Google Tells City ‘Local Adolescents’ Are Throwing Its Bikes Into A Mountain View Creek
Mountain View public records show Google asked for help in retrieving its abandoned bikes from Stevens Creek.

August 2, 2017 at 10:46AM
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Facebook Is Working on a Video Chat Device
Facebook is working on a video chat device for the home and a standalone smart speaker.

August 2, 2017 at 09:41AM
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Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian Is So Very Excited To Be A Dad
Ohanian chats with Jimmy Kimmel about expecting a baby, how “worthless” men are and how shocking it is he managed to land Serena Williams.

August 2, 2017 at 08:09AM
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How PayPal Became The Titan Of Money On The Internet
A good idea, big ambition and bitter one upmanship.

August 1, 2017 at 03:21PM
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Alphabet Wants to Fix Renewable Energy’s Storage Problem — With Salt
Alphabet Inc.’s secretive X skunk works has another idea that could save the world. This one, code named Malta, involves vats of salt and antifreeze.

August 1, 2017 at 01:51PM
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‘Worse than death’: The far-future dystopia of genome hacking
John Sotos, the Chief Medical Officer at Intel, has a wild, scary thought experiment: What if, by investing in hacking the human genome for good, we’ve opened it up to be hacked for evil?

August 1, 2017 at 12:33PM
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What Were Screen Savers?
How the hypnotic digital designs suggested our computers had lives of their own.

August 1, 2017 at 08:42AM
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A Hacker’s Guide to Protecting Your Privacy While Dating
Love makes people do dumb stuff. But there are practical, easy steps we can take to maintain our privacy during romantic relationships, and changing one simple behavior now could keep us safe later on if the relationship ends badly.

July 31, 2017 at 10:48PM
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A Street Fight Between A Giant Robot Spider And A Giant Robot Dragon
The opening number of this bizarre piece of performance art is pretty cool, but if you’re just here for the fight, skip to 7:34.

July 31, 2017 at 06:50PM
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A Done-To-Death Interview Question That Can Still Say A Lot About A Programmer
A simple game of FizzBuzz can tell an interviewer everything they need to know about your work ethic (unless, of course, you’ve got an elegant solution down pat and still write sloppy code).

July 31, 2017 at 04:10PM
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