Transistors will stop shrinking in 2021, but Moore’s law will live on
Final semiconductor industry roadmap says the future is 3D packaging and cooling.

July 25, 2016 at 10:58AM
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Next Time You Send In Something For Tech Repair, Include Candy
The Swedish Fish Theory is an idea born from Reddit that suggests that packaging candy when sending in items for repair can lead to a quicker turnaround. Is this true? And is it bribery? Vice investigates.

July 25, 2016 at 10:29AM
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How a Self-Taught Hacker Escaped a Cult
The computer Shyama Rose got for her 14th birthday was a boxy Macintosh Quadra 650. The year was 1994. People didn’t email; there was no Facebook; the founders of Google hadn’t even met. And news of the emerging World Wide Web hadn’t yet made its way inside the gates of Barsana Dham, the religious compound in Austin, Texas, where she lived.

July 25, 2016 at 07:51AM
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‘Seven Nation Army’ Played By A Bunch Of Floppy Drives*
The floppy drives weren’t enough for this one, so YouTuber and floppy drive symphony composer Paweł Zadrożniak had to turn to some, uh, other stuff in his house to form a little rhythm section.

July 24, 2016 at 03:47PM
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Say Hello To The Big Bad Machine That Lays Down Railroad Track
The days of men hammering away at railroad ties are over, which is definitely a good thing. Just look at this beauty go.

July 24, 2016 at 09:57AM
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The Tween-Ruled App Turning Middle Schoolers Into Pop Stars
In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes…by ninth grade. And the platform for that tween infamy is Musical.ly.

July 24, 2016 at 08:19AM
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WeWork evicted a startup after it published a negative blog post about the co-working space
While Thinknum claims the data that it used to calculate WeWork’s burn rate was pulled from the company’s public API, WeWork does not agree.

July 24, 2016 at 12:24AM
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The Spy Is a Camera
Most of us want to be seen. Most of us don’t want to be seen by everyone.

July 23, 2016 at 09:09AM
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Which Font Should I Use On My Kindle?
We ask the experts: Which font is optimal for my Kindle?

July 23, 2016 at 03:33AM
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Where No Man Has Come Before — MEL Magazine
Charlie Powell believes the Galactic Cap can change the world. Too bad it barely works.

July 22, 2016 at 12:22PM
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