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'Robocop-style' glasses with facial recognition cameras will be deployed at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, making the games "one of the most protected sports events in history."

The good news is that the asteroid, which was discovered 15 years ago, will get "no closer than about 3.6 million miles (5.8 million kilometers), or about 15 times the distance between Earth and the moon," according to NASA.

David Foster Wallace's classic 2005 commencement speech at Kenyon College was not well known until after his death. In the video below, this great piece of life advice is given visual accompaniment courtesy of The Glossary. 

CERN and TED-Ed have collaborated on a great animation that explains the basics of the Higgs boson. 

"Look out Facebook!" Tweeted Rupert Murdoch on the occasion of Facebook's one-year anniversary of its botched IPO. 

Researchers believe this cave painting may turn out to be over 40,000 years old, old enough to outdate modern humans. 

Drones aren't just the instruments of a tyrannical government that wants to kill its own citizens. Drones have an artistic side too.

When you think of a prosthetic limb, the first thing that comes to mind is not beauty. After all, these are products that are made by engineers, not designers. 

In conjunction with the U.S. Geological Survey, NASA and TIME, Google released millions of satellite images that cover a quarter century.

Last month President Obama launched the BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) Initiative to enable scientists to create a dynamic picture of brain function. 

How can physicists tackle the problem of achieving faster-than-light travel? 

Extremely lightweight materials allow developers to program a robot to do almost anything a real bird can do, from dives to back flips. 

The image above maps the location of more than 150,000 geocoded tweets that contained words deemed to be racist, homophobic or that targeted people with disabilities.

The Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield just ended his command of the International Space Station, but not before the media-savvy commander issued a fitting sign-off: the first music video from space.

This image depicts the annual "ring of fire" eclipse crossing Queensland's Cape York in northern Australia.   

High school student Jeff Bliss offers to give his teacher a lesson in the video below. The teacher tells Bliss he is wasting her time and he needs to leave the classroom.

The Bosco Verticale by Stefan Boeri Architects will have the same ecological impact as 10,000 square meters of forest.

Not humans, but computers, are endlessly trading parts of companies, and even generating hundreds of thousands of fake orders to fool other computers so that high frequency traders can take advantage of the confusion.