Crisis averted: Major League Soccer players and owners finally agreed on a new labor deal Wednesday, just two days before the league's 20th season kicks off with a match between the Chicago Fire and defending champion Los Angeles Galaxy. A work stopp…
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A NASA spacecraft just became the first manmade object to achieve orbit around a dwarf planet, the space agency announced on Friday. The Dawn spacecraft will likely provide new images showing the mysterious reflective spots, which look like lights in…
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KATHMANDU, Nepal — Nepal's only international airport will remain closed at least another day as workers attempt to remove a Turkish Airlines jet that skidded after landing, blocking the single runway, aviation officials said Friday.Civil Aviation…
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A terminally ill 78-year-old woman's dying wish to see a Rembrandt exhibition was granted by Dutch charity Stichting Ambulance Wens (Last Wish Foundation) this week.The woman, who suffers from ALS, was brought to Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum with three o…
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Apple has finally hit the big time.The world's most valuable company will replace AT&T on the Dow Jones Industrial Average after the market close on March 18, according to a press release from S&P Dow Jones Indices, which owns the indexSee also: Ma…
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 Mobile app search company Quixey, which has been focused on solving the challenges with app discovery, and counts among its customer base names like Ask.com and Sprint, confirmed today it has raised $60 million in a strategic Series C1 funding rou…
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 “Here I am just sitting in this house and I’m able to predict a cure to measles,” co-founder of Atomwise Alex Levy tells me over the phone from his apartment in Mountain View, Calif. Atomwise, a health tech startup in the current Y Combinator…
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 Interior Define, a company that is looking to turn the furniture retail model on its head, has just hired the Crate & Barrel president Marta Calle as Executive Chair. This is a big hire for the furniture company, which sells high-quality furniture…
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 For those of you who haven’t used it yet, HotelTonight allows users to book same-day hotel rooms from their smartphones, at discounted rates. Or, if you’re not quite as comfortable with waiting until the last minute, the company launched a seve…
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 Studypool, a 500 Startups-backed startup offering an online marketplace that connects students with tutors on a per question basis, has just closed on $1.2 million in seed funding, after growing its site to include some 22,000 tutors and nearly do…
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Hello realistic virtual reality, goodbye nausea.
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Better brush up on your pronunciation.
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Managing security and other features for ad hoc collections of users.
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Consolidation will make the sector healthier—but less exciting.
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The privacy phone gets a new model—and some new mojo.
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What a week it’s been for smartphone fans around the world. After a slow couple of months to start the year, March roared in like a lion with the introduction of three of the most impressive flagship smartphones we have ever seen. HTC kicked off Mo…
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What a week it has been for Android phone fans thanks to the introduction of the new HTC One M9, Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge. Of course, Apple fans had plenty to enjoy this week as well thanks to our lists of paid iPhone and iPad apps that have gon…
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Apple is a company known for its extreme secrecy and its development lab for third-party Apple Watch apps is no different. In fact, as a new report from Bloomberg details, Apple goes to comical lengths to keep what goes on inside the lab a secret. FR…
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They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but two pictures can be worth even more. Samsung finally took the wraps off of its next-generation flagship smartphones earlier this week. The new Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge are easily two of the mos…
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In a move that many felt was a long time coming, Joseph Weisenthal of Bloomberg is reporting that Apple is poised to replace AT&T in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. *APPLE TO REPLACE AT&T IN DJIA — Joseph Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) March 6, 2015…
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Grant George, the former head of testing for Windows, was one of several executives left on the outside looking in following a September reorganization of the Windows unit.
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Tech and media bigs on the red-hot seat.
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Two personal finance apps, SaveUp and Mogl, offer rewards as a byproduct. Their CEOs describe them as "a bit of gummy on the financial vitamin" and "Toms shoes for food," respectively.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. confirmed it has increased by 5,000 the number of layoffs it plans to implement under the restructuring plan it adopted in May 2012, bringing the expected number of job cuts to 34,000.
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As Apple reportedly prepares developers to ready the first batch of Apple Watch apps, the company is setting a guideline: Try to keep your app usable in 10 seconds. That tidbit comes from…
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When normal people use a new app, they don't wade through hidden service terms. Many just click "OK" and hope for the best. This might be fine for a game of Candy Crush, but…
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Apple, the world's most valuable company, will be calculated in the Dow Jones Industrial Average index starting later this month, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The move has been a long time…
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When I wrote about the decentralization movement a year back, one of the big pro-privacy hopes was Mailpile, which is ambitiously trying to build a user-friendly yet rock-solid encrypted webmail system…
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The music business has been screwed up for a hopelessly long time, but change is afoot: Congress, courts and the Justice Department are all poised in coming months to shake up how companies…
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A few days ago, computer scientists revealed a wide-spread security exploit called FREAK. At first it was thought to be a vulnerability confined to Android devices and Macs, but it turns out that it affects Windows machines too. Read more...
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Virtual reality is a lot like the flying car: It's always juuuust a few years off. But recently—just this week—the VR hype has reached a fever pitch. And let me tell you this is no Virtual Boy bullshit. When we look back at the past through rose-…
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Deadspin Patriots, Rays, SF Giants Petition Supreme Court To Back Gay Marriage | Gawker Girls Who Steal | Jalopnik 'Street Outlaws' Driver Arrested For Street Racing Crash That Killed 2 | Kotaku Akira, Redrawn using The Simpsons, Is Incredible |R…
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Usually when you open a pizza box that's been sitting on your kitchen counter for weeks, you're not going to find a fresh, hot slice inside. So maybe it's time to take your local pizza place off your speed dial and start making your own using this co…
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If the world is eagerly waiting for your latest photographic masterpiece then you don't want to waste time thumbing through a stack of Instagram filters to find the one you like. The latest version of the app lets you remove and organize the availabl…
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After AMD finally opened up about the upcoming Radeon R9 300-series GPUs in early February, the company just took another step towards revealing its latest graphics cards. During GDC this week, AMD was teasing its flagship Radeon R9 300-series graphi…
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The real-time lyrics feature that Spotify added to its desktop app this past week hasn’t impressed the U.S. karaoke industry. Joseph C Vangieri, the CEO of DigiTrax, has called it “unfair competition for us American ‘Karaoke’ companies.”Les…
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Managing printers can be a pain especially if you're shifting a laptop between home and work and dealing with different printers on each network. Fortunately, Windows has a built-in tool just for you that lets you automatically switch between default…
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British law enforcement agencies arrested a 23-year-old man suspected of being involved in a hacking attack last year against a satellite communications system operated by the U.S. Department of Defense.The network intrusion occurred on June 15 and r…
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Google recently flipped over the counter on Gmail’s iOS app to version 4.0, an update that includes a number of helpful new features designed to take advantage of iOS 8.The biggest productivity booster is the addition of quick actions on notifica…
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In a job interview, you often end up talking about projects you've worked on in the past. When describing these projects, using the word "we" can show potential employers that you're a team player.Read more...
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You may not be thinking about your summer trip just yet, but other people are. If you plan to visit a national park this summer, book your guided tour now.Read more...
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Deadspin Patriots, Rays, SF Giants Petition Supreme Court To Back Gay Marriage | Gawker Girls Who Steal | Jalopnik 'Street Outlaws' Driver Arrested For Street Racing Crash That Killed 2 | Kotaku Akira, Redrawn using The Simpsons, Is Incredible |R…
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Cold pizza has its merits, but if you're looking to reheat day-old pizza, re-creating that chewy crust from the night before can be challenging. It's best to revive a day-old crust with the help of a skillet , oven, or toaster oven. But if the microw…
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You voted the iOttie One Touch as your favorite smartphone dash mount, and its improved successor, the iOttie One Touch 2, is down to just $17 today.Read more...
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With rumors of a new Retina MacBook Air on the horizon, we’ve prepared solid guidelines on when you should pony up for a new Apple gadget, and when you should hold off on upgrading.The post The WIRED Guide for Upgrading Your Apple Gadgets appeared…
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Larry Lebofsky has always been fascinated with Ceres, the biggest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Even the license plate on his 2005 Toyota Matrix reads “1CERES.” In the late 1970s, the planetary scientist made some of the…
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Cords can be good for more than just tangling and tripping us up, argues a group of students from MIT.The post MIT Inventors Turn Power Cords Into Gadget Interfaces appeared first on WIRED.
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Conor Clarke shoots photos of cooling towers, industrial smokestacks and quenching towers in Germany. The post Smokestack Photos Make Pollution Look Strangely Beautiful appeared first on WIRED.
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The Chromebook 13's great looks and long battery life don't make up for poor performance.The post Review: Acer Chromebook 13 appeared first on WIRED.
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What is a book? The commonly held notion is pretty simple: it is an objectmade of pieces of paper, glued or bounded together, with stuff written in it. Indisputable. But, maybe, there is more than meets the eye. Read the rest
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Our game site, Offworld, is returning Monday as a place for happy mutants who love to explore new worlds. Read the rest
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Die Antwoord's Ninja speaks with Xeni Jardin about the making of the robot drama CHAPPiE, directed by Neill Blomkamp, and co-starring Yo-Landi Visser, Hugh Jackman, Sigourney Weaver, and Dev Patel. Read the rest
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William Gibson is the only science fiction writer I know of with his name on a line of exclusive couture repro military clothes from a Japanese company. Read the rest
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The owner of the San Francisco Chinese restaurant So doesn't tolerate picky eaters. (more…)
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IoT and wearables have made important inroads in manufacturing, warehousing and retail.
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Use these Chromebook tricks to squeeze more productivity out of Chromebook and make it more efficient.
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Will your Windows 7 hardware support Windows 10? Greg Shultz investigates the answer.
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If you're looking for a way to do a full backup of your non-rooted Android device, Jack Wallen illustrates how to manage this process with the Android SDK.
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Ryan Spoon, a senior vice president of product development at ESPN, spoke with TechRepublic about his unique career path, how his team builds products, and how swimming for Duke University inspired his first startup.
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