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New Yorkers, Times Have Changed: Charge Your Car or Fill It Up?
Electric vehicles are getting a lot more efficient and popular to drive in New York City. Did you know there are more than 150 commercial electric vehicle (EV) charging stations in Manhattan, as listed...
View ArticlePolice Body Cameras Seen As A Fix For Ferguson-Style Killings
WASHINGTON -- Michael Brown's family did not just decry a grand jury's decision to bring no charges against the police officer who killed the 18-year-old on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri. They also...
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The Good Side of Anonymous Apps
Some worry about what can go wrong, but there's a lot to like about anonymity Creative Commons by Jhaymesisviphotography There are a growing number of social media apps that encourage anonymity....
View ArticleThis TSA Lost & Found Map Makes Losing Your Luggage Way Less Frustrating
Tis the season of holiday travel, folks, and you know what that means. There is a solid slight chance that your luggage might go missing. That's why we're bookmarking this "TSA Los & Found Map"...
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The Real Reason Girls Don't Like to Code
I recently sat down for a visit with friend who is running a program focused on STEM, and his insights into the boy/girl ratio were discouraging. "We offer coding camps and courses and work hard to...
View ArticleElonis v. US: Are 'We the People' Useful Idiots in the Digital Age?
Back in the heyday of the old Soviet Union, a phrase evolved to describe gullible western intellectuals who came to visit Russia and failed to notice the human and other costs of building a communist...
View ArticleThe Dybbuk Inside My iPhone
Since I discovered the voice-enabled texting function on my iPhone, I have been texting like a teen, sending lengthy missives to my friends' and associates' cell phones at a prodigious rate and speed....
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Keira Knightley Knows 'The Imitation Game' Has 'A Lot Of Inaccuracies'
Few fact-based dramas escape criticism of historical inaccuracy, and "The Imitation Game" is no exception. Based on the life of Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch), the mathematician who broke the...
View ArticleCheap iPhone Supposedly Getting The Ax From Apple
Phil Schiller, Apple's marketing chief, stood on stage at the company's headquarters in California last year and introduced the iPhone 5C, the "cheap," colorful plastic iPhone. "Everyone's really...
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Crush Cyber Monday With These 3 Tricks
If you plan to go online on Cyber Monday to score some deals for your holiday shopping, you're not alone. Last year, 131 million people shopped online during the Monday following Thanksgiving,...
View ArticleThe Regeneration Generation: A Conversation With Bob Hariri, Vice-Chairman...
Bob Hariri, M.D., Ph.D., is the vice chairman of Human Longevity Inc. (HLI), a genomics and cell-therapy diagnostics and therapeutics company he co-founded in 2013 with Craig Venter and Peter...
View ArticleHere's Everything Expiring From Netflix On Dec. 1
The beginning of a new month might mean that a handful of new movies and TV shows are coming to Netflix, but sadly there are even more expiring on Dec. 1. While you're digesting Thanksgiving feasts...
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Happy Thinks-giving
I have seen the future. And in it, people will not find pleasure and status by acquiring, using and displaying the latest electronic devices. Instead, the people who carry no electronic device will be...
View ArticleWeekend Roundup: Can an 'Elderly and Haggard' Europe Defend a 'World of...
As Pope Francis slammed Europe as "elderly and haggard" in an address this week in Strasbourg, the speaker of the Polish parliament, Radek Sikorski, warned in the WorldPost that Europe's starkest...
View ArticleWhy Interstellar Should Be Taken Seriously -- Very Seriously
A few of my closest friends are physicists. In fact, when I went to see Interstellar, I made sure one of them was at my side. My physicist pal and I loved the movie, and to us (especially the...
View ArticleUber Suspends Operations In Nevada
(Reuters) - Ridesharing company Uber suspended its operations in the U.S. state of Nevada late on Wednesday in a setback that it said would cost nearly 1,000 jobs. Companies such as Uber allow...
View ArticleTwitter Now Tracks What Other Apps You Have On Your Phone
NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter said it is now tracking what other apps its users have installed on their mobile devices so it can target content and ads to them better. Twitter Inc. said Wednesday that users...
View ArticleTechies U R Da Best
Just for the record, I'm thankful for my family, my work, my country, and those fighting to keep me safe. I deeply appreciate the gift of a beautiful sunrise, a long walk on the beach, and a swim in...
View ArticleNeil deGrasse Tyson Has Adorable Advice For First-Graders, And Here's What It Is
What could be cuter than a conversation between Neil deGrasse Tyson and a first-grader? Earlier this month, the famed astrophysicist called on six-year-old Kaitlynn Goulette to ask him a question while...
View ArticleAs Bricks and Clicks Merge, Geeks Are Discovering Politics
As with the first industrial revolution, the merger of Clicks and Bricks forces us to ask: Which laws need to be updated, which are just irrelevant, and which are barriers to entry created by special...
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