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So Far, There Are Only 3 Big Winners in the Smartphone Market
Benedict Evans Benedict Evans has a great post describing the market for smartphones (and phones more broadly) in three charts and about 600 words. Admirable economy! Let me try to compress the...
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Are Today's App Companies Amusing Us to Death or Building the Future?
Reuters The national conversation of late has revolved around a trio of Washington scandals, a weather disaster, and the seesaw views in financial markets about whether crisis looms. Yet for all their...
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Watch a Cicada Metamorphose
You all may have just started to pay attention to cicadas this year, when they're emerging from the ground to mate and die, but filmmaker Samuel Orr has been working on a documentary about the special...
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Would You Send Your Kid to the 'Lego School'?
A tower of LEGOs (Shutterstock/iordani) Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen is the billionaire grandson of the founder of Lego. He was born in the Danish town of Billund -- a rural municipality in Jutland that...
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Shai Agassi's Electric Car Startup, Better Place, Is Bankrupt
Shai Agassi, before he resigned from the company he founded (Reuters). Electric car infrastructure company Better Place's move to file bankruptcy today marks the end of the road for a billion-dollar...
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Me and Sad Keanu: A 3D-Printing Story
It all began in June of 2010 when a photographer spotted Keanu Reeves eating a sandwich on a New York park bench. In one shot, Reeves looks dejected for reasons unknown. The image was metastatic: he...
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Your Smartphone, Made of Cement
The process is sort of like this ... except done in a lab, with lasers. (DOE/Argonne National Laboratory) Straw into gold. Water into wine. Servant into princess. It's a longstanding obsession of...
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Jurassic Park Is Real...for 400-Year-Old Arctic Mosses
An ice shelf in Ellesmere Island, Canada (Reuters)Fans of a certain dinosaur movie franchise might be disappointed to hear that we unfortunately still can't re-create velociraptors from the bellies of...
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Insane Video From Inside a Tornado
There isn't much context to this video. Two storm chasers, Brandon Ivey and Sean Casey, got hit by a tornado in their armored Tornado Intercept Vehicle 2, which is designed to be hit by tornadoes....
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Discovered: A Cave Art Complex That Could Be the Lascaux of Mexico
Mexican National Institute of Anthropology In 1940, an 18-year-old apprentice mechanic named Marcel Ravidat was walking with three friends and a dog named Robot in the woods near Montignac, France....
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'We're Trying to Portray the Universe as a Real Place With Real Landscapes'
"It's a beautiful universe out there," says Zolt Levay -- and he would know. As an "image processor" for the data that comes from the Hubble Space Telescope, Levay is the man behind many of our most...
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What the Man Who First Summited Everest Thought of the First American to...
Statue of Sir Edmund Hillary looking up at New Zealand's highest peak, Mt. Cook. (Wikimedia Commons) Sixty years ago this week, on May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay...
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This Is What It Feels Like to Finally Reach Space
The smiles on their faces say it all. Last night, a little after midnight on the East coast, three astronauts floated off a Russian Soyuz space capsule and onto the International Space Station where...
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This Is What Happens When a Toddler Tries on Google Glass
It's tough to be a kid. You may not have a job to commute to or bills to pay, but you do have to navigate a world that is, in every way, too big for you -- a world that is, understandably but also...
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Our Equal Future: Does Technology Hold the Key to a Flatter World?
Paramount Over the past two weeks, I, along with millions of other Trekkers, sat in a dark, air-conditioned theater and met once again the crew of the Enterprise, as I've done many times over the last...
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Facebook's *Ping* Noise Has 4 Notes: F, A, C, and E
You know that little ring on Facebook that sounds off when you get an incoming call? Here, it sounds like this: Well, that's not an off-the-shelf sound effect. It is the Facebook ping, and it was very...
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Big Changes Coming to Your Gmail Inbox
Gmail announced on its blog this morning a major design overhaul which will be rolling out to inboxes "gradually." The new inbox is designed around five tabs: primary (for your human-to-human...
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The Guy Who Wore the Same Clothes as His Wife for 35 Years Also Designed the...
Leominster Champ The Guardian has the best article ever about relationships. It was written by one Nancy Featherstone, who describes how she and her husband, Donald, have been wearing matching outfits...
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The Future of the Spacesuit
Ed White becomes the first American to conduct a spacewalk on June 3, 1965. "You looked like you were in your mother's womb," James McDivitt, mission commander, told the spacewalker. (NASA) NASA's...
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Could the NYT Mag 'My Plane Almost Crashed' Story Actually Be True?
Two weeks ago I read the NYT Mag's back-page story on a harrowing brush-with-death encounter when pilots had to land an airliner while thinking that its wheels had not come down. I was about to head...
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