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Try to Dissect Apple’s New AirPods and You’ll Shed Blood

APPLE’S SLEEK AIRPODS represent the company’s vision of a hands-free, wireless future. Sure, the sound is only fair to middling, but Apple made them...

Will Robots Replace Fast-Food Workers?

The robots in movies and science fiction books that rise up to take over the world generally are able to do so because we...

What’s Wrong With Your Venmo Account, and How to Fix It

Few social-media experiences have made me cringe more than viewing my “friend” list on the peer-to-peer payment app Venmo for the first time. Seeing...
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Amazon’s first drone-powered delivery takes 13 minutes from purchase to drop-off

Drone delivery has begun. On Dec. 7, a bag of popcorn, along with an Amazon Fire TV stick, left a Cambridge warehouse in the U.K. and 13 minutes...

How to Set Up Your New Google Home

So your home now has a Google Home. You’re about to enter the wonderful world of digital personal assistants. All you have to do...

Don’t Open That Google Doc Unless You’re Positive It’s Legit

IF YOU GET a Google Doc link in your inbox today, scrutinize it carefully before you click—even if it looks like it comes from...

Report: These are the fastest-declining jobs in the U.S.

As technology overtakes every industry, the business forecast for jobs like typists, watch repairers, and postal workers over the next decade is bleak, according...

Finally, An Online Course For Aspiring Flying Car Engineers

N THE PAST year, flying cars have gone from LOL, to maybe a real thing, to a booming industry raking in VC cash and churning out sweet renderings of an...

Mexico taking U.S. factory jobs? Blame robots instead

Problem is, factories don’t need as many people as they used to because machines now do so much of the work
       

Can’t Decide What Kind of Flying Car to Get? Try These 10!

COMMUTERS OF THE world, rejoice. The long-promised age of the flying car is finally here—more or less. Big-name companies around the world are showing honest...