Airbnb Accused of Illegally Lobbying For Favorable Legislation
Airbnb is proving itself to the quite the political operator. In an ethics complaint filed today in San Francisco, Airbnb has been accused using off-the-books lobbyists to help push legislation that legalized the startup.
October 21, 2014 at 02:52PM
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Where Would Instagram Be Without Filters? Lost in the Uncanny Valley.
Why special effects are better than “reality.”
October 21, 2014 at 01:52PM
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Rain in Exactly 12 Minutes
Weather apps and the illusion of control in your pocket.
October 21, 2014 at 01:18PM
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Can You Uber A Burger?
Inspired by how we pay for concerts, airline tickets and, more recently, transportation through the car-hailing service Uber, more and more apps and reservation systems have homed in on disrupting a fundamental ritual: how we book a table.
October 21, 2014 at 01:18PM
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Rewind: This Raspberry Pi cassette player plays Spotify tunes on actual tapes
A British maker has built Pi-powered tapes that recreate our physical connection to music for the digital age.
October 21, 2014 at 12:01PM
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The Transhumanist Future of Sex
The Internet is rife with chatter about the transhumanist age we are entering, where radical science and technology are already changing the way we live. The new tech coming in just a few years will touch nearly every aspect of our lives, including one of the most personal ones: sex.
October 21, 2014 at 08:57AM
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Hoverboard? Still in the Future
A lot of things can hover. There are helicopters. There are hovercraft. But for the last three decades, a generation of engineers and movie fans have been waiting for something else: a hovering skateboard like the one in “Back to the Future Part II.”
October 21, 2014 at 07:49AM
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Deep Dive: The Life and Times of Ocean Rovers
Now every oil company worth its salt has an ROV, but once they were on the cutting edge of gathering lost nuclear warheads from the sea floor.
October 21, 2014 at 12:39AM
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The real cyborgs
Forget wearable tech. The pioneers of our “post-human” future are implanting technology in to their bodies and brains. Should we stop them or join them?
October 20, 2014 at 10:57PM
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Why iOS updates look small in size but require more than 10x storage capacity
Why is iOS update 75MB but requires 1.5GB to install?
October 20, 2014 at 09:45PM
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