They Ain't Heavy, They're My Brothers

Marco Rubio Wants To Carry Republicans Into The 21st Century, Prominent Scientists Sign Letter Of Warning About Artificial Intelligence Risks, The Algorithm That Calculates Your Shirt Size In Seconds, 2-Year-Old Kid Does His Best To Drum Through The Foo Fighters' 'Pretender', Are All Terrorists Muslims? It's Not Even Close, De Niro And DiCaprio Face Off In The Trailer For 'The Audition' The Daily Digg Thursday, January 15, 2015 THEY AIN'T HEAVY Marco Rubio Wants To Carry Republicans Into The 21st Century newrepublic.com Will they let him? MIND THE INTELLIGENCE GAP Prominent Scientists Sign Letter Of Warning About Artificial Intelligence Risks io9.com Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, and many other prominent figures have signed an open letter pushing for responsible AI oversight in order to mitigate risks and ensure the "societal benefit" of the technology. STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED The Algorithm That Calculates Your Shirt Size In Seconds propercloth.com Shirtsleeves too long? Neck a little tight? Pattern not perfect? Why are you putting up with mediocre off-the-rack stuff when getting custom shirts is easier than ever? Get the perfect fit and the perfect look. A GROHLING PRACTICE SESSION 2-Year-Old Kid Does His Best To Drum Through The Foo Fighters' 'Pretender' digg.com This little boy's name is Jaxon. Give him 10 years and he'll probably be behind the kit of your favorite band. TERROR BY THE NUMBERS Are All Terrorists Muslims? It's Not Even Close thedailybeast.com What percentage of terror attacks in the United States and Europe are committed by Muslims? Guess. Nope. Guess again. And again... PLEASE EXCUSE THE SUBTITLES De Niro And DiCaprio Face Off In The Trailer For 'The Audition' digg.com A movie directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Leo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, about Leo DiCaprio and Robert De Nero both trying to get the same part in a Martin Scorsese movie. Sure, ok. Get more stories on Digg.com → THE POPE IS MOBILE Pope Francis waves to the crowd as he arrives to hold a mass at Colombo's seafront Galle Face Green for the canonization ceremony of Joseph Vaz, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015. Francis declared Vaz a saint at the start of the service. The church considers Vaz a great model for today's faithful, ministering to the faithful of both Sri Lanka's ethnic groups and putting himself at great risk to spread the faith. Credit: AP Photo/Saurabh Das Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

Love And Robots

A History Of Toys As Teaching Machines, This Escalator Is Functioning Perfectly, Yes, These Are As Comfortable As They Look, The Most Common First And Last Names Of New York City Taxi Drivers, Visualized, Disinformation Of Charlie Hebdo And An Analysis Of The Fake BBC Website, How To Be A Total Dick And Steal Pizza Without Anyone Noticing The Daily Digg Wednesday, January 14, 2015 AI: A FUTURE OF TOYS AS LEARNING MACHINES A History Of Toys As Teaching Machines hackeducation.com The Speak & Spell — one of the most iconic toys of the 1980s — is actually a teaching machine. By that, I don't mean simply that it's an electronic, educational device. The Speak & Spell is a teaching machine specifically in the tradition of B. F. Skinner, reflecting some of both Skinner's design principles and his theories of learning. THAT ESCALATED QUICKLY This Escalator Is Functioning Perfectly digg.com If its function is to get loud, drunk soccer fans away from everyone else, it's doing it as well as could be expected. PANTS WE DIGG SPONSORED Yes, These Are As Comfortable As They Look meundies.com For proper lounging, you're gonna need some lounge pants. Lucky for you we've got just the pair. A LOT OF WAYS TO SPELL ONE NAME The Most Common First And Last Names Of New York City Taxi Drivers, Visualized vizual-statistix.tumblr.com Using a list of the 52,131 active medallion taxi drivers in New York City, I've graphed the frequencies of the 20 most common first and last names. WARNING: JARGON AHEAD Disinformation Of Charlie Hebdo And An Analysis Of The Fake BBC Website labs.opendns.com While we can't say definitively what the motives are of the operators are, it is apparent that they are untrustworthy and potentially nefarious. The predictive classification that we used to identify and flag the site is showing the attack is very similar to former incidents that malicious actors have used in the past like the Boston Marathon malware incidents. This post highlights the OpenDNS Security Labs analysis of the campaign and its indicators. WHY AM I STILL HUNGRY? How To Be A Total Dick And Steal Pizza Without Anyone Noticing digg.com Don't do this. Pizza is an inalienable right — read the constitution, people. Get more stories on Digg.com → REPS CAN'T TENNESSEE THE FACTS State troopers watch as abortion rights protesters stand in the Capitol as lawmakers convened the 109th General Assembly, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015, in Nashville, Tenn. Republican Rep. Beth Harwell of Nashville and Sen. Ron Ramsey of Blountville were re-elected as speakers of the House and Senate, while about 60 protesters outside the chambers shouted into a bullhorn, banged drums and chanted. Credit: AP Photo/Mark Humphrey Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

Dark Side Of The Moon

My Lovely Wife In The Psych Ward, Why Tipping Should Be Banned, There's Poop On The Moon, Inside A Guantanamo Bay Prison Riot, The Beauty Of Traditional Japanese Wood Joinery, BPA Alternative Might Be Even Worse The Daily Digg Tuesday, January 13, 2015 IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH My Lovely Wife In The Psych Ward psmag.com We met at 18. We wed at 24. At 27, I checked my wife into a psych ward — for the first time. How mental illness reshapes a marriage. NOT A SCENE FROM 'RESERVOIR DOGS' Why Tipping Should Be Banned digg.com What's worse than the restaurant industry? The fact that tipping is actually a relatively recent (and stupid) development. DARK SIDE OF THE MOON There's Poop On The Moon factually.gizmodo.com It should come as no surprise that the Apollo astronauts left a few things behind after landing on the moon. Since the lunar module could only lift so much weight off the surface, they swapped out unwanted goods and gear for moon rocks. Among those unwanted goods were all kinds of weird things. What kinds of weird things? There were 96 bags of poop, pee, and puke. EVIL SPONGE BOB AND SATAN Inside A Guantanamo Bay Prison Riot news.vice.com In this excerpt from his book "Murder at Camp Delta," former Guantanamo guard Joseph Hickman describes putting down a prisoner riot — and how he earned the nickname "Satan." FITS LIKE A GLOVE MADE OF WOOD The Beauty Of Traditional Japanese Wood Joinery digg.com You know the old saying — measure twice, cut once. We don't want to think about how many times these traditional craftsmen had to measure in order to get this multi-part joint exactly right. DRASTIC PLASTIC BPA Alternative Might Be Even Worse washingtonpost.com In a groundbreaking study, researchers have shown why a chemical once thought to be a safe alternative to bisphenol-A, which was abandoned by manufacturers of baby bottles and sippy cups after a public outcry, might itself be more harmful than BPA. Get more stories on Digg.com → THE 'FLAT' IN 'SALT FLAT' IS ON EXAGGERATION Honda rider Jean de Azevedo of Brazil, right, leads Yamaha rider Michael Metge of France, as they race across the Uyuni salt flat during the eighth stage of the Dakar Rally 2015 between Uyuni, Bolivia, and Iquique, Chile, Monday, Jan. 12, 2015. Chile's Pablo Quintanilla won the motorcycle eighth stage of the Rally, while Spain's Marc Coma took the overall lead. Credit: AP Photo/Felipe Dana Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

The Internet Always Finds A Way

All The Winners At The 2015 Golden Globes, Divided They Stand, In The Future, You're Going To Need New Clothes, What You Missed This Weekend, 'Silk Road Reloaded' Just Launched On A Network More Secret Than Tor, Finally, A Good Look At 'Better Call Saul' The Daily Digg Monday, January 12, 2015 AND THE LOSERS All The Winners At The 2015 Golden Globes buzzfeed.com Tina Fey and Amy Poehler have separated the wheat from the chaff. TEMPORARY UNITY Divided They Stand politico.com Even before the sanitation teams finish sweeping up the marchers' detritus, France will again be divided over the place of two powerful communities: some 5 million Muslim French citizens and the same number who voted in elections last year for the right-wing, anti-Muslim Front National. CLOTHES WE DIGG SPONSORED In The Future, You're Going To Need New Clothes bushandleavenworth.com Think your clothes are boring? Get some that tell a story. DIGG PICKS What You Missed This Weekend digg.com Millions marched in solidarity with France's terror victims, the tail of AirAsia Flight 8501 was lifted from the sea, and the Silk Road returned in style. THE INTERNET ALWAYS FINDS A WAY 'Silk Road Reloaded' Just Launched On A Network More Secret Than Tor motherboard.vice.com A new anonymous online drug market has emerged, but instead of using the now infamous Tor network, it uses the little known "I2P" alternative. CALL HIM...JAMES MCGILL Finally, A Good Look At 'Better Call Saul' digg.com After a long wait, and a few teasers, we get a real trailer — and some real plot details — for AMC's highly anticipated "Breaking Bad" spinoff. Get more stories on Digg.com → THE PEN IS MIGHTIER A woman has taped her mouth displaying the word Freedom on the tape, as she gathers with several thousand people in solidarity with victims of two terrorist attacks in Paris, one at the office of weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo and another at a kosher market, front of the Brandenburg Gate near the French embassy in Berlin, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015. in Berlin, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015. Credit: AP Photo/Markus Schreiber Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

This Week's Best Videos: Brazilians Fish For Piranhas, Cutting A Steak Really Fast, And Beating Tetris With Invisible Blocks

How Brazilians Fish For Piranhas, Kids Learn Where Babies Come From For The First Time, Waiter Cuts A Steak With Astonishing Speed, Delivering Beer Has Never Been This Fun, Think Country Music Sounds The Same? You're Absolutely Right, Watch One Of The Fastest Tetris Players Beat A Round With Invisible Blocks The Daily Digg Sunday, January 11, 2015 CAREFULLY How Brazilians Fish For Piranhas digg.com Got some entrails laying around and a river full of piranhas? You're halfway there: fetch a bucket and a lot of courage. WELCOME TO ADULTHOOD Kids Learn Where Babies Come From For The First Time digg.com Nope, it's not quite like an igloo, but you're onto something there. MEAT YOUR MAKER Waiter Cuts A Steak With Astonishing Speed digg.com He even grabbed the juices. How thoughtful! WORK SMARTER, NOT HARDER Delivering Beer Has Never Been This Fun digg.com The beer train is running on time, and making stops at all mouths along the way. KEEP ON TRUCKIN' Think Country Music Sounds The Same? You're Absolutely Right digg.com It's easy to make fun of pop country music for only being about trucks, beer and ogling women. Unfortunately, it's also completely accurate, as this mashup proves. 'INSTANT GRAVITY' IS NOT A PHRASE WE LIKE HEARING Watch One Of The Fastest Tetris Players Beat A Round With Invisible Blocks digg.com The credits sequence of "Tetris: The Grand Master" is, in fact, Tetris. Just incredibly fast and with invisible blocks. Watch runner KevinDDR pull off the unthinkable. (We start the video a little early to show you just how good he is.) Get more stories on Digg.com → HOT MOVES Watch a breakdancer strap fireworks to his legs and bust a move. Credit: Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014