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Raise your hand if you’ve been to the Northern Territory before.
Thought so.
We’re all guilty of getting a little too comfortable where we currently are, so it can take some serious motivation to go anywhere else. …
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Trump wants a see through border wall so people dodge flying bags of drugs
U.S.-Mexico border wall on January 25, 2017 i.
Donald Trump is convinced that a brand spanking new wall across the border of the United States and Mexico would benefit his country immensely.
But before building the wall or even figuring …
Jefferies gives IBM Watson a Wall Street reality check
IBM’s Watson unit is receiving heat today in the form of a scathing equity research report from Jefferies’ James Kisner. The group believes that IBM’s investment into Watson will struggle to return value to shareholders. In recent years, IBM has …
Stalkscan and Data Selfie remind you how creepy Facebook is
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If you’re a Facebook user, by now you probably know that every "like" and piece of information gets aggregated into a set of anonymized data, which eventually turns into advertising dollars for the social media giant.
Facebook …
Facebook enlists AI tech to help prevent suicide
Facebook wants us to help each other and it uses AI to identify those in need of support.
Can Facebook use all that it knows about us to help stop someone from committing suicide?
It’s been more than a rhetorical …
MIT lab’s smart boots could keep astronauts on their feet
If you’ve ever worn a spacesuit during a moonwalk or EVA, and I know a lot of you have, you were probably frustrated by how difficult it is to move around — both with the restrictions of the suit itself …
UK government won’t promise help to remove highly flammable high-rise cladding
Theresa May’s national government — Conservative party MPs who are also landlords, who scuttled housing safety rules as part of their declared war on "Safety Culture" — found £1B to bribe the terrorist-affiliated Young Earth Creationists at the DUP to …
‘This Is Us’ star Milo Ventimiglia wants us to focus on ‘how Jack lived, not how he died’
‘This Is Us’ showrunners promise fewer tears in Season 2.
This Is Us left us with more questions than answers in its emotional Season 1 finale — we still don’t know how or when Jack dies, or why Kate blames …
YouTube’s VR 180 and Daydream cameras bring immersive video to traditional creators
A shot from a VR 180 video (notice, none of the extreme curvature usually found in 360 videos).
Even if you’ve never strapped on a virtual reality headset, if you’re a heavy YouTube user, you’ve probably stumbled upon a 360 …
Lorde compares friendship with Taylor Swift to an ‘autoimmune disease’ and NOPE
TayLorde at the Grammys.
ICYMI: Lorde is queen of the girl squad now.
This prestigious title means the 20-year-old can finally share her true feelings about gal pal Taylor Swift — who has not yet released a life changing album …