Preview: A closer look at OS X Yosemite, just in time for the public beta
The new public beta program for OS X Yosemite officially launches Thursday, taking software that has traditionally been protected from the public by a $99 paywall and distributing it to the first million users who sign up on Apple’s site.
July 23, 2014 at 10:05AM
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The Martyrdom of Weev
How prison turned a coke-snorting, Timothy McVeigh-worshipping troll into the face of Internet freedom.
July 23, 2014 at 9:06AM
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Review: Amazon’s Fire Phone offers new gimmicks, old platform growing pains
Amazon’s phone brings unique features like its Dynamic Perspective head tracking cameras and its Firefly scanning software, but can the phone get by on a couple of cool features if it has other problems?
July 23, 2014 at 9:06AM
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The Only Way To Hear What You Want
Listen up! If you take sound seriously, you want Grado headphones. Hand-made in Brooklyn and founded in 1953, they’re the choice of music lovers, sound professionals and several Digg employees (the smart ones).
July 23, 2014 at 7:57AM
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Yo-Yo Ma! Seinfeld Emoji Have Come to the iPhone
With hundreds of emoji supported on iPhone, Android, and the Web, it seemed like there was a smiley face, cartoon figure, or icon for almost any occasion imaginable. That is, until you wanted to call someone a Soup Nazi and had to actually type it out with boring old text.
July 23, 2014 at 7:57AM
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Amazon Quietly Launches Its Consumer-Facing Mobile Wallet App, Amazon Wallet
Amazon’s first attempt at its own mobile wallet application, designed for use at the point-of-sale, has made a quiet debut on the Amazon Appstore and on Google Play.
July 23, 2014 at 12:06AM
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I Paid $50 for a Tinder Coach and All I Got Was This Sense of Doom
I opened the Facebook chat with my Tinder coach expecting to walk away with a hilarious story. It’s a coach for Tinder; how could it be anything but? But one hour, $50, and five extensively researched photos later, I had only one thought: Holy shit, that was depressing.
July 22, 2014 at 10:02PM
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Coder livetweets sexist remarks allegedly made by IBM executives
July 22, 2014 at 10:02PM
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Wanted: Girls Who Code
An estimated 1.4 million jobs will open up in the computer-related fields in the next ten years. It’s time more girls got their shot.
July 22, 2014 at 8:19PM
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Tripping in the Rift: Is Virtual Reality the Next Drug?
My brain — convinced by an apparently gullible occipital lobe — interprets myself as being not here on the couch, but there, in this digital universe. Though my body may be perched at my friend’s pad on the south shore of Long Island, my consciousness is zipping through outer space like an astral projection, or that trippy scene — you know the one — from “2001: A Space Odyssey.”
July 22, 2014 at 7:15PM
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