Facebook’s Investors Criticize Marc Andreessen for Conflict of Interest
In a lawsuit, shareholders say Andreessen was advising Facebook’s CEO when he was supposed to be representing investors.

December 8, 2016 at 11:33AM
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Guy Reaches A Freakishly Good Score On ‘2048’
Remember the phone game “2048”? Do you remember foolishly thinking that 2048 was the highest reachable number? Because this guy just proved that very, very wrong.

December 8, 2016 at 10:43AM
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Obama Has a Plan to Fix Cybersecurity, But Its Success Depends on Trump
Last week the White House released a 100-page report on what the US needs to do to fix the major tech issues facing the nation — with the stipulation that only the Trump administration can execute on it.

December 8, 2016 at 10:31AM
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What ever happened to the blackest black?
The strange squabble over Vantablack, a coating that absorbs 99.965 percent of light.

December 8, 2016 at 09:31AM
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When every moment of childhood can be recorded and shared, what happens to childhood?
YouTube has become the largest platform for children’s entertainment on Earth.

December 8, 2016 at 06:32AM
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Inside Peter Thiel’s Genius Factory
The Trump-loving VC tried prove that brilliant kids don’t need college. Here’s what happened.

December 7, 2016 at 07:35PM
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Watch This Robot With Perfect Penmanship Craft The Most Artful Letters
Remember when you thought to yourself “who needs cursive?” and gave up on practicing your handwriting? It’s a good thing you did that, but this robot is making those skills obsolete.

December 7, 2016 at 04:16PM
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The Gadget Apocalypse Is Upon Us
The gadget age is over — and even if that’s a kind of progress, because software now fills many of our needs, the great gadgetapocalypse is bound to make the tech world, and your life, a little less fun.

December 7, 2016 at 03:28PM
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Guy Builds A Small Revving Single-Cylinder Engine Out Of Freaking Paper
We here at Digg have learned that paper is the ultimate material. You can make engines out of it. You can make missile launchers out of it. You can even make pretty origami swans with it. With paper, the world is your oyster.

December 7, 2016 at 03:23PM
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Inside the secret meeting where Apple revealed the state of its AI research
A never-before-seen look at the company’s machine learning efforts.

December 7, 2016 at 11:55AM
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