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Steve Jobs Did Not Liberate Us. Tim Berners-Lee Did, By Freeing Ones and Zeros To Eat the World

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30 years ago today, Steve Jobs unveiled the Macintosh. More accurately, The Great Magician took it out of a bag and let it talk to us. The Macintosh, as I learned from first-hand experience in 1984,...

Flywheels Could be More Efficient for Electric Cars

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The idea of powering your car with a flywheel conjures up amateurish images of rubber bands, or big, clunky contraptions attached to ponderous nineteenth century steam-powered wagons. But modern...

The End of the FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules, at Least For Now

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As most commentators, myself included, predicted last fall, a federal appellate court has vacated the FCC’s controversial 2010 “net neutrality” rules, holding that the agency wildly exceeded its...

Display Ads are as Compelling As TV Spots

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In the lobby of Google’s Building 900 at its Mountain View headquarters, there’s a display of Google-colored squares and rectangles that looks like a bland abstract-art piece. It turns out these are...

Sperm Donor to Shell out Child Support

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William Marotta had responded to a newspaper ad by two lesbians seeking sperm donation. After he was through and the child was born, a judge deemed him responsible for supporting the little baby. The...

Super Bowl Date Change is a Possibility

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The Super Bowl 2014 date is subject to change based on new reports for instance carried by USA Today. The Super Bowl 2014 in New Jersey is the first outdoor cold weather Super Bowl and it may have...

Penn State Crowdfunds Lunar Lion Lander

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Earlier this week, Penn State’s Lunar Lion team launched a crowdfunding effort to raise a little over $400,000 towards its goal of putting a lander on the Moon to win Google’s Lunar X-Prize. In order...

Working From Home? 11 Ways To Stay Motivated

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I haven’t had any coworkers in five years now. Well, at least none that I see or hear on a daily basis. I’m a freelance journalist, one of many occupations these days that allows the complete and...

Apple iPhone 6 will have 4.8 Inch Screen Says Analyst

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Cowen and Company managing director Timothy Arcuri issued an investor’s note today claiming that his supply chain sources confirm that the screen size for the next iPhone (iPhone 6 or Air or…) will...