Bob Collins
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Tag: Tech
The new iPhone with the fingerprint security system was just made available on Friday and by Saturday the Chaos Computer Club had already figured out how to break into it without the right finger. Read more →
Finally, a reason to buy Google Glass? Read more →
Less work and more play, in defense of the gamers, banishing parade squatters, idiocy in the news, and teaching cancer to cry. Read more →
Scott Simon, host of Weekend Edition Saturday on NPR, is a master essayist and storyteller. He’s telling a compelling story now on Twitter: the imminent death of his mother.
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Evidence suggests that for many young parents, smartphones and iPads are the new babysitters. Read more →
There might be more to a second than a second. In the course of a day, on which our standard of time is based, the planet wobbles a bit. So some days are longer or shorter than others. The atomic clock keeps a more accurate record of the time, but that may soon be obsolete, Read more →
It had to come to this. People are now paying to go places where they’re forced to unplug/disconnect from the wired world, NPR reports. And, they’re calling it “a movement.” All Tech Considered says people pay, by one example, $350 to be forced to unplug… But for many of the participants, the most exciting activity Read more →
Was the storm a ‘federal disaster,’ that thing that good people do, the Hotshots on climate change, how to be your own big brother, and North Dakota’s crime boom. Read more →
Improv Everywhere posed as city workers providing a solution to the “texting and walking” epidemic.
America never seems so great as it does when it stops to watch a Pong game being played on the side of a building.
Twitter can do some wonderful things, but let’s all try to work a little harder to try to keep it from starting a nuclear war, OK?