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Our Kids Aren't Web-Addicted, Says Study. Are We?

A new Nielsen study says that adults use the Internet more than teenagers do. Is that actually a surprise? The Wichita Eagle summarizes the study as disputing "several popular notions about teens, including the idea that ...READ»

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Seven Stories This Week: Weird Science Edition

Yes, the King of Pop has gone to meet the Emperor of Pop, and taken much of his patented weirdness with him. Lest you forget that Earth is strange enough even without the scion of Neverland Ranch, here are a few of this week's viral ...READ»

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Ebay Your iPhone: HTC Hero Hands-on

At a media event yesterday in New York, representatives from smartphone maker HTC passed around their latest creation: an Android-based device they're calling Hero. And... wow. It bears saying I am not traditionally a fan of ...READ»

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Ebay Your iPhone: HTC Hero Hands-on

At a media event yesterday in New York, representatives from smartphone maker HTC passed around their latest creation: an Android-based device they're calling Hero. And... wow. It bears saying I am not traditionally a fan of ...READ»

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How Fast Can We Make the Web?

That's the question being asked by Google's new coding site for developers, code.google.com/speed. The search giant, famous for its spartan, utilitarian Web interfaces and monster server farms, believes that making pages on the Web ...READ»

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Steve Jobs Was "Sickest Patient" on Liver Donor List

On June 21, FastCompany.com reported on speculation that Apple's mercurial chief executive had undergone a liver transplant, as reported by the Wall Street Journal. Yesterday, the surgery was confirmed by the operating hospital, ...READ»

Five More Killer Apps for Microsoft Surface

Five More Killer Apps for Microsoft Surface

In May, we brought you a list of 11 full-featured applications tailor-made for Microsoft's interactive table computing platform, Surface. With so many talented development teams hard at work on Surface, we missed a few--and the new ...READ»

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Chris Anderson Lifted Wikipedia Passages for 'Free'

The Virginia Quarterly Review took a close look at Wired editor Chris Anderson's upcoming book Free, and discovered that entire passages appear to match entries in Wikipedia verbatim. Says reviewer Waldo Jaquith: "... ...READ»

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Richard Branson's Social Travel Site: A Strange Game of Twister or Waste of Time?

In a strange display of awkwardness, Virgin Group unveiled its new travel Web site in New York today with founder and CEO Richard Branson and his two children, Holly and Sam, playing an ad hoc game of Twister on an impossibly large ...READ»

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What Are Googlers Googling?

Last week I had the privilege of visiting the nice folks at Google's New York City office for lunch. Lair of creativity and Web savvy that it is, I wanted to know which of Google's tools fascinate their own ranks most. One of the ...READ»

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