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The What’s Tech series finale

By Chris Plante

What are Snapchat Spectacles, and do I have to be a teen to wear them?

By Ashley Carman

What's Tech

How smartphone cameras took over the world

By Sean O'Kane
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How HTTPS is slowly but surely making the internet safer

By Chris Plante

Why is everyone making GIFs of themselves?

By Kaitlyn Tiffany
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New haunted houses plan to scare you before you even arrive

By Kaitlyn Tiffany

Why smartphone batteries explode, and why they may get worse

By Chris Plante

How Snapchat’s goofy faces made everyone comfortable with selfies

By Chris Plante

The good and bad news of the Earth-sized planet Proxima b

By Chris Plante

A few simple tech tips for living in a dorm or New York apartment

By Chris Plante

A simple explanation of No Man’s Sky and its internet-fueled controversy

By Chris Plante
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Hate going to the grocery store? Maybe it's time to try food-delivery services

By Chris Plante
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Why Sony and Microsoft already want you to buy a new video game console

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Is your neighborhood the next great social media app?

By Chris Plante
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Listen to this podcast explain the power of podcasts

By Chris Plante
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Why Pokémon Go is a hit, how it helps Nintendo, and when its moment could fizz out

By Chris Plante
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The agony and the ecstasy of life as a webcomic artist

By Chris Plante
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How The Bachelor became social media’s new favorite sporting event

By Chris Plante
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What you need to know about doxxing, the average internet user's nightmare

By Chris Plante
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What you should know about torrenting

By Chris Plante

Let's chat peer-to-peer

How a computer the size of a credit card is changing education — and homemade GameBoys

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How people play Nintendo games on a computer, and why that's probably illegal

By Ross Miller
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What are graphics cards, and why do you want one?

By Sam Byford
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Everything you want to know about Drake, but are too afraid to ask

By Chris Plante
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Why movie theaters should and shouldn't be afraid of VOD

By Chris Plante
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Why the future of video games may be free-to-play

By Chris Plante
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What is a gadget blog, anyway?

By Chris Plante
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Why bots are the new big thing, and what that means for ordering pizza

By Chris Plante
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Why artificial intelligence is more important than ever and how it will change our lives

By Chris Plante
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What is Slack, why is everybody using it, and will it destroy my work-life balance?

By Chris Plante
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WrestleMania: why you should watch, even if pro wrestling isn't your thing

By Chris Plante
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Everything you need to know about the Hyperloop, a potential transportation game-changer

By Chris Plante
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Dota 2: an explainer for newcomers and the confused family of addicts

By Vlad Savov

Welcome to the rabbit hole

Before the driverless car, there was the PRT

By Chris Plante
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Encryption: what is it exactly, and who is right about it?

By Chris Plante

How reusable rockets work — and why they're the target of the private space industry

By Chris Plante
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It's time to give film cameras a second chance

By Chris Plante

Super Bowl 50: how to sound like an expert

By Chris Plante

Spotify, Apple Music, and Tidal: which service is right for you?

By Chris Plante

A brief history of Sundance and international film festivals

By Chris Plante

Explaining Tumblr to internet folk raised on Xanga and LiveJournal

By Chris Plante