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Order a plumber like you would an Uber car with ClubLocal

ClubLocal, a company that contracts with merchants of home services like plumbing or handyman work, wants to make sure customers waiting to have their homes fixed know exactly when the repair guy (or gal) is showing up. The company, which expands to the San Francisco Bay Area on Thursday after testing its service in Dallas, lets customers schedule a service …

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Poll: Would you go full cyborg?

Credits (clockwise from top left): Georgia Institute of Technology; Frank Wojciechowski; Alternative Limb Project; Geoffrey Morrison. It’s only a matter of time, really. Google Glass, Epson’s Movierio, the Oculus Rift, and similar technologies are at the cutting edge of wearable technologies. Sci-fi has certainly given us a glimpse at the potential future: internal links to the Internet, augmented eyesight and …

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