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Technology
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Boss Farhad Manjoo Around
Which outdated technology should he reassess? (The PalmPilot? Zune? MySpace?)
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Twitter for People Who Don’t Like Twitter
Just 16 percent of U.S. adults use the service regularly. Here’s its plan to become a mass medium.
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The Manchurian Network
Don’t believe the U.S. government’s alarming claims that Chinese telecom firm Huawei is a danger to national security.
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Hard Times in FarmVille
Do Zynga’s troubles mark the end of the latest tech bubble?
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Pay Up or the Hard Drive Gets It
What you need to know about ransomware, hackers’ latest trick to take over your computer and blackmail you for cash.
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The iPhone 5 Is a Miracle
Hold Apple’s latest gadget for just a few minutes and you’ll marvel at the existence of such a remarkable object.
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The World’s Best Thermostat Just Got Better
The genius of Nest’s smart heating and cooling system.
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Stop Pagination Now
Why websites should not make you click and click and click for the full story.
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If Woodward and Bernstein Were Bulgarian
An excerpt from Andy Greenberg’s This Machine Kills Secrets: How WikiLeakers, Cypherpunks, and Hacktivists Aim To Free the World’s Information.
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A Suicide Gone Viral
Fox News accidentally showed a man killing himself on live TV. BuzzFeed decided to share it with the world.
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How To Leak a Secret in Bulgaria
An excerpt from Andy Greenberg’s This Machine Kills Secrets: How WikiLeakers, Cypherpunks, and Hacktivists Aim To Free the World’s Information.
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The WikiLeaks Copycat That Worked
An excerpt from Andy Greenberg’s This Machine Kills Secrets: How WikiLeakers, Cypherpunks, and Hacktivists Aim To Free the World’s Information.
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Silicon Valley’s Next Great Company
Square's mission: Make shopping so easy that everyone starts buying more stuff.
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Amazon Warfare
How an anti-circumcision fringe group waged an ideological attack against AIDS scholarship.
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The Disconcerting Brilliance of the iPhone 5
It may be the greatest smartphone on the market. But do you really need one?
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No, This Is Not the Best iPhone Ever
The one incredibly irksome feature that will leave you cursing Apple.
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Amazon Makes Everything Better
Books, movies, games—how the new Kindle will revolutionize your experience with all of them.
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The Kindle Wants To Be Free
Next week or next year, Amazon will start giving away its e-reader. Here’s why.
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The Uncanny Valley of Internet Advertising
Targeted Web ads are too dumb to be useful and just smart enough to make you queasy.
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It’s Like Facebook, but You Pay for It
App.net is a new social network that costs $50 a year. It could be the future of the Web.
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Ding Dong, Daily Deals Are Dead
The thrilling demise of Groupon’s crummy business model.
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I Know What the Next iPhone Is Going To Look Like
What all of the leaked photos tell us about Apple’s latest device.
