We’ll Never Have a Tech Utopia
In hoping for a thing that will likely never exist as we imagine it, we locate in the impossible our dreams for change, for utopia — for a world reimagined as the kind of place where a hoverboard might be real, where we might be McFlys. First step hoverboards; next, the cure for cancer.
September 4, 2015 at 12:51PM
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Bringing the past into high-resolution view
Over the past decade, the mission of the world’s libraries, archives and museums has moved beyond just protecting historical collections.
September 4, 2015 at 11:47AM
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Justice Department: Agencies need warrants to use cellphone trackers
The Justice Department announced a policy Thursday that will require its law enforcement agencies to obtain a warrant to deploy cellphone-tracking devices in criminal investigations and inform judges when they plan to use them.
September 4, 2015 at 10:38AM
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WWII Bomb Shelter Becomes Hi-Tech Salad Farm Deep Under London
Thirty-three meters under the streets of central London is an old World War II bomb shelter that’s been transformed into a hi-tech underground farm.
September 4, 2015 at 09:42AM
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Why You Hate Google’s New Logo
“The new logo retains the rainbow of colors but sheds the grownup curlicues: it now evokes children’s refrigerator magnets, McDonald’s French fries, Comic Sans.”
September 4, 2015 at 06:17AM
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Fostering Black Tech
The acute underrepresentation of blacks in the technology industry has given rise to a flurry of initiatives in Silicon Valley to improve the situation.
September 4, 2015 at 06:17AM
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When Robots Hallucinate
By replicating the architecture of the brain in computer form scientists may better understand the human way of seeing the world — both as it is, and as it appears to be.
September 4, 2015 at 04:30AM
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P-phubbing Is Ruining Your Relationships
Have you ever p-phubbed? You know, snubbed your partner by checking your phone during your date? Or leaving your iPhone out within reach while you’re on the sofa snogging? Now two researchers say there’s strong evidence that your p-phubbing is wrecking your relationships and making you depressed.
September 3, 2015 at 08:48PM
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Google Chrome just made big changes to save your battery
Today the company rolled out a new version of Chrome with further improvements oriented around performance, and they promise to make life easier for laptop warriors who regularly find themselves with dozens of open tabs (ahem).
September 3, 2015 at 06:19PM
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Trapped in the Virtual Classroom
To what extent are the uniquely human elements of our lives, things not reproducible by mechanical or technical substitutes, the result of spontaneous or unplanned experience? Such experience, whatever we think of it, is made possible by the arts of give-and-take that we learn in the physical presence of human beings.
September 3, 2015 at 06:19PM
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