Stephen Colbert Has A Good Laugh Over The Dumb Products Showcased At CES
The late-night funnyman has a “cyborgasm” over a host of “cutting-edge” new products.

January 18, 2019 at 07:53AM
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This $350 mini-smartphone helped cure my digital distraction
For all I knew, maybe a shrink-rayed smartphone really would cut down on my mindless usage. To my great surprise, it did.

January 18, 2019 at 07:29AM
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Amazon Ruined Online Shopping
America’s largest internet store is so big, and so bewildering that buyers, often have no idea what they’re going to get.

January 18, 2019 at 07:05AM
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Can Drones Be Good?
“This is a tool of the future that should be in every professional technician’s toolbox.”

January 18, 2019 at 07:05AM
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Hacked Instagram Influencers Rely On White-Hat Hackers To Get Their Accounts Back
Leaked internal documents and stories from influencers show that Instagram has an influencer-hacking problem.

January 18, 2019 at 07:05AM
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Why Did NASA, Lockheed Martin, and Others Spend Millions on This Quantum Computer?
D-Wave computers are in their early days, but these organizations are hoping to eventually use them to solve problems, like predicting elections, routing taxis in traffic jams or picking crucial data out of background noise.

January 17, 2019 at 04:21PM
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Jack Dorsey Has No Clue What He Wants
A Q&A with Twitter’s CEO on right-wing extremism, Candace Owens and what he’d do if the president called on his followers to murder journalists.

January 17, 2019 at 02:58PM
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This Is What Google Says Search Will Look Like Under EU Copyright Laws
Last September, the European Parliament voted in favor of the Copyright Directive: a sweeping piece of legislation intended to update copyright for the internet age, but critics said it would fundamentally break the internet.

January 17, 2019 at 01:22PM
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Is Amazon’s Voice Assistant Alexa A Modern Trojan Horse?
One lesson from Homer’s Trojan horse episode is that an unexpected gift should always be looked at twice. If Amazon is willing to slash prices and lose hundreds of millions of dollars on a new product line, there must be a good reason.

January 17, 2019 at 12:18PM
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Musical Superhero Programs ‘Hungry Like The Wolf’ Into This ’80s Synthesizer In Real Time
The Solton Ketron Programmer 24 is a pretty powerful piece of gear, and this dude has completely mastered it to the tune of Duran Duran’s biggest hit.

January 17, 2019 at 10:35AM
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