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Tech

Is Facebook Lying?

05.12.16

By Sarah Emerson
Tech

MIT Algorithm Could Save Future Sailors From Rogue Waves

02.28.16

By Leif Johnson
Food

This Beer Was Brewed Using Tweets

02.15.16

By Phoebe Hurst
Food

The ‘Netflix’ of Beer Wants to Deliver Craft Beer to Your Door

01.19.16

By Nick Rose
Tech

How to Teach a Robot to Build a Rube Goldberg Machine

01.04.16

By Jordan Pearson
Travel

How Memorable Is Your Image? Now There’s an App for That

12.18.15

By Nathaniel Ainley
Tech

This Handwriting Algorithm Could Help Robots Understand Causality

12.10.15

By Jordan Pearson
Tech

AI Could Tell When Your Dark Web Drug Dealer Is About to Scam You

11.12.15

By Jordan Pearson
Music

This Sound Sculpture Makes Algorithmic Prank Calls

11.03.15

By Kevin Holmes
How Refugees Are Changing “The Face” of the Netherlands

10.10.15

By Leander Roet
Tech

This Algorithm Could Show When the Next Genocide Is About to Happen

09.25.15

By Justin Lynch
Tech

How Automating Evolution Could Give Machines Imaginations

08.27.15

By Jordan Pearson

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