Isn't It Time You Had A Talk With Your Thermostat?
Smartphone users have gotten used to speaking to virtual assistants like Apple's Siri and Google Now, and a new set of startups are guessing users will be excited about talking with devices from...
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Why Vim, An '80s Text Editor, Is Still The UI Of Choice For Power Users
If you want to improve productivity on any piece of frequently used software there's a simple solution: ditch the mouse and use keyboard shortcuts instead.Plenty of you already know to hit control-c...
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The Secret Meaning Behind GamerGate's Branding
When GamerGate supporters on /v/, 4chan's video game forum, decided to sponsor The Fine Young Capitalists Game Jam, a crowd-funded project to develop video game ideas from women new to the industry,...
View ArticleThink It's Hard to Remember Your Passwords? At Least You Know Your ABCs
Keeping track of passwords is a challenge at every organization. But it's especially challenging in schools, where teachers can find themselves spending valuable computer lab time helping young...
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Restart Game? Text Adventures Make A Comeback
On Oct. 30, developer Andrew Plotkin released his long-awaited game Hadean Lands, a fantasy space adventure backed by a Kickstarter campaign funded almost four years ago.Indie games are often noted for...
View ArticleLinkedIn Aims To Tame Giant Datasets With Cubert
If you've ever had to merge two Excel spreadsheets then you know how challenging it can be to work with data from multiple sources. At LinkedIn, where tables with hundreds of millions of records are...
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How HotelTonight Handles The Demand For Instant Booking And Check-In
The app HotelTonight is built around last-minute hotel booking. Users depend on the app to quickly deliver room rates and vacancies, especially when they have a spotty cell connection and it's a busy...
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A Gaming Site For Role-Playing Games Aims To Upgrade IRL Dragon Slaying Too
Even in the age of blockbuster digital hits like World of Warcraft and Civilization: Beyond Earth, there are still plenty of gamers who like playing role-playing and strategy games the old-fashioned...
View ArticleLike Uber, But For Credit Card Fraud
Sharing economy services have made headlines by seamlessly connecting buyers and sellers of services from transportation and lodging to dogwalking and housecleaning. The peer-to-peer rental market...
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How Facebook's iOS App Stands on the Shoulders of Photography's Giants
Facebook engineers say the auto-enhance feature newly added to the service's iOS app wouldn't have been possible even a few years ago, when phones just didn't have the necessary processing power like...
View ArticleThe Future of Search, Brought To You By The Pentagon
Parse.ly doesn't sound like a typical name for a defense contractor.But the New York-based web analytics startup has been awarded more than $1 million through a Defense Advanced Research Projects...
View ArticleHow Facebook's Massive Open-Source Push Delivers Better Code And Better...
On December 16, Facebook announced the release of open-source code the company says significantly sped up its internal artificial intelligence and machine learning projects.Its release is part of an...
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MIT Students Redesign The How-To Video, In 4 Easy Steps
Whether you want to learn how to make scrambled eggs like Gordon Ramsay, drive a stick shift without stalling out or just wax the tips of your mustache, you can find plenty of videos online offering...
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For 3-D Modeling, Startups Say The Pen Is Mightier Than The Printer
Makers of 3-D printers often promote the devices as ideal for rapid prototyping, saying they let users quickly and inexpensively turn sketches into physical models without complicated hardware and...
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Why Fax Won't Die
When OrderSnapp, a company that helps restaurants take orders online, works with its clients, it lets them choose how they want to be notified about incoming orders. Some prefer email, and some would...
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How To Design The Purrfect Cat Cafe
The concept of a cat cafe seems easy enough to explain: it's a place where people can have a snack or a cup of coffee while they play with cats.And that's a pretty good definition—for a human.But from...
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The Rise Of Urban Audio Tours
While many still associate audio tours with bulky headsets rented from museum ticket counters, commercial startups, artists and storytellers are developing new smartphone-based urban audio walks they...
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A New Generation Of Smart Sensors Aim To Track The Air You Breathe
New gadgets are arriving that are designed to show you in real time just what you're breathing in, with Internet-enabled indoor and outdoor air-quality sensors.But one of these devices' biggest...
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As Big As Net Neutrality? FCC Votes To Kill State Imposed Internet Monopolies
With Internet connections orders of magnitude faster than are available in many larger American cities, Chattanooga's public fiber optic broadband network has been the subject of press coverage and an...
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Work From Anywhere But Home: Startups Emerge To Turn You Into A Globetrotting...
While he was a university student in the Netherlands in 2009, Pieter Levels started an electronic music channel on YouTube that he says became popular enough to pay the bills even after he graduated....
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