McDonald’s Gourmet Burgers Are Out In Australia. Here’s What They’re Like
The thing to order them resembles those new subway planner things, except when you’re done instead of missing your train a stranger hands you a hamburger.
October 6, 2014 at 12:01PM
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Hewlett-Packard Plans to Break in Two
Hewlett-Packard plans to separate its personal-computer and printer businesses from its corporate hardware and services operations, the latest attempt by the technology company to improve its fortunes by breaking itself in two.
October 6, 2014 at 11:22AM
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This Pen Smells Like Hot Garbage, On Purpose
Thomas Leveritt’s friend Dan invented an appetite-suppressant. It’s a pen, and it smells so bad, you’ll never want to eat again.
October 6, 2014 at 10:49AM
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Facebook Wraps Up $19 Billion WhatsApp Deal That’s Now Worth $22 Billion
Facebook has closed its deal for messaging startup WhatsApp, after receiving the go-ahead from European Union regulators last week.
October 6, 2014 at 10:20AM
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Cartographies of Disaster
The Japanese earthquake changed our relationship to place, and post-disaster social media changed it again.
October 6, 2014 at 10:20AM
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Microsoft Invented A Sheet Of Plastic (And It’s Really Cool)
FlexSense is a thin-film, transparent sensing surface based on printed piezoelectric sensors, which can reconstruct complex deformations without the need for any external sensing, such as cameras.
October 6, 2014 at 08:38AM
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EXCLUSIVE: Hundreds Of Devices Hidden Inside New York City Phone Booths
Beacons can push you ads — and help track your every move.
October 6, 2014 at 08:17AM
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A Look at the Apple ‘Skankphone’
Apple had two teams working on the iPhone in complete isolation from one another. One on the real iOS platform with fake hardware and the other on the real hardware with fake software; AKA the “skankphone.”
October 6, 2014 at 08:17AM
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MIT Media Lab Gets All Public Tweets, $10 Million from Twitter
The new research project gets $10 million over five years, access to all public tweets, and “complete corpus of historical public Tweets.”
October 6, 2014 at 07:13AM
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Drones and Everything After
The flying, spying, killing machines that are turning humans into superheroes.
October 6, 2014 at 06:40AM
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