Amazon.com is on fire
If you’ve turned on the TV, shopped on Amazon, or read a magazine in the past seven years, you’ve heard the word Kindle. With an uber-popular line...
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Time to Call It. Responsive Website Design is the Winner
The debate has been going back and forth for a couple of years now. Google shook things up when they announced that website types would have an influence...
MIT students find shock therapy works against Facebook addiction
The internet is loaded with plenty of ways that people can waste time. For some, it's not that big of a deal, but if you're doing something important or...
The current (and future) status of driverless cars
We've seen them in movies for half a century. The concept cars have been popping up for decades. Some of you might have even seen a driverless car on the...
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Gun control Twitter campaign using 'male enhancement pill' techniques according to GOP congressman
If you're going to spread your message on Twitter, it's best to avoid the Viagra technique. That's the message coming from capitol hill as Congressman...
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These graphs will give you an idea of how popular Pokemon Go is
We all know that Pokemon Go is big, but just how big, exactly? Well it’s hard to get exact numbers without going through Nintendo, but Inverse searched through a few different graphs to get an idea of just how popular the new game is, and the conclusion isn’t all that surprising: it̵
Mozilla wants its community to help update its brand identity
As a non-profit organization whose one mission is to “defend the free and open web,” it makes sense that Mozilla wants its community to help update its brand identity. In a blog post on Wednesday, the organization expressed its desire to create a new brand identity that will help people
Amazon hosted a secretive robotics conference in Florida
Machine-Learning, (Home) Automation, Robotics, and Space Exploration. Those four areas were the focus of the MARS conference that Amazon hosted at a resort in Florida over the weekend, and if this is your first time hearing about such a conference, that’s because Amazon was keeping it on
ProtonMail ditched its invite system and launched its apps
Living in a post-Snowden world, it’s hard to know which online services you can trust with your information, and that’s spawned a massive wave of privacy and security-centric services for everyday users that want to protect themselves from government surveillance and hackers. Proton
Uber’s food delivery service is starting to expand
Hearing that Uber is encroaching on your territory is enough to make most companies a little nervous, and I don’t think GrubHub is an exception. The Chicago-based startup generated more than $1 billion in sales for restaurants across the country last year, but the launch of UberEATS
MasterCard wants people to verify purchases with selfies
In what may be the first practical use for selfies in history, MasterCard will soon allow some of its customers to verify their purchases by taking a picture of their face, rather than entering a password. This is good news, because not only does everyone hate passwords, many people put their s
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Historical articles
35 articles from Michio Hasai's earlier editorial era on TECHi. These remain available at their original URLs but aren't part of the current beat.
Is a cashless society closer than most realize?
In North America, it's easy to see that we're heading towards a world that is driven by digital commerce. Many people order a good chunk of their daily supplies and impulse purchases online. Apps make buying things even out in the real world much easier than cash. Then, there's the credit and debit card trend that doesn't seem to be declining. Cash, for all intents and purposes, is dying.
Five seconds
Five seconds isn’t a lot of time in the grand scheme of things. We microwave our leftovers for longer than five seconds. It takes more time than five seconds to melt an ice cube or butter, most faucets don’t run hot water in less than five seconds, and almost everything we do in our daily lives takes longer. However, studies have shown that five seconds could mean the difference between life and death on the roads, as it is said that the average person guilty of texting and driving has only taken their eyes off the road for five seconds.
Amazon.com is on fire
If you’ve turned on the TV, shopped on Amazon, or read a magazine in the past seven years, you’ve heard the word Kindle. With an uber-popular line...
Time to Call It. Responsive Website Design is the Winner
The debate has been going back and forth for a couple of years now. Google shook things up when they announced that website types would have an influence...
AT&T and Verizon are joining forces over VoLTE
Top U.S. carriers are racing to roll out Voice over LTE (VoLTE) calling, but there’s one thing holding the new technology back. Since VoLTE uses the...
Rugged luxury comes with a tech spin on the 2015 GMC Acadia
As the cousin to the Chevrolet Traverse and Buick Enclave because of their shared platform the GMC Acadia for 2015 comes in with a much more rugged...
Hyundai Tucson FCEV has a new 'organic' source of power in Orange County
If there's one thing that will never be in shortage as long as humans roam the earth, it's waste materials. Now a plant in Orange County, California, is...
#Infographic: Cyberbullying
Is it a growing new problem or simply a variation of an old theme? Those of us who have been teenagers (yes, everyone) has either experienced or known of...
#Video: Bouncing virtual character interacts with the real world
It may not be Tupac on stage, but this virtual character will bounce back and forth, interacting with its surroundings using the latest technology and the...
The best smartwatch we've seen yet isn't even a watch at all
It isn't right to call Bond a watch. It's really just a bracelet... or a pendant... or a necklace... or something you carry in your pocket. It doesn't...
MIT students find shock therapy works against Facebook addiction
The internet is loaded with plenty of ways that people can waste time. For some, it's not that big of a deal, but if you're doing something important or...
The current (and future) status of driverless cars
We've seen them in movies for half a century. The concept cars have been popping up for decades. Some of you might have even seen a driverless car on the...