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1. Hitting the Books: How to sling a cat through interstellar space
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... books on science and technology we can find and... Read all  ...

2. Jim Meskimen impersonates 20 celebs in 2 minutes in remarkable deepfake video
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The deepfake technology in this video is far from flawless, but Jim Meskimen's voices and mannerisms more than make up for it. Watch him recite a poem of his own composition as John Malkovich, Colin Firth, ...

3. Video demonstration of new "invisibility cloak"
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Canadian camouflage developer HyperStealth Biotechnology Corp released a series of videos demonstrating their new "patent-pending" "Quantum Stealth Light Bending Material (Invisibility Cloak)." Here is ...

4. If you're looking to ditch your vape then you need to check out the Genius Pipe
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As much as vaping has taken over the market during the last decade, there's still a lot of questions about the technology, as well as health concerns that we're just now finding out about. One thing you ...

5. Ace Marks is making high-end dress shoes affordable
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... business to remove the middlemen and use modern technology to create world-class, handcrafted footwear the doesn't cost an arm and a leg. They bypass retail and brand markups by selling online and employ ...

6. Motorola invite hints at a 'reinvented' RAZR
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Earlier this year a Motorola exec confirmed to Engadget that the company was hard at work on foldable phone technology, and rumors about a new RAZR-branded device just won't go away. Now CNET reports ...

7. Apache Rya matures open source triple store database
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Open source triple store database technology used by the U.S. Navy moves forward as a stable, mature project at the Apache Software Foundation. Read all  ...

8. Cable is bullshit, and so is 5G: give me fiber or give me death!
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... these problems. These days, that's 5G, a technology for delivering wireless broadband to devices close to its antennas that does nothing at all to solve the slow speeds in the lines connecting those towers ...

9. Berkeley city council unanimously votes to ban facial recognition technology
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Berkeley has joined the swelling ranks of cities (pioneered by nearby Oakland) that have passed ordinances banning the government's use of facial recognition technology, after a unanimous city council ...

10. Cut your own vinyl records at home with this machine
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... technology thought lost to the ages—Polaroid film—with his Impossible Project. So if anyone can pull off the Phonocut, it’s probably this team. Read the rest Read all  ...

11. BILL-E is a cute robot that builds structures block by block
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A new robotics breakthrough could revolutionalize how we build everything from airplanes to bridges and even massive superstructures. A team of researchers at the Massachusettes Institute of Technology's ...

12. The worst thing about deepfakes is that we know about them
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... to the growing phenomenon of deepfakes—the manipulation of deep Learning technology to create deceptively realistic videos, like adding Nicholas Cage's face into every movie. The cybersecurity firm DeepTrace ...

13. Britain's unbelievably stupid, dangerous porn "age verification" scheme is totally dead
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... age verification technology, the rules would have left it up to each porn site to decide on the best method. Most sites were expected to verify users by asking for credit card numbers or information from ...

14. Sony’s 360 Reality Audio launches this fall with 1,000 tracks
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Sony isn't letting Dolby corner the market on positional audio. Today, the electronics giant announced that 360 Reality Audio, its immersive listening technology that debuted at CES, is officially ...

15. Save 89% on up to 5 TB of storage with this secure cloud service
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... plenty of sorting options and instant previews for all your files. Behind the scenes, there's AWS technology at work to deliver consistent storage with deduplication and block uploads. 256-Bit AES encryption ...

16. Kevin Kelly and I talk about some of our favorite tools
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... of the newest photography technology in the form of drones. I have not owned a drone, and I've been kind of slow to get one, in part because there's a learning curve and part because my photography generally ...

17. Hitting the Books: Nero, fiddling from orbit as Earth burns
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... books on science and technology we can find and... Read all  ...

18. One Weird Law That Interferes With Security Research, Remix Culture, and Even Car Repair
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... argued that you cannot even look at the code that controls a device you own, which would mean that you're not allowed to understand the technology on which you rely — let alone learn how to tinker ...

19. System76 Launches Two Linux Laptops Powered by Coreboot Open-Source Firmware
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Driven by the idea that technology should always be free and open, System76 is launching the Galago Pro and Darter Pro laptops with their new Coreboot-based open-source firmware, Read all  ...

20. Facebook and Twitter say they will allow candidates to pay them to be able to lie about opponents
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Trump has been buying ads with false content that run on Facebook and Twitter, and the two social media platforms both say they will continue to accept paid ads that contain lies. From Technology Review: Last ...

21. Inside Cirque du Soleil's technology lab
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We hear about disruption all the time -- to transport, to media, to manufacturers. What happens when it comes for the circus? The centuries-old entertainment form used to be the place to see incredible, ...

22. Bruce Schneier makes the case for "public interest technologists"
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... the public interest -- after all, understanding and navigating the law is a necessary precondition for freedom and fairness. Technology is another form of law, and a failure to understand tech can get ...

23. Nobel Prize in Chemistry split 3 ways for lithium-ion battery research
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... is a capstone of a truly transformative technology that has permeated billions of lives across the planet, including anyone who uses mobile phones, computers, pacemakers, electric cars and beyond. “The ...

24. Imad Sousou Steps Down As Head Of Intel's Open-Source Efforts
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After an incredible 25 year journey at Intel and having founded the Open-Source Technology Center, Imad Sousou announced he is stepping away from Intel. Read all  ...

25. California's new police body cam law blocks the use of facial recognition
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... of such technology, and now Governor Gavin Newsom has... Read all  ...