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10 Feb ' 01:34
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09 Feb ' 19:05
Mat HonanFeb 9, 2012 5:00 PM 12,842 81Let’s Kill Cash: Q&A With Author David Wolman on Our Moneyless Future
Cash is an antiquated concept. It originated thousands of years ago, as a banking receipt that bearers could exchange for stored grain or gold. Today it's little more than an abstract concept, its value tied to perception instead of goods.Yet we still exchange these slips of paper, and redeem them for goods and services, just as the ancient Sumerians and Chinese did. David Wolman thinks it's time to end all that. His new book, The End of Money, looks at—and longs for—the emerging post-cash world.
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The Highest Skyscraper In the World Will Be This 1,050-Kilometer-High Turd
Forget about the 1-kilometer-high Kingdom Tower. There will be a building higher than that. This is it, the Azerbaijan Tower. It will be fifty meters higher, have 189 floors and looks like a beautifully shiny glass, steel and concrete monolith of crap.
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09 Feb ' 12:54
Sam BiddleFeb 9, 2012 3:14 PM 15,195 23The Enormous Secret Weapons Depot Hidden Underneath Manhattan
Manhattan's SoHo neighborhood is mostly filled with bored models and stupid-expensive boutiques. But on one grimy, absolutely ignorable corner is the entrance to a cavern stuffed with guns, rockets, cocaine, and riot shields. This is where Hollywood locks and loads. -
Four Surprises from the Steve Jobs FBI File
Gawker has unearthed Steve Jobs' FBI file for us all to lay eyes on. Contained within are things most of us knew (or at least suspected). He had enemies? Duh. Drugs? Of course! But there are a few gems that caught our eye.
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iPad 3: Everything We Think We Know (Updated)
It's that magical time of year again, when everyone expects a new iPad to be right around the corner. Which in turn means an amassment of iPad 3 rumors clogging up our lives. Here's a quick guide to making sense of them.
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This Edimax Mini USB Wireless N Adapter Is Your HOLY-F&*K-That-Is-Tiny Deal of the Day
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This Is the Center of the Universe: NASA’s Deep-Space Command Central
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How An Auto Body Innovation Revolutionized the Way We Build Skyscrapers
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Meet Three Innovators Changing What’s on Your Smartphone Screen
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09 Feb ' 06:54
Dustin CurtisFeb 8, 2012 7:27 PM 15,072 61
Path faced a privacy flap when it was revealed that the company was uploading users' address book data to its servers without permission. While it stopped doing that and deleted all the data it had stored, a larger issue remains. Nine Things You Didn't Know About Steve Jobs From the Guy Who Designed the Original Mac
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Scientists believe that this is the animal from which everything else evolved. The first multicellular being that spawned every living being in this world through billions of mutations, from fish to amphibians to reptiles to birds to mammals to you. It's an amazing discovery.
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09 Feb ' 01:14
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08 Feb ' 19:25
You Come From This Thing: The Oldest Animal Ever Discovered
Scientists believe that this is the animal from which everything else evolved. The first multicellular being that spawned every living being in this world through billions of mutations, from fish to amphibians to reptiles to birds to mammals to you.It's an amazing discovery.
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Two People Are Dead Because They Unfriended This Man’s Adult Daughter on Facebook
A Tennessee man, Marvin Potter (on the right), is in police custody tonight, charged with two counts of first degree murder in the shooting deaths of a couple who had unfriended his 30-year-old daughter on the popular social site.
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Let's play a little game. We have three solid state drives-one each from Patriot, OCZ, and Intel. Two of them are powered by the ubiquitous SandForce SF-2281 controller, and the other marks the consumer debut of a new 6Gb/s SATA controller.
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08 Feb ' 13:22
Mat HonanFeb 8, 2012 2:40 PM 15,838 19Path’s Big Mistake (Updated)
Facebook is a privacy disaster. Nobody with an iota of sense really trusts it to respect their privacy. Which is precisely one of Path's big selling points: It's got better privacy. Or so it seemed. But then it surprised everyone. (Updated) -
The Miraculous NASA Breakthrough That Could Save Millions of Lives
There are no hospitals in space. The closest E.R. is back on Earth, and astronauts can't exactly jump in a cab to get there. So what happens if the sun burps out a massive blast of radiation while an astronaut is space-amblin' by? The NASA Biocapsule—made of carbon nanotubes—will be...
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08 Feb ' 08:11
searchirissirichachaabortionpro-lifepro-choicereligioncreationismraperacismbigotjeff bezosellen degeneresThis Is the Bigoted, Racist, Anti-Abortion Search Engine That Powers Android’s Siri Rival
I'm sure Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos doesn't know about this, but he's funding a seemingly Christian extremist search engine that is anti-abortion, anti-evolution, racist and even thinks that rape may be justifiable. It's called ChaCha, and it powers Android's most popular Siri competitor, Iris. CheapAir Lists Flights with Wi-Fi, Personal TV, and Other Luxury PerksLifehacker
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An Anonymous-affliliated hacker group has stolen and leaked hundreds of damaging emails from Syria's Ministry of Presidential Affairs including a damning thread regarding the manipulation of American opinion of President Assad's dissent-crushing tactics. The talking-points thread, a translation of...
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The Olympus OM-D E-M5 is crammed full of impressive features: the fastest autofocus among interchangeable lens cameras (or so says Olympus). The E-M5 pushes a ridiculous 9 frames per second of 16-megapixel RAW photos.
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08 Feb ' 03:02
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07 Feb ' 21:41
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