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A Guy Born In 1920 Made These Predictions About Robots That Are Coming True...
One of the most important people in the world of robotics isn't a conventional roboticist at all, but a science fiction author.Go straight to the story of Isaac Asimov >Isaac Asimov grew up in...
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This Is What Happens When You Connect A 27-Year-Old Mac To Today's Internet...
From the don't-try-this-at-home category we give you a fun video showing a 27-year-old Mac PC navigating the modern Internet.Given how fast technology changes, 27-years in tech is like over 100 human...
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Understanding Facebook's FBX — Social Media's First Ad Exchange
Facebook launched FBX — the first-ever social media real-time bidding (RTB) ad exchange — in June 2012 to let advertisers buy Facebook ad inventory that retargets users based on their past online...
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WWII Story Shows How Badly NSA May Have Hurt US Tech Brands
Since June, fugitive NSA analyst Edward Snowden has been leaking Top Secret documents about the tactics, techniques, and procedures of America's top surveillance wing — some of which include details of...
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Some Winter Survival Tips From The US Marine Corps
James Glanton "did everything right" when he and his family suffered a slow-rollover of their vehicle and became stuck in sub-zero Nevada temperatures for two days this week.Glanton helped his family...
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China's Fuzzy Vision For Greater Beijing
The spectacular rise of the Pearl and Yangtze River deltas over the past several decades has inspired city leaders around the country to try and emulate their success by building up city clusters of...
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How Tech Has Changed Sex, Dating, And Mating
Whether we want to admit it or not, technology is changing every single part of our lives in the 21st century. One particular area that's been impacted by this is our relationships. Online dating,...
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13 Hot Portland Startups That You Need To Watch
Besides being a great place for strong coffee and well-groomed beards, Portland, OR is growing quickly as a startup hub.In the first quarter of this year, Oregon even overtook Washington in terms of...
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Once Treated With Scorn, Randomised Control Trials Are Coming Of Age
IT ALL began with a white envelope. Inside, a letter from the provost of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology offered three young economists at MIT $100,000 to spend as they wanted (those were the...
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India's Left-Leaning, Anti-Graft Party Made A Stunning Debut
TAKE Arvind Kejriwal's talk of "revolution" seriously. Back in June, crammed with this correspondent into a tiny Suzuki car in east Delhi, he predicted electoral triumph for his Aam Aadmi ("common...
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René Redzepi's Approach To Food: Carrots And Sticks
Tales of toil and triumph from the founder of New Nordic cuisineA Work in Progress: Journal, Recipes and Snapshots. By René Redzepi. Phaidon; 648 pages.NOMA, a restaurant in an old warehouse in...
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China's Fierce Public Debate Over GM Food Exposes Concerns About America
OF THE many thousands of usually small protests that break out in China every year, few relate to national policy. Many consider the risk of challenging the central government too great. But the...
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The Route Of An Onion Shows Why India Needs Walmart, Carrefour, And Tesco
NITIN JAIN is the big man in Lasalgaon, a dusty town a day's drive from Mumbai that boasts it has Asia's biggest onion market. With a trim moustache and a smartphone stuck to his ear he struts past a...
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Inside The Construction Of The New Subway Line NYC Has Wanted Since The 1920s...
New York City's Second Avenue Subway project, which will extend the route of the Q train into the Upper East Side, has been so delayed, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has said he's got "a 50-50 chance of...
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The Execution Of Kim Jong-Un's Powerful Uncle Leaves China In A Very Delicate...
Jang's execution raises concern over future of NKorea's economic cooperation with ally ChinaBEIJING (AP) — The stunning execution of Kim Jong Un's powerful uncle strips China of its most important link...
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Why Michelangelo Was In A Class Of His Own
Michelangelo: His Epic Life. By Martin Gayford. Fig Tree; 662 pages.LORENZO DE’ MEDICI, ruler of the Florentine Republic, was so taken by a statue carved by an adolescent that he proposed to make the...
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This Map Shows How Many Countries Contribute To A Single Jar Of Nutella
Nutella has a huge global fanbase, but it turns out its ingredients come from everywhere as well. The hazelnut spread is such a global product, in fact, that the Organization for Economic Co-operation...
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Here's Who Makes The Money In This Country — And Who Pays The Income Taxes
One of the most challenging and important issues in the U.S. right now is the rise of income inequality.The country's highest earners are taking home a bigger percentage of the national income than...
View ArticleVideo Shows How Hilariously Awful It Could Be To Wear 'Microsoft Glass'
If Microsoft came out with Glass, what would it be like?It'd be full of lots of terrible pop-ups, one videographer posits.Wearable tech became a thing in 2013 and is sure to be a bigger thing in 2014....
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The World's Most Innovative People Use These 3 Tech Tools
The tech industry is all about finding that Next Big Thing, the idea that launches a new company or industry and changes the world.Most people look at successful innovators, like Steve Jobs or Jeff...
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