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While the rest of the world deals with the aftermath of the global financial crisis by holding onto their wallets tighter, Australian online electronics retail store Kogan on Monday announced…
The designers of the Solar Impulse are tackling the challenge of accommodating the pilot of the electric-powered craft.
Say hello to the future of American spaceflight! [ NASA ]
Continue Reading →Eddy Cue, a senior vice president at Apple, denied the government’s charges that the company was working with e-book publishers to raise prices.
Continue Reading →Google has resolved a shareholder lawsuit blocking a long-delayed stock split, clearing the way for the Internet search leader to issue a new class of non-voting shares later …
Continue Reading →Aetna sees cost savings in helping people track their health and fitness. A smartphone app that launches this week gives the health insurance company Aetna access to detailed user health…
Continue Reading →It’s rare that a truly new technology comes along, promising to revolutionise the world. Just as the printing press and spinning jenny empowered cottage industries with the ability to spread…
Continue Reading →Apple has joined Facebook and Microsoft in revealing the number of data requests it received from the government between December 2012 and May 2013, following the NSA Prism scandal . Between 4,000 and 5,000 requests…
Continue Reading →Credit: Robert Payne In my earlier post on Prince William’s mtDNA lineage, and its possible Indian provenance, I didn’t address the issue of genetic privacy in much detail. The discussion…
Continue Reading →Credit: Benchill The whole “genome paper” genre is probably in decline now, as sequencing is so easy that there is little value in just throwing out data with no questions…
Continue Reading →An environmentally-friendly way of making vanillin from the lignin in wood pulp could change the economics of this flavouring industry
Continue Reading →Millions of people use the tool Ghostery to block online tracking technology—few realize that it feeds data to the ad industry. Whenever discussion starts about how to hide from the…
Continue Reading →A neuroscientist who has anguished over the terrors in her family’s history explores how people might erase the trauma from memories. It was a Saturday night at the New York…
Continue Reading →The technology industry this week dispatched executives and entrepreneurs to buttonhole lawmakers and rallied people to mount a digital campaign on Congress.
Continue Reading →The New York Times has a piece with the title A Rebel Filmmaker Tilts Conservative . What conservative tilt is being displayed here? It’s Pandora’s Promise , a film which serves as…
Continue Reading →It’s father’s day. For the record, I don’t think we should intervene in Syria at all. Most Americans seem to agree with me . But it may not matter. The establishment…
Continue Reading →ESPN’s move spurred a debate about whether anyone would be left watching in 3-D television soon, and whether anything would be available worth watching.
Continue Reading →Privacy guardians in Europe want the ability to erase some online material, known as “the right to be forgotten,” but archivists and historians object.
Continue Reading →LinkedIn’s Influencers program, which consists of people in leadership positions posting about their lives and careers, has transformed viewer engagement on the site, its chief executive said. …
Continue Reading →There are many way to celebrate your 70th birthday. You could sit down in front of a cake packed tight with flaming candles. You could go bowling with your buds …
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