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Deadly Superbugs Are Breeding Like Crazy in Chinese Sewage Plants

Dec 19, 5:00PM

Deadly Superbugs Are Breeding Like Crazy in Chinese Sewage Plants

Gird your immune system because what you're about to read will make you sick. No, seriously, it's dangerous. Like Contagion-level dangerous.

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Not all is as it seems in this tower, planned for Stockholm: The floors and columns are all made fro

Dec 19, 4:50PM

Not all is as it seems in this tower, planned for Stockholm: The floors and columns are all made from wood, rather than steel and concrete. In fact, the timber tower will be the tallest wood building ever built when it's finished in 2023. Why the wait? The architects, Berg | C.F. Møller, will spend the next few years testing the technology for safety and structural soundness. [Gizmodo; Bustler]

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This Was the First Plane To Cost $1 Billion More Than We Expected

Dec 19, 4:40PM

This Was the First Plane To Cost $1 Billion More Than We Expected

Delivering America's military might to foreign shores is no small feat, especially when that might is the size of an M-1 Abrams tank. For more than half a century, we've relied on one of the largest military aircraft in existence to do so—a plane that ended up costing just a little more to build than we expected.

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Searching for Dead Geometries Amidst the Trees

Dec 19, 4:20PM

Searching for Dead Geometries Amidst the Trees

As the analytical tools of archaeology rapidly shift toward the use of non-invasive, digital visualization—including such things as ground-penetrating radar and LiDAR—we're seeing more and more examples of archaeologists setting off into distant landscapes, drones in hand.

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The 13 Most Popular Products Of 2013, As Purchased By You

Dec 19, 4:15PM

The 13 Most Popular Products Of 2013, As Purchased By You

We at the Commerce Team can't think of a better way to celebrate the end of an amazing year of products and deals than to look back at which ones you loved the most. Take a stroll through the most popular 13 products of 2013, get some inspiration for your last minute holiday gifting, and then tell us about your favorite products and deals from the past year in the comments.

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All Along, That Wasn't Really Styrofoam

Dec 19, 4:00PM

All Along, That Wasn't Really Styrofoam

Dow Chemical Company would like to clear up a massive misunderstanding. STYROFOAM™, registered trademark, is not the foamy white stuff that makes up coffee cups or takeout trays or packing peanuts or egg cartons or even movie props. No, STYROFOAM™ usually comes in light blue sheets, and real STYROFOAM™ is used for building insulation and dock floatation.

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The Coming Singularity, When All Suburbs Look The Same

Dec 19, 3:40PM

The Coming Singularity, When All Suburbs Look The Same

Photographer Martin Adolfsson's book Suburbia Gone Wild, published earlier this year, documents the weird and expanding mirage of seemingly endless copies and duplicate environments called suburbia, like some poorly diagnosed spatial syndrome taking over the landscapes of the world from Mexico to Egypt, Thailand to India, to here in the United States.

The Coming Singularity, When All Suburbs Look The Same

The rooms are like dispersed pods from an unacknowledged global hotel chain, different only in their tiniest details. Is that image, above, from a house in Los Angeles, on the outskirts of Raleigh, or—as it happens—a suburb in Cairo, Egypt? Is this next photograph from Florida, Thailand, or—in reality—Moscow, Russia? How on earth can you tell?

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Target Confirms Up to 40 Million Credit and Debit Cards Hacked

Dec 19, 3:33PM

Target Confirms Up to 40 Million Credit and Debit Cards Hacked

After yesterday's rumors that hackers had swiped Target customer credit card information on Black Friday, the retail giant has officially confirmed that there was indeed a security breach—one that potentially affects up to 40 million of its customers.

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CERN Hid Lego Figurines All Over During Its Google Street View Shoot

Dec 19, 3:24PM

CERN Hid Lego Figurines All Over During Its Google Street View Shoot

If simply getting a peek inside the guts of CERN isn't cool enough, the lab's computer security officer, Stefan Lüders, has a secret treat for the nerds among us. Just before Google Street View came to visit, he and his crew hid Lego figurines all over CERN's Computing Center. About 20 of them—including aliens, a leprechaun, and a pharaoh—are now lurking, hidden in Google Street View.

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This Interactive Moto X Ad Isn't Online, It's In a Magazine

Dec 19, 3:20PM

After a long day in front of the computer, the ads in a paper magazine can seem a little flat. Where's the interaction? Where's the content? Moto is filling that gap with this cool full-page magazine advertisement that lets you pick your favorite Moto X color with the push of a button. Just like the internet!

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The AIA Finally Gave A Medal To A Female Architect. She Died In 1957.

Dec 19, 3:00PM

The AIA Finally Gave A Medal To A Female Architect. She Died In 1957.

How is this possible? The American Institute of Architects, the largest and most influential architecture organization in the country, had never, ever awarded a Gold Medal—its highest honor, which it has been bestowing upon architects since 1907—to a woman. Until now.

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If a Rubik's Cube Is Bruce Banner, This Thing's the Hulk

Dec 19, 2:40PM

If a Rubik's Cube Is Bruce Banner, This Thing's the Hulk

Solving a regular Rubik's Cube is already a daunting task for most of us, and that's just 54 colored squares you have to rearrange. Can you imagine if someone dropped this monstrosity into your lap? Completely scrambled and out of order? Resorting all of those colored rectangles would take a lifetime—and restickering it? Just as long.

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Unpretentious and Inexpensive Gifts For Designers and Design Fans

Dec 19, 2:23PM

Unpretentious and Inexpensive Gifts For Designers and Design Fans

Buying a gift for a designer doesn't have to involve a $200 book or $2,000 chair. In fact, it's usually better if it doesn't. Keeping our near-empty wallets in mind, we tapped our friends and co-workers to choose 14 gifts that are witty and useful without being snobbish.

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7 Groundbreaking Drum Machines That Changed Music As We Know It

Dec 19, 2:05PM

7 Groundbreaking Drum Machines That Changed Music As We Know It

When the first drum machines hit the market in the 1950s, they must have felt like the future. Imagine that—a robotic drummer that does exactly what you tell him to, and doesn't get loaded after the show. Of course, the human drummer never quite went out of style, but drum machines changed music forever.

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Streaming music service Rdio has posted its year in listing of the most popular music from 2013, whi

Dec 19, 2:02PM

Streaming music service Rdio has posted its year in listing of the most popular music from 2013, which should be available shortly right here. It's not quite as comprehensive as Spotify's mammoth year in review, but it's certainly interesting to compare the differences. Does their list match up with what you were listening to?

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Gawker Mom Arrested For Taking Nude Snapchats With Her 14-Year-Old Daughter | Jalopnik The Best And

Dec 19, 1:57PM

Gawker Mom Arrested For Taking Nude Snapchats With Her 14-Year-Old Daughter | Jalopnik The Best And Worst Cars I've Driven This Year | Jezebel Second Lab Test Shows Brittany Murphy May Have Been Poisoned | Kotaku LEGO Car Has LEGO Engine, Actually Drives | Valleywag Uber's CEO Is Laughing at You on Facebook

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Steam Machine Teardown: A Gaming PC by Any Other Name

Dec 19, 1:46PM

Steam Machine Teardown: A Gaming PC by Any Other Name

Valve has offered up 300 beta kits of its forthcoming Steam Machine console for developers and the like to play around with. Fortunately, iFixit got its hands on one, too—and then ripped the sucker apart. Here's what's inside.

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PSA: Your Phone Logs Everywhere You Go. Here's How to Turn It Off

Dec 19, 1:00PM

PSA: Your Phone Logs Everywhere You Go. Here's How to Turn It Off

You probably know your phone can pinpoint your location for GPS, local search, or the weather. Hopefully, you also know that means your phone keeps track of everywhere you go, all the time. Don't be alarmed—it's the trade you make for the features you get. If it makes you uncomfortable, here's how to opt-out.

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A Map of How Educated the United States Is by County

Dec 19, 12:45PM

A Map of How Educated the United States Is by County

How does academic achievement vary across the US? While stereotypes and prejudices invariably exist, the only way to the answer that question is with some cold, hard data. Here it is.

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The Sounds Your Computer Makes Can Give Away Your Encryption Keys

Dec 19, 12:20PM

The Sounds Your Computer Makes Can Give Away Your Encryption Keys

You might think your computer runs quietly—or, if you're unlucky, noisily—but either way you probably wouldn't expect that its hum could give away your secrets. Turns out, that the noise your computer makes can reveal the RSA keys it's using.

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A Fully Loaded New Mac Pro Will Cost You $14,000

Dec 19, 11:00AM

A Fully Loaded New Mac Pro Will Cost You $14,000

After no short period of waiting, the new Mac Pro has finally gone on sale today. All along it's promised to pack punch, and it might just prove to be your ultimate work station. But absolute power will cost you.

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Just in time for the new Mac Pro going on sale, Final Cut Pro has gotten a big update, with improved

Dec 19, 10:59AM

Just in time for the new Mac Pro going on sale, Final Cut Pro has gotten a big update, with improved support for 4K.

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What Causes Spontaneous Combustion?

Dec 19, 10:15AM

What Causes Spontaneous Combustion?

Most of us experience combustion, a chemical process where a fuel combines with oxygen to produce heat and light, in the form of a fire where both the fuel and ignition source are well known.

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U.S.

Dec 19, 9:41AM

U.S. District Judge Robert Sweet has ruled that Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg and dozens of banks must face a lawsuit, accusing them of misleading investors about the social network's economic health during its IPO. Ouch.

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British Airways the First European Airline to Allow Gadgets at Takeoff

Dec 19, 9:30AM

British Airways the First European Airline to Allow Gadgets at Takeoff

Last month, the European Aviation Safety Agency announced that it was going to join step with the FAA and allow electronic devices to be used during takeoff and landing. Now, British Airways is the first European airline to allow more free'n'easy use of gadgets in flights.

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