Moleskine Notebooks Adapt to the Digital World
The story of Moleskine reveals the challenges of keeping a traditional product relevant in an era of quickly evolving digital technology.

April 20, 2015 at 01:45AM
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Norway Will Be the First Country to Turn Off FM Radio in 2017
Norway’s Minister of Culture announced this week that a national FM-radio switch off will commence in 2017, allowing the country to complete its transition over to digital radio. It’s the end of an era.

April 19, 2015 at 09:37PM
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The Year Of Mobile Payments
Ask most people what the state of mobile payments is today, and they’ll tell you it’s just kicking off. With Facebook announcing the option to send money to friends via Messenger and the release of Apple Pay last year, 2015 has excitedly been dubbed “The Year of Mobile Payments.” Yet what most people don’t realise is that these services are already lagging 10 years behind. From Paraguay to Pakistan, mobile money is rapidly gaining ground.

April 19, 2015 at 12:30PM
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Congress cannot be taken seriously on cybersecurity
None of the members of the Senate’s Intelligence Committee have encrypted websites nor use secure emails. So how can we trust them with our privacy?

April 19, 2015 at 10:26AM
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Science by robot: Outfitting the world’s “smartest” lake
A major project on a New York lake goes big on data — for science.

April 19, 2015 at 07:48AM
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The clone that wasn’t
Can two designers come up with the exact same idea, entirely by accident?

April 19, 2015 at 05:51AM
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The Rise of the Hackbots
DARPA is trying to find out whether robots will ever replace hackers.

April 18, 2015 at 11:48PM
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Why the Genius Founders Turned to Couples Therapy
Ilan Zechory and Tom Lehman, two founders of Genius­.com, started therapy last year. They met as freshmen at Yale, and now work together, go to yoga together, and sometimes vacation together. And they fight together.

April 18, 2015 at 11:10AM
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Dispatches From the Russian River: Apps Against Humanity
Pondering the depersonalization of the working class while stacking wood in the woods.

April 17, 2015 at 10:10PM
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The Political Economy of Trapflix: Making Hood Movies For The Hood
At SXSW this year Snoop Dogg introduced Trap Flix. According to tweets in Twitter hashtag (#Trapflix), Trap Flix is a “new movie app better than Netflix.” I was instantly invested in Snoop’s investment. What does it mean for self-made urban movies to be distributed online for a subscriber base? I DO NOT KNOW BUT I WANT TO KNOW! And thus my obsession with Trap Flix begins.

April 17, 2015 at 01:10PM
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