Here's Astro Teller, chief of Google's Glass project, on its failure:

"I'm amazed by how sensitively people responded to some of the privacy issues," Teller explains, expressing frustration about the backlash against Glass in public, given the prevalence of mobile video.

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TouchTone is a dark, smooth puzzle game about the surveillance state. The player manipulates simple, clean circuits of light -- and once they all connect, must review information logs and decide whether to flag them as suspicious.

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Veronica Belmont and Tom Merritt on the latest in science fiction and fantasy Read the rest

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Facebook gets a bad rap, but where I live, it has brought neighbors together, and it started because of the things I didn't want to share. Read the rest

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Robert Wechsler makes sculptures by notching and connecting coins to one another to great effect, thanks to the familiarity of the materials and the seeming impossibility of their arrangement. Read the rest

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This incredibly beautiful deck of Bicycle playing cards also comes with a double backed card.

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In 2013 I paid $80 for a 6000mAh USB charging unit. Here's a 10000mAh charger for $13. (more…)

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In the latest episode of the always-illuminating podcast The Memory Palace, Nate DiMeo tells the curious story of 14-year-old Rossa Matilda Richter, aka Zazel, a human cannonball who was launched to stardom in the late 19th century: Two Dimensional Projectile Motion Problems

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Peter Baumann, formerly of Tangerine Dream, plays Sinatra's "Strangers in the Night" in this exemplary 1980s video. (more…)

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"States United To Prevent Gun Violence opens a fake gun store in NYC as hidden camera social experiment to debunk safety myths."

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The first one-year crew for the International Space Station is set to launch Friday, March 27. You can watch live coverage of the launch and the crew’s arrival to the orbital laboratory on NASA TV. Read the rest

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Michael from Muckrock sez, "Few American officials could even come close to the legendary paranoia of J. Edgar Hoover, but that didn't stop the notorious FBI chief from striking up a close friendship with Samuel Dickstein, House Committee on Un-American Activities founder, Supreme Court Justice -- and suspected Russian spy." Read the rest

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Cash-for-gold is a con so dodgy that it's visible from space, but Clancy Martin's inside account of working in his brother's rip-off high-class Texas pawnbroker is an especially compelling view of the internals of the ripoff. Read the rest

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Corie Weaver, co-editor of the Young Explorer's Adventure Guide a middle grade reader featuring diverse protagonists, sez: "31 percent of children's books have central female characters, and even fewer feature main characters of color." Read the rest

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There is no way around it. Habibi is a strange graphic novel. Not strange as in surreal, or ugly, or weird, but strange as in stranger, different.

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From MAKE: this cute BMO replica with a Raspberry Pi brain. Read the rest

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Fewer than 1 person in 10,000 are born with bilateral colobomas, known as "cat eye syndrome."

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“Jurassic Park is brought to life in LEGO as a father, daughter and all their friends combine over $100,000 worth of LEGO pieces to make an epic stop-motion animation.” (more…)

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How quickly the tables are turned. (more…)

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Don't read the comments. [Video Link]

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