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Newsonomics : BuzzFeed and The New York Times play Facebook’s ubiquity game Intellectually, we all knew that the Internet was so big as to be virtually infinite. But it’s hard… more ›
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A new US-EU free trade agreement could make countries subservient to corporations After eight rounds of secret negotiations, Washington and Brussels are still struggling to breathe life into the Transatlantic… more ›
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How the Rio slums helped inspire a start-up revolution The Agency, an initiative imported from Brazil’s favelas allows young people from deprived inner-city areas develop business ideas that benefit their… more ›
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The Shut-In Economy Angel the concierge stands behind a lobby desk at a luxe apartment building in downtown San Francisco, and describes the residents of this imperial, 37-story tower. “Ubers,… more ›
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The First Auction for Algorithms Is Attracting $1,000 Bids Back in 1986 Hal Abelson, a professor of computer science and electrical engineering at MIT, stood in front of room of… more ›
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Lore and The Order: How Dark Souls can fix gaming’s storytelling struggles Let’s begin with a chilling fact: the bricks in Super Mario Bros. are actually people, trapped in stone… more ›
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The Drone as Privacy Catalyst Associated today with the theatre of war, the widespread domestic use of drones for surveillance seems inevitable. Existing privacy law will not stand in its… more ›
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Could analog computing accelerate complex computer simulations? DARPA is looking for new processing paradigms that have the potential to overcome current barriers in computing performance. “Old fashioned” analog approaches may… more ›
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How Tyler Brûlé has extended Monocle beyond simply a magazine for the jet set LONDON — It’s lunchtime on a Tuesday, and the Monocle Cafe in the Marylebone neighborhood here… more ›