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Alexis Madrigal - Alexis Madrigal is a senior editor at The Atlantic. He's the author of Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology.
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The New York Observer calls him, "for all intents and purposes, the perfect modern reporter." Madrigal co-founded Longshot magazine, a high-speed media experiment that garnered attention from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the BBC. While at Wired.com, he built Wired Science into one of the most popular blogs in the world. The site was nominated for best magazine blog by the MPA and best science Web site in the 2009 Webby Awards. He also co-founded Haiti ReWired, a groundbreaking community dedicated to the discussion of technology, infrastructure, and the future of Haiti.

He's spoken at Stanford, CalTech, Berkeley, SXSW, E3, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and his writing was anthologized in Best Technology Writing 2010 (Yale University Press).

Madrigal is a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley's Office for the History of Science and Technology. Born in Mexico City, he grew up in the exurbs north of Portland, Oregon, and now lives in Oakland.
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PayPal to Let You Deposit Checks with iPhone Photos

By Alexis Madrigal

Sep 29 2010, 11:50 PM ET Comment

File this one under, "Ok, fine, we do live in the future." PayPal's latest iPhone app will allow you to deposit checks into your PayPal account by simply photographing the front and back with your iPhone. At least that's the plan according to one of the company's executives who spoke at TechCrunch's Disrupt Conference.

On a panel alongside Keith Rabois from Square and Holger Luedorf from Foursquare, [PayPal's Laura] Chambers said that this new app will allow you to take a picture of the front and back of a check with your iPhone camera, and it will be added to your PayPal balance.

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