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New 'Beast' Asteroid Images Show Near-Earth Space Rock In Amazing Detail
The nature of "The Beast" has been revealed. NASA researchers bounced radio signals off the huge near-Earth asteroid 2014 HQ124, nicknamed "The Beast" by some, as it whizzed by Earth on Sunday (June...
View ArticleTech CEO Nirav Tolia Convicted Of Hit-And-Run
BRISBANE, Calif. (AP) — A San Francisco technology CEO has been convicted after pleading no contest to misdemeanor hit-and-run for leaving the scene of a freeway crash. The San Francisco Chronicle...
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You'll Be Able To Text Your Friend A Smell In A Few Days
Soon you'll be able to send a friend not just a picture of a pizza, but the scent of a pizza, using your phone. Yes, really. Harvard engineering professor David Edwards has invented a device called an...
View ArticleWhat's This Charge? How to Protect Yourself From Cramming
Many of us -- myself included -- carry our mobile phones with us everywhere. We rely on our smartphones for everything from getting directions, to texting our friends and family, to catching up on the...
View ArticleThe Best Unsung Commencement Speech Began With Silence
It's nearly the end of the brief season when lofty celebrity speeches, later to resurface in thin books, are dispensed to seas of graduates. But often overlooked by the cameras and headlines are quiet...
View ArticleThe Internet With A Human Face
How wonderful it felt when I first realized the permanent record didn’t exist. They were bluffing! Nothing I did was going to matter! We were free! And then when I grew up, I helped build it for real.
View ArticleThe Tech Industry's God Complex Is Getting Out Of Control
The Greeks had a word for this, I thought, as I worked my way through Marc Andreessen’s most recent epic tweet storm. The venture capitalist — who has suddenly begun treating Twitter as his own...
View ArticleElon Musk Is Even Smarter Than We Thought
It's an Elon Musk world, and we're just living in it. This week, Musk announced that Tesla would yank all of its patents and open up their technology to whomever so desires it. Musk even went so far as...
View ArticleSupreme Court Has 17 Cases To Decide By June's End
WASHINGTON (AP) — It's crunch time at the U.S. Supreme Court, where the justices are racing to issue opinions in 17 cases over the next two weeks. The religious rights of corporations, the speech...
View ArticleThanks To Google Maps, You Can Be At The World Cup Without Being At The World...
The 2014 FIFA World Cup kicked off Thursday, and if you're having a little bit of FOMO because you're not in Brazil, Google Maps has your back. Google Maps' Street View tool now lets you experience all...
View ArticleThe Net Neutrality Battle May Be Headed To Your Phone
By Alina Selyukh and Marina Lopes WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A surge in mobile Internet usage has U.S. regulators considering whether to apply the same rules to fixed and wireless Internet traffic, and...
View ArticleTim Cook, Making Apple His Own
Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, was an adolescent boy in a small Alabama town in the early 1970s when he saw something he couldn’t forget.
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In the Future Will Shopping Be a Thing of the Past?
When you read about our inevitable march to a world dominated by connected devices, you start to get the idea that when it comes to the Internet of Things, actual shopping might become a thing of the...
View ArticleWhat if the First Software Engineer Became a VC?
Close your eyes and picture the first computer programmer. Any chance the image of a 27-year-old woman comes to mind? Of course not. But she existed. In the 1840s, Ada Lovelace drew on Charles...
View ArticleThis McDonald's Ad Beats Any World Cup Shot So Far
You'll definitely get a kick out of McDonald's new World Cup ad. The nearly two-minute video features a number of amateur football players performing some truly astounding soccer trick shots, all of...
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Nonprofit Creates Roofs From Plastic Bottles, Reducing Waste And Creating...
Not all roofs are created equal. The material hanging over rural Ecuadorians' homes, for example, is typically built from either grasses -- which attract insects, leak horribly and collapse when...
View ArticleLandon Donovan Proves He's A Seriously Good Sport After World Cup Snub
Even after being left off the 2014 U.S. World Cup team roster, Landon Donovan is shredding any sense of doubt that he's always in the game. Donovan proved he's a good sport despite the snub in a new ad...
View ArticleAaron Paul Is Accidentally Turning On People's Xbox Ones
Former “Breaking Bad” star Aaron Paul is going to turn on your Xbox One console, and there's almost nothing you can do about it. The actor appears in the most recent commercial for Microsoft’s popular...
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Eyewear or Wristwear: Shoot Out at the Wearable Tech Corral
Are you a wrist person or a glasses person? As we hurtle towards the post cell phone world, the next generation of trendsetters are deciding which one it's going to be. In the eyes corner, you've got...
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Bill Gates To Stanford Grads: 'You Can Do Better At This Than I Did'
When Bill Gates visited wards full of patients dying from tuberculosis in the South African township of Soweto in the '90s, his heart broke, but his resolve was left untouched. "This was hell with a...
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