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Christopher Mims

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The Only Way Facebook Can Justify Its Valuation

@contrarians I don't know if this scenario is more likely, but I like it. :) (read full comment)  

Posted on May 17, 2012 at 11:34 AM EDT

Is Automation the Handmaiden of Inequality?

@thom.wright So you're saying the mechanism is... more education? I'll grant that. I also think, however, that you're always going to need people... (read full comment)  

Posted on May 4, 2012 at 11:01 AM EDT

If You Have a Smart Phone, Anyone Can Now Track Your Every Move

@perlguy Apparently AirPatrol doesn't just track location, it also changes the device's capabilities as it goes from one area to the next. (!) I... (read full comment)  

Posted on April 20, 2012 at 5:11 PM EDT

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Are Ross Perot Jr. and Google's Founders Launching a New Asteroid Mining Operation?

@anonymous coward Oops. Fixing. (read full comment)  

Posted on April 18, 2012 at 2:04 PM EDT

Who Cares If Amazon Becomes an E-book Monopoly?

@Spicoli I can't help but think that DRM, which publishers were and I think are in favor of, was their ultimate undoing. They thought it would help... (read full comment)  

Posted on April 12, 2012 at 2:14 PM EDT

AT&T's Text Messaging Plans Are a Regressive Tax

@drdenim  Ha! OK, today, for once, I am enjoying the comments on one of my pieces. (read full comment)  

Posted on April 12, 2012 at 10:36 AM EDT

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Why Google is Diving into Augmented Reality Now

@blindwanderer You raise a good point about patents. It's probably such a minefield that only a company with a portfolio as big as Google's could... (read full comment)  

Posted on April 10, 2012 at 3:43 PM EDT

Twitter Data Scientist Takes on McDonald's Entire Menu, Survives

@bmn  @sergiobacallado That's a great line, I may use it. But if data science is so indistinct from statistical analysis, why aren't all the haters... (read full comment)  

Posted on March 24, 2012 at 5:25 PM EDT

DIY Kit Overclocks Your Brain With Direct Current

@Spicoli Except there's mountains of evidence it actually works, reported everywhere from Scientific American to Nature and (yes) Technology Review. (read full comment)  

Posted on March 9, 2012 at 6:09 AM EST

New iPad Means Even More Cumbersome App Downloads

@Eideard Except when we're being Apple fanboys, right? http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/27476/ (read full comment)  

Posted on March 8, 2012 at 7:00 AM EST

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