How Sputnik Launched An Era Of Technological Fragility
Sixty years after the historic achievement, a world without satellites seems difficult to imagine.

October 6, 2017 at 12:15PM
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This New App Gives The Working Poor An Easy Way To Seamlessly Start Saving
For minimum wage workers, a small emergency can mean financial disaster. A new app called Onward makes it easy for them to automatically set aside a few dollars each week to start an emergency fund.

October 5, 2017 at 10:06PM
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Rupert Murdoch Is The Media’s Unlikely Hero In The War Against Facebook And Google
Murdoch’s bare-knuckle tacts are familiar to his many media enemies. Now his sights are set on Silicon Valley, and fellow media executives are starting to think the billionaire villain behind Fox News isn’t so bad.

October 5, 2017 at 09:03PM
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Can Anyone Beat Jeff Bezos?
Amazon, Apple, Alphabet and Facebook have remade the economy in their image. So what happens if they turn on each other?

October 5, 2017 at 04:37PM
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This Forgotten Nintendo 64 Game Is One Part Photoshop, One Part ‘Mario Paint’
An obsolete memory card from the 90s made Mario’s foray into photoshopping inaccessible until now.

October 5, 2017 at 02:45PM
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The Pixel’s missing headphone jack proves Apple was right
We might not like it, but Apple’s prediction that we could live without headphone jacks is proving correct

October 5, 2017 at 01:45PM
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The iPhone owns my soul
If you’ve never tried to break up with an iPhone before, I’ll tell you this much: It’s not easy.

October 5, 2017 at 10:12AM
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What Would Happen If You Microwaved A Microwave?
Is it the dividing-by-zero catastrophe everyone hopes it is, or is it nothing more than just putting a metal box inside of a smaller metal box?

October 5, 2017 at 06:47AM
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What The Early, Hands-On Reviews Say About Google’s New Pixelbook
Is this the start of a new era of premium Chromebooks, or does the Pixelbook lack the versatility to justify its steep cost?

October 4, 2017 at 06:36PM
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What The First Hands-On Reviews Say About The New Google Pixel Phones
Tech bloggers got a chance to play around with the Pixel 2 and 2 XL after today’s Google event — here are their initial thoughts.

October 4, 2017 at 05:21PM
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