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If you’re shopping for a cheap laptop, you should look long and hard at a Chromebook. Google’s laptops may be “just a web browser,” but they’re cheap, fast, simple to use, and almost always as powerful as you need them to be. But there are good Chromebooks and bad Chromebooks …

Artists like Jack White, Adele, Vampire Weekend, and more could disappear from YouTube unless the independent labels backing them agree to YouTube’s new licensing deal — which includes stipulations about its upcoming premium streaming service. What exactly is going on?

For states that do enforce the death penalty, death by lethal injection is often considered the more “humane” method. But with news of secret drug cocktails, botched injections, and painful executions, that no longer seems the case. What’s going on? Tara Long explains why it’s crucially important we know the …

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Ellis Hamburger takes a look at Slingshot, Facebook’s would-be Snapchat-killer, a new app that lets you send and receive disappearing messages, but with an interesting twist.

Since eBoy’s launch in 1997, the Berlin-based design firm has become the gold standard in pixel art, earning both commercial and critical success with their uniquely elaborate 8-bit aesthetic. Their work has appeared in innumerable ad campaigns, magazines, and art galleries, yet the company itself has remained surprisingly simple – …

‘Jihad’ is often attached to Islamic radicals waging a holy war against non-believers. But that’s a fraction of the term’s meaning, and many Muslims argue, it’s misinterpreted. Jihad actually calls for something much larger – and there’s a whole group within Islam urging for a return to this primary definition. …

The Amazon phone is coming. That’s almost certainly what the company is going to announce at its big press event this Wednesday. So what about this glasses-free 3D experience? How aggressive will Amazon price this? And most importantly, what is up with sending every invitee a copy of Mr. Pine’s …

Earlier this year, the Boy Scouts of America revised their membership policy to accept new gay youth members. But that’s it. Gay Scout leaders and existing members are still not allowed. Who’s making this call? Why can new youth be openly gay but not those already leading within the organization? …

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