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  Danna Capehart

  

  Fed up, US cities take steps to build better broadband

  Ars Technica - Jon Brodkin

  Increasingly, cities control their broadband future—with both low- and high-tech methods. Welcome to Ars UNITE, our week-long virtual conference on …

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  Danna Capehart

  

  Pakistan’s first cartoon superheroine joins fight against polio

  PBS NewsHour - Carey Reed

  Amid a rise in polio cases in Pakistan, the country’s first animated female superhero, Burka Avenger, has joined the fight to eradicate the …

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  Danna Capehart

  

  Does Airplane Mode make phones charge quickly?

  Mobile Living

  One popular phone charging tip circulating the internet is that putting your mobile phone into airplane mode will decrease the time it takes to charge its battery. Because airplane mode turns off all radio frequencies on your device, the thinking goes, the battery should charge faster in this state. …

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  Engadget

  Oct 27, 2014

  Making chiptune music is as easy as gaming with this player

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  Danna Capehart

  

  Fountain Connects You with a Home Improvement Expert in 5 Minutes

  Lifehacker - Timothy Dahl

  iOS: Nothing is worse than making multiple trips to the hardware store because you had to learn from your mistakes the hard way. For $5 per question, …

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  Danna Capehart

  

  Mobile Games Need Their Artists

  TechCrunch - Tadhg Kelly

  Editor’s note: Tadhg Kelly is a games industry consultant, freelance designer and the creator of leading design blog What Games Are. You can follow him on Twitter here. Across 2013 and into 2014 the stories around games went in many directions, to Steam and Steam Machines, to consoles, to VR and …