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New Yorker Magazine reporter Ken Auletta spoke at St. Thomas University in St. Paul last night as part of MPR’s Broadcast Journalist Series. Auletta covers technology and media, and is author of the recent book Googled: The End of the World As We Know It. Auletta shared some good anecdotes about the tech figures he Read more →
With tomorrow’s unveiling of the second generation iPad, tech is on our brains today. So let’s watch a groovy tech video, shall we? Some Norwegians have come up with a way to visualize the WiFi signals that surround us. Immaterials: Light painting WiFi from Timo on Vimeo.
Are you bothered by friends who fidget with their phones during conversations? Are you an offender yourself? And do you believe that a smart phone, in a partially disabled state, can enhance friendly communications?
From tech to trivia
Oh Google, how you disappoint us. Duluth and other Minnesota cities that applied to be home to a super-high-speed fiber network promised by Google are being forced to wait until next year for a decision. Google has concluded it got too many applications. From Google: Earlier this year we announced an experiment we hope will Read more →
This photo was submitted to the MPR News Facebook page by Ellie Skelton of Minneapolis One of the key differences between the 1991 Halloween mega-storm and the 2010 Domebuster (both of which I helped cover for MPR News) is in the way we are able to share the misery and joy with each other through Read more →
Mr. News Cut is under the weather and not blogging today but to make him feel a little better we’ll tackle one of his favorite mediums: Twitter. You do follow him on Twitter, right? Twitter looms large in the public imagination, yet only eight percent of Americans who are online use Twitter, according to a Read more →
One of the top stories in the tech blogosphere today: Google is planning to send to a select group of guinea pigs a netbook computer powered by its Chrome operating system. Seventeen months ago Google announced it would build a lightweight OS based on its Chrome browser as an alternative to machines powered by Windows Read more →
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