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Seeing others positively reveals our positive traits, seeing others negatively reveals our negative traits.

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Gearing up for Thanksgiving weekend and desperate for small talk topics that make you sound slightly smarter? We’ve got you covered:

1. Tricks for building a Wi-Fi network that covers your entire house Excellent Wi-Fi coverage in your home may be easier to achieve than you might think—if you’ve got the right router placed in a central position, a Wi-Fi extender if needed, and a little bit of patience. via: BGR

2. The dream life of driverless cars Thanks to 3D scanning, driverless cars can do more than take you from one place to another: They can also produce artistic renditions of their surrounding environments, peculiarities and all. Talk about an IoT dream journal. via: The New York Times

3. Lego’s new digital system and other “toys-to-life” will be huge this holiday season Toys won’t only be played within the realm of a child’s imagination, but in mobile apps that can take physical toys into virtual spaces. via: @quartz

4. The dictionary, emoji, and redefining the word ‘word’ What do rent money, fart jokes, and student loans have in common? They all solicit a reaction that’s encapsulated in Oxford Dictionaries’ Word of the Year: the Face with Tears of Joy emoji. via: @theverge

How NASA is protecting other planets from a very real threat: us

It's natural to worry about contamination from aliens, but who worries about sheltering them from us?

When Catharine Conley started her job at NASA, her predecessor gave her a pair of dark Ray Ban sunglasses. It’s only fitting — Conley is a real-life version of the famously shaded title characters in the 1997 movie Men in Black. Part of her job as planetary protection officer is to keep Earth safe from alien life. But, as far as we know, Earthlings are the ones regularly hopping around the solar system, so most of her job is to protect aliens from the human race.

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When your little sister discovers and sends you the classic science nerd posts

We normally post our tech news roundups on Fridays, but due to turkey, football, and lots of napping, we’re publishing it today instead. Enjoy!

1. The right drones for everyone this holiday season Love is in the air, and here’s a list of UAVs you can use to catch it. There’s never been a better reason to sit around while your relatives drone on and on. Really. With gifts like these the holidays will fly right by. via: Quartz

2. New tech can wirelessly charge your electronics with a standard Wi-Fi router There’s a good reason your Wi-Fi router is always shooting dirty looks at your laptop’s power cord. But rather than stoop to their level, routers everywhere are taking up the slack. Try to be sympathetic when your power cord finally winds up jobless. It’s bound to come as a shock.         via: BGR 3. The Pickle Index is a Delightfully Weird, App-Driven Novel Like No Other Immersive multimedia experiences are becoming more and more advanced every day, but there are plenty of people who still use monomedia to get their virtual realities. With The Pickle Index, techies and bookworms will finally have something to talk about if they’re both forced to interact with other humans. via: WIRED

4. Circuit Board Tattoos That Actually Work Will Make Your Cyborg Fantasies Come True Do yourself a favor and only get tattoos in languages that you understand. Otherwise you might end up with a bunch of spurious output, and it’s going to take forever to find that missing comma. via: Gizmodo

Prototype Robotic Lunar Lander, Testing at Marshall Space Flight Center

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Pale Blue Dot, taken by Voyager 1 in 1990 as it left the Solar System, 3.7 billion miles away.

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Red-Tailed Hawks Attack Drone in NYC Park

In an update to the category “wildlife reactions to drones,” two red-tailed hawks in Brooklyn, New York’s very large and wooded Prospect Park recently attacked an illegal drone. The incident was reported by a birdwatcher, according to the newspaper DNAInfo. Prospect Park and Central Park in New York are known for having resident hawks, and two of them were likely the ones involved.

Rob Bate, who has been president of the Brooklyn Bird Club for the last three years, saw pilots launch the drone in a large meadow (the Nethermead). Shortly afterward, hawks set upon the machinery. Bate noted that the birds were in a “stoop” position, which signals an attack mode; they had their wings folded.

“They were really upset,” as Bate was quoted by DNAInfo. “They see a drone in the air, they take it as a competitive predator, like another hawk that’s coming into their territory. And [the drone] doesn’t behave right and it doesn’t go away and they get more excited. And they were going after it.