Ubering While Black
Is Uber a panacea for discriminatory cab drivers?

October 24, 2014 at 08:41AM
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Jeff Bezos Makes the Trains Run on Time
An argument against Amazon’s quest for cold, brutal efficiency.

October 24, 2014 at 12:09AM
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Classic Macs turned into modern furniture
Klaus Geiger makes Apple computers with a different kind of storage.

October 23, 2014 at 07:09PM
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The Man Who Invented the Republican Internet
Vincent Harris presents as a well-heeled Austin hipster, and some of the things that come out of his mouth — he can’t stand Fox News, for instance — make him seem almost… Democratic. Now Harris is involved in the seemingly oxymoronic activity of coolifying Mitch McConnell. Along the way, he’s issued some very public critiques of the way the rest of the GOP relates to tech, and to millennials.

October 23, 2014 at 04:51PM
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Lumosity’s Brain Games Are Bullshit
Recently, a coalition of nearly 70 researchers spoke against Lumosity, signing a letter of consensus posted by the Stanford Longevity Center that lambasted the brain training community for promising a kind of mind power boost that just isn’t provable.

October 23, 2014 at 03:45PM
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How To Save Your Smartphone’s Battery Life
This interactive guide shows you how to make the most of your phone’s ​battery life. Just choose the make and model of your phone from the drop-down menu and learn how to stay juiced.

October 23, 2014 at 03:07PM
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Ad-free ‘anti-Facebook’ Ello raises $5.5 million
After raising the money, the company plans on adopting a legally binding charter that would forbid it from “using ads or selling user data to make money.”

October 23, 2014 at 01:34PM
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Facebook’s Rooms App Is a Flashback to Internet Bulletin Boards
Rooms is a publishing tool that allows users to create discussion boards on any topic they want, then invite others to join either through private invitations or by posting a public link.

October 23, 2014 at 01:34PM
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Uber brings on-demand flu shots to Boston, NYC and DC for a day
If there’s one thing on-demand car startup Uber likes more than ferrying people around, it’s trying to grab people’s attention with kooky promo stunts.

October 23, 2014 at 01:34PM
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Learn Web Design, Web Development, and More
If you had learned to code in school, you could have made that awesome app by now. Thankfully, Treehouse teaches you everything you need to know without boring you to tears.

October 23, 2014 at 08:06AM
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