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Android Wear vs the Apple Watch, which is better?

One thing that Apple has always done exceptionally well is to make clean, intuitive user interfaces that don’t overload you with too many unnecessary distractions. That’s why it’s somewhat surprising...

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America's first corn-to-ethanol conversion plant just opened in Iowa

This week in energy we’re looking at the grand opening in Iowa of the first facility to commercially produce ethanol from corn waste products as proof that we don’t need...

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4chan has finally adopted a DMCA take-down policy

The 4chan forums have managed to gain a pretty bad reputation for themselves over the years, no thanks to the endless trolling of posts, weird and horrible images, and so...

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Chicago's mayor received $100,000 in "donations" from Comcast

Comcast Corporation is bragging of widespread support for its proposed $45 billion takeover of Time Warner Cable, but the victory chant is drowning out an important detail: Some of that...

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Read a physicists explanation for why your house has Wi-Fi deadzones

If Wi-Fi can track a heartbeat through walls, why can't I get internet in my corner bathroom? Jason Cole was trying to figure that out too, but unlike me, he's...

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The Somebody app sends strangers to verbally deliver messages to you

How do you make messaging more interactive? Perhaps by removing the phone intermediary - by adding a human intermediary. Artist, author and filmmaker Miranda July has launched a brand new...

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Wi-Fi router vulnerabilities can leave you wide open to hackers

Typically, attacks against your WiFi router require a lengthy attempt to guess any codes and passwords. Not if you use 0xcite's new technique, however; the research firm has detailed a...

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Nokia's HERE maps is coming to Android but will be a Samsung exclusive

Relations between Google and Samsung are already a little tense, but the Korean smartphone maker may just have elevated those frustrations a little further. Extending its existing deal to provide...

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HBO could make bank by taking the Netflix route

HBO has a brand-new reason to offer a standalone online streaming service other than making cord cutters very happy, it could also rake in huge sums of money. Ars Technica...

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Now you can hack into a computer by simply touching it

Normally, breaking a PC's security involves either finding security exploits or launching brute force attacks, neither of which is necessarily quick or easy. However, a team at Tel Aviv University...

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