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New York's futuristic new pay phones don't require any payment at allFeb 21, 2016 6:37 am - New York's futuristic, high-tech pay phones - which are embedded with touch-screen tablets - are finally going live on Thursday. The name "pay phone" doesn't quite do it...
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Adidas hopes you'll pay $600-a-year for a workout clothes subscriptionFeb 21, 2016 6:35 am - Whatever your shopping preferences, it seems these days that there's a subscription box to cater to them. Birchbox, which peddles a monthly box of curated beauty samples...
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New America Foundation says it's time to abolish federal student loansFeb 21, 2016 6:35 am - What if the federal government stopped handing out students loans, got rid of higher education tax credits and eliminated Pell Grants for needy students? And instead, it...
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Walmart is rolling out big changes to worker schedules this yearFeb 21, 2016 6:34 am - After nearly two years of testing, Walmart is ready to roll out extensive scheduling changes for its hourly workforce in hopes of improving the daily experience for empl...
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Scientists create a 3-armed cyborg to play the drums like no human canFeb 21, 2016 6:33 am - Georgia Tech researchers have built a robotic arm that attaches to a drummer's shoulder and plays along. This allows drummers - now equipped with three arms - to play se...
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Your retirement plan may be supporting the 'most overpaid' CEOsFeb 21, 2016 6:31 am - In 2011, investors began getting the right to have their "say on pay," a rule in the Dodd-Frank financial reform act that requires companies to let shareholders cast an ...
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Analysis: Elon Musk's snarky response to a Koch-brothers plan to kill electric carsFeb 20, 2016 6:41 am - Tesla chief executive Elon Musk is rolling his eyes over a secret new project by conservatives that's reportedly aimed at undermining the electric car market. His tweet ...
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Letter from 'tech bro' draws sharp rebukes from San Francisco residentsFeb 20, 2016 6:40 am - Move over, Martin Shkreli. You now have competition for the title of America's most reviled millennial. The Internet exploded in outrage Wednesday after a San Francisco ...
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Google says it tracks personal student data, but not for advertisingFeb 20, 2016 6:39 am - What does Google do with the personal information it collects from children who use Google products at school? That has become a pressing question for privacy advocates ...
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The secret double meanings of emojiFeb 20, 2016 6:38 am - Recently, some engineers at the visual tech firm Curalate set out to make a tool that could automatically caption Instagrams with emoji. It was a chance to mess around w...