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10 Addictive Games For Killing Time on Your Phone
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The Craziest Designs For London's Newest Pedestrian Bridge
The great city of London currently has something of a fascination
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Massive Spacecraft Transport Vehicles Are Still Going After 50 Years
NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida has two of the largest vehicles ever built on treads. Crawler-transporter No. 1 and crawler-transporter No. 2 (CT-1 and CT-2) have carried rockets and spacecraft to the launch pad for the last 50 years.
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Your Most Crushing Stories About Smashing Your Phones
Nothing feels dumber than smashing your phone out of sheer carelessness and stupidity. No one knows this better than me
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These Insane Labs Recreate Frightening Forces of Nature
Knowledge is the key to survival when nature turns hostile, whether because we're living on trembling ground, building homes along vulnerable coasts, or navigating through dangerous water. That's why scientists study nature's greatest acts of destruction — by recreating them. Here are ten labs where they do it.
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A Fond Farewell to the Neon Sign
I simply can't help it; I am a sucker for neon signs. I just love their clear glowing lines, their curves and bends, their warm though discreet presence in the night. And I hate to see them go.
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Politicians Shaking Hands With Robots, Ranked
Politicians love to shake hands with their constituents. It's basically half their job. But over the past two decades we've seen the rise of a surprising new constituency that they need to engage with a firm handshake: Robots.
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Iconic Images of Space Taken From The Ground
Photographer Edgar Martins' book, The Rehearsal of Space and the Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite, is a must-have for space enthusiasts. But for those without the hard copy, the European Space Agency has released a series of amazing images from it, some of them has not published online previously. Take a look at them here.
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21 Bizarre Maps That Depict Nations As Animals, People, and Monsters
Allegorical, satirical, and comic or serio-comic maps were one of the most popular ways of distributing political propaganda leading up to the Second World War. With countries depicted as human figures, animals, or even monsters, these maps attempted to represent more than just geography—and in doing so, exposed the political biases and sometimes even bigotry of the author.
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Relive the Internet of the 1990s in 6 Gifs
Thirty years ago, on March 15, 1985, the first .com domain name—symbolics.com—was registered by the technology company Symbolics, marking the birth of the commercial internet. But things started heating up in the 1990s. Click back to those days with these nostalgic gifs.
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7 of the Most Horrible Technology Sounds
Not long ago, I asked you
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The Fantastic Wrist Gadgets That Came Way Before the Smartwatch
Humans have been putting technology on their wrists for a long time—and not just to tell the time. The Apple Watch and others are just the latest in a long line of wrist-borne devices, so here's a brief history of "watches" that were smart for their time, too.
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5 Unsettling Works of Encryption Art
Encryption is the process of encoding a message, and today we have incredibly sophisticated software and algorithms that make our encrypted messages almost impossible to decode. But how does it work? These art projects answer that question by exploring how encryption has become part of daily lives.
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Today's Solar Eclipse in 22 Stellar Photos
This morning, a total solar eclipse was visible from the Faroe Islands and Svalbard, Norway, and a partial solar eclipse from many parts of Europe, Northern Africa and Northern Asia. These stellar photos shows the astronomical event that darkened the skies.
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4 Instant Cities That Are Still Empty
Cities are like organisms. They're the product of unthinkably complex forces, and they wax and wane based on more than just us humans. But that hasn't stopped humanity from trying to force them into being artificially—to sometimes disastrous ends.
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The Origin of Color Bars on TV, and Other Standard Test Files
Occasionally, we get to catch a glimpse of the hidden tests that ensure our technology-infused world runs smoothly: color bars on TV or blocks of "lorem ipsum" gibberish text. There's a fascinating story behind how each of these tests came to be and how they work.
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7 Machines That Are Meta As Hell
What’s better then a monster machine? A meta machine. Here are a bunch of machines that really took the advice “Just do you!” to heart.
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Inside the Most Futuristic Science Labs in the World
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Coachella 2015 in photos
This past weekend, thousands and thousands of attractively dressed Instagram hashtag abusers rushed to the desert of Indio to willfully dehydrate themselves in a united effort to save California from its drought. Either that or Coachella happened. Here's a photo diary of one of the biggest music buffets in America.
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A Hidden Treasure Trove of Dead .Gov Websites
DolphinSafe.gov. CouldIHaveLupus.gov. GovGab.gov. These were real, registered websites at one time until they were terminated. In some cases—take CyberSafe.gov or Americorpse.gov for example—it’s easy to see why.
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