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Flexible Batteries Will Bring Digital Clothing Sooner Than Later
You, my dear human, are essentially a bag of water held up against gravity by various wonders of physics, chemistry, and biology. Computers, on the other hand, tend to be square slab-like things with...
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Secrets From Your Smartphone's "Other" OS
With all the information access we give our smartphones, OS security exploits rightly get immediate attention (and nearly immediate patching). But there's a secondary OS running behind iOS, Android and...
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The Argument For Worker-Owned Tech Collectives
For all the tales of gilded startup parties and billion-dollar valuations, tech workers are often the most overworked, misunderstood and undervalued employees. Others struggle as freelancers or attempt...
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Just How Important Is Jony Ive To Apple?
Steve Jobs is largely credited with turning Apple around from a near-bankrupt company to the technology powerhouse of the 21st century. But could he have done it without his trusted designer Jony Ive?...
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A Brief Manifesto For Misfit Entrepreneurs
"Are you a real journalist?" asked the editor on the other end of the line. "Is this what you do?" It should have been a routine call in my role with the journalism nonprofit Student Reporter, but this...
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Seven Smart Watch Alternatives To Samsung's Galaxy Gear
In concept, a device providing a stream of notifications that doesn't demand the same attention as repeatedly pulling out your phone is a good one. The biggest question, however, is whether that device...
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Yes, Coders Can Be CEOs--If They Learn This One Skill
Despite some high-profile examples, coders are often not considered to have much talent for, or even interest in, the business side of software. But the CEO of a major data platform says technical...
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These Simple Interactive News Maps Give Your Stories A Sense Of Place
Interactive maps can draw people into complicated stories in an easy-to-understand way, making them great traffic-earners for media sites. But building those maps often involves working with arcane...
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This Sharing Service Puts Apple AirDrop To Shame
So you've got a pretty large file on your phone that you want to send to the person sitting next to you. You ask if they have Dropbox. Nope, she's a Google Drive gal. Okay, you say, I can work with...
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Is Google Autosuggest Really This Misogynist?
Remember search stories? With their first ad ever, aired during the 2010's Super Bowl XLIV, Google depicted a world where it has become a regular part of the human experience--simply through search....
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Everything Journalists Should Know About Scraping Data
If you've ever dug through endless web search results, you have scraped, albeit manually. Web data scraping is tech slang for getting your hands on useful but unstructured information.Computers can do...
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New Wolfram Language Brings The Power Of Mathematica To Any Device
Wolfram Research's flagship program Mathematica has run on full-power desktops at science and engineering labs for 25 years. Now it's possible to run Mathematica for free on a Raspberry Pi, the...
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Let's All Grab Our iPads And Move To Iceland
When the NSA's PRISM surveillance program made headlines worldwide, the general public suddenly became very interested in their digital privacy. Are digital havens the answer? Should we all move to...
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Can Architects And Engineers Work Without Models?
Three-D modeling revolutionized the engineering world, allowing designers to view digital mockups of their vehicles (wheeled, waterborne, or aerodynamic) from any angle instead of a handful of...
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Marketing iOS Apps Just Got A Lot Harder
Apple's App Store allowed its first ever video in an app listing with the release of a new game titled Clumsy Ninja. While this is a feature app developers have spent years clamoring for to show how...
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How The NBA's Big Data Strategy Will Change The Way You Watch Basketball
Overwhelmed by fluid, fast-paced play, basketball fans have long thirsted for more: more statistics, more video replays, more analysis, more information. Now the NBA has partnered with SAP and STATS...
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When A Million-Dollar Art Piece Won't "Run"
Though we're well into the 21st century, it's only been in the last few years that digital art has moved into the mainstream--things like David Hockney's iPad art exhibition, or the GIF which recently...
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This Former Apple Product Manager Wants To Fix Your Swing
With regulators cracking down on performance-enhancing supplements, athletes are turning increasingly toward "quantified self" devices to give themselves an edge over the competition.But most of these...
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How Hacker News Rankings Really Work
My first article for Co.Labs was about a 65-year-old Android engineer. It hit the number one spot on Y Combinator's wildly popular Hacker News, greatly increasing readership, but I never thought to...
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Homeland Security's Latest Nuclear Defense System Could Be All of Us
Location-based services are great for things like discounts at nearby restaurants, or a heads-up for traffic, or tracking a morning jog. But what if your phone could take action on your behalf in the...
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