Friday 31 October 2014
Thursday 30 October 2014
Wednesday 29 October 2014
Tuesday 28 October 2014
Monday 27 October 2014
Sunday 26 October 2014
Saturday 25 October 2014
Friday 24 October 2014
Thursday 23 October 2014
Facebook brings back the anonymous chatroom
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Facebook brings back the anonymous chatroom
Remember in the late '90s when you would kill time in AOL and IRC chatrooms or post on Usenet? You'd strike up conversations with strangers about subjects you were all interested in, say "The X-Files," container gardening or The Fugees.
Wednesday 22 October 2014
Can the web predict the future? The strange world of long-term betting
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Can the web predict the future? The strange world of long-term betting
From drone wars to cosmic theories, long-term bets take the long view and place odds on the shape of the future.
Tuesday 21 October 2014
App helps find woman trapped in ravine
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App helps find woman trapped in ravine
After becoming trapped in her car, a woman was airlifted out of a deep ravine after police used her iPad to find her.
Monday 20 October 2014
Mystery spaceship returns to Earth
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Mystery spaceship returns to Earth
The X-37B space plane has returned to Earth after a two year secret mission.
Sunday 19 October 2014
Quiz: Can you guess her invention?
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Quiz: Can you guess her invention?
Some of humankind's greatest scientific discoveries have come from women.
Saturday 18 October 2014
Germ-zapping robot Gigi sets sights on Ebola
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Germ-zapping robot Gigi sets sights on Ebola
Gigi the robot looks like a skinny, harmless cousin of R2-D2, but the machine is a cold-blooded killer for hire, a germ zapper that could become an important weapon in the fight against Ebola.
Friday 17 October 2014
Behind the furor over #Gamergate
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Behind the furor over #Gamergate
The threat of violence against feminist and gaming critic Anita Sarkeesian, which led her to cancel a speaking appearance this week at Utah State University, has refocused attention on a recent and often-misunderstood debate.
Thursday 16 October 2014
Woman, 113, fudged age to join Facebook
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Woman, 113, fudged age to join Facebook
It's probably no surprise that some folks have been fudging their ages to get on Facebook.
Wednesday 15 October 2014
Tuesday 14 October 2014
Woman, 113, fudged her age to get on Facebook
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Woman, 113, fudged her age to get on Facebook
It's probably no surprise that some folks have been fudging their ages to get on Facebook.
Monday 13 October 2014
Tiny robots carry online shopping
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Tiny robots carry online shopping
These robots are less than a meter tall, but they can lift a ton.
Sunday 12 October 2014
Meet the virtual patients training real doctors
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Meet the virtual patients training real doctors
Like a flight simulator for doctors, virtual patients are used to train medical students how to make a diagnosis.
Saturday 11 October 2014
'NBA 2K15' face scans create mutant horrors
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'NBA 2K15' face scans create mutant horrors
With Halloween just a few weeks away, "NBA 2K15" is here with a whole new set of mutant horrors to populate your nightmares.
Friday 10 October 2014
Sleeper ship could carry first humans to Mars in hibernation state
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Sleeper ship could carry first humans to Mars in hibernation state
Half a dozen astronauts lie motionless in a row of compartments with medical monitoring cables connected to their bodies, as their space ship cuts through the silent blackness that separates Earth from Mars. They are in a medically induced stasis.
Thursday 9 October 2014
Groceries sent right to your car
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Groceries sent right to your car
Volvo's Roam delivery service lets you order shopping online, and have it delivered to the trunk of your car.
Wednesday 8 October 2014
Is Facebook horning in on the anonymous app wave?
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Is Facebook horning in on the anonymous app wave?
As the reigning champion of social media, Facebook has adopted a fairly consistent strategy in dealing with upstart competitors: If you can't buy 'em, copy 'em.
Tuesday 7 October 2014
U.S. Navy could 'swarm' foes with robot boats
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U.S. Navy could 'swarm' foes with robot boats
The U.S. Navy is getting ready to "swarm" its adversaries.
Monday 6 October 2014
Intel pulls ads over sexism in video game drama
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Intel pulls ads over sexism in video game drama
On Thursday, a major tech company stepped into the middle of a vicious two-month-long battle among video game fans, scholars, developers and journalists over the representation of women in games.
Sunday 5 October 2014
Demoted planet Pluto making a comeback?
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Demoted planet Pluto making a comeback?
Poor Pluto. Is it or isn't it a planet? On September 18th, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics jumped into the debate -- what is a planet? They had some experts discuss the definition of a planet and then they let the audience vote. Guess what? They voted that Pluto is a planet.
Saturday 4 October 2014
West coast alarmed by false tsunami alert
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West coast alarmed by false tsunami alert
Some mobile and Web users got a disconcerting warning on Wednesday when digital alerts incorrectly showed a tsunami may be headed toward the coast.
Friday 3 October 2014
Blood moon returns, and this time it's bigger
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Blood moon returns, and this time it's bigger
Blood moon, Act II, opens soon in the heavens near you. And it will be bigger than Act I.
Thursday 2 October 2014
Best. Female. Geeks. Ever.
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Best. Female. Geeks. Ever.
Think girls don't do science? Try telling that to these women.
Wednesday 1 October 2014
Clean water: A $16 solution
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Clean water: A $16 solution
Could there be a $16 answer to the global challenge of clean drinking water? CNN's Rachel Crane explains.
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