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iPad Mini, iPad 4, and new Mac models released at Apple event

Oct 24, 2012
Do you need Apple's new iPad Mini. No you don't need it. What you need is love, fulfillment, security and good health. So the question should be, will you want the iPad's smaller sibling?
Posted In: iPad, iPad Mini, apple, gadgets
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Nate Silver on political polling in the cellphone and social media age

Oct 22, 2012
Nate Silver, who tracks polls at the New York Times blog Five Thirty Eight, says that technology is great for forecasting political races, if we use it correctly.
Posted In: debate, 2012 election, polls
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Social search gets bigger, and Instapaper's founder Marco Arment starts 'The Magazine'

Oct 17, 2012
Google has broadened the data it's pulling into its version of what's being called "social search," and famous developer Marco Arment starts his own magazine.
Posted In: Instapaper, social search, Google, bing, the magazine, marco arment
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Reddit, Gawker, trolling, and the dangers of online anonymity

Oct 15, 2012
Gawker journalist Adrian Chen outed a man known for online "trolling" on the website Reddit and started a discussion about free speech online.
Posted In: Tech, reddit, gawker, freedom of speech, first amendment
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Ransomware: Holding Your Computer Hostage Under Pain of Death

Oct 11, 2012
A new hacker scheme locks your hard drive and your files and prompts you to pay up...or else.
Posted In: computer virus, hackers, malware, ransomware
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A new digital music battle, and online gaming as political liability

Oct 7, 2012
A Maine state senate candidate gets attacked for her online gaming activities, and a startup that wants to help you sell your used MP3s goes to court against a big entertainment company.
Posted In: Tech, politics, Music, copyright
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How tech is changing the debate

Oct 3, 2012
Most people watching the first big presidential debate will do so on television, but for a fast-increasing number, it's far from the only primary source.
Posted In: Tech, politics, tablets, debate
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FreedomPop launches free WiFi beta, and "transient electronics"

Oct 1, 2012
A new service called FreedomPop hopes to go up against AT&T and Verizon, and a new kind of dissolve-able circuit that could change the field of medicine.
Posted In: Tech, wifi, electronics, medicine
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China's Foxconn worker riot and Iran's shadow Internet

Sep 25, 2012
With all this information technology at our disposal, it's striking how getting to the truth of a matter can still be so tough. Two tech stories from opposite sides of the world today remind us how even in 2012 the flow of information is still tightly controlled.
Posted In: Foxconn, China, riots, Iran
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The Digital Vote: States and Nonprofits Push for Voter Registration Online

Sep 24, 2012
Let's start with the anatomy of a troll: First you email. Then you follow up with a text. Then, if all else fails, you place a phone call. All of this to get your kid in college to register to vote. Technology to the rescue?
Posted In: online voter registration, voter registration, government, election

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