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Do Guns and Weed Mix?
It's probably the last place you'd expect a shooting. But deep in the heart of Denver's largest 4/20 rally, shots rang out. Full story
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Are Visual Novels Just Porny, Boring Video Games?
Visual novels are like choose-your-own-adventure books that you play on your computer, if choose-your-own adventures ended not in the Gypsy woman’s curse coming true, but in graphic, porny sex scenes. They can be gay themed or set in a lusty fantasy world; they can be sweet and r… Full story
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Preparing for your Digital Afterlife
There are currently over 30 million dead people on Facebook and their profiles provide a picture of grief in the 21st century. Full story
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Is the Chinese Government Spying on us Through the Internet?
Huawei is the largest telecom equipment maker in the world, able to roll out broadband quicker and cheaper than anyone else. However, sometimes things are cheap because there's something a bit off about them. Now the Coalition wants to let them bid on constructing Australia's NBN… Full story
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Hackers Aren't Going to Hijack Your Plane With a Smartphone
The ability to take control of an aircraft via an app is a scary possibility. And it's true that a lot of aircraft systems aren't as secure as they should be. But a guy crashing a plane with his phone? I wouldn't worry about that. Full story
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Is Colorado Planning to Tax Weed Higher Than Cigarettes?
Tax revenue is a standard refrain for weed advocates. Moving a black-market industry above ground, their thinking goes, means dollars for governments to do all sorts of cool stuff. But the whole situation in the Centennial State is kind of frustrating. Full story
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Welcome to Garbage Patch State, Where Plastic Rules
Today in Paris, a new nation was born. Full story
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The Bitcoin Crash Begins
After peaking at $266, the anonymous, open-source cryptocurrency took a tumble on Wednesday afternoon. A big tumble. Full story
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Using Terpenes to Call Bullshit on Your Weed Guy
Rigorous testing of cannabis for tiny organic compounds called terpenes could well point to a future where picking up White Widow means picking up White Widow and having some very sound science to back up the name and the score. Full story
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Antarctic Space Race 2012: The Results
In 1964 a Russian geographer by the name of Andrey Kapitsa discovered 250 kilometres of Antarctic sheet ice, which appeared to be hollow. Kapitsa speculated that what he’d actually found was a prehistoric lake trapped under the ice and as it turned out, he wasn’t wrong. Full story
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Are Cat Spies Sent by Aliens?
Recent polling shows Americans love a good conspiracy theory. They also love cats. This was bound to happen. Full story
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Dragonflies Are Really Good Hunters, Not Drones
Calling the modern dragonfly "nature's drone" is a cute, timely analogy. Too bad it hits far off the mark. If anything, the only prevailing link between those winged insects and, say, the Predator drone, is the word "predator." Here's why. Full story
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This Is How Bitcoin Could Die
While the bitcoin platform is theoretically sound—the decentralized blockchain makes it nearly impossible to counterfeit—vulnerabilities do exist at a few key junctures. Continuing Motherboard's bitcoin guide, here's some crucial ways the whole thing could unravel. Full story
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How Humans Will Respond to Immortality: A Chat with John Fischer
I chatted at length with the University of California–Riverside philosophy professor about living forever. As expected, the conversation got pretty meta. Full story
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