Why These ‘Revolutionary’ ’80s Gadgets Totally Failed
While the NES, the Macintosh and others did prove to be revolutionary, there were a bunch of other “revolutionary” gadgets in the ’80s that didn’t go anywhere.

February 15, 2017 at 01:15PM
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Apple may replace iPhone home button with fingerprint-scanning screen
Newly published patent describes a system that scans the surface of a finger through a screen, removing the need for a separate Touch ID sensor.

February 15, 2017 at 10:49AM
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All Those Pesky Loading Wheels And Bars Made Whimsically Real
Nobody likes waiting for a file to download or a website to render, but if developers started using these analog loaders instead we might have a bit more patience.

February 15, 2017 at 10:47AM
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Dissecting the Disrupted
The minicomputer maker Wang Laboratories ran an ad on the Super Bowl in 1978, long before Apple did. So why did the company and its minicomputers become a footnote in history?

February 15, 2017 at 09:25AM
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AI and Bitcoin Are Driving the Next Big Hedge Fund Wave
Jeffrey Tarrant believes that the hedge fund world is on the verge of a new, Silicon Valley-inspired revolution. He calls it the Third Wave.

February 14, 2017 at 05:56PM
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Watching Wikipedia’s extinction event from a distance
One contributor’s thoughts on the “delete first, ask questions later” approach that’s taking out articles left and right.

February 14, 2017 at 04:04PM
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An Algorithm Takes Seemingly Static Video And Magnifies Near Imperceptible Changes Like The Human Heart Beat
Back in 2012, graduate students from MIT created this algorithm for the “International Science & Technology Visualization Challenge” where they won honorable mention. The tech is still jaw-droppingly cool five years later.

February 14, 2017 at 02:10PM
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How Sonos will take on Alexa and Google: by integrating them
There is plenty of drama in the wireless speaker space where Sonos lives. The very idea of a “wireless speaker” has changed from just being a thing you use to play music and become a voice-controlled tube with artificial intelligence inside of it.

February 14, 2017 at 01:55PM
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HMD Global will launch the Nokia 3, 5, and 6 at MWC, plus a 3310 homage
Known primarily for its plentiful battery life and nearly indestructible build, the 3310 was released at the turn of the millennium as a replacement to the also-popular 3210. And now HMD might be releasing a modern version of the phone.

February 14, 2017 at 12:01PM
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Someone Created A Pokémon Red and Blue ‘Virus’, And It’s Wild
It’s been over twenty years since the release of the original Red and Blue, but people are still messing around with the games to discover new glitches and exploits. It’s incredible.

February 14, 2017 at 10:05AM
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