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Can This Company Finally Get The Retail Fashion World Online?
Even as we buy more stuff online, clothing remains a holdout for brick-and-mortar retailers. Why? The fitting room."I'm not sure people would buy garments without trying them on in reality," says...
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A World Of Open Source Sex Toys, Built By Three Georgia Tech Students
The Stitchfest hackathon at UPenn didn't know what was coming when Andrew Quitmeyer and Firaz Peer built an Arduino-powered genital shocker for their DIY hacking contest. This was no stunt: Quitmeyer...
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A Leisurely Afternoon With The Hemingway App
When it comes to editing, few writers are evoked as much as Ernest Hemingway. The author's spare and economical style is often seen as the gold standard for prose. Now, the patron saint of clarity in...
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How Young Is Too Young To Learn About The Singularity?
Can people really live forever? A children's book author has joined the growing chorus of transhumanist voices insisting that we soon may. That's right kids, you too could be immortal.Gennady...
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A Brief Rundown Of The Spying Questions Intel's CEO Won't Answer
In a Reddit Ask Me Anything last Wednesday, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich opened the floor for questions, but notably ignored the most popular one in the thread: in light of recent NSA revelations, what...
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6 Ways To Scare Off Technical Women From Your Company
Are you trying to create more diverse software teams by hiring more women? Here are six things NOT to do during the recruiting and interviewing process.Open SourceDon't do this: Did you know that only...
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Video: The Four Types Of Gesture Control
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A Psychologist In Y Combinator, And His Controversial Mission To...
Getting everything online has become second nature for just about everything but medical treatment and clothes shopping. But Virginia Beach-based 7 Cups of Tea, founded by a clinical psychologist named...
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How GM Got Religion And Released An API
For much of the 20th century the automobile was American's sweetheart lifestyle product. In the last 10 years though, driving rates--especially among teens--have been on the decline. One of the main...
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An Up-To-Date Layman's Guide To Accessing The Deep Web
If you binge-watched the second season of House of Cards, along with a reported 15% of Netflix's 44 million subscribers, you may be newly interested in the Deep Web. Slate has done a good job of...
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How Medium Took Calculated Design Risks--And Won
It would have taken Dann Petty a lot to quit freelancing. And it did. When the 30-year-old designer got a direct Twitter message from Ev Williams, it was a foregone conclusion that Petty would go to...
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Los Angeles Is A Sleeping Software Titan That's About To Wake Up
Los Angeles will never be Silicon Valley. Too often when they're compared, L.A. gets the short end of the stick.As a native Angeleno I get upset when people bash my city's tech scene from thousands of...
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Android Cofounder Tells Us About The Precarious Art of Over-Reaching
Last year Android was installed on 78.6% of the smartphones shipped globally. Rich Miner cofounded Android with Andy Rubin in 2004, sold it to Google in 2005, and is now a partner at Google...
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Inside The Weird, Profitable Study Of "Social Physics"
MIT professor Alex "Sandy" Pentland studies how ideas flow through groups and the effect that flow has on productivity, something he calls "Social Physics."Social physics can predict the creativity and...
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This Cambridge Researcher Just Embarrassed Siri
Siri held lots of promise when Apple introduced it in iOS 6. However, in the two years since Siri's release, the virtual assistant has improved little--offering clever ways to do simple tasks via voice...
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How The Creator Of QuizUp Turned A String Of Foolish Moves Into A 10...
Thor Fridriksson watched his app fail and his young company Plain Vanilla go into bankruptcy in 2011. Instead of cursing his naiveté, he channeled it into a string of faith-leaps that has led to...
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Why Uber Driving Is For Introverts, And Other Ridesharing Tales
Five months doesn't sound like a long time to be driving for Lyft, but it's a lot longer than many of the drivers I talk to. I have driven my Toyota Camry for Lyft since October, but I'm a two-timer:...
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Video: How iBeacons Work
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America's Underground Karaoke Fever Is Powered By These Three Apps
Some people take karaoke very seriously. In sweaty venues across the country, singers are racking up points in team karaoke leagues, renting live backup bands, or hoping passerby producers sign them on...
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Even Post-Acquisition, Simple's CEO Still Isn't A Banker
It's been five years, and Josh Reich still won't call himself a banker. Back then, the CEO of Simple--the startup that's been called "banking 2.0" and praised for its design and customer-focused...
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