Amazon is working on plans to open hundreds of brick-and-mortar bookstores, according to a new report from CNBC . Yes, following in the steps of chains like Borders, Amazon apparently thinks that the future is in deadtrees. Read more…
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GE Will Stop Making CFL Lightbulbs Because LEDs Are Better
GE just announced that it no longer make or sell compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) lightbulbs in the US. The company will wind down the manufacturing of CFL bulbs over the course of the years, and it will begin to shift its focus on making the newest and most energy-efficient lightbulbs, LEDs. Read more…
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How A Tesla With Autopilot Forced Us To Take The Road Trip Of The Past
The weird thing about the road trip of the future is that it’s much more like the road trips we used to take in our past than anything else. My coworkers and I just did 1400-odd miles in an electric Tesla Model S that could also drive itself. It wasn’t just the trip of the future. It was the way things used to be, too. Read more…
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How A Tesla With Autopilot Forced Us To Take The Road Trip Of The Past
A Health Insurer Lost Six Hard Drives Holding Data About 1 Million Customers
The health insurer Centene has admitted that it’s performing an “ongoing comprehensive internal search” for six hard drives. Sadly, those hard drives contain personal details about 1 million of its customers. Oops. Read more…
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A Health Insurer Lost Six Hard Drives Holding Data About 1 Million Customers
Here’s a Homemade Exoskeleton Jacking Up a Small Car
There’s all sorts of expensive R&D facilities working frantically to make body-enhancing skeletons into actual things, but the research isn’t limited just to big companies. Two years ago, a YouTuber showed off his Elysium -inspired suit curling 170lbs; last weekend, he decided to life a Mini Cooper. Read more…
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Here’s a Homemade Exoskeleton Jacking Up a Small Car
Uber Screwup Exposed Driver’s Social Security Number and Tax Info
Tax season already sucks for independent contractors, but some Uber drivers who logged on to the company’s Partners portal to receive their 1099s are complaining about an especially nasty surprise: Instead of their own information, drivers say they received the tax forms of other drivers. Read more…
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Uber Screwup Exposed Driver’s Social Security Number and Tax Info
This Is an X-Ray of the Earth’s Aurora
This planet’s aurora are a spectacular sight, but you’ve probably never seen them quite like this. You’re looking at a view of them as seen by the European Space Agency’s Integral space observatory, which captured how they look as an X-ray. Read more…
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This Is an X-Ray of the Earth’s Aurora
Every App That Apple’s Tried to Kill
Apps die—often. It’s all part of the technological circle of life where alpha predators in multi-billion dollar dens feast on more vulnerable, less cash-infused prey. And one company that has always had an insatiable T. Rex-level hunger is Apple. Read more…
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Every App That Apple’s Tried to Kill
You Can Now Loop Videos Directly in YouTube
If you wanted to loop videos on YouTube, you used to need extra software. Now, it’s built right into YouTube itself. Read more…
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You Can Now Loop Videos Directly in YouTube
iTunes-Remote Controls iTunes Directly from the Command Line
Mac: It’s no secret that a lot of people really don’t like iTunes, but that doesn’t mean that most of us have bothered to actually replace it. If you really just want a simple way to play some songs from your iTunes library, iTunes-Remote is a command line tool that’s simple to use. Read more…
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iTunes-Remote Controls iTunes Directly from the Command Line