An A-Z of Women Pushing Boundaries in Science and Tech
History has overlooked or undermined women’s achievements in science and tech in the past, and there’s still a clear gender divide today. Here are 26 women to keep an eye on.

March 9, 2016 at 04:45AM
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How Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Plans to Fix the Company
How the media-juggernaut-turned-train-wreck is getting back on track after a rough two years.

March 8, 2016 at 06:47PM
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The Fastest Way To Destroy A Few Hundred Computer Parts Is To Use Them As Dominoes
Normally we wouldn’t condone this sort of tomfoolery since computer parts are expensive and fragile. But it’s probably terribly boring working in that warehouse, so it’s OK.

March 8, 2016 at 06:10PM
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Today’s Best Short: ‘Cycle’
This bizarre stop-motion short is a haunting portrait on human loneliness, and it’s wonderful.

March 8, 2016 at 04:59PM
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Your entire genome can now be sequenced for $999-and the results sent to your smartphone
The fundamental building blocks of human life can be read in the 3-billion letters of a person’s genome. Starting next month, a startup called Veritas Genetics will reveal your unique code for only $999.

March 8, 2016 at 04:14PM
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Why Did Airplane Wings Go From Straight To Angled Backward?
For a long time airplanes had wings that jutted straight out. Most airplanes today don’t look like that. What happened between now and then?

March 8, 2016 at 04:03PM
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How To Turn Off Your iPhone’s Animations (And Make Your Phone Seem A Lot Faster)
If you’re one of the people who gets annoyed by the rather slow animation the iPhone employs when you open an app, there’s a janky workaround that will make apps open instantaneously.

March 8, 2016 at 04:03PM
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Blu-Ray Gets a Second Shot at Relevancy in the Data Center, of All Places
Optical discs give businesses a way of inexpensively storing an awful lot of cold data — a way pioneered and proven by Facebook.

March 8, 2016 at 03:04PM
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Every Apple Product That Is Probably in the Works
Everyone always wants to know what Apple is up to, and Apple is always trying to hide what they’re up to. Luckily, we have the Internet, which is chock full of rumors and obsessive analysis from Apple fanboys.

March 8, 2016 at 03:04PM
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What It’s Like to Climb Mount Everest in Virtual Reality
The day has arrived when the hardest physical challenge on Earth can be completed in an 8×10′ room.

March 8, 2016 at 02:02PM
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