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Hardware that tracks your head, eyes and hands will make the follow up to Second Life very different to the pioneering virtual world. The founder of once-popular virtual world…
Continue Reading →Tomorrow, Microsoft will announce the new Xbox. Rumor roundup ahoy. Tomorrow, Microsoft will announce its long-awaited next-gen Xbox. The rumor mill has been churning for months–years, even…
Continue Reading →The “internet” asked Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer to make Flickr awesome again. Or, at least, that’s the way she tells it. But however the message got across to Yahoo’s new…
Continue Reading →This is Yahoo’s New York minute. OK, that may not be the right use of that phrase, but after the company announced a $1.1 billion buy of New York-based…
Continue Reading →Among those of us who grew up with the Internet, some have found unexpected, outsize benefits. If you moved away from a place soon after starting kindergarten and never went…
Continue Reading →A $300 million project seems to have failed to produce a cheap way to make fuel from algae. In 2009, ExxonMobil announced that it would pay Craig Venter’s Synthetic Genomics up…
Continue Reading →The head of Cisco says that the computer business and networking are collapsing into each other, as sensors and a bigger Internet deliver more information to analyze. The implication is …
Continue Reading →Using data collected by drones, a research team is building 3-D maps of Norway’s geology to help companies track down hidden mineral wealth. We’ve heard a lot from the unmanned…
Continue Reading →You may not know this, but there is a celebrity data geek who isn’t named Nate Silver. This other famous statistician is a rock star in the global health and …
Continue Reading →A day after Yahoo’s board approved a deal to acquire Tumblr, Marissa Mayer, Yahoo’s chief, and David Karp, Tumblr’s founder, reassured users that Tumblr would operate as it did before. …
Continue Reading →Mozart, born that way, trained that way A few years ago Malcolm Gladwell made the “10,000 hour rule” famous in his book Outliers . In practice (e.g., discussions with people…
Continue Reading →Mathematically, the Greco-Roman-Etruscan number system is an endlessly repetitive number system that is inefficient and cumbersome. To write 3333, which we do by repeating the sign 3 four times, a …
Continue Reading →Guess what, we’re related! Credit: Wapondaponda This is a public service announcement. If you are a user of direct-to-consumer personal genomics services, please do not pay any…
Continue Reading →A brilliant trip back to the technological future New Scientist Is the phenomenon that is humanity typical or exceptional in the universe? Does plagiarising nature count as fraud? Do we…
Continue Reading →A cyberunit of China’s People’s Liberation Army was back in business after going silent for the past few months.
Continue Reading →Yahoo’s move aims to make up for years of missing out on the growth of social networks and mobile devices.
Continue Reading →A lot’s been happening. The human phylogenetic graph is looking curiouser and curiouser .
Continue Reading →The ink is all but dry on a $1.1 billion (about UK£715 million, AU$1.103 billion) Yahoo buy of blogging platform Tumblr. According to sources speaking with the Wall Street Journal…
Continue Reading →A new paper in the journal European Neurology reports on a remarkable case of perceptual distortion that’ll please any connoisseur of neurogothic: A 48-year-old woman woke up one morning …
Continue Reading →Google isn’t giving up on its Chrome OS -powered vision of a life spent completely in the browser, but how easy is it to ditch your trusty laptop for a…
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