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1 year ago

Turing's Enduring Importance

The path computing has taken wasn’t inevitable. Even today’s machines rely on a seminal insight from the scientist who cracked Nazi Germany’s codes.

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Review
3 months ago

Windows 8: Design over Usability

Windows 8 gets a lot right, but Microsoft’s determination to offer computer and mobile users the same interface makes the operating system somewhat weird.

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1 month ago

Proceed with Caution toward the Self-Driving Car

Completely autonomous vehicles will remain a fantasy for years. Until they’re here, we need technology that enhances human drivers’ abilities rather than making those abilities increasingly obsolete.

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1 month ago

Climate Change: The Moral Choices

The effects of global warming will persist for hundreds of years. What are our responsibilities and duties today to help safeguard the distant future? That is the question ethicists are now asking.

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Review
4 months ago

The Difference Between Makers and Manufacturers

Fans of 3-D printers and digital design tools argue that these technologies will transform the way we make goods. But can the “maker” movement really produce more than iPhone covers and jewelry?

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Review
11 months ago

You Will Want Google Goggles

I thought that glasses with “augmented reality” would be hopelessly dorky and could never go mainstream—until I saw the technology in action.

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Review
6 months ago

The Spectrum Crunch That Wasn’t

Tiny transmitters, spectrum sharing, and new information- coding technologies promise to keep wireless data capacity increasing for years.

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Review
3 months ago

The Problem with Our Data Obsession

The quest to gather ever more information can make us value the wrong things and grow overconfident about what we know.

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Review
4 months ago

Why We Have a Right to Consumer Genetics

It’s hard to get straightforward health guidance from personal genome tests, which are banned in some places. But one way to make them more meaningful is to let more people buy them.

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Review
7 months ago

Breaking Down Walls of Sound

By altering the craft of how music is recorded, technology is actually renewing the social, ephemeral aspects that are experienced most fully in live performance.

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