Read This Very Short Story About Pirate Librarians
“In the fourth month a border patrol boat shot at them when they tried to pull in to the national harbor. So, no more storytimes.”

August 11, 2017 at 02:17PM
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SoundCloud stays afloat with emergency investment, as CEO steps aside
CEO Alex Ljung will be replaced with Vimeo’s former CEO.

August 11, 2017 at 12:34PM
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Why Everyone Is Hating on IBM Watson—Including the People Who Helped Make It
Is Watson a joke or a savior for IBM? And why is everyone being so tough on Big Blue and its golden child?

August 11, 2017 at 11:02AM
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What ‘Minecraft’ Would Look Like If It Was Made In 1998
“Minecraft” is already a game entirely made of blocks. But what if it was… blockier?

August 11, 2017 at 10:19AM
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Why we secretly love our cords
Becoming wireless is the end of a tangled relationship.

August 10, 2017 at 07:44PM
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The New Copycats: How Facebook Squashes Competition From Startups
Tiny Houseparty had a promising video-chat app. Then the social-media giant noticed and started developing one of its own.

August 10, 2017 at 05:34PM
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We Trained A Computer To Search For Hidden Spy Planes. This Is What It Found.
From planes tracking drug traffickers to those testing new spying technology, US airspace is buzzing with surveillance aircraft operated for law enforcement and the military.

August 10, 2017 at 09:36AM
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Biohackers Encoded Malware in a Strand of DNA
Researchers planted a working hacker “exploit” in a physical strand of DNA.

August 10, 2017 at 09:36AM
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Investors poured millions into a storage network that doesn’t exist
Filecoin is expected to raise millions in an initial coin offering.

August 10, 2017 at 07:34AM
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Popular face-aging app now offers ‘Black,’ ‘Indian,’ and ‘Asian’ filters
It’s tantamount to a sort of digital blackface, “dressing up” as different ethnicities.

August 9, 2017 at 11:51PM
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