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  Exclusive: Inside Hangouts, Google's big fix for its messaging mess

  By Verge Staff on May 15, 2013 01:58 pm + 390 comments

  By Ellis Hamburger and Dieter Bohn Skydivers equipped with futuristic glasses live-broadcasted Continue reading…

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  Body Message: GI Joe and the invention of the viral video

  By Lessley Anderson on May 9, 2013 11:45 am + 141 comments

  2003 was an important year for American culture: Baghdad fell, the Human Genome Project was Continue reading…

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  Who am I? Data and DNA answer one of life’s big questions

  By Laura June on May 7, 2013 11:02 am + 162 comments

  In March nearly 7,000 people traveled to the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, Continue reading…

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  Offline: how to use the internet

  By Paul Miller on May 3, 2013 05:25 pm + 150 comments

  Whew! What a week. First came Monday, and then Tuesday, and then there was the internet. You know Continue reading…

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  I’m still here: back online after a year without the internet

  By Paul Miller on May 1, 2013 10:40 am + 686 comments

  I was wrong. One year ago I left the internet. I thought it was making me unproductive. I thought Continue reading…

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  iTunes Store at 10: how Apple built a digital media juggernaut

  By Nathan Ingraham on April 26, 2013 11:56 am + 167 comments

  Additional reporting by Greg Sandoval Ten years ago this month, a music sector ravaged by Napster Continue reading…

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  They're watching: why city-wide surveillance failed to stop the Boston bombing

  By Matt Stroud on April 24, 2013 01:25 pm + 132 comments

  All day Sunday, police directed traffic around a blocked-off section of Boylston Street in downtown Continue reading…

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  Sick idea: how rabies spawned vampires and zombies

  By Sarah Pavis on April 18, 2013 01:45 pm + 53 comments

  “What disturbs me is I smashed his mouth off, I smashed his teeth in, but he still wanted to Continue reading…

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  Talking heads: how a late-night hack turned into Facebook's next big thing

  By Ellis Hamburger on April 16, 2013 12:17 pm + 122 comments

  On a Wednesday almost one year ago, Facebook product designers Joey Flynn and Brandon Walkin decided Continue reading…

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  OK, Cupid: giving your love life to Google Glass and the hive mind

  By Tim Maly on April 11, 2013 02:36 pm + 109 comments

  On January 20, 2013, sometime before 7:45PM, Lauren McCarthy sat down at a table. She was early. She Continue reading…