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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Governments censoring, filtering, and manipulating the internet, so hot right now.
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Would human-robot relationships really take off when machines are smart enough?
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The jobs tech execs are thinking would be gained through monetized crowdsourcing don't seem like the kind of sustainable jobs we'll need in the future.
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North Korea's computer-based insult towards South Korea's head of state was supposed to be meaningless but offensive nonsense. Too bad pop sci writers took the bait and tried to explain it anyway.
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Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror shows us just how crazy the hiring process can be today by laying out his dream version of it.
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We might not be quite ready for the kind of augmented reality that Google has in mind for us..
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No, a Dyson sphere around our sun isn't a plausible project for the next few thousand years. And maybe not even then.
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How do you connect multiple robots into a single hive mind? Yours truly has been trying to come up with a way to do exactly that.
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Pseudoscience and fact-free manifestos, now with anger management issues...
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A Singularity by any other name is still just a utopian cold reading of where technology is headed.