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THURSDAY 12. APRIL 2012


North Korean Space Mission Goes For Classic Look

The isolated nation's Launch Center appears to be deliberately designed to echo the heyday of the space age. Rocket scientists sit behind rows of bulky grey consoles, intently monitoring readouts--it could be an iconic image from the Apollo era, but in fact it's the scene shown in recent pictures from North Korea's launch control center outside Pyongynag. Sometime between now and...

Who Could Be the Next Instagram?

Six ideas for where Mark Zuckerberg might put his money. A little over a year ago, I got an email from a college friend, telling me about her boyfriend’s startup. He and some friends had a made an app that let you take pictures, apply filters to them, and share them with friends. “That’s kind of boring,” I thought. I decided not to write about it....

Two Wheels with a Tech Twist

A new scooter rental service relies on its users' smart phones to serve as both the key and the dashboard. If you live in a major city and don't own a car, you could turn to biking, public transportation, or the occasional Zipcar rental to get around. Soon, you may be able to add another set of wheels to that list: smart-phone enhanced electric scooters....


WEDNESDAY 11. APRIL 2012



TUESDAY 10. APRIL 2012


An (Actual!) Look Inside Foxconn

The journalist who busted Mike Daisey steps inside the factory. Once upon a time, an actor named Mike Daisey wrote and performed a wildly successful monologue about Foxconn, the factory where your iPad (and much else) is made. Then, that actor got busted, by a journalist named Rob Schmitz, for including falsehoods in his monologue. (I wrote all about it...

Mobile-Ad Firms Seek New Ways to Track You

The industry is on a mission to make you like the ads that know which apps you're using. Few smart-phone users realize it, but mobile-ad companies track them as they use many free apps. They do this in order to fine-tune the ads the users see. But now that Apple has started to restrict a common way of tracking users, ad companies are scrambling for alternatives, and hoping to "teach"...


MONDAY 9. APRIL 2012



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