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Clinton Campaign Wants States to Toughen Cyberbullying Laws

Throughout the presidential campaign season, Donald Trump’s combative rhetoric has prompted discussion about the impact of such hostility on citizens, particularly children. As the election nears, Hillary Clinton’s campaign is seizing on this point, calling Trump a bully in a new campaign ad and at rallies. Now a national anti-bullying …

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Comma.ai cancels the Comma One following NHTSA letter

Renowned iPhone hacker turned entrepreneur George Hotz (aka geohot) has cancelled his autonomous driving startup’s first official product, the Comma One aftermarket add-on that would’ve allowed certain cars to gain Autopilot-like highway driving assistance abilities. Hotz announced the news on the Comma.ai official Twitter account, noting that the decision to …

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McLaren's road trip supercar

Inside McLaren’s high-tech auto lab The McLaren 570S is an outrageously fun all-out supercar, complete with beetle-wing doors and 562 horsepower turbocharged engine. But what if you want carry some luggage? Tying it to roof just would not do. It would look dumb and the aerodynamics would be awful. That’s …

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An Airship-Fixing Robot

On July 4—540 million miles from the nearest Independence Day barbecue—the solar-powered Juno orbiter began circling Jupiter’s poles, passing 2,600 miles above the planet’s clouds. “No spacecraft has ever orbited this close to Jupiter, in the heart of the radiation belts, where the magnetic field is this strong,” says project …

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How to Nudge Your Customers Without Pushing Them Away

People don’t always make choices in their best interests. There are many examples: On average, Americans weigh 16 pounds more than their target body weights; 68% of people save less for retirement than they intend to; and although 85% say they would like to be organ donors, only 28% are. Designing decisions …

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WIRED Book Club: An Entire Trilogy in a Month? Boom.

We made it. Three books in three weeks, and now we’re pretty exhausted. Not just mentally; emotionally, too. Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy wraps up exquisitely, completing a journey from mystery to horror to understanding to—to invoke the title of the third volume—acceptance. No questions get straight answers, but rather …

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