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" Amazon is definitely serious about delivering its goods by an autonomous air force. "
Steven Levy
Amazon
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" The iPhone was such a phenomenon that even the humble journalists chosen for an early look were thrust into a spotlight. "
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" How do you show off the most anticipated product in years? That was my dilemma with the iPhone X. Since my unit was one of the first few released into the wild, it naturally drew a lot of curiosity when I pulled it out of my pocket and gave it a dewy-eyed glance to wake it from slumber. "
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" No one in Silicon Valley loves virtual reality or believes in its future as much as Clay Bavor. "
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" For many years, when people described how the Internet worked - whether they were talking about shopping, communicating, or starting a business there - they inevitably invoked a single metaphor. The Internet, said just about everybody, was a contemporary incarnation of the wild, wild West. "
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" All through the 1980s, Apple kept its prices high. There were many reasons Microsoft's much bigger user base managed to resist moving to the GUI - but price was high among them. "
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" When superpower countries like the United States and the former Soviet Union contemplated moving their conflicts to outer space, there was justifiable fear and dread. "
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" Inevitably, we will spend a multiple of the amount we used to drop on a new router once the old one petered out. The New Wifi is the $5 latte to the standard cup of coffee. "
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" Facebook has never been shy about its ambitions. "
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" It's almost impossible to totally eliminate terrible content in a huge open network. "
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Terrible
Content
" As an open system, Android is not under the tight control of its creator, Google. "
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" Everyone in the tech business, from Kleiner Perkins venture capitalist John Doerr on down, says that the ruination of the industry, if not the entire country, will come from the inability to hire more brainiacs from countries like China and India. "
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" The iPod Shuffle was something unique for Apple: a device stripped down to a single function. "
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Single
Something
" There's plenty to admire in the iPhone X straight from the unboxing. The biggest change stares you in the face: that screen, that screen. "
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You
Admire
Change
" With the iPod - Apple's first successful stab at market dominance - Apple had begun with a high price but quickly dropped it. "
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" Internet-centric companies have already begun changing the rules with binge-watching, flexible running times, fewer commercials, and crowd-sourced content. The brainpower - and just plain power - of the most valued tech firms will change things even more. "
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Content
" I am old enough to have grown up glued to a screen offering only three alternatives, each of which was an all-powerful national network that seemed permanently ensconced in the entertainment stratosphere. "
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Enough
Entertainment
" The myth of the peachfuzz billionaire has emerged. This new Horatio Alger typically launches his first start-up in middle school, and somewhere between the campus computer-science lab and a move to Palo Alto hacks up a Web site where users provide fun or useful content. "
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" The vast majority of Americans perform sophisticated digital tasks on a daily basis. Grandmas and grandpas e-mail digital photos of their cruise trip and IM their kids in school. So a politician admitting that he or she can't bother to learn those things indicates a horse-and-buggy mentality. "
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Learn
Daily
" The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution. "
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Revolution
World
Industrial Revolution
" Our chips keep getting faster, and our data rates keep climbing, but at the end of the day - or worse, by mid-afternoon - those power meters on our screens inevitably turn to red. "
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Day
Red
Power
" My favorite thing to do with my iPod was to shuffle my entire music collection and marvel at what songs came next. Sometimes the segues would be so perfect that it seemed a genius deejay was behind the wheel. "
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" In the history of U.S. elections, the fall of 2000 is notorious for the debacle that occurred in the country's attempt to elect a president that year. "
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" Barack Obama was a president who understood not only how technology could transform the way government services worked but also technology itself. He got it. "
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" We were promised a society of philosophers. But the Blogosphere is looking more and more like a nation of ankle-biters. "
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" The fact that biological, or 'natural' rules might help in the creation of a computer generated work of art is interesting, but even a wonderful work of art made in this fashion isn't the same as a person, with all his or her experiences and emotions involved, making art. "
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" Computer technology is so built into our lives that it's part of the surround of every artist. "
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" Because Facebook can't exist without AI, it needs all its engineers to build with it. "
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" Steve Ballmer never used to be someone who let facts speak for themselves. In the 1990s, he was the hyper-energetic Microsoft exec yelling 'Developers! Developers! Developers!' at an all-hands meeting in Safeco field. "
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" The rush into scripted video by tech giants is going to accelerate an evolution of entertainment that's already underway. We're already moving away from the idea that drama is a 60-minute exercise with four bathroom breaks. "
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" There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers. "
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Short