The Joy of Typing
How racing along at 60 words a minute can unlock your mind.

June 21, 2014 at 8:01AM
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The Man Who Gave “Yo” $200,000
This week, a group of otherwise mentally sound adults agreed to go f*cking insane all at once. The object of their manic episode was Yo, an app that sends the word “Yo” to other people with the app installed. It’s garnered over a million real dollars from investors. I talked to the one in charge.

June 21, 2014 at 5:33AM
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I met an emotional robot and felt nothing
SoftBank’s ambitious android, Pepper, announced earlier in the month, is touted as the world’s first robot that can understand emotions. And it’s not just a lab experiment — it’s on display in two of the Japanese carrier’s stores right now, and will go on sale to the general public in February for under $2,000.

June 21, 2014 at 1:00AM
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A short history of virtual reality panic
Virtual reality dystopianism and backlash have been in the cards for as long as the public has known about VR, and if anything, our extreme predictions have gotten a little less cool.

June 20, 2014 at 5:26PM
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When drones fall from the sky
More than 400 large U.S. military drones have crashed in major accidents around the world since 2001, a record of calamity that exposes the potential dangers of throwing open American skies to drone traffic, according to a year-long Washington Post investigation.

June 20, 2014 at 2:24PM
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FOR THE LOVE OF CONTENT MANAGEMENT I AM GOING TO LEARN ABOUT KINJA which apparently has headline limits in length no actually it just has a counter regarding headline length and it’s unclear exactly how long headlines can be and if they can be really long or not, but one thing is clear and that is that headlines can’t have italics anyway this headline is 484 characters and I don’t know why it’s telling me the character count in red maybe if I put my mouse over the red thing nope.
FOR THE LOVE OF CONTENT MANAGEMENT I AM GOING TO LEARN ABOUT KINJA which apparently has headline limits in length no actually it just has a counter regarding headline length and it’s unclear exactly how long headlines can be and if they can be really long or not, but one thing is clear and that is that headlines can’t have italics anyway this headline is 484 characters and I don’t know why it’s telling me the character count in red maybe if I put my mouse over the red thing nope.

June 20, 2014 at 1:05PM
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Why the New Amazon Fire Phone is Cooler than Everyone Else is Saying it is
Now that we’ve had 24 hours to let the critical fire, ahem, die down, it just might actually be a pretty cool phone with some standout features. Here’s why it could be a winner (followed by a few obvious bummers).

June 20, 2014 at 7:37AM
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Yo App Hacked By College Students
A Georgia Tech student, together with two of his room mates, claims to have hacked Yo, thePoke-like app which has set some Silicon Valley alight (though not others) in the last 48 hours.

June 20, 2014 at 7:37AM
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Inside the Secretive R&D Lab Behind the Amazon Phone
On Wednesday, Amazon released a smartphone. It’s a huge bet for the online retailer and, in the moment, a nice vindication for the product managers and hardware hackers at Lab126, Amazon’s secretive Silicon Valley hardware division.

June 19, 2014 at 7:58PM
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Is Walking Overrated?
Here’s a different perspective on the excessive hype around developing exoskeletons that help people — who would otherwise use a wheelchair for life — walk again.

June 19, 2014 at 2:54PM
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