and has been...
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Happy Pi Day! 10 Useful Things You Can Make With A Pie Tin
DIY flash reflector, 1969Popular Science archivesIn honor of Pi Day, why don't you try one of these fun crafts from the Popular Science archives? Use a pie tin to make a jet engine, a telescope, or a...
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New Results Confirm: The Particle Believed To Be The Higgs Boson Really Is...
Big Smash: Atlas's eight giant superconducting magnets, together powerful enough to crush a busCERNIts significance, though, awaits further investigation. The Higgs Boson really, really is the Higgs...
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NASA Resumes Production Of Plutonium-238 Space Fuel After 25 Years
Looks Like Jell-O, Tastes Like Space Fuel A pellet of plutonium-238, the fuel source used in much of NASA's space exploration. Los Alamos National Laboratory Our dangerously depleted supply of...
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Watch This Quadrotor Fly Like A Drone And Fish Like An Eagle
This Aeryon Scout Quadrotor is Cool but it isn't as cool as a quadrotor drone that works like an eagle. Dkroetsch, via Wikimedia CommonsBald eagles, besides being majestic and graceful and standing for...
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The Best RSS Readers To Use Now That Google Reader Is Dead
NewsBlurNewsBlurGoogle Reader is dead. Sad face. Here's what to use instead. Google just announced that it's killing Google Reader, the company's popular RSS-reading web application, despite the fact...
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Now Live: The April 2013 Issue Of Popular Science Magazine
The SpaceX Falcon HeavyNick KaloterakisOn the last Sunday before this issue went to press, the lights went out at the Super Bowl. I sat there, gaping, with a drink in my hand, as the ads, the field,...
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Watch This iPad-Controlled Robot Bartender Make A Perfect Cocktail
Pouring now on Kickstarter Ordering mixed drinks can be a crapshoot sometimes. Is that whiskey sour going to be the same from place to place? More importantly, are the proportions going to be right?...
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Raid Your Kitchen To Build This Potato Chip Speaker
Potato Chip SpeakerCourtesy William GurstelleFor that crispy, crunchy audio In 1921, two scientists made the first modern loudspeaker out of magnets, wire, and paper. Now manufacturers use synthetic...
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What To Expect At Samsung's Galaxy S 4 Event Tonight
Leaked Galaxy S 4?via EngadgetHere's what's in store for the biggest smartphone line in the world. Samsung is the world's biggest phonemaker, and the Galaxy S line is its flagship. It's not our...
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Scientists Implant Monkeys' Cells Back Into Their Own Brains
A Neuron This is a photo of neuron created from a stem cell, but it is not one of the cells that was implanted in the monkeys in the study below. Courtesy Yan Liu and Su-Chun Zhang, Waisman Center,...
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Cyber Attacks Are America's Top Security Threat. That's Better News Than It...
Cyber War TrainingU.S. Navy via wikimedia commonsA new report lists cyber attacks as the greatest threat to U.S. security. Here's why you shouldn't be too worried. Cyber attacks are the top threat...
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5 Classic (Read: Fabulously Corny) Pi Jokes
Actually kinda looks like a centipedeSnorgTeesYou know we had to. 1. What do you get when you divide a Holstein's circumference by its diameter?A: Cow pi!Variations: What do you get when you divide a...
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How Iran Censors The Internet [Infographic]
Internet Censorship In IranThe Iran Media Program/Deroy Peraza/Eric Fensterheim/Ambika RoosInformation wants to be free. It takes a lot of moving parts to chain it down. This infographic, from the Iran...
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Samsung Announces Galaxy S 4; It Has All Of The Features
Samsung Galaxy S 4 TeaserSamsungReporting live from Samsung's Galaxy S 4 event in New York City. At a massive event at Radio City Music Hall, featuring a live orchestra and a simulcast on a huge...
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Cockatoos Forgo A Treat Now For Future Rewards
Great GoffinSam Mugraby via Wikimedia CommonsDo you have as much self-control as a Goffin cockatoo? Could you hold a cookie in your mouth for a minute without eating it, if you were promised something...
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