Articles by Dice Staff

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  CleanSpace One: The First Orbital Vacuum Cleaner

  For some reason, this strikes me as being neat: A robot spacecraft, CleanSpace One, is being developed to suck in all of those satellite parts and other debris that are orbiting the earth, posing…
• Did You Know reCAPTCHA Makes You A Translator?

  You know those squiggly little word puzzles you have to solve to prove you're a flesh and blood sentient being on many sites? If the site was using reCAPTCHA, there's a good chance that you were…
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  Hiring Humor: Optimism Gone Nuts

  Applicants with a glass-half-full attitude are great. Unless, of course, they're half-full of futile hopes for a higher salary. Ever get the feeling that an applicant saw the salary in a job post…
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  Google+ Brings Instant Upload to iOS

  Google uploaded a new commercial for Google+ on Feb. 11, focusing on its 'Instant Upload' feature (it's pretty warm, watch it below if you haven't already). Three days later on Valentine's Day, G…
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  Apptopia Brokers the Sale of Mobile Apps

  Apptopia is a specialized marketplace created to connect developers with investors interested in getting into mobile. It's not a service to help developers better market their apps. Instead, it p…
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  Smartphones Could Be Used To Detect Depression

  Could a smartphone app function as a virtual therapist? A team of researchers at Northwestern University seems to think so. The team behind the Mobilyze app uses a number of algorithms to predict…
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  Reddit Bans Subreddits that Exploit Children

  Reddit has finally decided to shut down all subreddits that focus on sexualization of children, in an effort to eradicate child porn. In the past, reddit banned the /jailbait section, but soon af…
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  NASA Powers Down Its Last Mainframe

  Mainframe computers may have gotten us to the moon, but yesterday’s achievements only shine for so long. In a blog post sure to cause wistful feelings among both space nerds and big iron aficiona…
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  VEVO Streams NFL Game Illegally

  VEVO, a music video company started as a joint venture by Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, and Abu Dhabi Media, was caught red-handed for streaming an NFL game illegally on TVs in…
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  Microsoft Removes Start Button from Windows 8

  Microsoft appears to have removed the Start button from Windows 8, stirring a lot of controversy. When the Windows 8 beta first launched, the Start button had been integrated. But on the latest W…