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Has the U.S. Passed Peak Car?
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From remote-controlled irrigation to instant weather and crop technique information, farmers are reaping huge benefits from their phones
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Letting users choose between continuing to use a service for free or paying to opt out of being tracked could be good for everybody, even if no one uses it
United Nude
A new design method uses 3D scanners to create minimalist, "low-resolution" products
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Journalists and academics are coming up with novel ways to illustrate the thousands of military reports from the war in Afghanistan
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Court testimony from the founder of the popular meme-generating site sheds some light on the language that guides its subculture
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The Spanish webmaster tells us why he made a site for a country whose own citizens can't view it
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The software's "autosummarize" feature churns out astonishingly apt -- and lyrical -- summaries of long texts
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A look at the patriotic programming behind the homepage of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
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There's a lot of pointless alarmism about the release of the user data, but it's really not that big a deal
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The U.K. website shows how governments can accessibly offer up troves of previously obscure and hard-to-find data
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In some ways, it's easier than ever to build crappy software. But don't worry, that's a good thing.
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The tweeting history of the now-deceased 104-year-old shows how little the microblogging format affected her voice
The biggest ideas of 2013, why junk food is fat's greatest foe, the real baby deadline, and more
