How Digital Music Missed Its Big Chance
Before MySpace, Napster, Spotify or Soundcloud, there was IUMA.

December 14, 2014 at 10:54AM
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Sports Are the Final Frontier For Nerd Hackers
What frontier is left to conquer once normcore dads are rocking VR headsets, while picking their kids up from school and talking to their watches? Sports, naturally, are the final frontier.

December 14, 2014 at 08:07AM
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Project Goliath: Inside Hollywood’s secret war against Google
SOPA was just the beginning.

December 14, 2014 at 06:54AM
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Moving Pictures
What’s really radical about the Eric Garner protests.

December 13, 2014 at 04:00PM
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How the Cash Register Evolved From Abacus to iPad
Invented in 1879 and patented in 1883 by saloonkeeper James Ritty, the seen-everywhere cash register — still called a “till” by Brits — started as an abacus or counting frame. Cash drawers came next, and when the technology was ready, the devices evolved into the mechanical contraption gracing every brick-and-mortar retail business.

December 13, 2014 at 02:50PM
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Operation Socialist
The inside story of how British spies hacked Belgium’s largest telco.

December 13, 2014 at 01:57PM
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An App Request – Medium
“What I, Casey Johnston, terrible and usually late person, need, is an app that tells me the longest possible time it will take to get from A to B.”

December 13, 2014 at 12:36PM
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Ed Sheeran ‘owes career to Spotify’
Ed Sheeran has bucked the trend for criticising Spotify, saying his popularity on the site enabled him to play three nights at Wembley Stadium.

December 13, 2014 at 12:36PM
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Original Apple-1 computer sells for $365,000 at auction
Besides the fact that it’s still fully operational, what’s perhaps most notable about the machine is that it’s the only known Apple-1 computer that is officially documented to have been personally sold by Jobs, according to Christie’s.

December 13, 2014 at 06:36AM
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The Messy Media Ethics Behind The Sony Hacks
The gray area where the leaked information resides — between public and private, prurient and illuminating — might not be the exception, but the new normal.

December 13, 2014 at 02:03AM
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