What You Can Get For $500 On An SMS Delivery Service
Wired gave Brent Rose $500 to stress-test Silicon Valley’s overnight sensation, Magic. Now he’s the proud owner of a bunch of random crap.

March 2, 2015 at 08:04PM
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If You Liked That Millennium Falcon Drone You’re In Luck
Because now there’s a TIE Interceptor drone out there. After all, Han Solo and Chewie need someone to run from.

March 2, 2015 at 04:49PM
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Google+ As We Knew It Is Dead, But Google Is Still a Social Network
It would be a mistake to call this a retreat, or an admission of failure. This is actually Google doing what Google does best: relentlessly optimizing its products based on data and feedback.

March 2, 2015 at 04:34PM
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Computing is too easy
We should be able to see under the hood a little. If we see our tablets and phones as mere polished slabs of glass and metal, performing veritable feats of magic, and have little clue what is happening beneath the surface or in the digital sinews, something is lost.

March 2, 2015 at 02:31PM
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Inside Google’s Ambitious Internet Balloon Project
Project Loon wants to put the Internet in weather balloons, and the first step was trying to prove it wouldn’t work.

March 2, 2015 at 02:31PM
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You Guys Realize The Apple Watch Is Going To Flop, Right?
Few analysts or writers will outright say it, but I will: the Apple Watch is going to flop. And I bet a lot of other people are thinking the same thing for many good reasons.

March 2, 2015 at 09:45AM
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Sculpt The Landscape Of Your Dreams On This Interactive Sand Table
Build and destroy mountains. Create deep lakes and hidden valleys. Recreate the beautiful fjords of Norway. You are a sand God.

March 2, 2015 at 09:14AM
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Google confirms plans to launch its own mobile service in the ‘coming months’
During his appearance at Mobile World Congress today, Sundar  Pichai acknowledged that Google is working with “existing partners” to create its own MVNO, but stopped short of confirming that Sprint and T-Mobile are those partnering networks, as has been rumored.

March 2, 2015 at 08:49AM
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The head of Google+ has reportedly quit his job
David Besbris became head of Google+ in April 2014. In October 2014, he proclaimed that Google was invested in its underwhelming social network “for the long haul.” Now, less than a year after he took the job, Besbris is reportedly out as Google+ lead.

March 2, 2015 at 08:49AM
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The young stars of bitcoin
I first met Vitalik Buterin last June at a party in San Francisco. By then, he was a bit of a celebrity. If you were into bitcoin, chances were you knew who he was. At just 19, he was already the master architect behind Ethereum, a project that was being lauded as the next evolution of the web.

March 2, 2015 at 08:49AM
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