Tesla, Google, Apple: is Silicon Valley the future of the US car?
The Big Three US automakers — General Motors, Ford and Chrysler — are taking the threat from the Detroit outsiders seriously.
February 23, 2015 at 06:22AM
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A Test Of Nevada’s Solar Tower Project Torched Over A Hundred Birds
In what’s turning into a public relations headache for the solar industry, news has emerged that a recent test of the 110-megawatt Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project in Nevada resulted in some 130 birds catching fire, when they flew into an area of highly concentrated solar energy.
February 23, 2015 at 02:42AM
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How the NSA’s Firmware Hacking Works and Why It’s So Unsettling
A new hacking tool, believed to be a product of the NSA, is significant because subverting the firmware gives the attackers God-like control of the system in a way that is stealthy and persistent even through software updates.
February 23, 2015 at 12:42AM
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Are We Headed for ‘Peak Code’? Not Likely
There’s a possible future in which programmers make themselves redundant by being too good at, well, programming. The best code by the best programmer doesn’t need to be rewritten, and so that task is eliminated from the marketplace — along with the programmer.
February 22, 2015 at 10:39PM
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Women are leaving the tech industry in droves
According to the industry group Code.org, computing jobs will more than double by 2020, to 1.4 million. If women continue to leave the field, an already dire shortage of qualified tech workers will grow worse.
February 22, 2015 at 05:34PM
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How the SF Giants Use Twitter, Facebook to Score with Fans
Bryan Srabian jokes that his smartphone belongs in the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame.
February 22, 2015 at 05:34PM
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Meet Ro-Bow, The Kinetic Sculpture That Plays The Violin
This kinetic sculpture, built by retired engineer Seth Goldstein, plays the violin, translating notes played on an electronic keyboard by Goldstein into notes played by the machine on the violin. It is, as you might imagine, really complicated.
February 22, 2015 at 02:39PM
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Email is still a problem that Google and others are happy to keep that way
Technology still hasn’t come up with a particularly good way of dealing with the deluge of email we all have to manage.
February 22, 2015 at 02:33PM
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Why millennials use Snapchat
We talked to two dozen Snapchat users between the ages of 18 and 26 to learn a little more about their Snapchat habits.
February 22, 2015 at 08:06AM
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America’s Damaging Obsession With Iran’s Centrifuges
And how it could result in Tehran getting the bomb.
February 21, 2015 at 10:12PM
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