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Updating Nest: Smarter, Sexier, and Savvier than Ever
Bringing ordinary consumers into the pro-environmental fold is Nest’s great achievement.
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What Will Terms-of-Service Agreements Look Like in the Age of Brain-Computer Interfaces?
As consumer tech companies bring brain interfaces ever closer to the mainstream, human-friendly legalese could become a crucial part of the user experience.
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Google Now Finally Heads to the iPhone
Google’s smart personal assistant hits iOS, but will users care?
Cancer Drugs Should Cost Less, Say Doctors
Doctors argue that some drug companies are charging too much for their cancer drugs, to the detriment of patients.
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A Fuel Cell That Runs on Fire
Berkeley Labs spin-off Points Source Power develops fuel-cell charger for Kenya powered by cookstove fires.
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Simple Trick Turns Commercial Polymer Into World’s Toughest Fiber
A materials scientist has created the world’s toughest fiber using a mechanism based on a slip knot.
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Other Interesting arXiv Papers This Week
The best of the rest from the Physics arXiv preprint server
Internet Everywhere–But on Your Terms
I hate feeling tethered to the internet. So why do I love FreedomPop?
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The Incompleteness of the Harm Principle
A response to Jason Pontin’s essay on free speech by the author of Principles for a Free Society.
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A New Computer Screen Reaches Out to Touch You
An experimental new touch screen, the Obake, has a stretchable surface that to reacts user interaction in new ways.