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The industries with the stingiest tech budgets still manage to innovate with technology. Here's how the mining, plastics, and construction industries do it.

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Allen Stern

Does Ellen Following Me Mean Twitter's A Fad?
Earlier this month talk-show host Ellen began following me (and other tech people) on Twitter. Did her move display something more than just a simple follow?

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Jonathan Salem Baskin

Repurposing Quack Science
CERN's Large Hadron Collider ("LHC") restarted this morning without a hitch, after a year of kludgy delays and nutty rumors that time travelers had sabotaged it. It's time to ratchet up the quack science.

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Jonathan Salem Baskin

The Days Of Empire
Atari and Cryptic Studios are going to launch a MMORPG based on the Star Trek universe in early February, and reading about it has made me rather teary-eyed for the old days of Empire.

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Allen Stern

Let's Watch Twitter Become FriendFeed
It seems the hot Twitter news these days is that the service might be slowing in U.S. traffic growth. More importantly, is Twitter continuing to creep closer to FriendFeed's feature set?

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