The ever-booming social network and venue for the “pulse of the planet” delivered the news in a tweet, of course. [Read more]
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Twitter surpasses 200M active monthly users
The ever-booming social network and venue for the “pulse of the planet” delivered the news in a tweet, of course. [Read more]
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Twitter surpasses 200M active monthly users
Mapping out your genome is the 21st Century equivalent of staring deep inside your soul; it’s tempting to look, but terrifying what you might find. The DNA divers at 23andMe are hoping that slashing the price of their home-testing service—from $300 down to $100—will be enough to tilt the scales towards discovery. Are they right? More »
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It Now Only Costs $100 To Know Everything About Your DNA
Eerily reminiscent of the design of Sonny and the other NS-5s in I, Robot , Kenshiro is the University of Tokyo’s latest attempt to create a humanoid robot that accurately mimics human movement. And the researchers there believe the best way to build an artificial human is to simply copy our anatomy, particularly our muscular and skeletal systems. More »
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Skeleton Muscle Bot Brings I, Robot’s Future One Step Closer
Time Machine should by default back up all internal hard drives on a Mac; however, some people are experiencing a problem in which drives appear to be automatically excluded from being backed up. [Read more]
It’s not clear what might have caused the outage this morning, but it appeared to be fairly widespread. [Read more]
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Gmail goes down briefly for both consumers and enterprise users
The US Military makes its fair share of mistakes when it comes to technology —but over the weekend, the New York Times revealed that even upgrading a single software system can go horribly wrong for it. More »
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How the US Air Force Wasted $1 Billion on a Failed Software Plan
If Bravo’s Start-Ups: Silicon Valley makes you gag and, in turn, makes your gags want to gag , you could be in luck. HBO has bought the pilot for a very different Silicon Valley that might serve as an effective antidote to that reality TV schlock. More »
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HBO Just Greenlit a Silicon Valley Comedy By Mike Judge That Could Actually Be Good
If you work with electronic components on a daily basis, help run a makerspace and need to keep basic parts on hand, or just do a lot of hobby electronics projects consider using EMSecrets to get the best price on basic components like capacitors, resistors, and microcontrollers. More »
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EMSecrets Helps You Find the Best Price on Electronics Components
It seems like everyone and their brother is working on some sort of smart glasses, but how about smart contact lenses? It turns out those might actually be closer than you think . More »
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This Contact Lens Puts a Display Right On Your Eye
Hewlett-Packard says it’s way ahead of Apple in the race to bring more computer assembly back to the U.S. [Read more]
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HP to Apple: Hey, we already make PCs in the U.S.