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Feel an ache in your wallet? Sweating palms that yearn to hold molded plastic? A constant craving to play games like Tearaway, Gravity Rush and Uncharted: Golden Abyss? Fear not friend, for according to Sony representatives, these are but symptoms of a “healthy consumer demand” for a Pla
So, this sounds creepy: Some hospitals are identifying high-risk patients by buying loads of consumer data and plugging it into algorithms so they can step in before the customer gets sick. According to Bloomberg Businessweek, it’s currently being used by Carolinas HealthCare System, which is
Forty years-ago, before Voyager 1 left our solar system and careened into interstellar space, NASA equipped it with a golden record. But this wasn’t just any golden record; it was filled with images and words from Carl Sagan, a well-known astronomer who hosted Cosmos: A Personal Voyage when it origi
After uproar in the UK over taxi app service Uber, Transport for London has ruled that it is not breaking any laws. There has been growing upset over recent months about apps like Uber not being held to the same standards as London’s traditional Hackney Carriages, or black taxis. The Licensed
Dota 2’s world championship tournament, AKA: The International, will feature a “Newcomer’s Broadcast” this year to help those unfamiliar with the game’s extensive jargon acronyms keep up with the action. “New to Dota? Or maybe you play Dota but have never gotten i
This is the last day for the second Mayday.US fundraiser, where you can help Larry Lessig raise $5 million to elect Congressmen who will fight for campaign finance reform and against the corrupting influence of money in politics. Lessig’s idea is to create a “super PAC to end super PACs,
A group of security experts have joined forces to create a secure, spy-proof instant messaging platform that the team hopes “will become the de facto standard for instant message conversations on the Internet.” Called Invisible.im, the independent software platform is being developed specifically fo
RoboEarth. No, it’s not a lame SNES game from 1994, it’s a cloud network that lets robots learn from the actions of other bots. It started over three years ago, and now, a new, related project has sprung from that initiative at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence at the University
In the 30 years since Alexey Pajitnov first launched Tetris, the world’s most popular game has regularly been immortalized in fashion. Luxembourgian Mark Kreger wanted to do the same, but instead of cooking up a colorful print, he’s staving off boredom with something much more interactiv
A new law passed by Russian parliament today requires that internet companies store the personal data of Russian users inside the country’s borders, a move that could make it easier for government officials to keep tabs on citizens. Members of parliament have defended the bill as a measure to
Digital music consumption is rapidly shifting from downloads to the streaming model popularized by the likes of Spotify and Pandora. According to Nielsen’s U.S. music report on the first half of 2014, digital album sales are down 11.6%, while purchases of individual tracks are down 13% from last yea
The FDA has proposed a new set of social media guidelines that will require drug companies to tweet their products’ side-effects to the world, reports The Wall Street Journal. Though still tentative, the proposal would make it so that all the benefits and the side-effects of a company’s produc
