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November 19, 2014 Prachi Gupta

While the FCC continues to debate net-neutrality regulations, scientists in China and America are quietly creating a new kind of internet, encyrpted by bursts of light instead of the standard long string of numbers. Revelations gleaned from the NSA leaks by Edward Snowden showed that even the largest tech companies with the best security were vulnerable to […]

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November 11, 2014 Peter Yeh

As we read into the FBI’s complaint, we find out more about the idiotic CEBro of Silk Road 2, SpaceX engineer Blake Benthall. Silk Road 2 was the resurrection of the pioneering darknet marketplace, Silk Road, which sold everything from drugs to fake passports, and was taken down by law enforcement in October 2013. Even […]

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November 10, 2014 Prachi Gupta

He may have slipped in polls recently, but President Obama is still popular within the internet community, having just joined the fight for net neutrality. In a video and two-page statement released by the White House, Obama urged the FCC to support an open internet that treats all data and providers on the internet equally. […]

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November 6, 2014 Rhett Jones

In some seriously sci-fi tech news, scientists have officially transmitted brain stimulus from one person to another across the internet. This was the second test of the technology by researchers at the University of Washington. The first was conducted last year, and now that it has been replicated, they say it is much closer to […]

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October 24, 2014 Prachi Gupta

Though they weren’t the source of the original leak for eponymous album Run The Jewels, El-P and Killer Mike got ahead of the game this time around, releasing their new album RTJ2 online in the wee hours of Friday morning. The album isn’t commercially due out until October 27 by label Mass Appeal Records, but […]

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Prachi Gupta

Jon Schultz, the eccentric businessman who has literally profited off of disease-related hysteria, has sold Ebola.com for a whopping $200,000. And, as Time reports the story, the buyer is every bit as bizarre as the seller. According to DomainInvesting.com, Russian company the Weed Growth Fund purchased the domain name from Schutlz’s Blue String Ventures for […]

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October 16, 2014 Marina Galperina

Hey, Tinder Guys. Yes, you! The guys on Tinder posing next to art. Houston-based artist Sally Glass gotchu on this Tinder Guys Posing With Art blog, cataloguing and identifying your various cultural embellishments. Nice work. I was gonna swipe left but then oh snap, is that a James Turrell, ooh light art, you so subtle I totally don’t need […]

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September 18, 2014 Bucky Turco

Take one part NYPD, mix it with one part L train, and this is the outcome: @NYPDLTrain. It’s the latest Twitter account the NYPD has created ever since the nation’s largest police force learned about social media. Cute. […]

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September 15, 2014 Sophie Weiner

An NBC news special from the dawn of the ’80s documented an exciting new trend — TVs that could display data like the weather, sports scores, news or even early video games. Data services like Ceefax and Viewtex, who provided this info, weren’t connected to the internet, but their services looked towards the future of technology […]

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September 10, 2014 Marina Galperina

Why fly, when you can look out your status on your kitchen drawer over there? This latest thing from the Oculus Rift technology Borg locates compatible surfaces in real-time using an RGB-D sensor, and then projects all kinds of internet all over them. Like Facebook. We present an efficient new real-time approach which densely maps an environment using […]

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