Coachella Is A Hellscape Where Everyone Is On Their Phones
The popular Southern California music festival for Millennials and Gen Z sounds fun in theory. In practice, however, it sure does look like a boring outdoor party where everyone just scrolls through Instagram.

May 1, 2018 at 11:52AM
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The Most-Cited Authors on Wikipedia Had No Idea
How a climate study by three Australians came to dominate Wikipedia.

May 1, 2018 at 08:58AM
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What Designers Can Learn From Apple’s Original Masterpiece
The early Mac OS makes our current phones and laptops look like the slot machines they are.

May 1, 2018 at 07:55AM
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Suki raises $20M to create a voice assistant for doctors
When trying to figure out what to do after an extensive career at Google, Motorola and Flipkart, Punit Soni decided to spend a lot of time sitting in doctors’ offices to figure out what to do next.

May 1, 2018 at 07:55AM
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How the Supreme Court Could Rewrite the Rules for DNA Searches
The arrest of the alleged Golden State Killer and a case currently before the court both raise questions about Fourth Amendment rights in the digital age.

May 1, 2018 at 03:06AM
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Blockchain Will Be Theirs, Russian Spy Boasted at Conference
Some think the technology that was introduced with Bitcoin has enormous potential. That has a number of countries looking to influence its future.

April 30, 2018 at 08:48PM
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Amazon Fulfillment Center in Virginia Catches Fire, Cause Unknown
No injuries have been reported and the cause of the incident remains unknown. Whether significant damage was done to equipment or inventory is also not clear at this time.

April 30, 2018 at 06:39PM
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WhatsApp founder plans to leave after broad clashes with parent Facebook
The billionaire chief executive of WhatsApp, Jan Koum, is planning to leave the company after clashing with its parent, Facebook, over the popular messaging service’s strategy and Facebook’s attempts to use its personal data and weaken its encryption, according to people familiar with internal discussions.

April 30, 2018 at 04:47PM
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The Digital Vigilantes Who Hack Back
American companies that fall victim to data breaches want to retaliate against the culprits. But can they do so without breaking the law?

April 30, 2018 at 04:16PM
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Why Snoozing Emails Is a Terrible Idea and What You Should Do Instead
At first, snoozing emails seems like a magic fix for powering through your inbox in record time, but that’s because you’re not actually doing anything much at all — you’re deferring the responsibility of dealing with emails to a later time, for your future self to sort out.

April 30, 2018 at 03:16PM
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