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What's in your bag, Ross Miller?

By Ross Miller on June 1, 2012 02:30 pm + 202 comments

What's in your bag? is a recurring feature where we ask people to tell us a bit more about their Continue reading…
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Mobile hardware and software are separable, no matter what manufacturers tell you

By Vlad Savov on June 1, 2012 11:16 am + 336 comments

The one thing device manufacturers fear more than anything else is the commoditization of their Continue reading…
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Offline: Bills

By Paul Miller on May 30, 2012 02:25 pm + 214 comments

I don't know a better way to put this: I have a fear of mailing things. Postalphobia? I don't know Continue reading…
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A night on the town with SceneTap

By Lessley Anderson on May 29, 2012 12:30 pm + 20 comments

SceneTap, the app that lets you see what bars are full, and what percentage of the patrons are Continue reading…
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The future of TV as seen in Super Hi-Vision

By Sam Byford on May 29, 2012 10:00 am + 139 comments

Nippon Housou Kyoukai, better known as NHK, is much more than Japan's public service broadcaster — Continue reading…
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The best tech writing of the week, May 27

By Thomas Houston on May 27, 2012 10:20 am + 13 comments

We all know the feeling. You're sleepless in the sad hours of the night or stumbling around early on Continue reading…
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Offline: Ignorance

By Paul Miller on May 25, 2012 02:29 pm + 245 comments

In the classic animated series Arthur there are many references to reading. For instance, Arthur's Continue reading…
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Dataland: the MIT's '70s media room concept that influenced the Mac

By Thomas Houston on May 24, 2012 04:10 pm + 24 comments

In research for our latest Future Passed piece, I came across the mention of "Dataland" and a Continue reading…
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Future Passed: When we dreamed of television

By Matt Novak on May 24, 2012 12:45 pm + 69 comments

The rush to create television was started by a rumor. In 1880 Alexander Graham Bell, the famed Continue reading…
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Against the future: inside the Jewish anti-internet rally

By Paul Miller on May 22, 2012 05:36 pm + 360 comments

This weekend I took a 45 minute train ride to Citi Field, which typically houses a baseball team Continue reading…