The PC’s Death Might Also Mean the Web’s Demise

As app-happy mobile devices become the primary way we compute, the good old browser becomes irrelevant. The hyperlinked, free-flowing, egalitarian, and ubiquitous world wide web will fade away. Instead, digital existence will mostly transpire within the more self-contained domains of individual apps, which offer their creators the flexibility and power of building right into the mobile operating systems. We will still have the internet, but it won’t be the same wherever you use it.

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Silicon Beach Boom Hits the Playa Vista Housing Market

The Campus at Playa Vista, as its 3 million-square-foot office space area is known, already houses the likes of YouTube, Facebook, Belkin and ad agencies like 72andSunny on the eastern side of the 1.3 mile area once controlled by Howard Hughes. On the western edge are some 3,100 residences that started construction in 2001 and were completed last year.

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East Coast Blizzard Seen From Space

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