Venmo Money, Venmo Problems
The mobile-payment service is trendy, easy to use, and growing fast. But is it safe?

February 26, 2015 at 01:21PM
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Why Everyone Was Wrong About Net Neutrality
It is a substantial achievement for the Obama Administration and the FCC chairman Tom Wheeler, and also for the many groups that fought hard for the outcome. But it also is a moment to reflect back on the process over the last year that led here, and figure out why what so many people thought they knew turned out to be wrong.

February 26, 2015 at 01:12PM
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This guy used an insane get-rich-quick scheme to become a start-up millionaire in three weeks
Tech start-ups mint new millionaires every day. Many of these people are young Stanford and MIT graduates who live in Silicon Valley and spend years building their companies while subsisting on ramen noodles and Red Bull. Typically, they’re not funeral industry workers from Central Pennsylvania who spend three weeks learning to game referral competitions.

February 26, 2015 at 01:12PM
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Turning Barcodes Into Dance Music
The “barcode acid project” uncovers the music hidden inside a jar of olives. Just don’t expect any of these jams to be on the radio any time soon.

February 26, 2015 at 12:38PM
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Hyperloop Construction Starts Next Year With the First Full-Scale Track
The track will only run five miles around central California, and it won’t come anywhere close to the 800 mph Musk promised, but it’s a start.

February 26, 2015 at 11:41AM
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Building An Affordable 3D-Printed Arm
Students at UCF are designing an inexpensive 3D printed arm for kids.

February 26, 2015 at 11:27AM
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Why staying private sucks, if you’re a tech company
While there are good reasons that growing tech companies like Uber prefer not to go public, there are also real downsides to staying private.

February 26, 2015 at 10:29AM
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First full body transplant is two years away, surgeon claims
Sergio Canavero, a doctor in Turin, Italy, has drawn up plans to graft a living person’s head on to a donor body and claims the procedures needed to carry out the operation are not far off.

February 26, 2015 at 09:25AM
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Dick Costolo Thinks It’s O.K. To Never Tweet
The CEO of Twitter talks with Farhad Manjoo about how the platform plans to handle harassment, and why improv comedy is good management training.

February 26, 2015 at 08:27AM
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How Small Bitcoin Miners Lose on the Crypto-Currency Boom-Bust Cycle
“Mining” is the engine that keeps the Bitcoin network working, but it has swelled into a resource-hungry, capital-intensive, centralized syndicate. Is the Internet’s native currency worth all the effort?

February 26, 2015 at 07:24AM
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