Surprise: New, Cheaper iMac Takes a Performance Hit
A new iMac was rumored last week, but no one expected it to get… worse.

June 18, 2014 at 5:15PM
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Startup offers $20,000 for new recruits
In an industry where top engineers are treated like precious commodities, the cash in the startup cow, attracting talent can seem like all-out war.

June 18, 2014 at 4:13PM
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Uber Isn’t Worth $17 Billion
The value of any business, no matter what it does and where it is in its life cycle, is based on its capacity to generate real cash flows. For young firms like Uber, the expected cash flows are in the distant future, and estimating them will require making big assumptions about how the market and the competition will evolve.

June 18, 2014 at 2:15PM
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Meet the Amazon smartphone: this is the Fire Phone
Amazon doesn’t just sell smartphones anymore — it makes one. In news that should surprise exactly no one, Jeff Bezos has officially unveiled Amazon’s first cellphone, the Fire Phone.

June 18, 2014 at 1:11PM
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Is Coding the New Literacy?
What if learning to code weren’t actually the most important thing? It turns out that rather than increasing the number of kids who can crank out thousands of lines of JavaScript, we first need to boost the number who understand what code can do.

June 18, 2014 at 11:08AM
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People Invested $1 Million In An App That Just Says ‘Yo’
It only took 8 hours to build the app, and the only thing it does is allow you to send the word ‘Yo’ to your friends. To many, it seems like a joke. But its inventor, Or Arbel, is totally serious.

June 18, 2014 at 10:37AM
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Apple releases new cheaper iMac with low-end processor, priced at $1099
As rumored last week, Apple has today released a new model of iMac. These machines are considerably cheaper than their predecessors, priced at $1099.

June 18, 2014 at 10:21AM
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How to Anonymize Everything You Do Online
Here’s how you can use the growing array of anonymity tools to protect more of your life online.

June 18, 2014 at 6:31AM
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High-tech hybrids are 2014’s hottest race cars
As fast as ever, the new cars make that speed without nearly as much fuel, thanks to new rules that force them to develop much more efficient hybrid systems. The result is a technological revolution at the race track that’s as exciting as as any time in the sport’s past.

June 18, 2014 at 6:31AM
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This top turns see-through if you leave personal data exposed
A Brooklyn-based designer has created a 3D-printed sculptural boob tube to spark social commentary on the state of privacy in a data-driven world — by making the top gradually more sheer.

June 18, 2014 at 5:15AM
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