Julian Assange's Reddit AMA Is A Classic Internet Trainwreck
Earlier today, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange decided to hold an AMA on Reddit. A virtual online press conference is exactly the kind of thing the…
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Twitter Promoted A Completely Fake ESPN Account And False Stories About UFC Fighters For Over A Month
Fake news is a huge problem on social media, and Facebook in particular has taken a ton of heat for unwittingly promoting stories that are…
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Scientists Think They Might Finally Know Where The Moon Came From
Humanity has existed for a couple hundred thousand years, or so scientists believe, with civilization thought to be somewhere in the neighborhood of 5,000 to…
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How To Watch T-Mobile's Big Uncarrier Announcement From CES
At 2PM Eastern today, T-Mobile is promising another big Uncarrier announcement. That's a fancy word for a standard press conference, but T-Mobile does actually have…
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The Best News Bloopers From December
Believe it or not, TV news is still a thing. No, seriously. Local television networks across the country regularly broadcast reports covering all sorts of events.…
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How To Cheat Amazon's $25 Minimum For Add-On Items
There is a limit to Amazon's free Prime shipping. It's called Add-On items: stuff that Amazon will sell, but is too insignificant to ship alone.…
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Twitter's New Video Streaming Solution Is So Much Better Than Facebook Live
As Twitter struggles to stay relevant in a world that is becoming increasingly dominated by giants like Facebook and up-starts like Snapchat, Twitter has announced…
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A Restaurant In San Fransisco Is Plating Food On iPads
With a prime location in San Francisco's Financial District, Quince is widely heralded as one of the city's finest restaurants. It has plenty of buzz, premium pricing, an…
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China Is Going To Beat The United States Back To The Moon
When China's Chang'e 3 mission successfully landed a rover on the Moon in 2013 it was the first time a spacecraft had achieved a soft…
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Humanity Is Actually About To Start Sending Messages To Aliens
If your most feared end-of-days scenario involves an alien race finding Earth, raiding it for its natural resources, and then doing away with humanity just…
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Pakistan Threatens Israel With Nukes After Reading A Fake News Story
Fake news isn't just something your out-of-touch uncle gets riled up over; Pakistan's defense minister apparently can't tell the difference between false narratives and reality either.…
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Sony Music's Twitter Is Spreading False Rumors About Britney Spears Dying
It's been a bad year, but it's not that bad. Despite what Sony Music's official Twitter account might be claiming, Britney Spears is not dead. Which leads…
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Apple Asked To Unlock The iPhone 4s Of Russian Ambassador's Assassin, Report Claims
Reports from Turkish media claim that Apple has been asked to help unlock an iPhone belonging to the Russian ambassador's assassin. The device, a relatively…
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Rugged Rudolph: Scientists Discover Why Reindeer Antlers Are So Strong
A team of scientists from the U.K.'s Queen Mary University of London have discovered the secret behind what makes reindeer antlers so tough. In a…
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Eye In The Sky: Tech Helps Protect Isolated Amazon Tribes
The Brazilian government is using satellite technology and aerial imagery to monitor and help protect isolated Amazonian tribes. FUNAI, the Brazilian government's Indian Affairs department,…
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Watch These Potential Mars Robot Designs Endure The Utah Desert
Testing a vehicle meant to traverse the harsh conditions of another world is pretty difficult here on Earth, but when it comes to putting potential Mars…
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If This Kickstarter Actually Works, It's Going To Be Awesome
I just gave a company $37 of my money with, optimistically speaking, a 25% hope of ever seeing a return. I normally don't back Kickstarters…
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Watch A Tesla's Emergency Braking Help Avoid A Highway Pileup
Tesla's Autopilot feature gets most of the attention when it comes to Tesla and crashes. So it's easy to forget that when Teslas are driven…
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Interview: Can VR Help Us Understand What It Means To Be Human?
Dan Cook, the founder of EyeMynd BrainwaveVR, is the kind of person you have a conversation with that meanders beyond technology and eventually encompasses... the meaning…
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Best Buy Employees Buy Wii U For Teen Who Played Store's Demo Console Every Day
Christmas came early for one teenager thanks to the kindness of employees at a Best Buy store on Long Island. The employees at the Best…
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Anyone Can Livestream On Instagram Starting Today
Livestreaming video is one of the must-add features for social networks this year, just behind a healthy dose of fake news. In its efforts to…
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Oh Look, Facebook Is Copying Snapchat Again
Facebook has a long and storied history of being "inspired" by other apps and then implementing those new features only to kill them off again…
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NASA's Saturn Orbiter Just Sent Back The Most Stunning Photos Yet
NASA's Cassini-Huygens orbiter has been on mission for nearly two decades and it's still delivering glimpses of Saturn that leave us in awe. The spacecraft,…
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'Less Creepier Than Google Glass': Snapchat Spectacles As Social Media's Hottest 'Sexcessory'
Snapchat is a known showcase for tidbits from life, but for some users of the the new Snapchat Spectacles, it presents a whole new opportunity:…
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Facebook Bans - Then Unbans - The B.S. Detector Plugin That Flags Fake News Stories
A few weeks ago we wrote about the B.S. Detector plugin. It's a handy little tool that automatically produces a hard-to-miss pop-up tooltip whenever you're…
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Buzz Aldrin In 'Good Spirits' In New Zealand Hospital
Trailblazing astronaut Buzz Aldrin is being treated for fluid in his lungs at a hospital in Christchurch, New Zealand following his evacuation from the South…
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Reddit Is Censoring The Pro-Donald Trump Community
Any conversation about the alt-right and the internet always seems to spiral back to Reddit and /r/the_donald, a the unofficial water cooler for Trump supporters…
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