Google’s Intelligence Designer
The man behind a startup acquired by Google for $628 million plans to build a revolutionary new artificial intelligence.

December 3, 2014 at 08:40PM
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AOL’s Tim Armstrong Says Shingy Is One Of The Company’s Best Assets
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong was interviewed on-stage today at Business Insider’s Ignition conference, and sure, he touched on the ongoing speculation about a merger with Yahoo, as well as the company’s broader strategy. But towards the end of the interview he answered the question that’s on everyone’s mind: What’s the deal with Shingy?

December 3, 2014 at 08:41PM
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Aliens in the valley: The complete and chaotic history of Reddit
Traffic was never the problem. Everything else was.

December 3, 2014 at 04:16PM
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The Utopian UI Architect
An ex-Apple interface designer’s 40-year plan to redesign not just the way we use computers, but the way we think with them.

December 3, 2014 at 02:27PM
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Don’t try this: meet the high schooler who made $300K trading penny stocks under his desk
It was just a few weeks into the new school year when Connor Bruggemann decided to play sick. He holed up in his bedroom, shut the door and opened his laptop.

December 3, 2014 at 12:35PM
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Gangnam Style broke YouTube’s view counter
YouTube has announced this week that it’s upgrading its view counter after the K-Pop video surpassed its old 32-bit limit, which was set on the assumption that nothing would be so pervasive as to be watched more than 2.1 billion times.

December 3, 2014 at 09:26AM
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Hunting Task Wabbits
Everybody’s crazy mad with TaskRabbit — but the startup that launched the sharing economy really doesn’t want to talk about its troubles.

December 3, 2014 at 09:26AM
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Google is killing CAPTCHA as we know it
The current CAPTCHA system — where a website requires you to type in nonsense words to prove you aren’t a robot — is broken. But no worries, Google has a solution.

December 3, 2014 at 08:27AM
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Winning the Breakup in the Age of Instagram
I’ve come to think millennial romances are defined not by their casual beginnings but their disastrous ends. We aren’t the hookup generation; we’re the breakup generation.

December 3, 2014 at 08:27AM
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Gym Clothes That Don’t Stink, Thanks to Shrimp Shells
Strongbody, a startup in Vancouver, says its new line of active wear solves the exercise-stench equation — courtesy of a substance derived from shrimp and crab shells.

December 3, 2014 at 07:22AM
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