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September 26, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Twitter Hoax Reveals What We Desire Most From Machines This week, Twitterers around the world received some devastating news: The Twitter account @Horse_ebooks, a cult favorite, was human after all. For years, @Horse_ebook's over 200,000 avid followers had been convinced its sometimes poetic, often nonsensical, frequently hilarious tweets had been the musings of a spambot created to elude Twitter's spam detectors and peddle books about horses. There was something captivating about an algorithm that seemed so gifted at capturing the conundrums of our age. ("Everything happens so much" read one post, retweeted 8,500 times.) On Tuesday, that fantasy came crashing down. The New Yorker's Susan Orlean revealed that two living, breathing homo sapiens had been composing the tweets as an art piece. Continue reading... This 'Water On Steroids' Is The Only Thing Between This Guy's Hand And A Blowtorch Bill Gates Admits That 'Control-Alt-Delete' Was A Mistake Vine Star Explains How He Amassed 2.8 Million Followers The 7 Biggest Gripes With iOS 7 Military's New Donkey Robot Is Amazingly Smart And Strangely Adorable How iOS 7 Is Making Some People Physically Sick How iOS 7 Is Making Some People Physically Sick The 7 Biggest Gripes With iOS 7 How iOS 7 Is Making Some People Physically Sick The 7 Biggest Gripes With iOS 7 Military's New Donkey Robot Is Amazingly Smart And Strangely Adorable JOHN PAVLEY Introducing HuffPost News on iOS7 iOS7 generally eliminates the arbitrary and confusing elements of the iOS user experience that have no business cluttering up a touch screen device. Continue reading... JOHN PAUL CAPONIGRO The Ins and Outs of Making Panoramas With Your iPhone Learning to see photographically is in part learning to see within the limits of this box and use them creatively. But there are times when this limits our vision unnecessarily. Continue reading... TIMOTHY KARR Verizon's Plan to Break the Internet Verizon wants to control your online experience and make the Internet more like cable TV, where your remote offers only the illusion of choice. Continue reading... ADAM LEVIN Politics Aside, Is Obamacare Secure? The politics of the Affordable Care Act are irrelevant. The issue for me is privacy and data security and whether you're for Obamacare or against it, there are two ways the program's rollout could put your personal information at risk. Continue reading... AARON SHAPIRO The Next Big Thing in Digital: Voice Recognition Are you prepared for how this will change your business and how your customers interact with you? Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003