Sirin Labs’ Solarin is today’s most ridiculous $16,000 Android phone
How much do you value your privacy? Sirin Labs is a new company making its debut in London today that stakes its future on very wealthy people believing their privacy and security to be priceless. Well, worth $16,666, to be more precise.

May 31, 2016 at 01:41PM
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This Gigantic, Room-Sized Version Of A Microprocessor Is The Closest We’ll Get To Understanding Computers
James Newman apparently hates Moore’s Law, and decided to build himself a massive, hand-soldered “macroprocessor” in his home. It’s gigantic and slow, but it’s pretty darn cool to literally see the information flow through the processor.

May 31, 2016 at 12:29PM
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Should You Buy a Portable Air Conditioner?
It’s not exactly “portable” but it’ll free up a window and you can rest easy knowing that it wont plummet to the earth if things go south.

May 31, 2016 at 12:28PM
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Slack Tackles Corporate America, With a Little Help
For $1,000 a day, David Markovich will teach the old people in your office how to use Slack.

May 31, 2016 at 12:28PM
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Will The Pop Stars Of The Future Be Robots?
Today’s episode of Flash Forward goes to a future where all pop stars use avatars, clones, robots or cartoons instead of their real bodies and faces. What does that do to music? Can everybody pull off an avatar? And why would any pop star even want that?

May 31, 2016 at 11:36AM
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Pretend You Can Actually Solve A Rubik’s Cube With This Augmented Reality Assistant
This nifty work-in-progress figures out how to solve a Rubik’s in 20 moves or less.

May 31, 2016 at 10:51AM
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Intel knows it’s no longer inside
You don’t hear “Intel Inside” too often these days. The company’s new slogan, “Experience what’s inside,” has been kicking around for a while, but its deployment betrays a shift in Intel’s priorities, and an acceptance of a harsh reality.

May 31, 2016 at 09:30AM
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The Defense Department Wants Your Ideas For A Military Space Plane
It’s your chance to show Elon Musk who’s really the boss: The United States Department of Defense is accepting designs for a military space plane that the agency plans on launching by 2020.

May 30, 2016 at 08:28PM
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HTML Is More Tolerant Than C Because It’s Digitally Promiscuous
HTML does what it finds convenient and will impose that onto you.

May 30, 2016 at 03:03PM
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What I learnt using a ‘friendship app’
Nowadays, telling someone that you’ve started using a dating app is hardly an unusual thing to say. But swiping left and right to find friendship? That’s a little bit stranger.

May 30, 2016 at 10:32AM
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