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  Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News

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  Facebook workers routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network’s influential “trending” news section, according to a former journalist who worked on the project. This individual says that workers prevented stories about the right-wing CPAC gathering, Mitt Romney, Rand Paul, and other conservative topics from appearing in the highly-influential sectio

  • テクノロジー
  • 2016/05/11 14:14

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  Teen Discovers Lost Maya City Using Ancient Star Maps [Updated]

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  Using an unprecedented technique of matching stars to the locations of temples on Earth, a 15-year-old Canadian student says he’s discovered a forgotten Maya city in Mexico. Images from space suggest he may actually be onto something—but experts say it’s something much simpler. William Gadoury, a teen from Saint-Jean-de-Matha in Lanaudière, developed an interest in archaeology after the publicatio

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  • 2016/05/11 00:35

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  The Untold Story of the Teen Hackers Who Transformed the Early Internet

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  Bill Landreth, former teen hacker of the early 1980s, now homeless in Santa Monica on March 18, 2016 (Photo by Matt Novak) On October 12th, 1983, Bill Landreth called his friend Chris in Detroit to chat. Chris frantically explained that the FBI had raided his house. “Don’t call me anymore,” Chris said in what would be a very short conversation. Bill didn’t know exactly what was happening, but he d

  • テクノロジー
  • 2016/04/24 03:28
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  Play With the Inner Workings of a Neural Network on This Neat Website

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  Neural networks are a fundamental part of Artificial Intelligence: Software systems that train themselves to make sense of the human world. But if you want to understand how they work at a basic level, a cool new website allows you to get under the hood. The site is based on Google’s new TensorFlow software library, which is an open source resource for people working with machine learning systems.

  • テクノロジー
  • 2016/04/13 18:05
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  Everything You Know About Artificial Intelligence is Wrong

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  It was hailed as the most significant test of machine intelligence since Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov in chess nearly 20 years ago. Google’s AlphaGo has won two of the first three games against grandmaster Lee Sedol in a Go tournament, showing the dramatic extent to which AI has improved over the years. That fateful day when machines finally become smarter than humans has never appeared close

  • テクノロジー
  • 2016/03/14 23:05

  • AI
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  Minecraft Is Now a Playground for AI Experiments

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  Microsoft has announced that it’s starting to use Minecraft as a space in which to build, test and develop new artificial intelligence systems. The new platform, developed by academics, will be made available to everyone over the summer. A team from Microsoft’s UK research lab in Cambridge has developed the new system, which is called AIX. The team claims that the endless possibility of Minecraft

  • テクノロジー
  • 2016/03/14 19:47
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  This Is How Valve’s Amazing Lighthouse Tracking Technology Works

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  Valve’s virtual reality demo at GDC was nothing short of magical—it used fancy emitter technology to let us actually walk around a demo room. It felt so real. Valve calls the tech Lighthouse, and it’s kind of genius. https://gizmodo.com/htc-vive-virtual-reality-so-damn-real-that-i-cant-even-1689396093 The main idea behind the tracking tech is pretty simple—by flooding a room with non-visible light

  • アニメとゲーム
  • 2016/03/03 00:36

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  This Flexible Prototype Is a Glimpse at Your Future Phone

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  The sci-fi dream of flexible electronics is on its way—it’s just taking a while to arrive. But this new prototype flexible smartphone, that responds to the way it’s bent and twisted, at least hints at how your future phone may behave. Created by researchers from Queen’s University’s Human Media Lab, the device uses a 720p LG Display Flexible OLED touch screen, with bend sensors and haptic feedback

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  • 2016/02/17 20:54
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  That Viral Photo of The Martian DVD Next to Potatoes Is No Accident

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  If you’ve haven’t seen the movie (spud spoiler alert) Matt Damon’s character is stranded on Mars and has to figure out a way to feed himself. Aside from the rations already around from their aborted mission, Damon’s character finds a brilliant way to grow potatoes in the Martian soil. So this marketing cross-promotion here in the real world makes perfect sense for a potato company. The promotion a

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  • 2016/02/16 03:32

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  Video: The History of Japan Explained in the Most Fun Way Possible

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  If we canceled history classes in high schools across the world and replaced them with YouTube videos about history, kids would learn so much more. I just sat through this wonderful 10-minute video on the history of Japan by Bill Wurtz without even skipping ahead because it was so riveting and funny and fast paced. In fact, the video (as silly as it was) was so well done that it actually makes you

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  • 2016/02/05 23:11

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  2015年で最も使われたパスワードトップ25 The 25 Most Popular Passwords of 2015: We're All Such Idiots

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  It’s 2016 and you may have thought we’d all be a little older and wiser than this time last year. But as you read this list of 2015’s most popular passwords, you will shake your head, mumble unmentionables and reach the firm conclusion that, no, we are in fact all still complete and utter morons. Every year, SplashData complies a list of the millions of stolen passwords made public throughout the

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  • 2016/01/19 19:15
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  142 Behind-The-Scenes Photos Reveal Blade Runner's Miniature World 

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  A massive gallery of behind-the-scenes Blade Runner slides has been uploaded to the internet, revealing a teeny, tiny world of space blimps and flying cars, all crafted with special care and beautiful attention to detail. Take a look at the dystopian miniatures, each tiny car hand painted with future dirt from riding clouds stuffed with future smog. There’s even a tiny version of Yellow Flame Sush

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  • 2016/01/12 16:54

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  Uber (and Lyft) Finally Bankrupted San Francisco's Favorite Taxi Company

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  Here’s one we probably saw coming. San Francisco’s largest taxi company is filing for bankruptcy, citing competition from Uber and Lyft. But it’s not too late for Yellow Cab yet. The SF Examiner has a statement from the Yellow Cab Co-Op that points out an interesting reason for their slumping business. It’s not that riders are being lured away by on-demand apps; drivers are decamping to places lik

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  • 2016/01/07 13:58
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  Goodbye Chest Straps, Garmin's Fenix 3 Multisport GPS Watch Gains a Heart Rate Monitor

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  If swimming, surfing, biking, snowboarding, running, and hiking sound like the average weekend for you, Garmin’s fēnix 3 is the multisport GPS watch that just might sell you on the merits of wearing a smartwatch—especially now that there’s a version with a heart rate monitor built-in. Instead of jumping to version 4, Garmin is revealing some worthwhile updates to its fēnix 3 multisport watch at

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  • 2016/01/06 01:27

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  This Australian Says He and His Dead Friend Invented Bitcoin

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  This story was originally published on December 8, 2015. Shortly thereafter, Craig Wright scrubbed much of his digital presence and disappeared for months—until May 2, 2016, when he publicly announced that he is the creator of Bitcoin. A monthlong Gizmodo investigation has uncovered compelling and perplexing new evidence in the search for Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin. Acco

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  • 2015/12/09 11:45
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  These 4K Videos of Japan Will Get You on the Next Plane to Tokyo

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  This YouTube channel, called TokyoStreetView, offers hours and hours of ultra HD videos of daily life in Japan. The word “Tokyo” is in its name, but the collection comes from all over the archipelago nation—a nation that’s really freaking scenic, as these videos will remind you. The channel captures the kaleidoscope of Japan’s beauty: cherry blossom-dotted sidewalks, ultramodern architecture, Shin

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  • 2015/11/07 03:39
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  How To Replace Twitter's Dumb Heart With the Emoji of Your Choice

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  Twitter did a silly thing today. It took away its neutral star icon andturned it into a smarmy heart. Turns out, it’s extremely easy to replace that heart. Let me help you with this technique from Robert McNees. Step 1: Download the Stylish extension for Chrome or Firefox. (There are a host of other extensions to restyle the web, but Stylish is super easy to use.) Step 2: Open Stylish and paste th

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  • 2015/11/04 09:54

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  Six Easy Ways to Tell If That Viral Story Is a Hoax

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  “And so it begins … ISIS flag among refugees in Germany fighting the police,” blared the headline on the Conservative Post; “with this new leaked picture, everything seems confirmed”. The image in question purported to show a group of Syrian refugees holding ISIS flags and attacking German police officers. For those resistant to accepting refugees into Europe, this story was a godsend. The photo q

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  • 2015/09/22 10:27

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  Does the Apple Logo Really Adhere To the Golden Ratio?

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  I’ve been fascinated with this premise for years now, and this week I saw this popular graphic pop up yet again: I’d seen this graphic debunked, but it wasn’t particularly rigorous, so I decided it was finally time to sit down and answer this for myself definitively. In researching this, the first thing to go looking for seemed to be whether or not the designer of the logo, Rob Janoff, has spoken

  • テクノロジー
  • 2015/09/09 16:42

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  How Could Google's New Logo Be Only 305 Bytes When Its Old Logo Was 14,000 Bytes?

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  The old logo uses a complicated serif font which can only be created using bezier curves. All together, it has 100 anchor points, resulting in a 6 KB (6,380 bytes) file. When compressed, the size comes down to 2 KB (2,145 bytes). A simplified version of the new logo, on the other hand, can be constructed almost entirely from circles and rectangles (with the exception of the lower-case g): The enti

  • テクノロジー
  • 2015/09/06 16:32

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  Almost None of the Women in the Ashley Madison Database Ever Used the Site [Updated]

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  When hacker group Impact Team released the Ashley Madison data, they asserted that “thousands” of the women’s profiles were fake. Later, this number got blown up in news stories that asserted “90-95%” of them were fake, though nobody put forth any evidence for such an enormous number. So I downloaded the data and analyzed it to find out how many actual women were using Ashley Madison, and who they

  • テクノロジー
  • 2015/08/27 15:23
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  Welcome to Mcity: The Fake Town Built for Testing Driverless Cars

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  It’s been a tough road for driverless cars: We recently learned, for example, that all of the crashes involving Google’s test-phase autonomous vehicles have been caused by humans. Which is one of the reasons experts have just opened up a testing center in Michigan that’s trying to recreate the chaos of the human-built street in a controlled environment. It’s called Mcity: A $10 million, 32-acre si

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  • 2015/07/21 22:36

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  The Smartphone Nintendo Should Make

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  A few weeks ago, we asked you which classic gadget you’d turn into a smartphone. We asked because we have a friend who specializes in bringing fantastic phone concepts to life. We gave him a few of the top ideas, and once again, he’s made the magic happen. Ladies and gents, meet Smart Boy, the Game Boy-inspired smartphone. Designed by Pierre Cerveau, it has everything a Nintendo lover could dream

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  • 2015/07/21 09:03
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  This Fanged Fish Can Live Inside a Volcano [Updated]

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  The more we learn about undersea volcanoes, the more we realize that life can thrive almost anywhere. Now, an Australian research vessel has discovered a new kind of fish living in volcanoes off the coast of the continent. It’s called a scaleless blackfish and it’s adorably ugly. The team is still trying to identify this tiny blackfish with translucent fangs and no scales (UPDATE: At least two sci

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  • 2015/07/16 15:39

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  The Science so far on Pluto's Broken Heart in Latest Enhanced-Color Pics

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  This is Pluto in Charon in real color, but exaggerated to emphasize the compositional differences. The image was taken by the New Horizons probe early in the morning of July 13, 2015 before its historic flyby. At 3:38 am ET on July 13, 2015, the New Horizons probe used three color filters on its Ralph instrument to capture the data for these enhanced colour images of Pluto and its largest moon Cha

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  • 2015/07/15 07:22
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  Facebook Is Probably Tracking All Those Rainbow Profile Pictures

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  Friday’s Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage was a historic moment for civil rights in America, and for the first time ever, Facebook released a tool that encouraged people express solidarity with a rainbow profile picture. Naturally, Facebook is also keeping track of who’s using it. [Update: Facebook didn’t deny it.] The Atlantic recently asked if all those rainbow profile photos were

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  • 2015/07/01 01:17
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  My Smartphone Gave Me a Painful Neurological Condition

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  A few months ago I started getting headaches, and they were weird. If a bad hangover headache feels splitting, I’d describe these headaches as searing, as if someone had hit me over the head with a red hot rod of steel sending electric bolts of pain across my skull. By the time I finally went to a neurologist, I thought death was near. I’m being dramatic. I’m not exaggerating, though. A couple of

  • 世の中
  • 2015/06/20 20:58

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  I Ogled a Schoolgirl in Sony's Virtual Reality

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  Summer Lesson, a VR experiment for Sony’s Project Morpheus headset produced by Namco Bandai, is a powerful virtual reality experience. It’s also disturbing and awkward and, well, kind of pornographic. No, she doesn’t get naked. It’s not that kind of lesson — at least, not literally. And yet it’s clearly a strong hint about how sex will sell in virtual reality, even in places where actual VR porn m

  • おもしろ
  • 2015/06/20 08:42

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