When Their Shifts End, Uber Drivers Set Up Camp in Parking Lots Across the U.S.
When it’s too pricey and tiring to go home, drivers find alternative spots to sleep.

January 23, 2017 at 09:06AM
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New Exhibit Celebrates the Lost Art of the Screensaver
You could turn your desktop monitor into an aquarium, but could you turn it into art?

January 22, 2017 at 07:13PM
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How to Build a Hard Tech Startup
The CEO of Lytro talks about how to get into the hardware industry.

January 22, 2017 at 05:07PM
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You Can Hack A Modern Furby To Play Whatever You Want — Here’s How
Giving your friend a Furby in 2017 would already be kinda funny. Making it play something obnoxious or weird would be funnier.

January 22, 2017 at 03:23PM
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The Final Days of Obama’s Tech Surge
The White House imported Silicon Valley’s best to transform government. Will Trump undo it all?

January 22, 2017 at 07:41AM
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Data Mining Solves the Mystery of Your Slow Wi-Fi Connection
The awful truth about Wi-Fi is that all too often, it simply does not work. But what is it about these state-of-the-art wireless networks and the devices that connect to them that so often fails? A team of Chinese researchers think they’ve figured it out.

January 20, 2017 at 05:12PM
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Megaviral Meitu “beauty” app’s data grab is anything but skin-deep
Meitu-filtered pictures are suddenly everywhere. The backlash, however, has been just as swift.

January 20, 2017 at 04:18PM
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What Apple, Google, And Tesla Get Wrong
In conversation with Co.Design, the eminent design researcher Don Norman offers cutting criticism of Silicon Valley’s brightest.

January 20, 2017 at 01:24PM
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When A Wind Turbine Needs A Fast Fix, They Send Up This Intrepid Rock Climber
Next time you pass a wind turbine, keep your eyes peeled. There might be some brave soul hanging on to one of the massive blades.

January 20, 2017 at 12:56PM
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Xiaomi’s Plan to Rule the World: Build Every Gadget Imaginable
How do you take over the world? Build the coolest, most desirable phone anyone’s ever seen — oh, and everything else too.

January 20, 2017 at 12:11PM
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