A Day Care and a Dog Rescue Benefit: On Facebook, They Were Political Ads
Glitchy enforcement of a new Facebook political ad policy is creating headaches for small businesses, news publishers, and other advertisers.

June 22, 2018 at 02:24AM
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Young people still love Twitter — as screenshots on Instagram
Content from Twitter or Tumblr finds new, remixed life on Instagram.

June 21, 2018 at 08:08PM
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The real reason Apple and Google want you to use your phone less
Perhaps the tech giants have had a change of heart or have been persuaded by public pressure to change their ways? Hardly.

June 21, 2018 at 06:03PM
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Finally, a Problem That Only Quantum Computers Will Ever Be Able to Solve
Computer scientists have been searching for years for a type of problem that a quantum computer can solve but that any possible future classical computer cannot. Now they’ve found one.

June 21, 2018 at 03:58PM
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The Mission to Build the Ultimate Burger Bot
Alex Vardakostas has been on a decade-long quest to build a robot that can prepare the perfect cheeseburger. It could also put his family out of work.

June 21, 2018 at 03:58PM
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The Amphiphilic Liquid Coating That Keeps Your Avocados Fresh
A coating doubles the ripeness window of avocados. How? By supercharging the defenses that evolution crafted on its own.

June 21, 2018 at 09:02AM
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How Tech Companies Conquered America’s Cities
Elon Musk is drilling tunnels, electric scooters command the sidewalks, and Amazon is throwing its weight around in Seattle. Welcome to the technocapitalist metropolis of the future.

June 21, 2018 at 04:15AM
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Why The Government Sucks At Making Websites
One of the biggest reasons that these failures keep occurring could be because many public servants simply don’t understand technology and how it should be built for the government.

June 21, 2018 at 12:03AM
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Lock Picker Makes A Good Argument Against Buying A High Tech Fingerprint Padlock
Need to open up a fingerprint-secured lock that doesn’t belong to you? No need to lop off a finger, just get yourself a screwdriver.

June 20, 2018 at 05:16PM
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Inside Nintendo’s “perfect” method for detecting online Switch piracy
Cryptographic signatures offer much more robust protection than the 3DS.

June 20, 2018 at 03:40PM
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