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FUNNY WOMEN: Introducing Alex, the Male Alexa

  • Sally Miller
  • July 25, 2019
Meet Alex: a new smart speaker designed by the very best in Silicon Valley.
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The Business of Making Art: A Conversation with Beatriz Ramos

  • Eric B. Martin
  • June 26, 2017
Beatriz Ramos discusses DADA, the digital platform she hopes will democratize art and reimagine the Internet's potential for visual artists.
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This Week in Indie Bookstores

  • Ian MacAllen
  • November 15, 2016
A bookstore in Wyoming has banned laptops and cell phones so customers can live like its 1993. The former headquarters of Borders Bookstores has become a tech hub. Can bookstores…
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Jensen Beach

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • June 15, 2016
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Jensen Beach about his short story collection Swallowed by the Cold, suburbia in Sweden, quiet racism, and writing a series of connected short stories.
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140 Characters or More

  • Roxie Pell
  • May 17, 2016
Make sure no one else is awake. Turn off the lights. Your windows can stay open. Now turn on your phone and begin reading. Repeat as necessary each night. Do…
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The Page Is Mightier than the Screen

  • Jake Slovis
  • February 10, 2016
For Lit Hub, David Denby reflects on the danger of losing young readers because of the influence of cell phone and computer screens: Electronic utopians say, “Calm down, nothing has been…
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OG DAD #26: The Greedy Fox

  • Jerry Stahl
  • June 16, 2015
Phobic or diligent? You be the judge. All fodder to feed into the Daddy neurosis machine.
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Weekly Geekery

  • Lyz Lenz
  • September 30, 2014
Smart phones are tracking your perfect student. The important warnings of sci-fi’s dystopian tales. Because you are interested in the Loch Ness monster. Online rumors and lies and the science…
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The Rumpus Interview with David Bezmozgis

  • Cam Terwilliger
  • September 29, 2014
The Rumpus talks to David Bezmozgis about Israel, making fact into fiction, politics in novels, and his new book, The Betrayers.
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Call Me, Ishmael

  • P.E. Garcia
  • May 20, 2014
Already all the rage in Japan, the cell phone novel is slowly making its way to the US. The cell phone novel is a tweet-like fiction form: short bursts of…
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Cellular Relationships

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • February 28, 2012
You may have used your cell phone to have a heart-to-heart with someone else, but have you every opened up and talked it out with that very phone? A new…
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