IBM's Made A Programming Language Like The One Your Brain Would Use
We're just beginning to build computers that function less along the lines of rigid trains of binary bits flashing along the rigid roadways of silicon chips and more like the soup of simultaneous...
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Stealing Listeners From Pandora? Rdio Has A Secret Weapon
It’s the summer of the Pandora killers. Google kicked things off in May with the launch of its All Access streaming service and Internet radio bolt-on. A month later, its chief competitor let out a...
View ArticleWhat Every Coder Community Can Learn From Python
Python is one of the most popular programming languages today, powering a ton of the technology we all use every day. It has a robust community and nonprofit foundation behind it, the Python Software...
View ArticleDo You Need An Idea To Start A Company?
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View ArticleTapping Mother Nature To Build Better Robotic Sensors
Today’s robots use basic infrared sensors to navigate around obstacles (think Roomba), but tomorrow’s contraptions will have far better sensory organs, inspired by the best examples in nature. Here’s a...
View ArticleWhy Your Next Judge (Probably) Won't Be A Robot
It's no secret that the justice system can be less than objective on occasion. From prejudice and bias to accidental error, part of being human means making mistakes. Daniel Kahneman's 2011 book...
View ArticleMusic Discovery UX Is Broken––Here's How To Fix It
Despite what you may have heard, the state of music discovery is still in shambles. Even with Spotify and Rdio's recent enhancements to their discovery features, they're still competing for a very...
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Looking For Customers? Be A Hunter, Not A Gatherer
You've come up with a great business idea, teamed up with trusted cofounders, registered your URL, thrown up your minimum viable product in WordPress, and emailed your link to a few VC friends to...
View ArticleShould Your App Run On iOS 7 Only?
It looks like iOS 7 is shaping up to be popular. With some pretty impressive new APIs and a complete design revamp, Apple is set to wow people––on both the user and developer fronts.While the changes...
View ArticleYour Genome Is Showing: Why You Should Care About Sharing Your Body Bits
Think of the last time you went to the doctor: Say, to have a routine blood test, or a mole removed. Do you ever wonder what happens to the extra stuff hacked off your body?Sometimes, the hospital...
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Abandonment Issues
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View Article3 Ways Hackers Will Invade Your Smart Home
You can probably trace the dream of the connected "smart" home back to when The Jetsons first aired in the 1960s. Ever since then most of us have wanted a house we could control with a few taps or even...
View ArticleGoodbye, Spotify: This Music Sales Company Wants Artists To Make Real Money...
Even the most well meaning startups focusing on music discovery often neglect a growing industry concern––paying artists. It's a pressure point that doesn't seem to have a good solution. That's where...
View ArticleWhat You Missed: August 13, 2013 Edition
Tech Hacks Won't Fix Our Surveillance ProblemsSome suggest the best way to combat government spying is with even more technology. Why buying a dozen dogs doesn't solve your cat problem.Google Fiber...
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UPS Bets Big On Retail 3–D Printing
Walking into the UPS store felt like any other time I'd needed to ship a package. All of the basic machines you'd expect to see in a shipping and printing store were there: Scales for weighing boxes,...
View ArticleWant To Recruit Better Developers? Give Them Broken Code
Hiring the right programmers and designers is crucial for any software business. Without a cohesive team, projects may never come together. But hiring a qualified developer can be such a long process...
View ArticleYou Could If You Wanted To . . .
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View ArticleWhat Fear–Based Business Models Teach Us About User Motivation
Most of the major breakout tech products of the last year, including Instagram, Tumblr, and Snapchat, have struggled to answer an important question: Can they be profitable? There's no question that...
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At Pandora, Every Listener Is A Test Subject
Sarah Young listens to Pandora constantly. From the moment the 27–year–old hairstylist wakes up in the morning, she's tuned into one of the service's infinite personalized radio stations. When she's...
View ArticleInside The School That Teaches Code Like Poetry
The School For Poetic Computation, which just opened in New York, is latest educational establishment to leap onto the "learn to code" bus that's being driven by the explosion in apps for mobile...
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