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"Numa Numa," the Original Viral Video, Turns 10

Dec. 5 2014 6:05 PMDuring the Romney Campaign, 22 People Had to Approve Tweets Before They Went Out
Dec. 5 2014 8:45 AMThere Aren’t Plenty of Fish in the SeaThat’s why consumers should soon prefer farmed seafood, not wild-caught.
Dec. 4 2014 4:35 PMHow Yahoo Could Make Up for Its Controversial Decision to Sell Flickr Users’ Photos
Dec. 4 2014 1:11 PMHow a Company Famous for Mason Jars Could Help Get Us to Mars
Dec. 4 2014 10:27 AMYak Dung Is Making Climate Change WorseAnd there’s no easy solution.
Dec. 3 2014 4:56 PMGoogle Now Lets You Prove Your Humanity With Pictures of Kittens, Not Squiggly Lines
Dec. 3 2014 12:33 PMSo Many People Watched “Gangnam Style” That YouTube Had to Upgrade Its View Counter
Dec. 2 2014 6:17 PMSpaceX Wants to Hire a Good Old-Fashioned Farmer in Texas
Dec. 2 2014 2:01 PMThe Last Time the Arctic Was Ice-Free in the Summer, Modern Humans Didn’t Exist
Dec. 2 2014 12:53 PMIntel Overhauled Stephen Hawking's Speech System and Is Releasing It for Free
Dec. 1 2014 4:30 PMEuropean Union Finally Publishes Guidelines on Right to Be Forgotten
Dec. 1 2014 11:55 AMDrones Will Change the Way We Estimate Crowd Sizes, and That’s a Big Deal
Dec. 1 2014 9:54 AMAsimov’s Three Laws Are Not an International TreatyHow to make treaties govern “killer robots.”
Dec. 1 2014 8:37 AMExtinct Species Should Stay ExtinctWhy we shouldn’t depend on technology to turn back the clock.
Nov. 28 2014 8:42 AMThis 1983 Episode of The Computer Chronicles Has the Perfect Gifts for Your “Hacker” Friends
Dec. 5 2014 1:25 PMSenator Proposes Bill to Prohibit Government-Mandated Backdoors in Smartphones
Dec. 4 2014 6:22 PMMaybe North Korea Didn’t Hack Sony Pictures
Dec. 4 2014 1:45 PMThis Is in No Way the Perfect Visual Metaphor for the State of the Newspaper Industry in 2014
Dec. 4 2014 1:09 PMGoogle Is Working on Kid-Friendly Products
Dec. 3 2014 6:09 PMAmid FBI Investigation, L.A. School District Suspends iPad Contract
Dec. 3 2014 2:00 PMNetizen Report: Iranian Facebook User Sentenced to Death for Allegedly Insulting the Prophet
Dec. 3 2014 12:15 PMYou Will Not Comment on This ArticleA primer on commenting on Slate.
Dec. 2 2014 5:25 PMUber’s Database Could Be Tempting for Hackers
Dec. 2 2014 1:21 PMNot As Loony As It SoundsGoogle’s “impossible" plan to beam Internet from solar-powered balloons is actually working. Here’s how. 
Dec. 1 2014 6:44 PMIt’s a Sad Day: Clip Art Is Dead
Dec. 1 2014 12:32 PMHow to Use Gmail Search to Boycott Cyber Monday
Dec. 1 2014 11:27 AMPosting That Viral Facebook Copyright Notice Won’t Protect Your Data and Never Has
Dec. 1 2014 9:00 AMBreak the Encryption!The Hollywood guide to computer hacking.
Nov. 28 2014 11:15 AMThis Hacker Was Threatened With 440 Years of Prison for Misdemeanors
Nov. 27 2014 10:34 AMAlgorithms Can Ruin LivesAn excerpt from Luke Dormehl’s The Formula.

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