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Tesla’s New Battery Is On the Wall and Off the Grid
Tesla makes awe-inspiring, environmentally friendly sports cars — and, now, solar-powered batteries for your home.
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TechGoogle Is Now a Mobile Carrier, Here’s What It Means
Disruption: overused, yes; inappropriate, no.
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TechIs This Phone the Answer to Smartphone Privacy?
The Blackphone 2 gets aggressive with security, because there’s no measure too great to make sure your selfies are secure.
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TechWill the Sharing Economy Change the World?
A look at how sharing platforms like Uber and Airbnb positively and negatively affect our world.
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TechRobinhood and the Easy Money Apps
A new breed of money apps — Robinhood, Acorns and Digit — are transforming the way people save and invest.
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TechDecrypted: Health is the New Gold
Tracking your health is attracting big data and big business — and in an era where personal data is the new currency, health information is solid gold.
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TechSerial, and Putting Longform Radio Back on the Map
Despite overflowing Twitter feeds, unending notification pings, busier schedules, and a lust for just getting to the point, there’s an opportunity for the podcast to tell stories worth paying attention to.
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TechDecrypted: With Health, Microsoft Admits Defeat — and Adapts
Microsoft’s newly minted CEO Satya Nadella has no shortage of challenges ahead, with revenue streams from Windows and Office thinning. But the Microsoft Health signals a more forward-thinking direction for the company: focusing on the cloud.
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TechDecrypted: Predictive Keyboards Are Taking Over Your Smartphone (and Beyond)
With this month’s introduction of iOS 8, SwiftKey — along with other alternative keyboards — have made their way over to the iPhone demographic. Suddenly, taking the words right out of one’s mouth is all the rage, but what’s it to you?
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TechDecrypted: Path Rights Its Course
It’s entirely possible that you have no idea what Path is. Until recently it had been floundering mightily.
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TechDecrypted: Caution in the Age of the Quantified Self
Tracking your health and fitness with the help of smartphone apps and wearables is fun and motivating; auto insurers are now allowing drivers tracking options to prove their safety and save money.
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TechDecrypted: Apple Pay Will Kill the Wallet — Eventually
With the debut of the iPhone 6 (and 6 Plus) came a nugget so substantial that it deserved its own introduction: Apple Pay.
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TechThe Apple Watch Is Here. Now What?
Back in August, we argued that smartwatches simply weren’t worth the investment (yet, anyway) for most people. The question, of course, was whether or not Apple’s entry into the space would break away from that mold in any significant manner.
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Decrypted: The State of Drones in America, Today, Tomorrow and Beyond
Drones both commercial and noncommercial face a slew of bureaucratic challenges in the near future.
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TechDecrypted: A Guide to Avoiding Data Throttling
Throttling is a term that has snuck up on laypeople all of a sudden, particularly applying to how mobile data is delivered. Rather than just cutting users off altogether once a certain usage level is reached, carriers far and wide are instead putting a chokehold on the speed at which data is delivered.
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TechDecrypted: Are Wearables Worth It?
In a sense, producers of wearables are trying to convince you that they’re something you can’t possibly live without…. something like your smartphone.
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TechDecrypted: Google Takes Aim at Apple’s Biggest Advantage with Material Design
Google just released a new “Material Design” standard for Android, which aims to decrease design fragmentation.