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On my 32nd birthday, my 22-year-old sister mailed me a first-generation Tamagotchi. Too young to have suffered the…
Aug 19 2019
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Sixteen years ago, the sun set on Web 1.0, and we embarked by the light of our smartphones to 24/7 connectivity,…
Mar 19 2019
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You are ugly, and if you didn’t notice, perusing a history of American cosmetic marketing will point out all of your…
Apr 25 2017
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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer continues to stack up piles of cash, despite her veritable failure to rescue the company…
Apr 20 2017
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There are dozens of ways to pay for things, but apparently, the world was not ready for one more. Plastc, the…
Feb 14 2017
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The National Weather Service warns us about potentially dangerous weather, so it would be pretty scary if their highl…
Dec 23 2015
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Donating to a crowdfunding campaign is risky. You hand money to internet strangers who give you nothing but a…
Jun 5 2015
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The small fishing village of Astoria, Oregon, tried to scare off a pesky sea lion colony with a large fake…
May 15 2015
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For every Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger or Daniel Craig, there are a dozen would-be action stars who tried to…
Mar 30 2015
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The guys at AtomCentral uploaded this video depicting the failed test of the Atlas missile back in 1961. The…
Feb 27 2015
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Auroracoin, the digital currency given as a free hand-out to every resident of Iceland, was supposed to be a a…
Nov 14 2014
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The Wallops Island launch facility, viewed from the air the day after the Orbital Science Antares rocket exploded right after liftoff. The photo was taken by the Wallops Incident Response Team on Wednesday October 29th. [NASA/Terry Zaperach]
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May 14 2014
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If the recent White House Correspondents Dinner has shown us anything, it's that politicians are the true masters of…
Feb 1 2013
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If you must fail while launching a rocket, you hope it gets destroyed in a fiery ball of fire. At least that makes…
Jun 22 2012
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Following yesterday's failure, Twitter has gotten to the bottom of what went wrong: it was a software issue known as…
May 25 2012
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We have our opinions on Kickstarter. But central to whatever Kickstarter claims to be is its ability to teach…
Apr 16 2012
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Over the past decade Sony has fallen from tech giant to struggling underdog, with a series of mistakes and…
Jan 24 2012
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Somewhere in corporate Hamburgerland, an ad executive with a penchant for "social media" and "the Twitter" thought a…
Jan 5 2012
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Last December, Lockheed Martin assembled the last F-22 Raptor ever. It's the USAF's one and only fifth generation…