Techies hate politics. Well, no: we hate the idea of politics. Whenever I talk to pretty much anyone in the industry about politics as a sphere of human endeavor, from individual coders to zillionaire VCs, pained expressions cross their faces and they rush to distance themselves from the whole toxi…

When investor money and tech blog mentions rain down, startups can make silly mistakes, like blowing all their cash on a mechanical dinosaur. The cast of HBO’s Silicon Valley came to SXSWi, the mecca of startups, to deliver on-point advice for not being a entrepreneurial idiot.
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This tutorial is based on a workshop I gave at the Makerland conference in Poland. It will teach you how to wirelessly control a deadbolt lock without damaging or modifying the lock itself. We will be using an Arduino Uno, a servo, and Node.js to make it possible for you to lock and unlock your door…

Photo website Imgur is taking a major step beyond its roots as an easy way for Reddit users to share photos with a $40 million round of funding.
The investment is the first outside funding for the site, which has quietly grown into one of the largest online hosts of images and gifs. The site boasts…

People are spending an increasing amount of time using apps on their phones, at the expense of the mobile Web. That?s worrisome, says Andreessen Horowitz?s Chris Dixon.
But before you write off the mobile Web, remember that it?s possible to use both mobile apps and the mobile Web at the same time. …