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Apple Rumor Patrol: New iPads And iPhones Coming Soon

Apple's iPad 3 may be coming as soon as early March, according to some current rumors, sporting a bigger battery and a better screen--info that confirms other, earlier, rumors. We've wandered among this web of intrigue for you:READ»

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After The Revolution, Enter The Evolutionary

Evolutionaries contribute to incremental changes that build to points of rapid transformation. With self-empowered mass communication playing such an important role in effecting change today, the everyday, common evolutionary is more empowered than ever.READ»

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India's $35 Aakash Tablet Comes Apart

Months after India's healthily anticipated $35 tablet was first unveiled, its owners are embroiled in a spat that is raising questions about its future.READ»

The Facebook IPO Players Club: David Choe

They were doing just fine before, but the biggest of Facebook's minority owners are about to be catapulted into a far more elite bracket. As we ponder what they'll do with with new millions (around $200 million for the... colorful and creative David Choe), here's a look at what got them where they are today.READ»

Escape From Super Bowl Advertising Hell

The quality of Super Bowl ads often rivals the game itself, and yet every year brands will make missteps. Viewers will cringe, be bored, stop watching. Cartoonist Tom Fishburne sketches out the common stumbling blocks that leave brands writhing in the advertising pit of despair. READ»

Fast Talk: How This Tattoo Artist Became A Tech Entrepreneur

Meet Fred Giovannitti, whose ability to tease designs out of people's brains proves useful in two very different pursuits: tattoo artistry and environmental engineering.READ»

3 Design Essentials For Early Adopters

Design can make or break a company, especially in the case of early adopter tech that asks users to step outside their comfort zones. But one benefit of being early to a market is creating what a new experience means. Master these design essentials to define your brand, foster an atmosphere where people feel comfortable using your product, and ultimately win, says LevelUp's Seth Priebatsch.READ»

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This Week In Bots: Roboplayers, Robodancers, Robowarriors, And The Delicate Ethics Of Robosex

Would you love your Roomba more if it had rat-like whiskers? How about if it saved people's lives in post-disaster situations? Yeah, us too.READ»

Reports Of Design Thinking's Death Were An Exaggeration

Though some have said we've moved past design thinking, its most exciting extensions move beyond the concept in its most narrow sense. Many wouldn't even be projects you'd expect from the IDEOs and Jump Associates of the world.READ»

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Photo Archive App Shoebox Fills In Your Facebook Timeline, Starting At Birth

Starting today, the app from 1000memories lets users conveniently start digitizing the world's 4 trillion paper snapshots and slapping them on Facebook. Genealogy freaks, swoon. READ»

The 3-D Printing Pirates Who Could Render SOPA Meaningless

We're slowly moving to a world where printing 3-D objects will be common. At which point one could steal real-object IP as well as movies and music. READ»

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There's An App For That App

In a booming app economy come apps made for helping you develop and test apps, just as apps get more important. Read on for hot app-on-app action!READ»

How Speeding The "Most Important Algorithm Of Our Lifetime" Could Change This Modern World

Math breakthroughs don't often capture the headlines--but MIT researchers have just made one that could lead to all sorts of amazing technological breakthroughs that in just a few years will touch every hour of your life.READ»

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Educational Technology Experts Skeptical About Apple's iBooks

Apple has demonstrated again and again its ability to create and reinvent content marketplaces by designing irresistible devices and platforms--will educational content be its next conquest?When I was in college 10 years ago, my ...READ»

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Does This Patent Reveal Secrets Of Apple Television?

Apple was just granted 22 fresh patents. Among ideas for smart clothing and new iPhone headsets is a patent relating to the Apple Television. It contains elements previously unseen--and that may contain important clues to the long-rumored Apple device.READ»

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Apple And The Coming Education Revolution

Apple has a press event tomorrow--and not on the West Coast, but in New York City. It's something different. Something new. Something, we think, to do with education, textbooks, and major disruption. Will school ever be the same?READ»

5 Resources For The 4-Year Career

These five innovative nonprofits are all developing responses to today's faster-changing world of work.READ»

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What's Behind Intel's Expensive Ultrabook Push?

The continuing storm of mobile devices is changing the way people compute on the move and at home--and that's forcing Intel to innovate. READ»

Does This Ultrabook Make Me Look Fat? CES 2012 And The Tyranny Of Thin

If 2012's CES gadget fest has a theme already it's "thin, thinner, thinnest." But in the endless quest for skinny devices, what gets left out?READ»