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GIF Image: OpenGameArt.com Over the weekend, China banned initial coin offerings (ICO) and briefly paused the seemingly unstoppable price increase of bitcoin. But the cryptocurrency has already bounced back. With the likes of Paris Hilton, Kim Dotcom, and John McAfee all jumping into the ICO world in one way or another, it seems worth asking…

FrontRow Price $400 What is it? A camera you wear as a necklace. Like The hardware is nice. No Like The camera is bad. Companies are also banking on us wanting to strap on silly looking hardware to capture those moments—you know, instead of the phone that’s already on my person at all times. It’s…

Image: Apple Apple’s iPhone 8 event is coming up fast, and we’re expecting Tim Cook and company to announce far more than new handsets. Here’s a quick primer. The event kicks off at 1PM ET/10AM PT on Tuesday September 12 at the brand new Steve Jobs Theater. You can watch it live on Apple’s website,…

Photo: Getty Social media companies need to start being more transparent about their roles in the U.S. presidential election, Sen. Mark Warner told reporters today. Twitter will need to explain to Congress how its platform was used by Russian trolls attempting to influence the U.S. presidential election, and Facebook ought to make political ads purchased…

Image: IAU Whoever came up with these names clearly did their homework. A group of surface depressions has been named Djanggawul Fossae, which the IAU described as “three ancestral beings in indigenous Australian mythology who traveled between the island of the dead and Australia, creating the landscape and filling it with vegetation.” Other regions are…

Photo: AP On Wednesday, Senator Claire McCaskill released a report on the findings of a congressional investigation into the practices of pharmaceutical company Insys Therapeutics. The jaw-dropping allegations detail the process in which agents systematically convinced insurers to pay for a highly-addictive opioid cancer pain drug for patients who didn’t have cancer. Why the FDA…

Wooly Rhino skeleton (Image: Didier Descouens/Wikimedia Commons) Normally, we think of evolution as a good thing for a species. Humans, we evolved to walk on two legs and talk and stuff. Bacteria evolve to overcome whatever new antibiotic we try to throw at them. But it appears that, for wooly rhinos, evolution decided “lol, no.”…