A Japanese engineer has created a trash can that moves on its own to catch your trash. Developed by Minoru Kurata, the device features a wall-mounted sensor that detects which direction the trash is...

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If you haven't been following the day-to-day happenings of drones, it can be hard to know where to get started: Who's flying drones, and why? What are they doing with them? How does the government...
In Africa, over 100 million people are now using Facebook. But they don’t use it quite like we do here in the U.S. Each month, as Mark Zuckerberg and company revealed today, 80 percent of those 100...
A coalition of groups working to preserve net neutrality wants web hosts to symbolically slow down the internet for one day to show what life might be like if internet service providers are allowed to...
It took only two minutes of sitting on the side of the road near Halifax, Nova Scotia, for this unusual hitchhiker to flag down a ride with a pool-noodle arm fitted with a yellow rubber kitchen glove....
When it comes to the personalized Internet, few people know the inner mechanics of how websites conduct experiments better than Ronny Kohavi. His formal title is general manager of the analysis and...
We've seen our share of concepts for imbuing Wikipedia with a more modern and responsive design. But it's not likely that Jimmy Wales and Co. will adopt any of them--or any radical redesign, for that...
After being banned from Twitter and YouTube due to its video of James Foley's murder, the Islamic State (Isis) migrated to another social network called Diaspora Isis has several Diaspora accounts and...
Last year Facebook had paid $1.5 billion as sops for users who found bugs in its system and now it has again offered sops to find bugs in Oculus Rift. Facebook now owns Oculus Rift, the virtual...
[Visit ancientartpodcast.org for footnotes, detailed credits, and more] Hey everybody! Welcome to the Ancient Art Podcast. I'm your host, Lucas Livingston. After many long months of...
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