IBM Is Using Tiny Tubes to Grow the Chips of the Future
The reign of silicon may be coming to an end.

November 14, 2016 at 09:29AM
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A Synthetic Fingertip For Unlocking Your Phone In Gloves
With the rising ubiquity smartphones with fingerprint sensors, a new cold-weather problem has revealed itself. Fingerprint sensors, like capacitive touchscreens, won’t work if you’re wearing gloves. Tony Yu thinks the solution is Taps, a bizarre new accessory that is essentially a tiny synthetic fingerprint you can stick to any glove.

November 14, 2016 at 09:29AM
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New Iron in the Fire: Studio Aims to Hook Hipsters on Golf
Can indoor golf every become cool.

November 14, 2016 at 03:42AM
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An App Saw Trump Winning Swing States When Polls Didn’t
It’s not the Bernie Sanders effect. This result is in the general election, after the primaries. It looks more like the Trump effect. Of Brigade’s verified voters, 40 percent of registered Democrats pledged to vote for Trump.

November 13, 2016 at 11:09PM
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Wheelie-Popping Roomba Has A Need For Speed
Roombas are beautiful things. They look adorable, clean your house, and when you’re bored they can make for endless hours of ridiculous DIY projects.

November 13, 2016 at 05:32PM
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How Facebook Is Transforming Disaster Response
The social media behemoth is becoming a vital tool in catastrophic situations.

November 13, 2016 at 01:11PM
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It’s 2016. Where’€™s My Flying Pizza?
Drone delivery has come a long way — but it still has a long, long way to go.

November 13, 2016 at 08:22AM
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Inside Palantir, Silicon Valley’s Most Secretive Company
A cache of internal documents shows that despite growing revenue, Palantir has lost top-tier clients, is struggling to stem staff departures, and isn’t collecting most of the money it touts in high-value deals.

November 12, 2016 at 06:56AM
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Peter Thiel Goes to Washington
Peter Thiel, the Silicon Valley billionaire and Facebook board member, appeared at the National Press Club in Washington, where he gave a short speech defending his support of Donald Trump and answered journalists’ written questions about his decade-long campaign to destroy Gawker Media.

November 12, 2016 at 01:50PM
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Elon Musk Follows Zero Women on Twitter (Updated)
The inventor and entrepreneur is an active tweeter, and appears to be running his own Twitter account, rather than outsourcing it to someone else. Musk has a following of over five million on Twitter, but only follows 54 accounts. Most of them are brands or publications, which aren’t gendered.

November 12, 2016 at 09:22AM
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