What Technology Is Most Likely To Become Obsolete During Your Lifetime?
Certain Boomer basements are little shrines to obsolescence, untidy stockrooms of the one-time cutting-edge. What worthless old technology will Millenials be inexplicably hoarding?

July 23, 2019 at 07:14AM
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How U.S. video game companies are building tools for China’s surveillance state
Although it’s Chinese policy driving the restrictions, data privacy advocates say that for Americans to participate in the creation of these tools represents the crossing of a concerning new threshold.

July 23, 2019 at 06:43AM
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Talking To The Guy Behind The Twitter Bot Making The Emoji You’ve Always Wanted
Louan Bengmah is 18 years old and has been coding for less than a year. His Emoji Mashup Bot got 80,000 followers in under two weeks.

July 23, 2019 at 06:43AM
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8K Projection-Mapping Turns A Wax Figurine Into Something Deeply Uncanny
New York’s Madame Tussauds recently revealed this new figurine, Grizabella from “Cats.”

July 22, 2019 at 04:47PM
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Apple Music’s Excel Graveyard: Where Your Favorite Songs Go To Die
I tried accessing my favorite songs on Apple Music. A week, two Zip files, and one spreadsheet later, I found them.

July 22, 2019 at 01:32PM
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Boosted Gave Me A Defective Scooter. It Broke My Finger
I’m aware of the rise in head injuries associated with electric scooters, but never imagined that simply carrying a scooter could result in bodily harm.

July 22, 2019 at 01:32PM
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Can Disney’s Circle really deliver a porn-free Internet?
Many companies and devices claim to do it, but Circle is the first one I’ve seen that does it even tolerably well.

July 22, 2019 at 11:35AM
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GarageBand Changed How My Autistic Son Interacts With The World
One afternoon, when my son was nine, I downloaded GarageBand to his iPhone to help with the boredom of a long wait at a doctor’s office. Instead of pacing or escalating into a meltdown, he spent the entire hour and a half practicing, learning, and composing.

July 21, 2019 at 07:52PM
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Elon Musk’s Ambitious Neuralink Project, Merging The Brain With Your Smartphone, Explained
Elon Musk’s Neuralink project brain machine interface has high ambitions.

July 21, 2019 at 05:05PM
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How To Fight A War In Space (And Get Away With It)
Satellites are so crucial that attacking them could be seen as an act of war. The bad news is, it may have already happened.

July 21, 2019 at 08:50AM
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