Deprecated: The Ars 2017 tech company Deathwatch
Deathwatch is not a prediction of actual corporate demise. Most failing companies limp on in some way through acquisition, integration, inertia, or the eternal zombie life of bankruptcy protection. Instead, it’s a way of recognizing those entities in danger of technical, economic, and/or cultural irrelevance.

December 30, 2016 at 09:37AM
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How China Built ‘iPhone City’
A hidden bounty of benefits for Foxconn’s plant in Zhengzhou, the world’s biggest iPhone factory, is central to the production of Apple’s most profitable product.

December 30, 2016 at 06:47AM
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How Body Scanning Became the Latest Health Club Must-Have
There are plenty of trends vying for buzz in the boutique fitness world, but one of the flashiest could also be the most useful. 3D body scans can show where you’re losing weight and gaining muscle with detail that photos lose.

December 29, 2016 at 08:36PM
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How the hoverboard went from fiction to fact
No, you still can’t pick up a hot pink Mattel hoverboard from the nearest toy store. That might be a little disappointing, but the home that real-life hoverboard technology will find in making for speedier commutes should be a nice consolation prize.

December 29, 2016 at 06:32PM
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Facebook Knows More About You Than You Think, And Other Facts
​Welcome to What We Learned This Week, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week: Facebook is watching you offline, a problem bigger than ISIS and our irrational fear of robots.

December 29, 2016 at 05:15PM
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Children of the New World
An excerpt from Alexander Weinstein’s “Children Of The New World”.

December 29, 2016 at 04:42PM
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Be Healthy or Else: How Corporations Became Obsessed with Fitness Tracking
Once companies amass troves of data on employees’ health, what will stop them from developing health scores and wielding them to sift through job candidates?

December 29, 2016 at 02:44PM
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Delete Everything! Get Rid of Instagram and Miss Out on Missing Out
Enjoy a sunset without worrying about which filter is gonna make it look the best.

December 29, 2016 at 12:30PM
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From Tape Drives to Memory Orbs, the Data Formats of Star Wars Suck (Spoilers)
What’s the deal with the disk formats of the “Star Wars” universe?

December 29, 2016 at 11:31AM
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Many Companies, One Brand
When it was a radio-maker, Packard Bell had a reputation for quality products. When a PC clone startup bought the name, that reputation fell apart — fast.

December 29, 2016 at 10:34AM
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