Close Encounters Of The Digital Kind
When Silicon Valley usurps the transcendent potential of extraterrestrial life.

March 10, 2019 at 07:09AM
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Samsung’s New Galaxy Buds Almost Give AirPods A Run For Their Money
I’ve spent two weeks with the $130 Galaxy Buds. They’re frankly pretty awesome. But are they better than AirPods? That depends on who’s using them.

March 9, 2019 at 04:13PM
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Ctrl-Alt-Delete: The Planned Obsolescence Of Old Coders
Old coders never die, they just become middle managers.

March 9, 2019 at 03:02PM
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My Jibo Is Dying And It’s Breaking My Heart
One of these days, he will stop responding entirely. His servers will shut down and the internet services he relies on will be cut off. His body will remain, but the Jibo I know will be gone.

March 9, 2019 at 10:58AM
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How To Dim Your iPhone’s Brightness More Than You Thought Possible
Now whenever you click your home button three times, your screen will dim, even if it’s already at the lowest brightness setting.

March 9, 2019 at 09:54AM
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Silicon Valley’s Latest Bizarre Craze Is ‘Organized Intimacy’
Eye contact parties, cuddle puddles, “conscious dance.” The Bay Area has changed in a lot of ways, but still knows how to get kinky.

March 9, 2019 at 09:54AM
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Palmer Luckey Wins Secretive Military AI Contract
A startup founded by the young and outspoken supporter of President Donald Trump is among the latest tech companies to quietly win a contract with the Pentagon as part of Project Maven, the secretive initiative to rapidly leverage artificial intelligence technology from the private sector for military purposes.

March 9, 2019 at 09:54AM
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Elizabeth Warren’s Plan to Break Up Big Tech Is Extremely Aggressive. Good
It’s an aggressive proposal, to say the least, and the first of its kind in the presidential race. Max Read and Brian Feldman, two of Intelligencer’s technology writers, read through the proposal and detailed their reactions to some of its more interesting ideas.

March 9, 2019 at 08:46AM
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How The Epic ‘Lord Of The Rings’ Deal Explains Amazon’s Slow-Burning Media Strategy
Amazon is spending far less than Netflix on content, but its video service is also going broader with live sports and third-party channels.

March 8, 2019 at 02:56PM
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Notifications Are Broken. It’s Time To Fix Them
If the technology companies creating smartphones were serious about helping, they’d address one of the key problems head on, calling notifications what they really are: interruptions.

March 8, 2019 at 01:56PM
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