Urban and rural households enjoyed similar income gains in 2015 (Corrected)

Correction: rural households did not lose income in 2015, as we originally reported.

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Why Nintendo is changing its whole strategy and embracing Apple

Nintendo’s recent failures have pushed the company to try some new things.

How Lara Croft's changing face illustrates Moore's law

The many faces of the Tomb Raider star show how quickly computer graphics improve.

Uber’s CEO doesn’t think self-driving cars will cost jobs, and he might be right

"I don't think the number of human drivers will go down anytime soon," Uber’s Travis Kalanick says.

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Gawker.com is shutting down in a victory for Peter Thiel and Hulk Hogan.

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Combine car sharing, electric cars, and self-driving technology, and the result is a radically different auto industry.

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What a Roomba-created "Jackson Pollock poop painting" tells us about the future of the economy.

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Buying stocks is the best way to build wealth over the course of a career.

The big puzzle in economics today: why is the economy growing so slowly?

The current economic recovery has been the slowest in decades, and economists don’t know why.

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Internet access is fastest in Northern Europe and Eastern Asia and slowest in developing countries.

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A series of AT&T ads from the early 1990s depict a futuristic world with video conferencing, e-books, and turn-by-turn directions.

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