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The Subtle Usefulness of 'NSFW'
How better to signal that content is objectionable without presuming anything about the individual you're warning?
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How better to signal that content is objectionable without presuming anything about the individual you're warning?
Wikimedia Commons
The elite college places a variety of educational, media, and social apps on its collection of iPads.
OpenSignalMaps
Wireless network names: the lawn signs of the digital age
Soundcloud
Pshhhkkkkkkrrrrkakingkakingkakingtshchchchchchchchcch*ding*ding*ding"
NASA
A visual guide to what the cosmic event will look like from space -- and from right here on Earth.
Giacomo Miceli
The music video for A Ghost Train's "Chemin Vert" zips across five continents at roughly 1,000 mph.
Icon Aircraft
A new airplane passes a big safety test.
NASA
NASA's Terra satellite grabbed this picture of early-season snowfall in the Southern Hemisphere.
YouTube
The space station scientist has found the best way imaginable to pass the lonely hours away from earth.
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Worthy runners-up include the interfaces on most microwaves, TV remotes, New York City's parking signs, and pull-handles on push-only doors, according to users of Quora.
SpaceX
Stats of the day: a tiny vehicle with a big payload
Flickr/kennykunie
That's what the best supply chain in the world will do for you.
Shutterstock/Dom
A tech Rorschach featuring cameos from Google, virtual reality, your eyeballs.
Google reveals some of what it has learned about how China's censorship system works.
Appelogen/Instagram
Go from Kinkade to Rothko, in eighteen easy steps.
Google
A new site from Google puts its Street View tools to work to showcase some of the most storied and beautiful places on Earth.
NASA
A picture of the storm that drenched Florida earlier this week, as seen from orbit.
Prelinger Library
These smells might not belong together after the environmental movement, but that's how they appeared in a 1948 textbook.
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Sorkin's dad, it turns out, was an IP lawyer.
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Wikipedia's four million articles are an impressive achievement, but the content of the encyclopedia is deeper than the entries alone: The structure is content too.
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