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Somebody Hacked A Fridge To Send Spam
A Probably-Not-Hacked Fridge Flickr/GreencolanderHave you heard of the Internet of Things? It's, like, the most important Internet since the first Internet.It's a series of connected devices. One day...
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A Transmission That Reads The Road
Rolls-Royce Wraith Courtesy Rolls-Royce Cars today can see just about anything. They have systems that spot lanes, parked cars, and even animals. But even the best of them can’t do what the new...
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The Search For Actually Useful Apps On Google Glass
WayGo For Glass Developers able to get their hands on the $1,500 Google Glass prototypes have been hacking apps for the Android-based smart specs since this past spring – even though the company only...
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A Self-Winding Watch For The Rest of Us
Sistem51 Sam Kaplan Fact: Self-winding watches can contain up to 600 moving parts. Consequence: That complexity can drive prices to $500 and beyond. Engineers at Swatch reimagined the self-winding...
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7 Out Of 10 People Will Live In Cities By 2050
Caverns under construction Courtesy Metropolitan Transportation Authority/Patrick Cashin As people flock to urban centers, engineers will need to figure out how to accommodate them. In 2006, New...
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How Animal Planet Endangers Animals
A Raccoon, Not From Animal Planet Richard Bowen/FlickrIf you thought Animal Planet's worst sin was running shabby documentaries claiming to prove mermaids are real, you'd apparently be wrong. After a...
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Despite Small Glitch, The Comet-Chasing Craft Rosetta Has Awoken After Years...
Rosetta An artist's rendering of the Rosetta probe and its lander Philae at a comet. J. Huart / ESA It was brought to life to chase comets but has been asleep for 31 months, drifting beyond the orbit...
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Penn State Students Seek Crowdfunding To Land A Hopping Rover On The Moon
Lunar Lion Design Penn State Lunar Lion Team on RocketHub Just before winter break, students at Pennsylvania State University sat in a control room behind a two-foot-thick concrete wall. On the other...
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No, People Don't Have To Watch The Sunrise On TV In China
'Sunrise' in Beijing NewsClips247 / YouTube Rise and glow! In addition to the dull lightening of smog that now denotes morning in the polluted city of Beijing, the glow of an electronic rising sun on...
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Feds Pulled Someone Out Of A Movie For Wearing Google Glass
Glass Google A report first appearing on The Gadgeteer sounded like a hoax: a reader told the site they'd been been approached by the Feds for wearing Google Glass in an Ohio movie theater (and had...
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Mushrooms Are Helping Purify Dirty Waters
Mushroom Darius_saulenas via Wikimedia CommonsLet this idea grow on you: using mushrooms to clean up dirty, polluted urban streams. That's what environmentalists are trying in Oregon. Volunteers for...
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Space Dust Carries Molecules Of Water, Study Finds
A Piece of Interplanetary Dust NASA The grains of dust prevalent throughout the cosmos could carry with them molecules of water, according to a new analysis. They carry molecules of carbon, too, New...
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Why Did This Top Science Journal Editor Expose A Blogger's Pen Name?
Henry Gee Wikimedia Commons If you're in the scientific field, or even if you're just a regular reader of, say, this site, you're probably familiar with Nature, one of the top scientific journals in...
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Sloth Fur Might Yield New Drugs
Sloths are cute. Take this video of baby sloths being washed: Until today, this video might represent sheer joy. But a new study causes a different reaction: NOOOO! DON'T KILL THE FUR FUNGI!!!New...
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Robots May Replace One-Fourth Of U.S. Combat Soldiers By 2030, Says General
Modular Advanced Armed Robotic System (MAARS) MAARS is a remote-controlled gunbot. It can be fitteed with machine guns and grenade launchers, as well as less lethal weapons like tear gas. It's...
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A Marshmallow Launcher To Hit Your Sweet Tooth
What happens when you give four college students $250 and three months to make something for an engineering class? They build an auto-reloading cannon that blasts Jet-Puffed Marshmallows into the air...
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The Maker King
Carl Bass Brad Wenner When you first meet him, Carl Bass comes off like any other weekend carpenter. Dressed in a worn T-shirt and jeans, he shakes hands with a wooden grip and has a big, brassy...
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DNA Test Could Detect Counterfeit Chocolate
Chocolate, nom nom nom Dreamstime Life's like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get... including whether or not your favorite confection contains the top-quality cacao beans it...
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Microsoft Turns Elevator Into Artificially Intelligent Panopticon
Service Elevator Flickr/Sam HowzitThe worst part of riding an elevator is awkwardly trying to find a direction to stare in that doesn't line up with anyone else's line of vision. The second worst part...
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