Twitter could be the next Mozilla
Like the browser, Twitter actually provides an important infrastructure service on the modern Internet. It’s just not clear whether that alone has the makings of a growth-oriented public company. In the case of Netscape, the answer ended up being “no”. With Twitter, the answer is also increasingly looking like “no”.

October 17, 2016 at 04:21AM
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Report: Tech investor Peter Thiel will donate $1.25M to Trump campaign
In 2016, nearly all of tech’s political cash has flowed to Democrats.

October 16, 2016 at 11:18PM
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War Goes Viral – Defense One
Like most every­thing today, the campaign was launched with a hashtag. But instead of promoting a new album or a movie release, #AllEyesOnISIS announced the 2014 invasion of northern Iraq — a bloody takeover that still haunts global politics two years later.

October 16, 2016 at 07:04PM
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Why Apple and Google are moving into solar energy
Silicon Valley’s biggest companies are investing in renewable energy in a serious way – a sign, perhaps, of rapid changes in the energy market.

October 16, 2016 at 09:09AM
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The Sky, Falling
Imagining a future in which climate change has gotten to a point where we need to engineer our own climate.

October 16, 2016 at 08:26AM
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For Some Women, Bumble Doesn’t Know the Difference Between a Date and a BFF
As a gay woman, I have my account set to display “Only Women,” so my profile on Bumble shouldn’t be shown to any women using BFF and I shouldn’t be shown theirs.

October 16, 2016 at 08:26AM
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Curta calculator: The mechanical marvel born in a Nazi death camp
If you’ve ever spent time thumbing through back issues of magazines like Scientific American, you may have seen ads for the Curta — a strange little device that resembles a pepper mill. It cost a shocking amount of money and was claimed to perform all sorts of arithmetic functions purely mechanically and with incredible precision.

October 14, 2016 at 04:10PM
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U.S. to Ban All Samsung Note 7 Phones on Airline Flights
The devices won’t be allowed aboard aircraft even if they’ve been shut off once the new rules take effect.

October 14, 2016 at 03:04PM
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You Better Keep The Ball In Play With This Ping-Pong Table, Otherwise You’re Just Killing The Vibe
The table looks fun, but only for people who are good at table tennis. For everybody else, it looks like misery.

October 14, 2016 at 02:34PM
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You Can Soon Buy That Tiny Scooter That Looks Like a Laptop You Can Ride
A Segway you can carry in a laptop bag? That’s what Cocoa Motors promised when it revealed the WalkCar, an ultra-compact personal transport, last year.

October 14, 2016 at 01:45PM
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