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Aug 10, 2018
As with almost every technology that first seemed a miracle before becoming commonplace, GPS navigation followed a tortured and convoluted path to ubiquity.

College: A Lesson in Inequality

May 20, 2013
Rather than bridging economic disparities between students, higher education seems to be widening them; although Google's new customizable maps sound like a great idea, they filter out a lot of useful information; and although some would like to blame the collapse of the middle class on the Internet, truth is it was falling apart long before the World Wide Web. These discoveries and more after the jump.
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