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• How 'The Simpsons' Fixed Apple's iPhone Keyboard
  One of the biggest issues plaguing the early iPhone team was how to get the keyboard functioning right. Then-Apple SVP Scott Forstall turned to an unlikely source of inspiration: "The Simpsons."
  

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• Jony Ive Talks About The Future Of Apple
  He's the design wizard behind the lollipop-colored iMac, the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad. And he says if he weren't at Apple, he'd design cups.
  

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• The Price Of Beer At Oktoberfest Completely Defies Economic Logic
  Beer is what economists call an elastic good; the more it costs, the less of it people buy. But at Oktoberfest, Germany's debaucherous annual beer festival in Munich, the rule doesn't exactly hold. In fact, it gets flipped on its head.
  

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• NASA Will Pay You To Stay In Bed For 70 Days
  Who says there's a job crisis in America? NASA is currently looking to pay a number of volunteers $18,000 to lie in bed for 70 days. Participants will be allowed to play games, talk to friends and family members, take classes, even work remotely for their real job, as long as they do not get out of bed for the entire duration of the experiment.
  

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• Contractor That Vetted Snowden Says It Ran Background Check For Navy Yard Shooter
  USIS, the Falls Church government contractor that handled the background check for national security leaker Edward Snowden, said Thursday it also vetted Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis for his secret-level clearance in 2007.
  

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• WTF Is This Unidentified Driving Object In Russia?
  We see a lot of crazy videos from Russia. Many from the roads. This thing rolling down the Samara-Orenburg highway is something special though.
  

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• Massive Music Piracy Plunge Fails To Halt Decline In Sales
  For more than a decade the music industry has attributed a massive decline in sales to music piracy. However, in a week where a report from the UK telecoms regulator indicated that piracy has plunged, no industry press releases hit the wire. Perhaps that's because the effect on sales appears to be non-existent?
  

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• How Facebook Secretly Redesigned Its iPhone App With Your Help
  Facebook is making some major changes to its app. Other developers sweat bullets when they make a big change like this, but Facebook isn't. It believes users will like the update because it's already tested it — with 8 million unsuspecting people.
  

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• There Are Only 10 Types Of Smells
  From fruity to minty to popcorn-y, all smells can be classified as one of 10 types of aroma, scientists say.
  

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• I Am An Object Of Internet Ridicule, Ask Me Anything
  Of course I read every single comment. I did not ready myself mentally for a barrage of hipster-hating Internet commenters critiquing me for everything: my pale skin, my outfit, my hair, my typing style, my glasses. An entire sub-thread was devoted to whether or not I had shaved legs.
  

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• What Happens When You Mix Silly Putty And Sand?
  Denmark may have the lockdown on Lego, but a neighboring country is also producing something children can use to build things: Sand. No ordinary sand, of course.
  

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• This Interactive Map Reveals The World's Deadliest Roads
  Highway deaths are now a global public health crisis.
  

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• 'Alien Bugs' Discovered In Earth's Atmosphere
  British scientists believe they have found small bugs from outer space in the Earth's atmosphere.
  

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• Meet The Middle Class Meth Heads
  Breaking Bad doesn't show you any middle-class crystal meth addicts, but there are plenty of them in America.
  

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• The Unbelievable 'Lewd Act' Jay Z's Muscle Was Supposedly Fired Over
  Yesterday's Daily News item about the firing of Jay Z and Beyoncé's bodyguard, Norman Oosterbroek, claimed that the 6'5", 280-pound "Dutch giant" was fired after being found "using the family's passports in a lewd act." But it's even worse than you might imagine.
  

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• Goat Manure Spontaneous Combustion: It's A Thing
  It all started with a 3 a.m. visit to a goat barn.
  

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• The Market Failure Of First Dates
  People are complex, and the reasons why we do or don't hit it off with one another can be unpredictable. But as with any complex market, there are some underlying principles to dating, and certain commonalities that are exposed when you look beyond your own experiences.
  

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• A Republican Senator's Lonely Mission To Make The NFL Pay Taxes
  In case you weren't aware, the NFL qualifies as a 501(c) nonprofit organization. This is absolutely ridiculous.
  

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• Why You Shouldn't Be Surprised iOS 7 Takes So Long To Download
  Wednesday was iOS 7 launch day, and Apple is struggling to cope with the load the update is putting on its servers. Frustrated iPhone and iPad users across the Internet are reporting error messages when they try to get Apple's latest mobile OS. This shouldn't surprise us.
  

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• This Is A College Dorm
  Plenty of Spartan dormitories still exist, especially at prestigious liberal arts schools that can have their pick of the litter, but they are quickly going the way of the paper textbook. Today's student accommodations are being built to resemble the kind of apartments you would find in a new urban high-rise.
  

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• 5 Facts About Dalton Trumbo
  Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston has signed on to play blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo.
  

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• Deep Inside A 19th Century Mine
  Here's a very creepy, abandoned mine in photos.
  

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• People Are Now Crowdfunding Their Funerals Online
  The new frontier for online fundraising arguably has the single steadiest revenue source in the world: Funerals.
  

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• The Best iOS 7 Ringtones
  It's time to update your soundtrack.
  

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• 'Breaking Bad' Episode 'Ozymandias' Has Netted A Perfect IMDB Score
  "Ozymandias," the most recent episode of "Breaking Bad," is currently running at an astounding 10/10 rating on IMDb.
  

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• This Terrifying Bride Is Only Joking Except When She's Not
  This bride offers a master class in the joking-but-not-joking-seriously-DON'T-cut-your-hair-without-my-permission style of friend management, where every "jest" (no bridesmaids were actually force-fed protein shakes to gain weight) is counteracted by a very real "offense" (one bridesmaid was asked to take diet pills).
  

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• Pope Bluntly Faults Church's Obsession With Gays And Abortion
  Pope Francis, in the first extensive interview of his six-month-old papacy, said that the Roman Catholic church had grown "obsessed" with preaching about abortion, gay marriage and contraception.
  

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• The Baseball Archaeologist
  How one man is rewriting the history of the game — one diary at a time.
  

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• Life On Earth Probably Has About 1.75 Billion Years Left
  Like any good mother, at some point the good Earth isn't going to support us anymore. People—and indeed all life—is just a phase that the planet is going through, and like all phases, ours will come to an end.
  

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• Jon Stewart Rips Pro-Gun Crowds' Constitutional Hypocrisy
  Following the mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard, Jon Stewart observed Wednesday that Second Amendment absolutists believe the Constitution is sacred and unassailable — except when it isn't.
  

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• A Surreal Startup Interview
  "Hey Mike, thanks for coming in. Here's the lineup today. We'll have a panel whiteboard interview, a pair programming exercise, some time for questions, and no lunch. Ready?"
  

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• Here's How To Go Back To iOS 6 While You Still Can
  Apple launched iOS 7 yesterday, and while adoption rates are soaring, some users are less-than-thrilled with the new look and feel of their phones. Typically Apple doesn't allow iOS to be downgraded to previous versions, but at the time of this writing disgruntled users are still able to go back to the leather and green felt they know and love.
  

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• These Photos Contain More Than 16 Million Different Colors
  These photos below were made using one pixel for each of the 16,777,216 colors in the RGB spectrum -- and they're gorgeous.
  

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• The Air Force Now Has A Drone Base In A Box
  Drone bases, they can pop up anywhere nowadays. The U.S. Air Force's special operations command now has mini bases for drones that can be packed in a cargo plane and transported anywhere in the world, launching unmanned missions within four-hours of arrival at their destination.
  

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• How Sound Can Make All The Difference In Battle
  From sound alone I could determine what nationality of unit was engaged in a firefight. I could tell who was "winning" and who was "losing."
  

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• This Is The Most Absurd Obamacare Ad Yet
  There will be girls. There will be beer. There will be Cornhole. And someone will be dressed in the creepiest Uncle Sam costume you've ever seen.
  

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• Mind-Control Parasite Kills Mice's Fear Of Cats Permanently
  A fair amount of research has taken place on Toxoplasma gondii, the bizarre parasite that makes mice unafraid of cats, and the latest chapter is a strange one.
  

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• Inside The Apple Store
  This isn't brick and mortar, it's glass and steel. Go backstage at Apple Retail, the supercollider of human expectations and consumer technology.
  

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• Al Qaeda's 'Conference Call' Of Doom Was Deciphered By An Enlisted Airman
  The mysterious "conference call" of al Qaeda leaders that led the United States to close its embassies around the Middle East in August was deciphered by a low-ranking enlisted man in the Air Force, who alerted his senior officers after finding clues about the ominous communication in the course of his regular duties.
  

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• Do These Guys Know What They're Doing?
  Apple's doomed. This is what you hear and read. Sure, it was a hell of a run—iPhone, iPad, all that—but it's about to end, and fast.
  

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