Why one photographer decided to fight a patent on online contests
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) lawyer Daniel Nazer’s Sisyphean task is right in his job title: he’s the Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents.
February 21, 2015 at 08:12PM
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Spacewalk 1 of 3 completed by NASA astronauts
Spacewalking astronauts routed cables outside the International Space Station on Saturday, a tricky and tiring job that needs to be completed before new American-made crew capsules can dock.
February 21, 2015 at 03:33PM
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Jerry Lawson, a self-taught engineer, gave us video game cartridges
As the head of engineering and marketing for Fairchild Semiconductor’s gaming outfit in the mid-’70s, Lawson developed the first home gaming console that utilized interchangeable cartridges, the Fairchild Channel F.
February 21, 2015 at 11:00AM
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Revealed: The experts Apple hired to build an electric car
In the last few weeks we’ve heard about a poaching war between Apple and Tesla, a couple hires by Apple from the auto industry, and a whole lot of speculation followed by reports that Apple has a team of hundreds working on an electric vehicle. But who exactly is working on the project at Apple?
February 21, 2015 at 07:15AM
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The Last of the Typewriter Men
A dynasty of repairmen is keeping the world’s typewriters from going obsolete.
February 20, 2015 at 04:08PM
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How an Inventor Lost Almost Everything in His Hunt for the Perfect Weapon
At the turn of the millennium, an amateur gunsmith living in Australia claimed to have achieved the impossible.
February 20, 2015 at 12:34PM
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It’s Already Over And Uber Has Won
The company has vanquished competitors, incumbents, regulators, and critics. All that is left is to see how far it can go.
February 20, 2015 at 11:15AM
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If You’re Over 30 And Single, You Should Be Using Tinder
So much of the discussion around Tinder centers on people in their twenties. But it’s actually the best way for people in their thirties and older who are looking for relationships.
February 20, 2015 at 10:16AM
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Magic Leap’s $542M Bet On Virtual Reality
Logically, I know there isn’t a hulking four-armed, twisty-horned blue monster clomping in circles in front of me, but it sure as hell looks like it.
February 20, 2015 at 07:23AM
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Surprise! America Already Has a Manhattan Project for Developing Cyber Attacks
America already has a computer security Manhattan Project. We’ve had it since at least 2001. Like the original, it has been highly classified, spawned huge technological advances in secret, and drawn some of the best minds in the country. We didn’t recognize it before because the project is not aimed at defense, as advocates hoped. Instead, like the original, America’s cyber Manhattan Project is purely offensive.
February 20, 2015 at 05:03AM
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