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Robots Are Coming to Take Your McJobs

As food and labor costs rise in the restaurant industry, some businesses are looking for technological solutions to the annoying problem of expensive humans.

A $15-per-hour minimum wage might not lead to armies of content, sufficiently compensated fast food workers. It may instead lead to fewer employees, as bottom-line-obsessed companies move more quickly to replace “expensive” labor with tireless robots. And rising labor costs aren’t the only things getting more expensive for restaurants—wholesale food and real estate prices are also shooting up, says the Washington Post.

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Surrender Your Eyeballs And Embrace The Madness Of EA Sports’ “Madden: The Movie”

This makes The Expendables look likeThe English Patient.

This time last year, Kevin Hart and Dave Franco illustrated the full power of their gaming rivalry to launch EA Sports’ Madden 15 with a wacky musical number that included flagrant vehicular vandalism, a bit of physical violence, some light stalking, and an epic party that ended with Franco’s house on fire. Now, after a couple of 15-second teasers for Madden 16, the brand turns the batsh*t crazy up to 11 with an action movie trailer that makes The Expendables look like The English Patient.

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Graava Is A Smart Action Cam For Adrenaline Junkies Who Don’t Want to Edit Footage

Who has time to record and review?

Think of how your brain makes memories. You can recall certain moments with crystal clarity: when your child was born, when you first sampled VR, that epic burrito you had at Chipotle. And other moments—like your commute—are so mundane that you forget them instantly. Graava, a new wearable camera, wants to change the way we record our memories by highlighting only the best ones.

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The New Chip-Equipped Credit Cards: Safer, And (For Now) More Confusing

Credit-card issuers are racing to get new cards with embedded chips into customers’ hands. But merchants aren’t ready for the shift.

If you live in the U.S. and have a credit card, you’ve almost certainly received a replacement card out of the blue in the last three months, often paired with an elaborate explanatory booklet. Your new card, the booklet explains, features a special chip that will protect your transactions more effectively, reduce fraud, and make your life better. The first two parts of that statement, at least, are true.

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