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Foreign policy wonks want tech companies to battle censorship with the devices they sell to foreign countries. Unfortunately, they can't defeat math, even for a noble cause.
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Giant bipedal robots look cool in anime and movies. In real life, you probably wouldn't want to use them to fight giant eldritch creatures made of teeth, fangs, and acid.
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Some computer scientists are so eager to work work quantum computers, they created a new language to make working with quantum circuits easier.
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NSA's PRISM is a huge mess that the public somehow really doesn't care about.
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A study finds that couple who met online end up in more stable, happier marriages. But there are a few small caveats that need to be addressed...
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We have the tools, know-how, and technology to make this a better, more advanced world. We're just refusing to do it because the public is used to the droning of naysayers.
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Jaron Lanier is back with a vision of a jobless post-Singularity dystopia where hundreds of millions have no place to go and nothing to do.
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Chris Dancy's now infamous minute by minute tracking of his work day shows just how badly management understands how to track the output of employees in creative fields.
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Sometimes, when all you can get for your writing is exposure, the market is trying to tell you something you'd be foolish to ignore.
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Malware peddlers apparently have great customer service. And if you think about it, they really have to...
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EU's latest idea for making the web forget you and your embarrassing posts? Set all data to self-destruct.
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Bitcoin isn't about to crash, but it's very unlikely to scale up to a currency freely used around the world.
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Computers respect the letter of the law, but they can't understand the spirit. That's why they're terrible at real world policing.
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In the tech world, dissing someone's tech stack is a great way to start a small holy war. And Jeff Atwood did just that on his blog.
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Tech skeptic Evgeny Morozov doesn't seem to think smartphone app users have any agency or free will.
