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Will Paid Reviews Bite Amazon Back?
At least one entrepreneur sells positive book reviews to Amazon authors. How an apparently unreliable customer-review system might finally eat itself. Reuters If you were trying to discredit Amazon's...
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Curiosity Rover Busts Out the Telephoto Lens
Even better photographs of Mt. Sharp, the rover's eventual science destination. In the latest of NASA's stunning images from Mars, the Jet Propulsion Lab team released this photograph of the "layered...
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Apollo 11's Astronauts Received an $8 Per Diem for the Mission to the Moon
... With deductions for the "accommodation" provided by the spaceship. ReutersThe astronauts of Apollo 11: Intrepid explorers. Inspirational heroes. Government employees. When it came to payment for...
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Make Way for the Soccer Geeks
With Manchester City opening up its data to the masses, the golden age of soccer analytics is set to begin.ReutersThis month Manchester City, the younger brother (and rival) of the better-known...
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What Facebook's New HQ Says About the Company's Hopes and Dreams
The social media giant is building a campus that will look more like a park than an office. Why? The Gehry-designed Guggenheim Bilbao, in Bilbao, Spain, is possibly the architect's most famous...
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'But Everybody's Doing It!' Lance Armstrong and the Philosophy of Making Bad...
When body enhancement is the norm, is there any other way to be competitive? Reuters Lance Armstrong's decision not to fight the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency has drawn mixed response: supporters and...
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Hurricane Isaac as Seen From the International Space Station
NASA's August 27 update from the International Space Station reveals the scale of Isaac brewing in the Gulf of Mexico this past weekend. Isaac was technically a tropical storm at the time, but it has...
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28 Years' Worth of Presidential Nominees, in 1 Minute 20 Seconds
Thanks to C-SPAN, you can watch presidential convention history in supercut form. C-SPAN launched in 1979. And pretty much ever since, it has been recording footage of, among other political affairs,...
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This Drought Is So Bad Salt Water Is Flowing Up the Mississippi, Threatening...
And that's the last thing the city needs as it braces for Hurricane Isaac.Saltwater has been flowing from the Gulf up the Mississippi River, and that's as much of a problem as you might think. Due to...
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The Mystery at the Heart of This Year's Record-Setting Arctic Ice Melt
You have probably heard that the Arctic has less sea ice right now than humans have ever recorded. The new record, set yesterday, beat the previous low, which was measured in September 2007. "By...
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Hurricane Isaac at Night
The powerful storm in the moonlight, before it hit New Orleans. Just after midnight on August 28, NASA's Suomi-NPP satellite acquired this image of then-Tropical Storm Isaac, which has since become a...
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It's Like a Flight Simulator, Only for Making Bacon and Eggs
Kitchen tech that helps your food tell you when it's ready Cooking can often be a guessing game. Scrambling eggs? You develop a sense for that moment between "runny" and "perfect." Pan-roasting steak,...
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The State of Play in the Mobile Industry in One Venn Diagram
Zach Teutsch/Rosen-Teutsch, Inc. The smartphone market is not all that complicated right now. When you look at operating profits, as Asymco has done, it's clear that Apple makes almost all the money,...
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Pranksters Destroy iMacs in Hilarious, Cruel Sociological Experiment
You're walking down the street, chatting with your friends, when you see a guy carrying a huge iMac box. The guy trips, awkwardly, dropping the box and shattering the contents within. How would you...
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The Psychology of Perky: Apple Brings Its In-Store Geniuses Online
Apple is experimenting with ways to bring its stores' legendary customer service to e-commerce. Those perky Apple Geniuses, with their legendary customer service? The ones who Approach, Probe, Present,...
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How Vimeo Built the Interactive Old Spice 'Muscle Music' Video That's...
With over 1.5 million views, Wieden and Kennedy's latest video for Old Spice is a smashing success -- and it's only a day old. It's easy to see why; former NFL player and action movie star Terry Crews...
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A Conjecture for a Better Turing Test
What sort of philosophical standard should we set for today's powerful computer technology? Reuters Alan Turing is most well known for giving us the universal digital computing machine, the idea that...
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What It's Like for a Deaf Person to Hear Music for the First Time
With new hearing aids, Austin Chapman is listening to music for the first time in his life, and it sounds glorious. Austin Chapman Austin Chapman was born profoundly deaf. Hearing aids helped some, but...
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How a Photographer Created Images of Fireworks Unlike Any You've Ever Seen
A photographer's experiment puts explosions in new light. A spaceship? A sea creature? A spunky chapeau? Nope: fireworks. (David Johnson) Earlier this month, David Johnson found himself at the...
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The Imaginary Art Museum at Gitmo
A few minutes ago, I received an email proclaiming the opening of a new cultural institution, "The Guantanamo Bay Museum of Art and History." Several artists are showing work in the Tipton Three...
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