Brazil Is Suing Twitter for Tweeting DUI Checkpoints 
Twitter has caught some flack in other countries for giving accounts free reign on what they can tweet. Twitter responded that it'll adjust its policy to include the ability to censor tweets if a country demands it to. We just might see Twitter's fir...
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The Sinister Side of Fairy Tales 
If you've ever read Grimm's Fairy Tales, you'll know such stories are best when they have a sinister streak. Photographer Thomas Czarnecki agrees, and his new collection reimagines childhood stories in order to lay their dark side bare.
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The World Now Buys More Smartphones than Computers 
In 2011, manufacturers shipped 487.7 million smartphones and only 414.6 million computers—that's desktops, laptops and tablets. Combined. We'd heard prophecy of this day, and now it may have arrived.
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Sharing with "Friends of Friends" on Facebook Exposes You to 150 
Well this is mildly terrifying: according to a new Pew study, the Facebook privacy mode a lot of us rely on for photos and status updates is, on average, anything but private. Time to reconsider your settings, everyone.
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Sony's New CEO Knows What's Best For You 
Yesterday Sony announced that Kazuo Hira, the man behind PlayStation, was to become its new CEO. It seems that he's got some strong opinions on the future of the company, and the future of your consumer electronics, too.
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What Should Facebook's Stock Symbol Be? 
Guys! Can you hear Mark Zuckerberg splish-splashing in his giant gold bullion-filled tub? It's IPO time—Facebook's going public, and a bunch of rich people are about to become even richer. But shall this Ultimate Stock be labeled?
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Time-Travel with Ducks 
Time travel is tricky. Will you destroy your present by going back in time and changing something? But what if your present is dictated by what you did when you went back in time? Paradoxes are fun. While you try to figure out why the plot of Termina...
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The Military Is Replacing Humans with Giant Drone Surge 
The Pentagon has to cut a lot of costs. Humans are expensive. Humans need to eat and sometimes they get sick. But drones? They can fly and kill for hours—so the military's ordering a ton to replace flesh.
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2011 One Second at a Time Is So Astounding It Made Me Cry 
I couldn't have imagined that stitching together one second of video for each day of 2011 would be this incredible. And there's just no way I could love this 365 second year-in-a-life any more than I already do.
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Julian Assange Is Getting His Own TV Show 
Julian Assange has announced that he's going to have his own TV show, where he'll interview "key political players, thinkers and revolutionaries", and it's going to be hitting the screens in spring. Is there anything this man won't do?
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