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Google adds new feature to Now that reminds you to pay your bills

Now your phone can make sure you never forget to pay your credit card bill. After circulating as a rumor in March, billing reminders have landed in Google Now. The...

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The Vanmoof 10 Electrified is an e-bike that doesn’t actually suck

E-bikes make urban cycling more practical and accessible, but they aren’t exactly sexy. In New York City, they’re synonymous with restaurant deliverymen, and in some cases are illegal. In Europe,...

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High-tech biometric shirt monitors your body’s vitals

Most fitness wearables wrap around your wrist or clip to your belt, but the folks at OMsignal have distilled the category down to its most basic form: the shirt. "We've been wearing clothing all our lives,"...

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Apple beefs up the MacBook Air’s specs and lowers the price

Earlier this week Apple launched a refreshed version of its Macbook Air lineup. And they did so quietly. I was only alerted to the news thanks to The Verge's twitter account. The...

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Grams search engine is like Google for illicit materials

Looking online for some good weed, assault rifles, or stolen credit cards? One reddit user has just the thing. With its intuitive, Google-like interface, a new search engine, called Grams, offers users...

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NASA to release 1,000 of its software systems into the public domain

Everyone has probably day-dreamed of launching a space-ship from their backyard at some point. Well, now that NASA plans to release over a thousand of its software systems into the public domain,...

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Satya Nadella makes a good first impression as Microsoft’s new CEO

Satya Nadella made a good first impression in his first press conference as Microsoft CEO. Waxing tech talk on ubiquitous computing, while tossing in a quote from T.S. Eliot, he cut...

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U.S. Navy wants a satellite to beam solar energy down to earth

Imagine being able to capture solar power in the vastness and emptiness of space itself, before you send it down to the earth for humanity to consume. After all, it is not...

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Researchers at MIT create useful bionic plants

In many ways, plants are ideal technology hosts. It only makes sense, then, that MIT scientists want to harness that potential by augmenting our leafy friends with nanotechnology. The researchers have found...

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Uber drivers receive expanded insurance following young girl’s death

The New Year’s Eve death of a six-year-old girl highlighted a potential flaw in the ride-sharing ecosystem: Uber insures its non-professional drivers while they’re on the job, and their personal insurance covers them...

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