Panasonic Creates A Cool Sustainable City Near Tokyo
How to build a city that uses resources — water, fuel, electricity — efficiently presents a big challenge and opportunity for tech companies. Panasonic just inaugurated a town near Tokyo that is experimenting with sustainable designs, and it’s worth taking a look at what’s been done.
December 1, 2014 at 09:02AM
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Thoughts on Google+
Dear reader, I wouldn’t fault you if you’re wondering why I give a shit. It’s not like I work there anymore. So why do I care?
Simple: for the same reason that motivated me to join Google in 2010 — that the future of digital identity should not be determined by one company (namely, Facebook).
November 30, 2014 at 10:11PM
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Best Cyber Monday Deals In Tech
Most stores like Best Buy and Target aren’t announcing deals until Dec. 1, but Business Insider rounded up the best discounts they’ve come across so far.
November 30, 2014 at 10:11PM
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The Neurological Side-Effects of 3D
France is considering a ban on stereoscopic viewing equipment for children, due to, “the possible [negative] effect of 3D viewing on the developing visual system.” What’s so interesting about this for me is that we are already surrounded by immersive and complexly 3D spatial environments, often complicated by radically diverse and confusing focal lengths. We just call it architecture.
November 30, 2014 at 07:04PM
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This May Be The Worst Product Ever Made
If you like them, don’t put this ring on them.
November 30, 2014 at 04:58PM
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This Online Game Will Let You Buy Control Over Real Human Beings
The world of online interaction is getting weirder by the day. There’s now a crowdfunding campaign for a game that lets people “control the actions of a human avatar.”
November 30, 2014 at 04:17PM
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Microsoft Lumia phone with a huge camera bump appears in leaked photos
Microsoft appears to have been developing a new Lumia device with a camera bump that’s bigger or equal in size to the 41-megapixel Lumia 1020. Leaked photos from a Chinese auction site show a device identified only as “Nokia RM-1052” running Windows Phone 8.1 alongside 2GB of RAM and what appears to be a 5-inch 1080p display.
November 30, 2014 at 10:05AM
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Time cloak used to hide messages in laser light
A “time cloak” that conceals events rather than objects can hide secret messages through a trick of light, making information invisible to all but the intended recipient.
November 30, 2014 at 03:27AM
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Let’s Take A Deep Look At The Droid In The New ‘Star Wars’ Trailer
Look, there’s no point in trying to act all cool: we’re all pretty excited about the new “Star Wars” trailer. But I want to focus on just one bit of important hardware seen in the trailer — that fast little droid with the spherical body.
November 29, 2014 at 06:06PM
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Why I Left My iPhone 6 For an iPhone 5S
I needed an unlocked phone, so grabbed my poor, forgotten 5S out of a drawer and took it adventuring. Over the course of a couple days, I realized something: in every different way that matters to me, the iPhone 5S is a better phone.
November 29, 2014 at 12:23PM
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