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A woman text messages while walking across the street in San Francisco

Cell phones do not make good friends

by Whitney Williams

Technology |  Despite Siri’s best attempts at conversation with her iPhone owners, cell phones do not make good friends, nor do they aid in keeping them. Actually, they…

[http://www.worldmag.com/2012/12/cell_phones_do_not_make_good_friends]

Technical difficulties
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Technical difficulties

by Mindy Belz

Technology |  Are you running the worldwide web, or is it running you?

[http://www.worldmag.com/2012/11/technical_difficulties]

DRONE: U.S. Air Force Predator at unnamed location.
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Drone surge

by Daniel James Devine

Technology |  Use of unmanned aircraft over central Asia is on the rise as the war there ‘ends’

[http://www.worldmag.com/2012/11/drone_surge]

Hospital hack
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Hospital hack

by Daniel James Devine

Technology |  As healthcare goes digital, infiltrators arrive over the internet

[http://www.worldmag.com/2012/11/hospital_hack]

Domestic spies
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Domestic spies

by Daniel James Devine

Technology |  Husbands and wives in troubled marriages turn to spy gear

[http://www.worldmag.com/2012/11/domestic_spies]

Tweeting for better grades

Tweeting for better grades

by Anthony Bradley

Education |  In a new study, “Twitteracy: Tweeting as a New Literary Practice,” co-author Christine Greenhow, a Michigan State professor, reports that students…

[http://www.worldmag.com/2012/10/tweeting_for_better_grades]

Electronic delusion
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Electronic delusion

by Janie B. Cheaney

Technology |  Teenagers who spend too much time online never really learn about themselves

[http://www.worldmag.com/2012/10/electronic_delusion]

BATTERY BUG: Nissan Leaf
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Dying Leafs

by Daniel James Devine

Technology |  Americans aren’t excited about electric vehicles with short battery lives

[http://www.worldmag.com/2012/10/dying_leafs]

Newsweek ending print edition, job cuts expected

by Wire Reports

Business |  NEW YORK (AP)— Newsweek plans to end its print publication after 80 years and will shift to an all-digital format aimed at online users starting in…

[http://www.worldmag.com/2012/10/newsweek_ending_print_edition_job_cuts_expected]

A ground-based interceptor missile shortly after liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base
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Ballistic breakdown

by Daniel James Devine

Technology |  The U.S. missile defense system may be inadequate against future foreign firepower

[http://www.worldmag.com/2012/10/ballistic_breakdown]

Battle code
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Battle code

by Daniel James Devine

Technology |  The Pentagon openly plans the future of cyberwarfare

[http://www.worldmag.com/2012/09/battle_code]

Text intrusion
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Text intrusion

by Daniel James Devine

Technology |  Services bypass parents to answer teen queries about sexuality and contraception

[http://www.worldmag.com/2012/09/text_intrusion]

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