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  Automated killer robot development should be paused, says UN report

  By Carl Franzen on May 1, 2013 05:42 pm + 32 comments

  A United Nations report published online this week says the UN should get countries of the world to Continue reading…

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  Wildly inappropriate T-shirts prompt a look at the history of randomly-generated products

  By Jacob Kastrenakes on March 4, 2013 11:08 am + 11 comments

  T-shirt producer Solid Gold Bomb coded a program to automatically create silkscreen slogans, market Continue reading…

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  Amazon pulls T-shirts promoting rape and violence that seller claims were auto-generated

  By Dante D'Orazio on March 2, 2013 05:51 pm + 120 comments

  "Keep Calm and Rape a Lot" is one of hundreds of T-shirts based on the much-used "Keep Calm and Continue reading…

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  Ticketmaster leaves ReCAPTCHA behind, will verify users with advertising instead

  By Bryan Bishop on January 30, 2013 03:04 pm + 27 comments

  Ticketmaster is doing away with one of the most painful parts of conducting online transactions on Continue reading…

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  Re-thinking car design in the age of self-driving vehicles

  By Justin Rubio on September 29, 2012 04:19 pm + 52 comments

  As self-driving cars inch closer to real-world use, car makers have the opportunity to incorporate Continue reading…

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  Discovering the hidden ASCII art in the pages of the web

  By Bryan Bishop on April 25, 2012 11:47 pm + 10 comments

  Adding ASCII signatures in a site's HTML is a way to leave a personal stamp while also giving a nod Continue reading…

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  HighlightCam for Android and iOS automatically edits your videos into a showreel

  By Jamie Keene on December 2, 2011 09:03 am + 4 comments

  Got masses of videos on your phone but no time to edit them into a masterpiece? HighlightCam Continue reading…

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  Mysterious X37-B space plane still in orbit after 270 day mission expires

  By Jamie Keene on November 30, 2011 09:11 am + 28 comments

  The United States Air Force's X37-B OTV-2 space plane was expected to land today, following a 270 Continue reading…

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  Windows 8 auto-update will consolidate restarts into one per month, give you three days to do it

  By Vlad Savov on November 15, 2011 06:17 am + 59 comments

  Trusting Windows Update to install new software to your Windows machine automatically is about to Continue reading…