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Russia's Anna Sidorova plays during the 2014 World Women's Curling Championship.

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The World of Competitive Curling Has Its Very Own Scandal

Is new technology too dominant for the Olympic sport?

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How Computers Learned to Play Nintendo

Super Mario World is a great test for artificial intelligence

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Pink Gumdrops Are Solving a Sticky Crisis in London

The receptacles are part of the world’s first chewing gum recycling program

For now, visually impaired people must rely on captions like these for descriptions of the images on the internet. (This is a picture of an eye reflecting Facebook's home page).

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In the Future, Facebook Will Describe Photos for Blind People

A visual internet poses many challenges for people that are visually impaired

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Future Cops May Track Down Criminals By Making Fingerprints Glow

One scientist’s revenge could be the ultimate crime-fighting tool

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This Norwegian Modern Art Museum Is Also a Bridge

An ingeniously twisted design blends art with infrastructure

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Great Scott! Stanford Invented a Self-Driving DeLorean Just in Time for Back to the Future Day

But does it use 1.21 gigawatts of electricity?

Was this article written by a data-driven word processing machine...or a robot?

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The Robo-Journalists Are Coming

But did a machine write this story?

Lee Harvey Oswald stands in his backyard with Marxist newspapers and a rifle. This photo has been looked on with suspicion ever since Oswald called it a fake after John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.

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3D Model Showed Controversial Photo of John F. Kennedy’s Assassin Is Not a Fake

Doubts surrounded the incriminating photo since Kennedy was assassinated in 1963

Cebreros station

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Falcons Protect This Deep Space Antenna

Nesting birds and their droppings can keep space scientists’ telescopes from getting a clear signal

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Prosthetics Could Soon Have a Sense of Touch

A technology suprisingly inspired by Darth Vader

Francis Bacon, social networking superstar, strikes a pose ca. 1618.

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Six Degrees of Francis Bacon Is Your New Favorite Trivia Game

Move over, Kevin!

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JetBlue Goes Green with a Farm at JFK Airport

The airline hopes to produce herbs and around 1,000 pounds of blue potatoes each season

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How a Metronome Could Save a Life

An simple device could help save lives by keeping CPR on the beat

Harvesting a cocoa tree

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Who Will Save the World’s Chocolate?

As climate change threatens cocoa crops, rival food companies are banding together

People flocked to the streets during Paris' car-free day.

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A Car-Free Day in Paris Cut Pollution by 40 Percent

But will the city say non to smog for good?

Screenshot from "Live Texturing of Augmented Reality Characters from Colored Drawings" video

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Thanks to Augmented Reality, These Coloring Books Come to Life

The new technology takes 2D pictures and turns them into 3D magic

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Watch Drones Drop Thousands of Moths on Crops

Swarms of sterile moths could be coming to a cotton farm near you

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Feast Your Eyes on an Optical Illusion Cake

This may be the most delicious optical illusion

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Butt Dials Blamed for a Spike in 911 Calls

Reports put accidental pocket dials at 30 to 50 percent of mobile emergency calls

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