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The Real iPod: Elon Musk's Wild Idea for a 'Jetson Tunnel' from S.F. to L.A.
The inventor wants to find the fifth dimension ... of transportation.
In an 1948 issue of the Atlantic, Walter Lippmann proposes options for balancing openness in museums and the imperative of preservation
The power coming through your electrical socket is undergoing the fastest, largest change in American history.
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The inventor wants to find the fifth dimension ... of transportation.
Reuters
In the age of apps, it's easy to forget how many of our systems depend on complex code -- creating hidden, and potentially dangerous, risks.
A summary of survey results prepared by GlobeScan Incorporated and sponsored by Siemens
Links to London2012.com cannot be "derogatory or otherwise objectionable." Riiiight.
The company's habit of killing off technologies before they're really dead is inconvenient, but Cupertino is playing the long game.
YouTube
This microsite is like a crystal ball for the 6th-grade girl in all of us.
AP
The next time tells you the Internet is filled with inane crap, just show them this video, and note it was produced by the Associated Press.
Neatline
A new tool from the University of Virginia demonstrates that digital history is about more than big data: It's about uncertainty, nuance, and connection.
YouTube
Confused about science? This Nobel winner would be happy to help you out.
NASA
An enormous galaxy, observed by a menagerie of telescopes.
BusinessWeek
A social networking company is not a technology company like Intel is a technology company; its users are its product.
Digg
The social news site, in a different time, tried to sell itself for $300 million.
Wikimedia Commons
You can design profile pages however you want, but social rules still apply.
Reuters
On the surface, the stories of a young man killed in Florida and a blind Chinese activist couldn't be more different. And yet.
Rachel Sterne
New York City has found a way to breathe new life into old tech.
Brooke Roberts
London fashion designer Brooke Roberts uses Photoshop and a textile-design software program to knit medical images into high fashion.
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Same-day delivery to New York? One more way web culture is becoming urban culture.
Wikipedia
Mostly, the site's homeliness is a feature rather than a bug. Still: It might be time for a makeover.
Google
The stock moves up and down, the company remains.
Our emergency phone systems need to be reevaluated.
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