Pinterest’s seventh employee on being black in Silicon Valley
Justin Edmund, 24, is a designer responsible for the look and feel of key features on the site, which acts as a digital clipboard for users to share photos of hobbies and interests, say wedding cakes or vintage hats. Yet, as a young African-American man, he feels isolated, one of the few people who looks like him in the company where he works and in the Mission District neighborhood of San Francisco where he lives.

November 2, 2014 at 09:44PM
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Dressing Your Drone Up As A Ghost Is The Scariest Costume Ever
An enterprising drone owner decided to get his quadcopter into the Halloween spirit. We know it’s just a drone with a white sheet, but Drone Ghost will haunt our dreams for weeks to come.

November 2, 2014 at 07:07PM
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Germany’s Revolution in Small Batch, Artisanal Energy
The industrial engine of Europe is increasingly powered by backyard windmills and locally owned solar panels. And this complex, patchwork system just might be the future of sustainable energy.

November 2, 2014 at 06:31PM
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Meet wetware, your next tech obsession
A discreet alternative to the tech frenzy for wearables, explore the world of the “implantables” taking us that step closer to turning superhuman.

November 2, 2014 at 11:35AM
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A first look at the Microsoft Band
Microsoft’s first wearable is designed to tell you how unhealthy you are.

November 2, 2014 at 11:35AM
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Snoop Dogg, Investor
How the rapper claimed his spot amongst the famed celebrity VCs.

November 2, 2014 at 08:26AM
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Movie Industry Bans Google Glass And Other Tech From Cinemas
Movie fans will no longer be able to wear Google Glass and other wearable technology in U.S. cinemas.

November 1, 2014 at 11:06PM
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Artificial intelligence: machine v man
Computers will soon become more intelligent than us. Some of the best brains in Silicon Valley are now trying to work out what happens next.

November 1, 2014 at 02:02PM
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This Website Streams Camera Footage from Users Who Didn’t Change Their Password
Last week, I sat at my computer and watched a young man from Hong Kong relaxing on his laptop; an Israeli woman tidying the changing room in a clothes store; and an elderly woman in the UK watching TV.

November 1, 2014 at 08:09AM
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Internet traffic jams are widespread in the US, and are probably about to get a lot worse
It’s not just Netflix and Comcast that are to blame.

November 1, 2014 at 07:01AM
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