MIT Technology Review identifies the 10 most important technology milestones of the past year. Our definition of a breakthrough is simple: an advance that gives people powerful new ways to use...
April 23, 2013
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The designers of the Pebble watch realized that a mobile phone is more useful if you don’t have to take it out of your pocket. Eric Migicovsky didn’t really want a “wearable computer.” When he...
April 23, 2013
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Messages that quickly self-destruct could enhance the privacy of online communication and make people feel freer to be spontaneous. One essential aspect of privacy is the ability to control how...
April 23, 2013
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Razor-sharp menswear
There is an extra air of confidence in a well-dressed man. Fashionable menswear has gained increasing popularity thanks to magazines such as GQ, Esquire and the mainstreaming of style in general....
April 22, 2013
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Beginning next month, the Maryland Art Place will host the exhibition Oasis Places, featuring the work of five artists, including collaborative work by Nicole King, American Studies, and Stephen...
April 22, 2013
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In the last year, three top aides and three department secretaries have left Gov. Martin O’Malley’s administration. Although some have voiced concern, Donald F. Norris, professor and chair of...
April 22, 2013
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Carlyn Thomas installing exhibition Carlyn Thomas ’13, visual arts, is curating an art exhibition as part of her senior thesis project, and will install the show, Out of Mind, in Gallery 788. She...
April 22, 2013
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NBC Chicago’s politics blog “The Ward Room” recently posted an opinion piece affirming Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s decision to refuse to provide public money for a $500 million renovation of Wrigley...
April 22, 2013
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Does Upstart turn investing into a popularity contest? In my years reporting on startups, I’ve often encountered stories of venture capitalists who’ve invested in a person, rather than a person’s...
April 22, 2013
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Vietnamese police have reported the arrest of a driver transporting some very unusual cargo. No, he wasn’t carrying drugs or weapons. He was carrying 53 king cobras in large sacks. When pulled...
April 22, 2013
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