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Did you know that there's a not unsubstantial corner of YouTube devoted to pornographic videos that aren't pornographic? And did you know that thousands of people click these painfully unsexy clips daily? More »
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How much does the Internet weigh? It depends on who you ask. According to one calculation, the information that comprises the Internet weighs little more than a single grain of salt. Other estimates put it at closer to the weight of a strawberry. More »
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There's yet another social network on the internet - but this one pairs users up with people who share the same intestinal bacteria. More »
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Worried about privacy on the Internet? It may be even worse than you thought - with rapidly improving face recognition technology, your automatically tagged Facebook pictures could help a stranger, or the authorities, quickly identify you on the street. More »
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We've seen pundits on The Today Show be perplexed by that wacky world wide web fad — now check out Coolio weigh in on the CB radio of the future! Listen to that soundtrack! Better than Ezra! And at last, a twirling image of R2-D2! More »
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This week a man from Minnesota was convicted of aiding in the suicides of two people he met online while posing as a female nurse. He gave them advice on the most painless ways to die, and entered suicide pacts with them. More »
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The internet preserves unimaginable amounts of data, including huge amounts of minutiae describing people's everyday lives. So here's the question: is this information worth saving for future generations to study, or is this the sort of data that's best forgotten? More »
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The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is shooting down a key legislative talking point: that the internet "kill-switch" legislation is needed to prevent cyberterrorists from opening the Hoover Dam's floodgates. More »
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I'm often shocked at how accurate some 20th century predictions of online shopping were. However, these retail prognosticators frequently miss the mark by assuming that individual goods would need to be photographed or videotaped live for consumers.  More »
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Men who drop their trousers and display their genitals on the internet can now be detected more reliably and automatically, is the thrust of this new study. More »
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In this 1994 clip from The Today Show, Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric are completely befuddled by the notion of the internet. We laugh now, but remember that we'll be the ones immortalized as rubes when psychic data clouds debut. More »
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With the threat of today's protests looming in Egypt, on Thursday Egyptian authorities cut the nation off the internet. No online communication could pass in or out of the country. We investigated whether a similar lockdown could happen in America. More »
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Silver Age Batman had some pretty insane adventures, but what if his exploits continued into the 21st century? According to Caldwell Tanner and Kevin Corrigan of College Humor, he'd battle macros, memes, internet trolls, and the notorious longcat, of course. More »
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A man in southern Georgia, apparently fed up with all the wild hogs on his property but unwilling to spend unnecessary time outdoors, set up a complex network of webcams and powerful shotguns to solve his little problem. More »
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There are many ways to find the location of people on the internet. Some people are located through technology — but some people give away their location by their word choice. Internet speech is more regional than we'd previously thought. More »
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Enda O'Donoghue paints photos that he finds on the internet, seeking to document the images we as individuals find currently important, not images that our culture defines as immortal. Via Motherboard TV. More »
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Vincenzo Cosenza has partitioned the planet according to nations' preferred social networks, and you can read more about these global trends at his site. Facebook's making inroads in Mongolia! [Spotted on Next Nature] More »
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Rutgers University law professor Greg Lastowka has directed us to a free PDF copy of his new book, Virtual Justice: The New Laws of Online Worlds. The book covers the increasingly bizarre legal framework that's encompassing virtual worlds like Warcraft. More »
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What would Facebook resemble if it was invented 26 years ago? According to artist Mark Penney, it'd be green, DOS-friendly, and your photo would be 100% typography. At least you can update it from your Analog Motorola DynaTAC 8000x! More »
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With the Stuxnet virus wreaking havoc on Iranian nuclear plants, NATO is divided on how to prevent and respond to future cyberattacks. Americans advocating a more proactive stance on combating cyber-ne'er-do-wells, an approach America's NATO allies are skeptical of. More »
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Here's the first episode of Pioneer One, a neat webseries that was entirely crowdfunded. The pilot is about a mysterious downed spacecraft over Montana and Edmonton, deadly radiation, and a Cold War secret. More »
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Warner Bros. has recently registered several new domain names related to the Batman franchise. Are these domains tie-ins with the upcoming Batman: Arkham Asylum 2 videogame or another Bat-project entirely? More »
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Ever think that you could make a flick craptacular enough to light up the Syfy Channel? Starting Friday, they're letting online users collectively create a movie, from concept to the next Dinoshark. More »
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Today marked an evolution of sorts for Twitter. It's no longer just for following your favorite celebrity rants or for informing your followers you're having a ham sandwich or just took a shower. More »
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While I'll quibble with their inclusion of the Segway — Gob Bluth rocked it on Arrested Development — Time magazine's survey of the worst tech ideas ever is a damning look at decades of failed innovation. More »
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It's coming from J-horror trailblazer Hideo Nakata — director of Ringu and Dark Water — and it's full of young people doing sexy-dangerous things. But can Chatroom do what no other film has: make the internet interesting? More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5533712&view=rss&microfeed=true Internet, your narcissism has been validated. The Library of Congress will archive all public tweets for historical purposes. Somewhere in the unfathomable future, a historian really, really cares that you had a Reuben for lunch today. [Physorg] More »
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How can you tell the difference between a real report about online vulnerabilities and someone who's trying to scare you about the security of the internet because they have an agenda, such as landing lucrative, secret contracts from the government? More »
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The internet is famous for bringing people together. But some of those people include poachers and rare animal collectors, fueling a resurgence in the illegal wildlife trade. More »
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Google will likely be pulling the plug on Google.cn by the end of the month. According to the web search giant, China's stringent censorship and the hacking of Gmail accounts have driven Google to relinquish 35.6% of China's search market. More »
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The good news is, there will be a sequel to Doctor Horrible's Sing-A-Long Blog. The bad news is, it won't be available for free online. According to Neil Patrick Harris, Dr. Horrible 2 will be a major motion picture. More »
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Cruel trick or worthwhile use of Facebook? We're undecided, but either way, check out the "MY SISTER SAID IF I GET A MILLION FANS SHE WILL NAME HER BABY MEGATRON" page. Little Megatron's future depends on it. More »
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To those waiting decades to see Buck Rogers In The 25th Century's Gil Gerard and Erin Grey together again: Your patience has been rewarded! But this time, the onetime Buck is his own father in a new web-based Buck Rogers. More »
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A new and totally inexplicable meme is sweeping the internet. Mutant infants with laser vision. Are these tots the harbingers of a new dark age, or a sign that culture is now 100% intellectually bankrupt? Let us contemplate. More »
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Wondering what you're looking at? These are just some of the websites that internet users in China are unable to reach because of government censorship, as translated into a graphic by Information Is Beautiful. More info is available here. More »
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Actual television ratings for Heroes may be falling perilously close to cancellation levels, but there's one place where NBC's Heroes still reigns supreme: Internet piracy. For the second year running, the superhero soap opera is the year's most illegally-downloaded show. More »
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Next year, the first URLs made up of non-latin characters will appear on the internet. We give it maybe ten seconds until someone is complaining that the net has become corrupted and lost sight of its original purpose. More »
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If you want to see the (extended version of the) Caprica pilot before next month's premiere, Syfy have an early gift for you; they've put the whole thing online. UPDATE: Click through for an embedded version. More »
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Get your holiday season properly underway with an early gift from writer Paul Cornell: An all-new Doctor Who story about the end of time (But not the one you'll see on television in just over a week). More »
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Well, not like that, perverts. But as part of a promotion for the third season of NBC's spy comedy, fans are getting the chance to win a literal blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo in an episode of Chuck. More »
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