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There are a bunch of new Kindles if you’re into that whole e-reader thing. Your car will soon be able to read your mind if Nissan has its way. So…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Does the Web need an owner? Facebook is starting a political action committee. A small segment of you may be very excited that the iPhone 5 is scheduled to launch in…
Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Facebook wants you to share everything …. aaaah! So what social networks are popular in other parts of the world? A nice infographic. Researchers reconstruct the videos people watch just…
Netflix Roundup #2
Netflix signs a two-year agreement with Discovery (renewed, expanded, and non-exclusive). More on that note, Netflix plans to focus on TV Shows, as they comprise of “60 percent of the…
Unauthorised Assange Autobiography
Tomorrow Canongate, Julian Assange’s former publisher, plan to “publish ‘the unauthorised first draft’ of his autobiography without his consent, months after the WikiLeaks founder withdrew from a million-pound contract for…
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Apple devices rank top in customer satisfaction; Android, Nokia, RIM gnash teeth. And speaking of Apple, Adobe Flash now works on yr iGadget of any kind. The ex-Yahoo CEO may…
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App slaughter: Google’s killing off some products. The internet’s official red light district (.xxx) has arrived. Let the games begin! Not so green after all: Indoor weed farming and production…
How To Write a Book in Two Months: The Rumpus Interview with Cole Stryker
Last spring, I met Cole Strkyer at a party where everyone had a tumblr but me. Just 27 years old, Stryker had recently sold a book about 4chan,
Characters, Too Inspired
Five years ago Lynn Coady published a novel with a protagonist drawn partially from the life of a real, thirty-years-deceased poet, and a experienced firsthand earful from an audience full…
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Sometimes Google gets it wrong … which can be rough on the small businesses it marks as “closed” when they’re actually not. Has email driven the closure of the US…
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Researchers have created a genetic computer that can be used to find and kill specific cancer cells. India is trying to help the poor by creating a biometric database of…
Twitter Alter-Egos
Performance art is taking on twitter. Faux famous author accounts are in and they’re taking over. Laura Ingalls Wilder is pioneering the field with her twitter feed (@halfpintingalls) and not…