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Running into a burning building is heroic work. Keeping buildings from burning down in the first place is actually just as important. And it scales more reliably.

In a bad 1950s science fiction movie, you might see flying jetpacks, invisibility cloaks and ray guns. What we got instead is a device that fits in our pocket. It allows us to connect to more than ...

There's a sale on band saw blades, including a really good deal on one that fits the saw you owned years ago. The folks who live next door to the house you used to live in are having a raucou ...

When a group comes together, noise is easy. Just a few people have to make a commotion for noise to happen. But silence requires everyone to be in sync.

IBM spent a fortune fighting calls for them to be broken up. So did AT&T and Microsoft. In all three cases, there's plenty of evidence that they would have been better off if they had sim ...

New ideas aren't adopted all at once. A few people go first while the rest of us watch to see how it goes. "Look, Mikey, he likes it!" This is the story of tech innovations, dance ...

What better time? An hour a day for a month and you can learn a skill you'll have forever. Beach reads are a fine way to chill out, but a month spent to learn a skill is a fine way to take ad ...

Usually modified with "total," the failure might not be as bad as we fear. The origin of the word probably comes from Italian, a long time ago. The person who loses a round in a game ha ...

There's no water in that river that was there ten years ago. The boundaries have shifted in that time as well, there's no riverbank that's exactly where it was. And the silt and t ...

We've gotten so hung up on famous that it's easy to forget that there are two kinds of renown. Being known for lowering the standards of discourse, cheating, or whining is a choice, but ...