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Today’s Hero Made An AI That Annoys Telemarketers For As Long As Possible
Hanging up on annoying telemarketers is the easiest way to deal with them, but that just sends their autodiallers onto the next unfortunate victim. Roger Anderson decided that telemarketers deserved a crueller fate, so he programmed an artificially intelligent bot that keeps them on the line for as long as possible.
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The Sun’s Magnetic Field Is A Beautifully Complicated Riddle
It’s taken half a century, but we’re finally getting a handle on our Sun’s complex magnetic field. A new model from NASA captures the strange surface interactions that create dramatic swirls of plasma and corneal mass ejections. If we can better understand the Sun’s magnetic field, we might one day be able to predict when…
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Cycling Has Moved From Actual Doping To ‘Mechanical Doping’
After a century of pumping themselves full of all sorts of performance-enhancing (and other!) drugs, it appears that at least one pro cyclist has found an easier way to cheat: hiding a motor inside the bicycle frame.
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Razor’s Jetts Turn Any Pair Of Shoes Into Rolling Heelys
Admit it, when you see a bunch of kids wearing Heelys roll past you at the mall, deep down you wish there was a version for adults, right? With Razor’s new strap-on Jetts, there finally is. And they work with any pair of shoes, and any grownup weighing less than 80kg.