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Now’s Your Last Chance To Buy Lunch With Tim Cook (If You Can Afford It)

Love Apple? Got $250,000 lying around? You could buy 10 top-of-line Applewatches, or you could buy a lunch with Apple CEO Tim Cook, and two tickets to an upcoming Apple Keynote (plus he might just throw in an Applewatch for free). Auction site Charitybuzz is once again auctioning off the opportunity to lunch with Apple’s 2nd most famous CEO. This time seems to be a...

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3D-Printed Electronics Have Arrived

Section 1: The Drone Printer “ You can’t print an iPhone (yet).” I wrote that in my e-book on 3D printingjust six months ago. It was part of an entire section dedicated to what 3D printers couldn’t do. That section gets more and more out-of-date every day, and yesterday that was especially true. Yesterday Voxel8, a company founded and run by several Harvard and...

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Quick Review: Amazon Fire TV Stick

From the outside, Amazon’s new fire TV stick looks cutting edge. Its sleek matte black design, and beautiful curves make it the most attractive smart-TV stick out there. Inside, things are very different. The Fire Stick’s experience bears more resemblance to the original smart TVs of 2010 than to modern devices like Google’s Chromecast or Apple’s Apple TV.  Apps are hidden away in menus....

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He Built A Satellite in his garage. Now He’s Using It To Photograph Earth Like Never Before

This is a part of our ongoing “Startup Of The Month” Award Series. To nominate a startup. Tweet your nomination to @Msitver. Space. Why is it the final frontier? Mostly because it’s so costly to explore. We pay $70 million per astronaut to fly them up to the ISS on a Russian Spacecraft, and a typical satellite can cost $50-400 million to send up...

Why I’m Thankful To Google (And Why You Should Be Too)

I could write an article about why I’m thankful for Google’s products, but I’m not going to. No. What I’m thankful for, is what Google is doing for millions of people who will probably never be paying customers. A quick preview of why I’m thankful: Bringing information to oppressed peoples Saving children from slavery and Ebola Bringing better tools to the sick and needy...