It’s back! Venerable SkyMall, that inflight catalog full of stepping stools for dogs and hearing gadgets, may have a second life thanks to the larger-than-life CEO of ScottEVest, Scott Jordan. Jordan, who we interviewed at CES this year, is putting in a bid for the company and hopes to turn it around by
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It’s back! Venerable SkyMall, that inflight catalog full of stepping stools for dogs and hearing gadgets, may have a second life thanks to the larger-than-life CEO of ScottEVest, Scott Jordan. Jordan, who we interviewed at CES this year, is putting in a bid for the company and hopes to turn it around by
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The spam situation in 2014 was much the same as it has been for many years now: useless emails are still abundant, annoying, and wasteful. There was one change that happened in the last quarter, however: China eclipsed the U.S. as the biggest source of spam.
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Microsoft cofounder and former chief executive Bill Gates thinks his old company is off to a good start with the HoloLens augmented reality headset.
Today Gates made his fir READ MORE
The company may sound like it was named after a bug, but its technology does something important.
In the age of Big Data, health care providers (and anybody else managing large databases) need powerful tools to make sure potentially duplicate patient identity data i READ MORE
GitHub today announced it has fixed 57 previously unknown security vulnerabilities in its applications thanks to its bug bounty program, which READ MORE
A new electronic implant can fight bacterial infection inside the body and then harmlessly dissolve. The simple, passive device is made entirely of silk and magnesium, which are both benign, biocompatible materials. The device, which can be loaded with antibiotics, could be impla READ MORE
Did you know Slate has a Walking Dead Podcast? It’s a project of Slate Plus, Slate’s membership program, and it’s hosted by Lexicon Valley’s Mike Vuolo and video producer Chris Wade. In case you missed it, here’s a free preview of all of our recaps from the first half of Season 5.
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Mobile analytics provider App Annie, the market leader in the app measurement business today, is out this morning with its annual report that takes a look back at the app trends that defined the past year. The report includes a look at app category growth, like the expansion of mobile messaging services, mobi
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Messaging apps and social networks have overtaken email for many consumers as their primary way of communicating with people — with some collaboration startups like Slack specifically aiming to kill email altogether. Now a new email app hopes to rev
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Everyone wants access to high-speed internet, as it seems to feel like a human right these days. Sadly the US lags behind other nations in this department, but things are slowly improving, thanks in large part to Google introducing its own bro READ MORE
To celebrate the fact we are now in the year Marty McFly was teleported to, yesterday we had a look back at what Back to the Future II creator Robert Zemeckis READ MORE
Just three weeks after announcing the acquisition of Zip Phone, India-based messaging app Hike has updated its Android app with a voice-calling feature. When Hike bought Y Combinator-backed Zip Phone, which allows users to make Wi-Fi-enabled phone calls, CEO Kavin Bharti
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Nintendo is moving towards a slim profit for its current financial year. The Japanese games giant just went public with its Q3 2014 numbers: total revenue came in at ¥271,521 billion ($2.3 billion), of which ¥45.2 billion ($383 million) was net profit.
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Studies have hinted that graphene can also be used as a photovoltaic material, turning light into electricity. Using a cutting-edge spectroscopic method, scientists at EPFL and collaborators have demonstrated that by absorbing a single photon, graphene can generate multiple electrons that have enough energy to drive an electrical current. Until now, graphene’s potential for efficient light-to-
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Der Spiegel published a new tranche of documents provided to the German weekly magazine by the former U.S. National Security Agency contractor, Edward Snowden. The documents are the first public confirmation that Chinese hackers have been able to extrapolate top secret data on the F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighter jet. According to sour
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Monitoring the usual behavior of Internet-connected devices could make it possible to detect malicious activity.
A startup called Bastille Networks says it can help companies detect the hacking of devices connected to the so-called Internet of things, which is looming larger as a target for computer crimes.
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