Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
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Of all the terrible ideas conceived in the social media age, a Yelp for people has to be, by far, one of the absolute worst and poorly thought out.
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Ad blockers aren't just a way to stop annoying banners pop-ups, and videos. They can also keep your devices safe.
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Technophobes are confusing normal neuroplasticity and poor impulse control for black technological magic.
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Xanadu was the ultimate nightmare project for any programmer. And we're lucky it was never completed, much less lived up to its lofty goals.
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There's a cottage industry of techno-utopians out to convince us that their wildest computer-based dreams are right around the corner.
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Governments censoring, filtering, and manipulating the internet, so hot right now.
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How could it be harder to lie online if you can hide your identity? Well, the internet never forgets a fib...
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No matter how tamed the web of the future will be, it will always have its wild, adults-only parts.
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AOL is helping to spread woo across the web not because it believes in what post modern cargo cult science preaches, but because it doesn't care.
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MIT's experiment in capturing how the web views you shows the limitations of parsing through massive, unstructured, loosely related data sets.