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It’s 11PM, Do You Know Where Your Contract Is?

It’s Friday night at 11, and suddenly I find myself with that all-important contract that needs to be signed and countersigned by Monday morning. I don’t know about you, but I junked my paperweight cum fax machine (recycled actually) about a decade ago. I lost my password to the fax email service I used to [...]

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Nolan Bushnell: Education Meets Chuck E Cheese

Nolan Bushnell likes to play. He believes that even the most ADD of us can focus and pay attention when we’re deeply involved in a game. And he believes that our current education system is desperately broken. Bushnell, who’s made a healthy living from playing, is out to take the lessons learned from building Atari, [...]

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It’s Wanderful: Old Living Books Reincarnated as New Apps

Kids who cut their teeth on PCs in the early 1990s will fondly remember Living Books from Broderbund Software. For millions of kids around the world, Living Books was their first interactive experience. Engaging stories with clickable words and drawings captivated the first generation of on-screen readers. These classic titles were retired and collecting dust [...]

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$95K Gets You 60 Minute Tour of Earth from the Edge of Outer Space

Space travel devotees don’t have to wait a moment longer to book their trip. Andrew Nelson, CEO of XCOR, the aerospace company behind the creation of the Lynx space vehicle, announced that Space Expedition Exploration was setting up shop and taking orders for one heck of trip – the first commercial space flights. The company [...]

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