Recent content by LJ Ellis

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    Is Reddit Under Secret Surveillance by the Government?

    Is Reddit Under Secret Surveillance by the Government? Something is going on at Reddit. What's happening exactly, we may never know. At the end of their 2014 transparency report, Reddit wrote this [https://www.reddit.com/wiki/transparency/2014]: "As of January 29, 2015, reddit has never...
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    18 Oculus Rift Reviews and First Impressions

    18 Oculus Rift Reviews and First Impressions With the official launch of the Oculus Rift [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/features/galleryoftheday/16897-8-Upcoming-Oculus-Rift-Games-We-Are-Looking-Forward], reviews and first impressions are rolling in. While there isn't a...
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    Introducing Holoportation, the Future of Human Communication

    Introducing Holoportation, the Future of Human Communication In the future, humans will be able to interact with holographic 3D models of other people in real-time, resulting in a type of simulated teleportation. Microsoft researchers are calling this technology holoportation and they're...
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    With Encryption Battle on Hold, Burner Phones Now Targeted

    With Encryption Battle on Hold, Burner Phones Now Targeted Although the FBI has apparently paused its battle with Apple over encryption [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/166938-FBI-Might-Not-Need-Apples-Help-Accessing-Terrorists-iPhone-After-All], there's now another branch of the...
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    20 Outrageous Tweets by Microsoft's Twitter-Taught AI Chatbox

    20 Outrageous Tweets by Microsoft's Twitter-Taught AI Chatbox Hours after Microsoft introduced a Twitter chatbot named Tay to the world, humans had corrupted her so terribly that Microsoft was forced to shut down her account. Microsoft programmed the AI-powered chatbox to learn through...
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    Pornhub Launches Free Virtual Reality Channel for Oculus Rift

    Pornhub Launches Free Virtual Reality Channel for Oculus Rift If you need additional motivation to shell out big bucks [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/166857-Oculus-Founder-Says-400-Is-Fair-For-PSVR] for the Oculus Rift, consider this enticing announcement by Pornhub: The company...
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    Hypocrisy? FBI Warns of Vehicle Hacking, Fights War on Encryption

    Hypocrisy? FBI Warns of Vehicle Hacking, Fights War on Encryption recently pushed for minimal safety standards to be implemented to thwart hackers. "Imagine what would happen to autonomous vehicles to get hacked while they're out on the road," said...
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    FBI Can't Win: Apple Engineers Will Quit Before Unlocking iPhone

    FBI Can't Win: Apple Engineers Will Quit Before Unlocking iPhone Even if the FBI wins against Apple in federal court in the much-publicized legal battle involving the unlocking of an iPhone used by the San Bernardino mass murderers, the FBI will likely still lose the war. According to The...
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    Carl's Jr. CEO Readies Robot Workforce to Counter Rising Wages

    Carl's Jr. CEO Readies Robot Workforce to Counter Rising Wages The fast food industry in the United States currently employs approximately five million human beings, however the CEO of Carl's Jr. wants to change that. Andy Puzder, who is also the CEO of Hardee's, believes that he has no...
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    Community Gigabit Expansion in Tennessee Killed by Comcast, AT&T

    Community Gigabit Expansion in Tennessee Killed by Comcast, AT&T A city-run electric utility in Tennessee attempted to offer customers competitively-priced gigabit internet service; however, a horde of 27 lobbyists with Comcast and AT&T stepped in to kill the project. The utility's plans...
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    Congress is Really Worried Hackers Will Attack Self-Driving Cars

    Congress is Really Worried Hackers Will Attack Self-Driving Cars During a meeting between the Senate Commerce Committee and the head honchos of the self-driving car industry on Tuesday, one potential roadblock to a driverless future was discussed most of all: hackers. "Imagine what would...
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    Transportation Secretary: Google Self-Driving Car Crash No Big Deal

    Transportation Secretary: Google Self-Driving Car Crash No Big Deal For the first time ever, the computer running one of Google's self-driving cars was blamed for a traffic accident. As you can see in the video, the self-driving car pulled out in front of a human-driven bus after the...
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    Happy Pi Day! Here are 5 Ways to Celebrate

    Happy Pi Day! Here are 5 Ways to Celebrate Today, March 14th, is Pi Day. People all across the country - and the globe - are celebrating pi, the transcendental number that is, of course, approximately 3.14. The holiday was created back in the late 80s but became recognized by the US...
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    Google's AI Program Takes on Human Go Champ in Five-Game Tournament

    Google's AI Program Takes on Human Go Champ in Five-Game Tournament Google DeepMind's AlphaGo Program is in the middle of unprecedented five-game challenge in Seoul, South Korea against legendary human Go player Lee Sedol. Sedol has been the top Go player in the world over the last decade...
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    Why This Jetpack is Close to Making Fantasy a Reality

    Why This Jetpack is Close to Making Fantasy a Reality We've all been fantasizing of the day that jetpacks escape the realm of science fiction and enter the real world. Thus far, there hasn't been much to get our hopes up about. Enter the JB-9 jetpack, the most genuine jetpack ever built...