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Improve Your Smartphone with Defective Silicon Chips

A new discovery by Swiss scientists could reduce e-waste and improve our gadgets' energy efficiency.

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iPavement Puts a World of Knowledge Beneath Your Feet

A new design hopes to put microprocessors on street corners across the world.

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Don't Wait to Find Out How Green Your Smartphone Is

AT&T's new rating system will help consumers find more sustainable phones, but smartphone builders need to play along.

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At the Consumer Electronics Show, a New Focus on Recycling Old Gadgets

Electronics recycling firm U.S. Micro opened a 130,000-square-foot facility just across town from the CES festivities.

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Tiny Tower is the new Angry Birds

A diary of early-stage smartphone game addiction.

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Can Two New Apps Help Women Avoid Sexual Assault?

The Obama administration has harnessed mobile technology to help combat sexual assault among young women.

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The Upside of That Blackberry Outage: Fewer Car Crashes

It turns out some people benefited greatly from BlackBerry's wide-scale service outage: Drivers in the Middle East.

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South Korea's Making the Switch to Digital Textbooks

No more heavy backpacks. South Korea is investing $2 billion to develop digital textbooks for all schools by 2015.

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Follow Florida's Lead: Why More States Should Switch to Digital Textbooks in Schools Now

All of Florida's public schools will switch to digital textbooks by 2015. Yes, it sounds expensive, but other states should be following suit.

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Could This $99 Robot Transform Computer Science Education?

This plug-and-play robot could be a revolutionary way of teaching coding and programming.

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Extra Credit: Student Voices Against Education Cuts Won't Be Silenced

Student protests and more of what we're reading at GOOD Education HQ.

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New York City Launches the World's First Condom App

Finding a free condom in New York City is now as simple as checking your smartphone.

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Will an App Rescue Long-Form Journalism?

For the creators of the new Atavist app, story is everything.

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GOOD Design Daily: Four CES Gadgets That Create Impact

Think it's all flashy tablets and 3D monitors at CES? We found four products that go above and beyond simple gadget lust.