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Google Fiber Next Stop Looks to be Austin, TX

Google Fiber Next Stop Looks to be Austin, TX

It looks like Google’s super-high-speed internet service is headed for Austin. A post entitled “Google Fiber’s next stop: Austin, Texas” appeared momentarily on the official Google Fiber blog this past Saturday — before vanishing, bolstering…

Why Don’t We Have Holodecks?

Why Don’t We Have Holodecks?

In one of the classic Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes, “The Big Goodbye,” Captain Picard dons a fedora as 1940s sleuth Dixon Hill. Picard found a brief escape from life on the Enterprise by…