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Is this high-tech bridge the safest in America?
Just about everyone who worked to build the new Interstate Highway 35W bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota, knew that their project would never be "just a bridge." It would never occupy the same category as thousands of other concrete and steel behemoths that millions of American drivers thoughtlessly cross every day.
Continue reading...The robot that visits your cubicle
30. July 2010
When Trevor Blackwell, CEO of a company called Anybots, wants to know what his employees are up to, he sends a robot to their cubicles.
Continue reading...The robot that visits your cubicle
30. July 2010
When Trevor Blackwell, CEO of a company called Anybots, wants to know what his employees are up to, he sends a robot to their cubicles.
Continue reading...The KIN phone is dead — ‘buy now!’
29. July 2010
At the end of June, after much hype and a major mass-media ad campaign, Microsoft pulled the plug on KIN, its family of semi-smartphones.
Continue reading...New phones are too big for pockets
29. July 2010
Something weird is happening to mobile phones: After shrinking from enormous Zack Morris proportions in the '80s and '90s, they're getting bigger again.
Continue reading...At $139, is the new Kindle ‘cheap?’
29. July 2010
Prices in consumer electronics tend to fluctuate wildly.
Continue reading...Facebook wants you to ask Questions
29. July 2010
Facebook has begun the rollout of a new feature, Facebook Questions, which will allow users to get answers to their queries from the entire Facebook community.
Continue reading...‘StarCraft II’ lives up to 11 years of hype
29. July 2010
Few games live up to 11 years of anticipation, but "StarCraft II's" slick upgrades mean the sequel's got a shot.
Continue reading...People sue Apple over ‘overheating’ iPads
28. July 2010
Three iPad users claim that because the iPad will shut itself off after remaining in direct sunlight for long enough, it fails to meet the promises Apple made about using the device as an e-book reader.
Continue reading...Angry ‘Winnebago Man’ a hit on web, in film
28. July 2010
It's hard to remember, but viral videos actually existed before YouTube.
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30. July 2010
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