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IBM is bringing sports into the digital age, starting with the U.S. Open

In partnership with the U.S. Tennis Association, IBM has catapulted sports into the digital age.
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Like AirBnB for yachts, GetMyBoat lets you rent the boat of your dreams

Thanks to GetMyBoat you can now provide your watercraft as a floating hotel.
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Motion-powered Million Mile Light stays lit as long as you keep jogging

The Million Mile Light is a Kickstarter project "that's powered by motion & engineered to never give up."
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Hotels aren’t putting up with Orbitz and Expedia anymore

The gloves have come off in the war between hotels and Internet sites like Expedia, promising customers lower prices and competitive deals.
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Meet nuyu, the wearable that you don’t have to wear on your wrist

Launched by fitness and health company Health o meter, a new line of products called "nuyu" is a full suite of tools to help users get and stay in shape.
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Seeing a cloaked woman on Mars? It’s probably your pareidolia acting up again

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but someone's gotta tell you -- you're not actually seeing Jesus in your toast. It's just your pareidolia acting up.
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Swan necks inspire new technology for better camera drone footage in the air

Researchers at Stanford University in California are taking inspiration from swans to ensure smoother and more graceful video content.
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Wanna confuse a Google car? Do a track stand on your bike

The best way to confuse one of Google's autonomous cars? Ride a fixed-gear bike and do a track stand.
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Google accused of gaming search results in favor of advertisers in India

Things may be getting nasty in India, where Google is being accused of gaming search results, and Facebook is testifying against them.
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Hacked? No problem, says Ashley Madison, whose user base is “still growing”

Ashley Madison reports that it is "still growing" despite the fact that the user information of some 37 million site visitors was recently compromised.
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You don’t have to be rich to be an art collector, thanks to Kollecto

Meet Kollecto, your "art-buying mentor" that insists, "You don't have to be rich to collect art."
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If dust could talk, it would tell you how many women versus men live in your home

According to a new study, your average household dust bunny tells a shockingly accurate story about your family and the inhabitants of your home
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The secret to getting hired at Uber? Remotely carjacking a Jeep

Uber has hired the two engineers who remotely hacked into a Jeep last month to join their safety and security team in Pittsburgh.
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Tired of posters falling off your wall? Try Voltaglue, the voltage-dependent adhesive

A new glue is making its debut, and it even works underwater. This is because Voltaglue only hardens when an electrical charge is applied.
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Want to share your mood? Do it with the wearable-first app Vibes

The wearable first app Vibes allows the user to communicate his or her feelings in the only way we millennials know how -- visually.
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Crazy driver? Self-driving cars are learning your habits on the road

Thanks to the work of Katherine Driggs-Campbell of University of California, Berkeley, self-driving cars may soon be able to predict human lane changes.
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It’s a bird, it’s a plane! It’s a drone interrupting a monk’s sunbathing session on a wind turbine!

Despite climbing to the top of a 200-foot wind turbine in Rhode Island, a monk found his sunbathing session interrupted by a drone.
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State-by-state Ashley Madison breakdown shows DC is our nation’s adultery capitol

We dive deep into the users of Ashley Madison, looking at how many paid users there are in each state and how much they spent. We find that Washington D.C. and New Jersey top a lot of our lists.
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The latest casualty of the Ashley Madison hack is CEO Noel Biderman

The latest casualty of the Ashley Madison hacking scandal? The company's CEO, Noel Biderman.
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What would Earth look like without humans? Hint, it’s a lot like Africa.

Researchers from Aarhus University in Denmark have mapped out what the world would look like sans humanity.
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Apparently, Americans think it’s ok to be on your phone just about anywhere

The notion of what is and isn't appropriate in terms of cell phone etiquette has changed, and now includes some questionable behavior.
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Want pancakes? Robots can help with RoboHow’s new Wikipedia for robots

European research company RoboHow is now teaching robots how to perform practical, everyday tasks, from the home to the office.
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Are selfies leading to a lice epidemic among teens?

No, selfies are not in fact causing a spike in a supercharged head lice breakout, despite what some would have you believe.
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Faster in-flight Wi-Fi from Gogo will cost you an arm and a leg

Taking advantage of our dependence on being online are in-flight Wi-Fi providers, who are now charging truly exorbitant amounts for their services.
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Embattled Uber faces new scandal in China following disturbing allegations

A number of Chinese media outlets reported that a female passenger was robbed then sexually assaulted by her driver in the early hours of the morning
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This airport is now offering happy meals to put customers in a better mood

London’s Gatwick Airport is embarking upon the ingenious (if it works) idea of offering their passengers literal “happy meals” full of happy hormones.
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Not so secure after all — Android Lock Patterns are just as easy to crack as passwords

The lock codes familiar to Android users are just as easy to crack as the alphanumeric ones used by iPhone devotees.
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Get buzzed in space with this whiskey, newly sent over to the International Space Station

For whisky that is truly out of this world, look no further than Japan’s Suntory label, which has decided to send its liquor off the planet and into space.
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Cancer, Intel is coming for you with the Collaborative Cancer Cloud

Intel recently unveiled more details about its plan to fight cancer by way of the Collaborative Cancer Cloud.
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You can now grow a human brain in a petri dish, or at least scientists can

A team of OSU researchers successfully grew a 99 percent complete human brain the size of a pencil eraser in a petri dish.
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Tradiv, a weed startup, is raising $1M with the help of a ‘cannabis accelerator’

Tradiv is the startup connecting cannabis growers and sellers that is in the midst of raising a $1 million investment round.
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Demonstrating the power of journalism, John Oliver may prompt IRS crackdown

The IRS is facing pressure to conduct a more thorough investigation of televangelists following a John Oliver segment on the issue.
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Diabetes patients, Intarcia Therapeutics has great news for you

Diabetes patients, one matchstick-sized implant may soon change your life forever, and its name is Intarcia.
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UK commission orders Google to remove links to ‘right to be forgotten’ stories

The UK recently ordered Google to remove nine links that direct viewers to current news stories concerning older reports previously struck down.