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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DARPA wants a program that can monitor your actions and predict your every move. Is that even remotely plausible?
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We should always think of the children, especially if we're being told to let our ISPs spy on our every move, ostensibly to protect said children.
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A philosopher turns transhumanism into a parade of horrors on loan from dystopian sci-fi movies.
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Piracy might not kill entertainment as we know it, but the justifications for why it's supposedly harmless seem to fall short of their goal.
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The good news is that we found a way to drastically increase storage density for computers. The bad news is that it's not very practical.
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Colleges are trying to figure out who'll actually succeed in a computer science program, and they're starting to find some interesting insights.
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While thinking of our bodies as divine or entirely in utilitarian terms is unhealthy, there is a middle ground to consider.
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Remember, the cloud is just someone else's computers. And your files could vanish if those computers break or their owners sell them off.
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Putting another (incomplete) year in the books for Weird Things...
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Computer scientist Nick Barnes shows us pretty much everything wrong with colleges' attitudes towards their students and curricula by example...