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Duluth hopes to widen access to broadband, with help from feds

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Duluth hopes to widen access to broadband, with help from feds

City of Duluth officials are entering a race to improve the city’s high-speed broadband wireless service with federal stimulus money.

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Facebook adds another long overdue feature

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In a bid to make it easier for people who have gotten married or who have names in multiple languages to clearly express their identity, Facebook has just turned on a new feature enabling users to display an “alternate name” on their profiles.

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The iPhone can do anything…

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New Yorker Cover Art, Painted With an iPhone

Some people send text with their iPhones, and some play games. The artist Jorge Colombo created this week’s cover for The New Yorker with his.

Mr. Colombo drew the June 1 cover scene, of a late-night gathering around a 42nd Street hot dog stand, entirely with the iPhone application Brushes. Because of the smears and washes of color required by the inexact medium, it comes off as dreamy, not sharp and technological.

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