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Swarm introduces a digital currency for your check-in pleasure

Need a little retail therapy? Consider a shopping spree on Foursquare's Swarm app.
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Don’t be a jerk. Stop ending your texts with periods.

According to new research published in the journal Computers in Human Behavior, texts that end with a period are rated as less sincere than those that do not.
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Adidas introduces a 3D printed shoe made from ocean plastic waste

Tthe latest shoe from Adidas combines two previously explored concepts -- using plastic ocean waste to create a shoe, and 3D-printing a shoe.
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Don’t want to take an ibuprofen pill? Just stick a patch on instead

Ibuprofen, the universal pain reliever, is now available as an adhesive patch that delivers drugs in a hyper-efficient way -- directly through your skin.
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Is Craig Steven Wright the real Satoshi Nakamoto, founder of bitcoin?

For Craig Steven Wright, the recently outed founder of Bitcoin, identification was something to be avoided.
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On Facebook at work? Turns out, that should be the least of employers’ concerns

According to a recent survey conducted by Bamboo HR, technological innovations haven't affected the way in which we steal time from our jobs.
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Wonder what you’d look like with blue eyes? Check it out with ModiFace Live

Thanks to a new iOS application called ModiFace Live, you can now apply photo-realistic video effects to your face on live video.
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Given these drunk driving statistics, Uber may be the answer

Some municipalities have attempted to leverage the power of ride-sharing services like Uber in order to reduce drunk driving accidents.
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Bored at work? Try chatting with Miss Piggy on Facebook Messenger

If your IMs with your friends leave you wanting a bit more, consider striking up a conversation with Miss Piggy instead.
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For the first time, WNYC just uploaded a brand new podcast episode to Facebook

On Tuesday morning, for what the New York radio station believes is the first time ever, WNYC uploaded a brand new, full episode of the interview podcast Here’s The Thing to the show’s Facebook page. 
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Netflix isn’t so chill when it comes to winning the Internet streaming wars

As per the new Global Internet Phenomena report streaming audio and video services now account for a whopping 70 percent of North American downstream traffic during peak evening hours, led by Netflix.
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Apple increases iTunes Match and Apple Music storage to 100,000 songs

The Apple Empire has now increased the iTunes Match and Apple Music libraries limit from 25,000 to 100,000. 
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The Bracelite is an interactive bracelet and Apple watch band

Bracelite is the interactive bracelet and watch band for Apple Watch.
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We can now 3D print live blood vessels

3D printing live blood vessels has taken the medical community by storm and has serious implications for the future of organ generation and human physiology at large.
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What does Scott Kelly miss most about Earth after spending over a year on the ISS?

After setting the record for the longest time spent in space back in October, astronaut Scott Kelly has become accustomed to his home away from home.
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Weekly Rewind: How to live longer, Game of Thrones teaser, Zuck’s fortune, and more

In the tech world, a lot happens in a week. It's too much to keep track of, so here are the top 10 tech stories you may have missed this week.
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The Digno Rafre is the world’s first washable smartphone

Japanese company Kyocera is set up to sell the Digno Rafre, the world's first soap-proof smartphone that you can rinse at the end of the day.
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Kazakhstan mandates Internet backdoor, modeled after China’s Great Firewall

Lawmakers in Kazakhstan are forcing Internet users across the country to install a sort of backdoor system which would allow for government surveillance.
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British scientists unlocked the secret to pain — and how to end it

A team of British scientists has discovered the secret to human pain, which in turn has unlocked the recipe for ending it altogether.
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To pay off its epic loan, Volkswagen may need to sell its luxury brands

In the latest episode of the saga, collapsing sales may force Volkswagen to sell some of its high-end luxury brands, including Bentley, Lamborghini, and Ducati
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Could driverless cars be the secret to an accident-free future?

According to recent research from Mobileye, one in 10 Americans has been hit or almost hit by a car since May. 
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Secure all your devices with SonicTouch, the breakthrough in biometrics

Having the world at your fingertips has never been as literal as it can be with Sonavation and its new SonicTouch Fingerprint Sensor.
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T-Mobile is now America’s best wireless carrier (of the big four, at least)

The results from this year's Consumer Reports are in, and T-Mobile has unseated Verizon Wireless as the No. 1 carrier in the country.
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Robots might take over almost half of Japan within the next 20 years

They're already driving taxis, running hotels, and serving as disaster relief personnel in Japan, so of course it's only a matter of time before robots take over the country altogether. 
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Where there's smoke there's an iPhone 6 Plus on fire in a man's pants near Atlanta

An intense burning in your pants is rarely a feeling you want to have in public, especially when it's prompted by your iPhone 6 Plus catching on fire. 
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Revenge porn posted by George Zimmerman got him kicked off Twitter

He may have been acquitted for the murder of Trayvon Martin, but George Zimmerman was just found guilty of breaking Twitter's rules.

Use oldweb.today to see what the Internet looked like in the '90s

Missing the days of yore? Or, more specifically, the Internet days of yore? Miss no more, thanks to oldweb.today, which will satisfy your strange desire to revisit the early days of the Internet.
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Watching too much TV may be bad for your brain, study suggests

We may become the plagued-with-serious-cognitive-issues generation in a few years. As it turns out, cognitive function is inversely related to time spent watching TV.
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MouseMingle.com is a dating site for Disney lovers, because why not?

Meet MouseMingle.com, "a place to connect people who love Disney and who want the same magic in their relationship." 
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Horror of horrors: bananas may be going (close to) extinct, new study says

Eat all the bananas you can now because soon, there won't be any left. And it won't be because you ate them all. It'll be because they've gone ... extinct.
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EFF wants Google to stop tracking schoolchildren’s Internet searches

EFF says Google has been "collecting and data mining school children’s personal information, including their Internet searches."
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A Facebook post about a birthday cake has gone viral, and for good reason

It's hard to make birthday cake even more lovable than it already is, but thanks to a viral social media post, we may have just accomplished the near impossible.
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With the help of carbon nanotubes, scientists just solved the urinal splashback problem

I'm pleased to inform you that a team of physicists from Utah State University have successfully created "a urine black hole." 
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Write a racist post in Brazil, and you may find it on a billboard

The newest weapon against racism? Public shaming, it seems, and in the form a Brazilian billboard campaign against racism.