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German Police To Experiment With 3-D Printed Guns
The Liberator 3-D Printed GunDefense DistributedThey aim to determine whether 3-D printed firearms present a real threat-and whether they can use the weapons for their own purposes. German federal...
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Watch A Robot Crack A Smartphone Passcode Using Brute Force
Next up: ATM PINs. A team of engineers attending next week's Black Hat hacking conference created R2B2, the incredibly patient Robotic Reconfigurable Button Basher. The 'bot punches four-digit...
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100 Years Of Meteorites In An Interactive Image [Infographic]
More meteorites have crashed into Earth than you expect, probably This interactive infographic, from designer Sebastian Sadowski, charts 100 years of meteorites, mapping them by where they fell and...
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Google Announces New Tablet And Streaming TV Stick Thing
Google ChromecastGoogleThis might be the cheapest internet-streaming TV device we've ever seen! Today in San Francisco, Google announced a few intriguing new products--two hardware, one software. One...
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Getting Heart Surgery? Wait For The Full Moon
Waning Full MoonWikimedia CommonsSurgeries during a waning full moon have lower mortality rates and shorter hospital stays, according to a new study. It sounds a bit like an old wives tale, but if...
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New Surveillance Blimp Stays Aloft For 30 Days Straight
Raytheon's JLENS BlimpU.S. ArmyA new U.S. Army project could make threat detection much more practical. The Army may have a new radar-carrying, unmanned blimp by 2017. Made by Raytheon, the...
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How Close Could I Get To The Sun And Survive?
The sun, oohNASAOf all the bodies in our solar system, the sun is probably the one we want to give the widest berth. It gushes radiation, and even though its surface is the coolest part of the star, it...
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Vintage Big Pic: The Cameras That Captured The First Men On The Moon
Apollo Lunar TV CameraWestinghouse EngineerYep, these are photos of cameras. Enjoy! This smooth and shiny camera captured the video that folks at home watched live on TV during Neil Armstrong's...
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The One True Streaming TV Device
Sling To ChromecastGoogleThe way to success is not to eliminate 90 percent of features and cut the price by 60 percent. Why not make the One True Streaming TV Thing? Google just announced their new...
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New For Space Tourists: A Light, Comfy Space Suit
The 3G Space SuitNASA Administrator Charles Bolden checks out the suit on Capitol Hill.Final Frontier DesignsPrivate space company Final Frontier Design shows off the latest orbital fashion. Final...
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Watch These Magnetic Droplets Dance [Video]
Bust a move, ferrofluids. We're suckers for a fluid that can dance. These magnetic water droplets, or ferrofluids, can switch between a static self-assembling state-in which the structure organizes...
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The Three Biggest Aviation Advances From This Year
Hover CraftEngineers are designing the first major addition to the U.S. VTOL fleet in more than two decades. The plans are mostly secret, but the craft will likely draw from tilt-rotor, VTOL...
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Watch A Real-Life Drone Get Piloted Through The Oculus Rift
The virtual reality headset goes in for real-reality instead. The Oculus Rift is a virtual-reality headset that makes for a crazy-immersive experience. (Example: you can feel what it's like to get your...
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Shooting The Most Beautiful Jellyfish
Cyanea capillataAlexander SemenovPhotographer Alexander Semenov takes some of the most gorgeous jellyfish pictures we've ever seen--and trust us, we've seen a lot of pictures of jellyfish. Our friends...
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This Documentary About A Microsoft Paint Artist Is Incredible
If the story of 97-year-old Hal Lesko doesn't make you tear up, you are soulless. Hal Lasko is a 97-year-old retired typographer who goes by the nickname Grandpa. (Not for the reason you'd expect; you...
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Honeycomb Drone Swarm Can Fly In Any Shape
Modular Drones in FlightETH ZurichHappily, these drones are for educational (not killer) purposes. These honeycomb-like drones use advanced networking technology to fly smoothly in large formations....
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What The Physics Of Love Looks Like [Video]
Like drops of color in water, with some heavy breathing. What Love Looks Like, video one of six from Tangible Graphics on Vimeo.Louise Ma, a Brooklyn-based designer, has been exploring the...
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Big Pic: A Technicolor Galactic Explosion
The Sculptor GalaxyESOThe new ALMA telescope snaps an amazing view of the Sculptor Galaxy. The Atacama Large Millimeter-submillimeter Array (ALMA) only opened in March, but we've already got incredible...
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Why Neuromarketing Is A Neuroscam
EEGPetter Kallioinen via Wikimedia CommonsPoor data and poorer analysis do not make true scientific results. As a rule, almost anything that involves the prefix neuro is probably a buzzword. Brains!...
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Researchers Successfully Implant Mice With False Memories
What Is Real?This is a general lab mouse, not one of the mice described below.Rama on Wikimedia CommonsSo it is possible. Call it cool or just plain creepy: Memory researchers from U.S. and Japan have,...
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