The Men Who Smuggle Netflix Into Cuba
The media blockade in Cuba prevents citizens from streaming music or movies. Instead, a media smuggling business has emerged to bring the Cuban people the latest in US entertainment.
September 21, 2015 at 12:43PM
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Tom Scott Built A Functioning Emoji Keyboard, For Reasons
Unicode 8 has over 1,000 different emoji characters, most of which no one likely uses — except Tom Scott, who wanted all of them right at his fingertips.
September 21, 2015 at 10:16AM
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The Parable of the Tablet and the Calculator
Casio released a calculator and Amazon released a tablet within 24 hours of each other this week. That alone is unremarkable. One costs $220, the other costs $50. That, too, wouldn’t raise many eyebrows, until you realize which is which.
September 21, 2015 at 09:34AM
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Why I Quit My Facebook Quitting
“Sixteen days into my social media sabbatical last month, I cheated.”
September 20, 2015 at 01:04PM
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The Girl Who Turned To Reddit To Help Freeze Her Brain
Kim knew she was dying, but she believed that cryonic preservation had a “1 or 2 percent chance” of offering her another shot at life. And for that, it was worth trying.
September 20, 2015 at 10:40AM
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Oh Great, Who Taught These Drones How To Build A Bridge?
Our only defense during the robot apocalypse was going to be deep moats surrounding the last human-held cities. That is, until some jamokes decided to teach drones to build bridges. We’re doomed.
September 19, 2015 at 01:19PM
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Do Meditation Apps Really Work?
Headspace is a mediation app that has gained wide popularity and acclaim for introducing many to mindfulness, but does it fill its purpose of keeping people on track? One journalist finds out when she investigates whether or not Headspace is the real deal.
September 19, 2015 at 12:13PM
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A New Front
Can the Pentagon do business with Silicon Valley?
September 19, 2015 at 11:22AM
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Desktop Nirvana: The browser wars are back. Thank goodness.
We’ve got Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer. Isn’t desktop web surfing solved?
September 19, 2015 at 10:10AM
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New York’s Old Kent Automatic Garages Were Marvels of Sky-High Parking
Garages from around 1930 could mechanically stack hundreds of vehicles as high as two-dozen stories.
September 19, 2015 at 02:24AM
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