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Movie Trailers Are Getting Insanely Fast. Trust Us, We Counted the Cuts Life's getting faster, and so are movie trailers. Just look at how the number of cuts has increased over time. Yeah, we actually counted. That wild outlier in 1964? Dr. Strangelove -- with an epileptic 136 cuts per minute.
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NSA's Role in Two Terror Cases Was Concealed From Defense Lawyers When a senior FBI official told Congress the role the NSA's secret surveillance apparatus played in a San Diego terror financing case today, nobody was more surprised to hear it than the defense attorney who fought a long and futile court battle to get ex
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Being Electric Doesn't Keep This Plane From Serious Aerobatics The Airbus A380 is among the biggest stars of the Paris Air Show, but no less impressive is the sleek electric aerobatic trainer that is it distant cousin.
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The NSA Hearing, by the Numbers A federal hearing today on NSA surveillance programs leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden produced some interesting numbers about the scope of the data collections and other issues. We've produced a roundup below of some of the interesting stats
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NSA Disruption of Stock Exchange Bomb Plot Disputed Did the government really disrupt a bomb plot targeting the New York Stock Exchange? The FBI deputy director said that today in a Spygate hearing where the government for the first time said the secret spy techniques publicly disclosed two weeks ago had h
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Amazon Makes Your Boring Facebook Birthday Posts Worth Something Posting a Facebook birthday greeting is the lowest level of well wishing. Now you can take the laziest birthday greeting and add something tangible, an Amazon gift card.
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Charge Your Phone for Free at One of These Solar-Powered Stations New York City is getting 25 solar-powered smartphone charging stations across the city.
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Thinking of Home Makes It Harder to Learn a Foreign Language Reminders of one's homeland can hinder the ability to speak a new language. The findings could help explain why cultural immersion is the most effective way to learn a foreign tongue, and why immigrants who settle within an ethnic enclave acculturate more
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The U.S. Government Wants Your Input on Human Spaceflight What good is human spaceflight? This is the question being posed by the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (ASEB) on behalf of The National Academies, and they want your answers.
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FiftyThree, Makers of Hit Sketching App 'Paper,' Score $15M in VC Funding Georg Petschnigg, FiftyThree's co-founder, is tight-lipped about what exactly his team has in the works. The company remains focused on building a new generation of creativity tools.
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