Google’s New Chatbot Won’t Shut Up-And That’s a Good Thing
Conversational user interfaces aren’t a new idea, but users often have trouble figuring out what they can do. Google’s assistant will look to fix this by, well, always telling you what it can do.

May 20, 2016 at 09:36AM
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Blockchain Goes Beyond Crypto-Currency
Investment in startups commercializing blockchain technology has eclipsed that in bitcoin-only companies.

May 20, 2016 at 07:43AM
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Apple made it harder for the feds to force you to unlock your iPhone
iPhones and iPads equipped with a Touch ID fingerprint sensor will now ask for a passcode if it hasn’t been unlocked with a fingerprint in the past eight hours.

May 20, 2016 at 07:43AM
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Meet The Entrepreneur Who Launched A WhatsApp Rival From A Colombian Prison
Mayer Mizrachi Matalon is the CEO of an up-and-coming encrypted WhatsApp competitor Criptext. Now he runs the company from a Columbia jail cell. How did he end up here?

May 20, 2016 at 06:34AM
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Designing for the Stars of Outer Space
Meet the woman behind NASA’s coming modular spacesuit.

May 19, 2016 at 04:24PM
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The Real Bias Built In At Facebook
We use these algorithms to explore questions that have no right answer to begin with, so we don’t even have a straightforward way to calibrate or correct them.

May 19, 2016 at 04:24PM
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Don’t Use Allo | Motherboard
On Allo, Google Assistant will learn how you talk to certain friends and offer suggested replies to make responding easier. Let that sink in for a moment: The selling point of this app is that Google will read your messages, for your convenience.

May 19, 2016 at 04:24PM
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Adam Savage Struggles To Get His Mold Unstuck While Testing Out A Vacuum-Form Machine
It has clearly been a while since Adam Savage used this old machine, but that doesn’t stop him from showing off its awesomeness.

May 19, 2016 at 03:07PM
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A Breakdown Of The ‘Magistr’ Computer Virus Which Swirled Around The Internet In 2001
This clever bug targeted the contact lists of those in the law profession and it got em’ good.

May 19, 2016 at 12:14PM
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So, What Exactly Is The Difference Between RGB And CMYK?
One of those things you pretend to know when you check boxes in a Photoshop file, finally explained.

May 19, 2016 at 12:14PM
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