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It sounds like a pretty damn good deal: Pay a hundred bucks for a blood test and get five simple personalized…

An impossibly long, single-lane tunnel is your only way into Whittier, and your only way out. Make it to the other…

My mother is untrainable. At least, as far as voicemail is concerned. We'd repeat the same song and dance over and…

A couple years ago, when a 25-year-old law student in Texas said he was going to 3D-print a gun, nobody took him…

The internet has long promised a certain kind of connection between people, one that is now close to being…

Imagine you're in the middle of the Pacific ocean. Behind you is China, below you are thousands of tons of…

Data centers are boring. They have to be; these are spaces of control, consistency, security. You wouldn't expect to…

Thanksgiving is almost here, and that means turkey, mashed potatoes, and getting peppered with questions about…

The Hollywood Sign might be one of the most recognizable things on Earth. In Los Angeles, it’s also one of the most…

Do you remember the first computer game you played? What about the first program you downloaded? Unless you've…

The porn of the future is titillating. As virtual reality matures, we'll be aroused in three-dimensional immersive…

What if you could enjoy the benefits of a bike and the benefits of a car at the same time? Sojourn Labs, a…

Comcast just put out a blog post about how it actually ("surprise!") supports net neutrality and agrees with Pres…

Minutes after President Obama unveiled his plan for net neutrality yesterday, Republicans leaders like Ted Cruz…

The phone call isn't dead. Despite what many a journalist/blogger/paranoid internet commenter might have you…

Yesterday, President Obama gave internet-lovers a virtual exploding fist bump in the form of a powerful statement…

The new movie Big Hero 6 represents the first-ever partnership between Marvel and Disney, two entities known for…

It's been exactly 25 years since the wall came down and Berlin—a city that was once the epicenter of a worldwide…

Chances are a Bloomberg Businessweek cover has stopped you in your tracks at some point: Maybe it was the brilliant c…

Time travel's been one of man's wildest fantasies for centuries. It's long been a popular trend in movies and…