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Play Any Website Like A Marble Madness Maze, Controlled With Your Phone's...
A new way of exploring PopSciA screenshot from one of my gamesI took a spin around PopSci.com. If you're looking for a distraction today, this new browser-plus-phone-based game from Google turns your...
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BlackBerry Z10 Review: If They Could Turn Back Time...
BlackBerry Z10Dan NosowitzThe totally revamped phone that hopes to save BlackBerry is a damn fine first effort for a new platform. But can a new platform succeed in 2013? My first smartphone was a...
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This Tiny Car Drives Itself
Hitachi RopitsTokyo TimesHop in and let the Ropits chauffeur you. (But just you.) We've seen some cool ideas for self-driving cars, but it's complicated designing one that can work alongside other,...
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New Map Shows The Oldest Light In Our Universe
Cosmic Microwave Background, As Of March 2013 This map shows the oldest light in our universe, as detected with the greatest precision yet by the Planck mission. The ancient light, called the cosmic...
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Senate Hearing: Drones Are "Basically Flying Smartphones"
A future full of spy drones sounds pretty scary. Except it's already here. Senators, law enforcement officials, and assorted experts attended a judiciary hearing yesterday to discuss the implications...
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11 Relics Of Space History That You Can Buy
Goodwill DiscCourtesy BonhamsThe first auction since Congress passed a law allowing astronauts to sell their mission souvenirs features the Space Magna Carta, a rocket engine and a lot of signed...
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Next Month, Mars Solar Conjunction Means Vacation For NASA Teams
Solar Conjunction, April 2013 This diagram illustrates the positions of Mars, Earth and the sun during a period that occurs approximately every 26 months, when Mars passes almost directly behind the...
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Why Legal Experts Say It's Okay To Kill A Civilian Hacker In Cyber Warfare
Arrest? No longer the worst consequence of cyber attacks.wikimedia commonsAnd why their reasoning is not all that surprising Cyberspace makes for a strange battlefield. Attacks are launched from...
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Huge Volcano Eruptions May Have Caused The Die-Off That Paved The Way For...
The Triassic die-off is one of 5 mass extinctions on Earth in the past 542 million years. We all know a gigantic asteroid is to blame for wiping out the dinosaurs--but what wiped out the animals that...
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Build Your Own Resistor Substitution Decade Box
ResistorCourtesy George GravesDial in the resistor you need and avoid digging through messy electronics bins. If your desk isn't cluttered, you aren't doing your job. Gadget-building geeks know this...
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People With Origami Faces And Other Amazing Images From This Week
Origami FacesAlma Haser via io9Plus the world's largest inflatable envelope, an extremely toothy fish and more Click here to enter the gallery
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How It Works: A Touchscreen That Knows You
A Touchscreen That Knows YouGraham MurdochTouchscreens treat all fleshy finger pads alike: Most detect a simple change in electrical current or in sound or light waves regardless of who is swiping....
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A Legged Robot That Specializes In Scuttling Across Sand
Sand Strider This little legged robot moves especially efficiently on grainy media, such as sand. Image courtesy of Chen Li, Tingnan Zhang, Daniel GoodmanThe math that went into this robot could...
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Popular Science Bracket: Land Robots Vs. Flying Drones, Round 2
Land robots vs. flying drones, round 2 Katie PeekRound 2 polls close Monday, March 25, at 9 a.m. Happy March Madness! Welcome to round two of the world's nerdiest bracket! To recap: we've compiled a...
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Watch This Snake Robot Grip Whatever It Touches
Just stay away from our necks, snake 'bot. We've seen Carnegie Mellon University's modular snake robots before, and it looks like one of them has learned a new trick. Throw it at a tree branch or field...
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Bill Gates Will Pay You $100,000 If You Can Make A Better Condom
Condom From 1813 This condom dates from 1813. Looks...awful. Wikimedia CommonsMake a condom that people actually want to use, and snag yourself a hundred K from the Gates Foundation. Also you'll save...
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American English Has Become Way More Emotional Than British English
Mood MadnessIntgr via Wikimedia CommonsA study comparing mood-related words in U.S. and British books shows that Americans increasingly use emotional words more often. If you pick up a British book, a...
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Trip Report: Sufjan Stevens's Laser-Fueled Tour Through The Solar System
Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, and Nico Muhly's "Planetarium" This show was taken at the earlier Australian performance, at the Sydney Opera House. via Workhorse NYStevens, The National's Bryce...
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Meet The 22-Year-Old Inventor Helping Marketers Read Your Mind
NeuroSpire CEO Jake StauchCourtesy Jake StauchNeuroSpire, with Jake Stauch at the helm, has developed software that lets companies scan brains to deliver better ads--and do it on the cheap. About four...
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Did A Comet Kill The Dinosaurs?
Big Boom A giant bolide creates the Chicxulub crater in what is now known as the Yucatan peninsula. Donald E. Davis, WikipediaNew data seems to suggest that one did. Some 66 million years ago, a giant...
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