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A Beer Brand That Evokes The Theater
Theatrical isn't a word you'd normally use to describe a beer. It is, however, a word that Duncan Barton relates strongly to. A former actor who left entertainment to brew his own beer, Barton...
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Data isn't sexy, and getting you to think it is takes a lot of work. Infographics--what we call data that's gone to a graphic designer to get all gussied up for prom night--require a level of expertise...
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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...
View ArticleIs Google Autosuggest Really This Misogynistic?
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....
View ArticleLet'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...
View ArticleHomeland 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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How Did "Drone" Become Such A Dirty Word?
In 2013, the word "drone" has referred to a number of gadgets: on one end of the drone spectrum, there's a $300 consumer quadcopter that you can buy at a Toys R' Us that is a "drone". On the other, you...
View Article"Printing" Metal Objects Is Now Possible With This DIY 3-D Printer
In the 3-D-printed future, we will buy less and make more. Everything from food to human organs, we're told, can be manufactured this way. But the 3-D printers available now only print with plastic...
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Saturn's North Pole Has "Hexagonal" Storms That Look Like This
Unlike anything else in the solar system, Saturn's north pole is home to a six-sided jet stream in its atmosphere known to scientists simply as "the hexagon." First spotted by the Voyager mission in...
View ArticleWhy Upworthy's Signature Headlines Are Only Half The Story
A year and a half after its launch, it seems as though Upworthy is legitimately onto something. On a superficial level, the reason seems obvious: The company's distinct headline style, which is both...
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How Much Of Facebook's Footprint Is Thanks To Parse?
Today at the LeWeb developer conference in Paris, Facebook released a heat map of developers working on Facebook apps all over Earth. While the map shows the social network's significant adoption among...
View ArticleWant To Get More Retweets? Try Doing This (And This, And This)
A new report from TrackMaven analyzing 1,423 Twitter accounts and well over a million tweets was released today, showing exactly what makes a successful tweet--that is, a tweet that is re-posted by a...
View ArticleHow To Share Files, Snapchat-Style
On Wednesday, a company called Younity released the beta version of something called Ephemeral File Sharing--think Snapchat for files. Users can share files with a self-destruct timer to a list of...
View ArticleMind-Controlled Computing Goes Open Source
Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) are the systems that allow for direct communication between the brain and an external device. Existing BCI models are being worked on every day, but it's all being done...
View ArticleHow Many Hours Per Week Should Freelancers Make Themselves Work?
The traditional workday is not kind to those who do creative work, and it doesn't seem to be getting better. If you work in a field that falls under the wide umbrella of "knowledge work"--anything from...
View ArticleWhat Does Artificial Intelligence Really Mean, Anyway?
The great promise--and great fear--of Artificial Intelligence has always been that some day, computers would be able to mimic the way our brains work. However, after years of progress, AI isn't just a...
View Article2014: Probably The End Of The Facebook Era
Facebook is losing its edge. The biggest name in social media has gone from scrappy upstart to tech establishment, and at this point, some sort of decline is inevitable. What's most surprising, though,...
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LG Made A Google Chrome-based Desktop, But Who Wants It?
Technically speaking, LG's Chromebase isn't very impressive. With a lower-end Intel Celeron processor, only 2GB of RAM and a spare 16GB of flash storage, the forthcoming all-in-one desktop would barely...
View ArticleHow Effective are Paid Hacking Contests?
Telegram, a two-month-old messaging app for iOS and Android, promises heavily encrypted, self-destructing messages and an open data protocol--and it's putting up some cash to prove its mettle.To win,...
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How Facebook Spent The Year 2013
It's a tradition to spend some time at the end of a calendar year and reflect a bit on what happened in the last 12 months. And indeed Facebook did just that with a year-end blog post about how people...
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