Source: Theatlantic
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Groupon is cutting about 10% of its workforce
Remember a few years ago when Groupon turned down a $6 billion acquisition deal from Google? Yeah, I can pretty much guarantee the company is regretting that decision. To be fair, the...
Amazon wants to pay authors for every page read rather than book sold
The e-book industry has remained more or less the same since it was created, and even Netflix-esque services for e-books haven't done much to change it. As the undisputed leader...
Chrome and Firefox users are actually better employees
Internet Explorer's days as the king of web browsers are long gone. Not only are Chrome and Firefox better, the people who use them are better as well, better employees at...
Project Wing is Google’s experimental drone delivery service
For two years, Google has quietly been developing autonomous flying vehicles that can be used to deliver packages for disaster relief or for commerce purposes, the company revealed Thursday. The...
Facebook conducted secret “mood experiments” on over 700,000 users
In an experiment it conducted earlier this year, Facebook injected the feeds of nearly 700,000 its users with negative content to see if it would make the posts they wrote...
This Belgian genius may have conceived the Internet over a century ago
Though we're pretty sure that time travelers don't exist, people were working on hypertext -- used by web browsers to retrieve connected information - long before computers. It even predates the ideas...
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has written an open letter to the FCC
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has written an open letter to the Federal Communications Commission concerning the subject of Net Neutrality. In it, Wozniak runs down his history with telecom and...
How exactly did the area code come to be?
Despite the rise of the internet, the 10-digit telephone number remains an ubiquitous and all-encompassing method of communication. But it hasn't been that long since human operators were responsible for...
Mormon missionaries could be transitioning to the Internet age
The door-knocking days for Mormons spreading the Lord's word may be coming to a close, the Mormon Church has started to integrate the internet into its missions. During the traditional,...
Poll shows that 58% of Americans still have a VCR
CES this week allows technology developers to showcase the latest gadgets that may become must-haves for many Americans. As attendees get a glimpse of the industry's future, Gallup finds that...
Android ‘started over’ the day the iPhone was announced
Apple's boast that the iPhone changed everything about the mobile industry has received some support from one of Android's original software architects. Chris DeSalvo, who worked alongside Andy Rubin at...
Norway to digitize all Norwegian books
In most other countries, if those books were still under copyright, the digitized versions (assuming publishers even allowed them to be made in the first place) would probably only be...
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