The Newest Tech Innovations at NYC Media Lab's Third Annual Summit
People have been waiting decades for the flying car but it has not arrived yet -- for better, for worse. In the meantime, we conform ourselves to Candy Crush on bending "smart phones," swapping filters...
View ArticleGame Developer Brianna Wu Flees Home After Death Threats
Threats have once again forced a game developer to flee her home. On Friday night, game developer Brianna Wu left her home and filed a police report after receiving tweets that included threats on her...
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So Just How Bad Is It To Eat In Your Bed?
Even if you don't have a TV in your bedroom, chances are you have Netflix on your laptop. And now that the weather's getting colder, there's probably a good chance that you might curl up under the...
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How to Transform from a Digital Laggard to a Digital Leader
These days it is clear to see that the value of data is priceless. The explosion of mobile, social, cloud computing, apps and data has led to unprecedented levels of business process complexity,...
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Web TV Arrives. Over The Top TV Is Here This Time.
If you have been thinking about cutting the cable cord, you had to look down a long dark alley of missing content and a lonely flatscreen TV. But a number of new services are now showing up to fill...
View ArticleTech Jobs: Minorities Have Degrees, But Don't Get Hired
Top universities turn out black and Hispanic computer science and computer engineering graduates at twice the rate that leading technology companies hire them, a USA TODAY analysis shows. Technology...
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Meet TIME Magazine's 25 Most Influential Teens Of 2014
Whether they're solving world hunger at the Google Science Fair or setting the bar for creative genius on Instagram, it's pretty clear that teenagers today are leading the way (but you already knew...
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Google Tests Out Feature To Protect You From Sketchy Online Diagnoses
You may soon be a Google search away from immediate access to professional medical advice. The search engine giant is testing a new feature that urges people Googling illnesses or symptoms to jump on a...
View ArticleApp Behind The Snapchat Leak Admits It Was Hacked, Apologizes
A website that allowed Snapchat users to save images that were supposed to disappear said it was hacked and apologized for allowing thousands of private photos to be leaked online. In a Facebook post...
View ArticleIs E-Reading To Your Toddler Story Time, Or Simply Screen Time?
Clifford the Big Red Dog looks fabulous on an iPad. He sounds good, too — tap the screen and hear him pant as a blue truck roars into the frame. “Go, truck, go!” cheers the narrator. But does this...
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Growth Of Antarctic Sea Ice A ‘Warning Bell' For Coastal Flooding
This story originally appeared on Climate Central. The spreading sheet of sea ice around Antarctica could be viewed as a napkin being draped over a monstrous water pistol. If, that is, the gelid napkin...
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Karma Doesn't Pay the Bills and It Won't Solve Pay Inequity
In an exchange reminiscent of a Mad Men episode, Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella told a room full of women in technology that they shouldn't ask for raises. Instead, they should trust the "system" and,...
View ArticleThe King of Credit Card Fraud
This guy made credit card crime look so easy that it can tempt a financially strapped, law-abiding citizen into repeating the same kind of crimes -- if he had the intelligence to do so. But too bad for...
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Digital Trust Foundation Seeking Proposals Regarding Online Privacy, Safety...
Digital Trust Foundation seeking proposals on online privacy, safety and security A new foundation, born out of a lawsuit regarding Facebook's Beacon project, is giving away more than $6 million "to...
View ArticleApple Charged With The Death Of An Entire Country's Economy
Apple is more powerful than you think, apparently -- it is being blamed, in part, for an entire country's economic hardships. "The iPhone killed Nokia, and the iPad killed the paper industry, but we’ll...
View ArticleTech Justice: Social Justice Emerges From the High Tech Arena
Nadeem Mazen is a co-founder of two tech and arts-based businesses and is a City Councillor in Cambridge, MA The digital divide is slowly closing, and that's good for social justice causes. A recent...
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This 12-Year-Old Invented A Robot That Could Help End Malaria
David Cohen understands that mosquitoes aren't just pesky annoyances -- they're global killers, too. That's why the 12-year-old from Dallas invented a robot that drowns the pests using a pump-jet...
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Columbus Day and the Colonization of Land, Trees and Genes
I spent the past several days participating in the Indigenous Environmental Network Campaign to Stop GE Trees Action Camp in the Qualla Boundary, homelands of the Eastern Band Cherokee in North...
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Is Collaborative Storytelling the Next Generation of Blogging?
The evolution of blogging from text-based content to a visually-rich medium marks a transformation in the thought process of society. Blogging trends over the years demonstrate a shift in the way that...
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'Bionic Eye' Helps This Man See For The First Time In 30 Years
Larry Hester was 33 years old when doctors diagnosed him with retinitis pigmentosa, a disease where the eyes' light-sensitive retinas deteriorate. He became blind. But thanks to his high-tech retinal...
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