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1991 News Report on Video Games Shows Not Much Has Changed

A 1991 news report about parents angry over Super Nintendo shows little has changed in 20 years.

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Art

Google’s Cultural Institute: The Virtual Museum That Google Built

The world has just gotten a cool new free virtual museum, the one that Google built.

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Finance

The Tech CEO Hall of Shame

In the grand pantheon of disgraced technology company CEOs, the resume blunder of ousted Yahoo Chief Executive Scott Thompson seems almost trivial. Claiming an unearned degree pales in comparison to the true titans of tech transgressions - whose careers were toppled by everything from massive fraud and grand larceny to inappropriate dalliances with…

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4 Stupid Legal Mistakes That Can Kill Your Startup

Everyone knows Dickens’ famous opening from A Tale of Two Cities. But “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." is only the beginning of the line. The sentence continues: “it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…” It’s that second part that makes the quote an apt metaphor for life in a startup - and a…

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Analysis

Windows 8: The OS/2 of Today

After watching Microsoft lurch toward completion of Windows 8 and trying out a few of its early versions, I am struck by a tremendous sense of déjà vu. It took me some time to figure out why I was feeling this way, and then it hit me: Win 8 is on track to become the OS/2 of today, and suffer a similar and ignominious fate. Don't get me wrong: I…

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History

Mapping the Republic of Letters

All throughout human history technical breakthroughs have altered the topography of human thought. Or, rather, human thought has had a freer expression when it creates a more efficient vehicle for its own transmission. The 18th century, more than many, may remind us of our own time. That period was the culmination of what had become known as the…

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Hacking

Microsoft Kinect Turns One Year Old

Microsoft's gesture interface Kinect turns one year old this weekend; it was the 4th of November 2010 when it was first publicly available. The device has taken the world by storm, from casual gamers to device hackers around the globe and it's breathed new hope into a lagging tech giant. Perhaps most importantly, it's helped create an entire…

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History

Asking the Cloud Doctor

In a sign that healthcare is moving to the mobile, a company called HealthTap is launching an app that offers a Quora-like experience from the cloud. HealthTap Express allows the 89% of patients who turn to search engines instead of their local doctors for health information to do so in an objective and relatively "clinical" environment on…

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Google Announces Digital Dead Sea Scrolls Project

Later this week, the Jewish High Holidays begin with Rosh Hashanah, which marks the beginning of the new year. It seems like good timing for Google's announcement that the Digital Dead Sea Scrolls project is up and running. Created by The Israel Museum in conjunction with Google, the project, first announced last year, offers the public the…

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Google Earth Helps Understaned Geoglyphs

One of the wonderful results of networked intelligence is the revelation of the already-there. Geoglyphs. Could there be anything more there than a work of art built out of or incised into the earth itself? But the earth, she is big, and you can't get your mind around the whole of it and apprehend its multitudinous parts, or even the small patterns…

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1991 News Report on Video Games Shows Not Much Has Changed

Google’s Cultural Institute: The Virtual Museum That Google Built

The Tech CEO Hall of Shame

4 Stupid Legal Mistakes That Can Kill Your Startup

Windows 8: The OS/2 of Today

Mapping the Republic of Letters

Microsoft Kinect Turns One Year Old

Asking the Cloud Doctor

Google Announces Digital Dead Sea Scrolls Project

Google Earth Helps Understaned Geoglyphs