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Homeownership has become the great American (pipe) dream but Jonathan Tate thinks there’s a more inclusive way to build.

Sandwiched between a nondescript duplex and industrial warehouse in the Irish Channel neighborhood of New Orleans, a modern, two-story home stands out from its neighbors thanks to a slender profile, angular roof, and corrugated-metal cladding. With an area of 975 square feet, the structure is diminutive, but this is no flavor-of-the-month tiny house: it’s the proof of concept for architect Jonathan Tate and developer Charles Rutledge’s Starter Home* program—a model of infill development that turns underused, unbuildable lots into entry-level residences.

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Apple and Google rushed to keep the information from going public.

Court documents have revealed that Google paid Apple $1 billion dollars in 2014 to be iOS’s default search engine, reports Bloomberg. The sum was revealed in court transcripts of a copyright lawsuit that Oracle brought against Google in which it alleges the search giant used its Java software without paying for it to build Android.

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Virginia Tech professor Doug Bowman was recently awarded a grant by Microsoft for the HoloLens research project.

Out of all the big tech companies—Microsoft, Facebook, Google, just to name a few—Apple is the only one that hasn’t publicly announced an interest in virtual or augmented reality technology. All the others listed above are known to be currently working on AR and VR tech.

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Raytheon, the giant military contractor, claims the armor could save lives by reducing the military’s need for fuel convoys.

Raytheon, one of the world’s-largest military contractors, says it has developed a new type of vehicle armor that also doubles as a battery.

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But both say first large-scale commercial version will be built overseas

The Hyperloop might be the brainchild of billionaire inventor Elon Musk, but if it is to become a reality it will be one of two other companies that first brings the futuristic transportation system to the world, reports the Wall Street Journal.

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The electronics giant is hoping to inspire the creation of more and better independent VR content.

Samsung today crowned the first set of winners in its ongoing virtual reality content competition.

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You will have to pry the word “stock” from my cold, dead hands.

Eating food is a critical part of every man’s self-care routine, but did you know there are so many other things you can do with food besides put it in your lower facehole? You can read about it, you can talk about it, you can watch people make and/or consume it on TV. You can argue about it, read about other people arguing about it, and watch people argue and/or compete over it on TV! Rumor has it that you can even make food yourself, but this seems unsanitary and probably dangerous. Today, bringing us a sampling of tabs about the wide world of food activities that are not actually eating is Helen Rosner, from the sarcastically named website Eater.

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Soon after the New Yorker’s Jane Mayer published an exposé, the Kochs assembled a team of operatives to target her, she claims.

The Koch brothers, who control the second-largest privately held company in the United States, hired former NYPD commissioner Howard Safir to dig up dirt on journalist Jane Mayer, she claims in a new book.

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A Udacity course by Google will teach engineers and data scientists the basics of deep learning, which informs much of Google’s tech.

Techies who have some background in machine learning may want to tune into Google’s new course on deep learning. Available through Udacity—home to a host of open online courses—the class is expected to run about three months, assuming people put in about six hours of work per week.

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Many investors are nervous about reports that iPhone 6s sales are softening.

Next Tuesday Apple is likely to report solid numbers for its December-ending quarter, but company execs and investors may be anxious over possible weakness in sales of the iPhone.

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