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A Fleet of Unpowered Submarines Is About to Plumb the Ocean's Depths

Mar 16, 9:00PM

A Fleet of Unpowered Submarines Is About to Plumb the Ocean's Depths

Even though they cover two-third's of the planet's surface, we know precious little about how the oceans actually interact with the continents and atmosphere. What's more, our oceanic models are woefully incomplete—only capable of showing large areas with reduced resolution or in high detail over a limited area. But a new fleet of autonomous research submarines are about to rectify that problem.

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These Solar-Thermal Toilets Are Carbon-Sequestering Charcoal Factories

Mar 16, 8:00PM

These Solar-Thermal Toilets Are Carbon-Sequestering Charcoal Factories

More than a quarter of all people—some 2.5 billion humans—still lack access to basic sanitation services. But thanks to this revolutionary solar-powered toilet, even the most remote throws of civilization will be granted both a safe place to poop and a means of turning their business into brown gold.

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Why Is The 'Retired' F-117 Nighthawk Still Flying?

Mar 16, 7:48PM

Why Is The 'Retired' F-117 Nighthawk Still Flying?

Why is the F-117 Nighthawk, America's first true "stealth" aircraft, still prowling the skies years after its retirement in 2008?

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Airbnb: No Thanks for the "XXX Freak Fest" You Brought to My Home (NSFW)

Mar 16, 7:25PM

Airbnb: No Thanks for the "XXX Freak Fest" You Brought to My Home (NSFW)

Dear Brian and the Airbnb team, Usually I am a fan of your service. However, I have a minor bone to pick with you, in that it appears my apartment was reserved for some major boning.

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This broken hydrant is so powerful it keeps a car floating in the air

Mar 16, 7:21PM

This broken hydrant is so powerful it keeps a car floating in the air

I thought these things only happened in the movies, but it actually happened for real in San Diego, California. Watch the video.

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Overhead Laser Lights That Illuminate With Images and Video

Mar 16, 7:00PM

Overhead Laser Lights That Illuminate With Images and Video

As far as giant corporations go, it's usually Sony that's willing to a take risk on an unorthodox new product. But this time it's Panasonic's turn with the company's new Space Player that combines overhead lighting with compact projectors letting you project everything from different colors, to still images, to videos and animation.

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Would You Customize Your First Born Child?

Mar 16, 6:00PM

Would You Customize Your First Born Child?

The recent announcement by a British medical ethics board in favor of an experimental three-parent IVF treatment —wherein the genetic material from three donors, not the usual two, is used to create a fetus—and has once again stirred the pot of reproductive controversy. So where exactly is the line between prenatal treatments and eugenic experiments?

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These Autonomous Patrol Cars Keep Watch Over Our Nuclear Stockpiles

Mar 16, 5:00PM

These Autonomous Patrol Cars Keep Watch Over Our Nuclear Stockpiles

Monitoring America's nuclear stockpiles is vital but mind-numbingly dull work. So rather than rely on easily distracted human guards, the storage facilities at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) are now being watched by the unblinking eyes of a mobile robotic patrol fleet.

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Watch Neil deGrasse Tyson Tell the Planet Pluto How It Is

Mar 16, 4:38PM

The demotion of Pluto from ninth planet in our solar system to mere planetoid has been met with its fair share of detractors—one of whom squared off yesterday against astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson on Late Night with Seth Meyers. And even though the verbal sparring match ended amicably, Tyson left little doubt why our cosmic neighborhood is now (and should be) one resident smaller.

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The Purpose Behind San Francisco's Weirdest Looking Tower

Mar 16, 4:00PM

The Purpose Behind San Francisco's Weirdest Looking Tower

At 977 feet tall and situated atop the peak of San Francisco's biggest hill, the three-legged Sutro Tower dominates the city's skyline. But this isn't some grand scale art installation like Cupid's Span; this massive structure acts as a vital part of San Francisco's communications infrastructure, bouncing radio waves over Twin Peaks and all the way out to the ocean.

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That Time Soviet Russia Built a House Entirely Out of Plastic

Mar 16, 3:20PM

That Time Soviet Russia Built a House Entirely Out of Plastic

In its heyday, plastic was viewed as a revolutionary advancement—safer and lighter than glass, cheap to manufacture, and useful in countless commercial applications. In fact, in the early 1960's architects in the USSR even tried building entire houses out of the stuff.

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NASA's Vomit Comet Trains Astronauts in the Ways of Weightlessness

Mar 16, 3:00PM

NASA's Vomit Comet Trains Astronauts in the Ways of Weightlessness

With limited lab space aboard the ISS and skyrocketing launch costs, only the very best extra-terrestrial experiments make it into orbit. To put prospective experiments and astronauts alike through their weightless paces over the last six decades, NASA has relied on a gracefully arcing series of cargo planes called The Vomit Comet.

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San Francisco's Iconic Sourdough Is Made from 160-Year-Old Yeast

Mar 16, 2:00PM

San Francisco's Iconic Sourdough Is Made from 160-Year-Old Yeast

Boudin's sourdough bread's unique tangy taste and chewy center has been a hit with San Francisco residents since the bakery first opened in 1849. A big part of brand's success has been due to its unyielding consistency—a feat only accomplished because the company is still using the same yeast culture that Isidore Boudin collected 160 years ago.

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These Incredible Man-Made Highways Are Built Just for Animals

Mar 16, 1:00PM

These Incredible Man-Made Highways Are Built Just for Animals

Humans don't exactly have a stellar record when it comes to environmental stewardship, but that doesn't mean we aren't trying. Numerous projects around the world are working to rebuild lost habitats, protect vital wildlife highways, and regenerate lost populations. Here are a few man-made structures built on behalf of our four-footed brethren.

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I want to work and live in these awesome spaceships

Mar 16, 7:26AM

I want to work and live in these awesome spaceships

Isaac Hannaford's does amazing concept work for games like Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST, Halo: Reach, and Destiny. His designs feel really solid and so elegant. My brain can buy into them. I can imagine and believe a future like this.

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Amazing Houdini cat escapes cages by opening locks

Mar 16, 6:34AM

Amazing Houdini cat escapes cages by opening locks

This is Marshmallow—the incredible Houdini cat who can escape any cell at a veterinary clinic in Marseille, France, just by unlocking the door. The veterinary calls him the "king of evasion."

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Flying with a drone into an incredibly huge ice abyss in Alaska

Mar 16, 6:16AM

Flying with a drone into an incredibly huge ice abyss in Alaska

This sequence feels computer generated but it was shot in Alaska using a GoPro HERO3+ on the DJI Phantom quadrotor helicopter. It feels like a tiny ice tunnel until you notice the two guys standing inside and you realize that this hole is huge. The entire video is beautiful.

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This Week's Top Comedy Video: Veronica Mars

Mar 16, 1:01AM

This Week's Top Comedy Video: Veronica Mars

Although the Veronica Mars movie hit an unanticipated speed bump today, we're still thrilled that it got made. We're betting the Kickstarter backers who got speaking roles in the movie are even more excited. See if you can spot them in this clip!

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Holy crap, these bionic arms look just like Doc Ock's

Mar 16, 12:00AM

Holy crap, these bionic arms look just like Doc Ock's

Designed by German engineering firm Festo, these claw-tipped, artificially intelligent arms were designed to mimic the utility and movement of an elephant's trunk – but the resemblance to Dock Ock's writhing limbs is just uncanny.

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The award-winning and very affordable Moose Road residence by Mork-Ulnes Architects is designed to a

Mar 16, 12:00AM

The award-winning and very affordable Moose Road residence by Mork-Ulnes Architects is designed to avoid interfering with the nearby trees. It's even built on stilts so as not to disrupt the roots. As these photos of the interior make clear, it's perfect for the Spartan family.

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NASA-Backed Study Says Humanity Is Pretty Much Screwed

Mar 15, 11:00PM

NASA-Backed Study Says Humanity Is Pretty Much Screwed

Hope you've enjoyed civilized life, folks. Because a new study sponsored by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center says the world's industrial societies are poised to collapse under the weight of their own unsustainable appetites for resources. There goes the weekend . . . and everything after it for the rest of our lives.

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Guy perfectly sings Frozen's Let It Go as 21 classic Disney characters

Mar 15, 9:48PM

Guy perfectly sings Frozen's Let It Go as 21 classic Disney characters

Everyone is doing Disney's Frozen videos and covers lately, but this has to be the best yet: Watch Brian Hull singing Let It Go impersonating 21 classic Disney and Pixar (which is now Disney too) characters, which is extremely hard to do while singing. Really amazing talent. He really nailed it.

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What's Your Proudest Online Accomplishment?

Mar 15, 9:00PM

What's Your Proudest Online Accomplishment?

The internet is the place to pump your ideas out and hope they'll resonate with someone somewhere. When digital strangers agree with your opinions, fawn over your pictures, or laugh at your jokes, it feels good, man. What was your biggest internet hit?

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Would we ever see a world in which Titanfall mechs rule the Earth?

Mar 15, 8:28PM

Would we ever see a world in which Titanfall mechs rule the Earth?

Concept designer Al Crutchley has a lot of cool machine in his mind, from ekranoplanes and mechs to flying infantry and missile batteries orbiting in the Asteroid Belt. Would we ever see a world in which such machines are real? It's something like Titanfall coming to the future of Humanity?

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This week in Tech Reads: internet drones, bee brain surgery, the continued search for Flight 370, an

Mar 15, 8:00PM

This week in Tech Reads: internet drones, bee brain surgery, the continued search for Flight 370, and more.

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