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  Apple forces AT&T to unlock customer's iPhone after impassioned letter

  By Aaron Souppouris on March 21, 2012 08:42 am + 116 comments

  When an Apple-loving 9to5Mac reader moved to Canada, he wanted to take his AT&T iPhone with him. He Continue reading…

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  US Congress members express themselves via Facebook Timeline cover photos

  By Sam Byford on March 21, 2012 07:06 am + 5 comments

  Forget the obsessive-compulsive tracking of every event in your life — the real killer feature of F Continue reading…

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  Exposing the intricate innards of mechanical calculators

  By Jeff Blagdon on March 21, 2012 05:11 am + 5 comments

  Back in the days before cheap electronics, businessmen and engineers used good old clacking, Continue reading…

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  How Reddit turned one user into a Hollywood screenwriter

  By Sam Byford on March 21, 2012 02:29 am + 12 comments

  Say what you want about Reddit, but it has a capacity for turning up stories that just wouldn't Continue reading…

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  Watch live: the 2012 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate chaired by Neil deGrasse Tyson (update)

  By Bryan Bishop on March 20, 2012 08:00 pm + 9 comments

  The revelation that neutrinos may be able to move faster than the speed of light rocked the Continue reading…

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  Robo-journalists are already writing the next generation of news stories

  By Ellis Hamburger on March 20, 2012 07:31 pm + 10 comments

  "Within seconds the clever software produces highly readable stories," writes Slate's Evgeny Morozov Continue reading…

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  If social networks were fancy cocktails...

  By Ellis Hamburger on March 20, 2012 04:33 pm + 18 comments

  As if "Social Media Explained" via donuts wasn't clever enough, we now have social media explained Continue reading…

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  As social media grows, job seekers are asked to give up Facebook passwords

  By Adi Robertson on March 20, 2012 11:52 am + 80 comments

  Job seekers are routinely advised to scrub their social media pages of photos and text that might Continue reading…

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  Professor works to outwit chess cheaters with software

  By T.C. Sottek on March 20, 2012 10:01 am + 4 comments

  It sounds more like something that would happen during a high school exam, but as The New York Times Continue reading…

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  The decline of print visualized: US newspaper ad sales falling off a cliff

  By Vlad Savov on March 20, 2012 07:01 am + 34 comments

  The Newspaper Association of America keeps a helpful tally of annual ad revenues earned by its 2,000 Continue reading…