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Oops! Now You Can Track the Tweets Politicians Tried to Delete Shutterstock

Oops! Now You Can Track the Tweets Politicians Tried to Delete

Remember that time John McCain totally mocked "Vlad" Putin? So does the Internet.

How Headphones Changed the World

How Headphones Changed the World

If real estate is the ultimate scarce resource, a headphone is a small invisible fence around our minds, creating separation, helping us listen to ourselves

Chernobyl's Real Horror Show Isn't the Radiation, It's the Economics Reuters

Chernobyl's Real Horror Show Isn't the Radiation, It's the Economics

The real reason not to invest in nuclear power isn't the risk of a meltdown but the certainty that the costs are too high.

The Future Growth of the Internet, in One Chart (and One Graph) Cisco

The Future Growth of the Internet, in One Chart (and One Graph)

Global Internet traffic is expected to increase threefold over the next five years.

From Bicycles to Bikini Babes: The Universal Visual Clichés of Instagram Lucas Otero

From Bicycles to Bikini Babes: The Universal Visual Clichés of Instagram

Instantáneas, a stop-motion video, reveals life as seen through the lenses of hundreds of mobile phones. 

Meet Google+ Local, Zagat-Fueled Competition for Yelp Google

Meet Google+ Local, Zagat-Fueled Competition for Yelp

This morning, Google announced a new component of its Plus offerings, one they hope will help you find a restaurant for dinner -- and will give it a leg up over Yelp.

Oh Hey, Motorola and RIM Called: They Want to Go Back to 2004 and Try Again flickr/Jurvetson

Oh Hey, Motorola and RIM Called: They Want to Go Back to 2004 and Try Again

Neither of the makers of the two hottest mobile gadgets of 2004 may exist as independent companies in the very near future.

External Eyes: Vision Technology Takes Another Step Forward Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

External Eyes: Vision Technology Takes Another Step Forward

The visually impaired may soon get help navigating the world ... courtesy of augmented reality.

Picture of the Day: A 'Pinwheel' of a Galaxy NASA

Picture of the Day: A 'Pinwheel' of a Galaxy

Twenty-one million light years from Earth is the spiral galaxy M101.

The Case for Facebook Reuters

The Case for Facebook

Let's not let 10 days of share price fluctuation blind us to Facebook's unprecedented accomplishments. Consider this a skeptic's guide to the bull case for the social network.

Public Service Announcement: Clean Your Computer Immediately LiveLeaks/YouTube

Public Service Announcement: Clean Your Computer Immediately

Do it for your PC. Do it for your health. Do it for you.

How Do We Know How Far Away Distant Galaxies Are? NASA

How Do We Know How Far Away Distant Galaxies Are?

A video explains how we gauge the thousands, millions, or even billions of light years that separate us from the glowing objects we see with our most advanced telescopes.

The New Math of How We Just Might Get Out of This Mess, Part 2 Craig Damrauer

The New Math of How We Just Might Get Out of This Mess, Part 2

Innovation equals an idea plus advancement, plus or minus a really good patent attorney.

The 'Blade Runner' Guide to Designing a Believable Flying Car M. K. Productions

The 'Blade Runner' Guide to Designing a Believable Flying Car

A film from 1982 goes behind the scenes of the iconic sci-fi film to interview Ridley Scott and his production team. 

How to Get Yourself Noticed on Twitter ... by Homeland Security DHS

How to Get Yourself Noticed on Twitter ... by Homeland Security

The agency monitors dozens of words from the seemingly harmless to the clearly troubling.

The Baby Stroller of the Future Isn't a Stroller Shutterstock/SVLuma

The Baby Stroller of the Future Isn't a Stroller

The baby transport of the future takes its cues from the past.

Picture of the Day: Massachusetts From Space NASA

Picture of the Day: Massachusetts From Space

On what would have been John F. Kennedy's 95th birthday, a picture of the state where he was born and raised.

The Tweet That Begins the Zombie Apocalypse Twitter

The Tweet That Begins the Zombie Apocalypse

"Hazardous materials released at Institute for Genomic Biology. Escape area if safe to do so. Otherwise seek shelter."

How the Golden Gate Bridge Was Built Prelinger Archives

How the Golden Gate Bridge Was Built

A celebratory history of one of the world's most famous structures

The Color, Romance, and Impact of the Golden Gate at 75 Library of Congress

The Color, Romance, and Impact of the Golden Gate at 75

Everything you've always wanted to know about the Golden Gate Bridge but never had an eminent scholar around to ask

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