Why I’m Quitting Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, and Apple for a Month
Five companies in Silicon Valley are worth a combined $3 trillion. Most of us use at least one of their services everyday and it has become impossible to imagine life without them.

April 24, 2018 at 04:13PM
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MISSED X-PECTATIONS Nobody wants the iPhone X Written by Dave Gershgorn 1 min ago
Usually we all run out to buy the latest and greatest phone, just in time to show it off to our technophobic relatives during the holiday season. But analysts say that tide is shifting: Dramatically fewer people are buying the latest iPhones.

April 24, 2018 at 04:13PM
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This Chinese City Is Quietly Overtaking Silicon Valley In The Race To Develop Self-Driving Cars
Move over, California tech bros. Guangzhou, China is taking the wheel.

April 24, 2018 at 03:05PM
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Guy Builds Robot To Automatically Squirt Energy Drink At Him When He Gets Tired
The robot detects when your eyes close and then wakes you up in the least enjoyable way imaginable.

April 24, 2018 at 11:05AM
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Uber Plans to Stop Giving Drivers a Log of Your Exact Pickup and Drop-Off Locations
Currently, drivers have access to the addresses entered for every ride they’ve ever given.

April 24, 2018 at 08:58AM
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‘Doom’ Played At The Lowest Settings Possible Brings Us Back To A Simpler Time
For those who happened to play any multiplayer shooter on PC from the ’90s to the early ’00s, this is going to look very familiar.

April 24, 2018 at 07:50AM
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This Start-Up Says It Wants to Fight Poverty. A Food Stamp Giant Is Blocking It.
Propel, a startup, was begun to bring convenience and new services to food stamp recipients. A big government contractor is getting in the way.

April 24, 2018 at 06:47AM
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Hacking Vending Machines Is Basically Impossible. So Why Is the Internet Still Full of “Codes” Promising Free Snacks?
Hacking vending machines is basically impossible. So why is the internet still full of “codes” promising free snacks?

April 24, 2018 at 06:47AM
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Google is bleeding cash trying to take on Amazon in the smart home
One interesting highlight from Google’s parent company’s earnings announcement was just how much money Alphabet’s smart home company Nest earns in revenue and reports in losses.

April 23, 2018 at 09:03PM
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Glitch Capitalism: How Cheating AIs Explain Our Glitchy Society
We’ve left it up to the machines. And now they’re turning us into paper clips.

April 23, 2018 at 08:02PM
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