Who Owns Your Friends?
Monday, June 23, 2008
Social-networking sites are fighting over control of users' personal information.
• Article: Who Owns Your Friends?
Video by Robert Brilliant
Your Medical Data Online
Monday, June 23, 2008
Google and Microsoft are offering rival programs that let people manage their own health information.
• Article: Your Medical Data Online
Video by AMPS/MIT Libraries
Jennifer Chayes
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
The director of the new Massachusetts-based Microsoft Research lab wants to use mathematics to design better search engines, recommendation systems, and online auctions.
• Article: Jennifer Chayes
The Making of a New Collider
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
The biggest physics experiment ever, CERN's new particle accelerator, goes live this summer.
• Article: The Making of a New Collider
Taking Apart the Livescribe Pulse
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
See the inner workings of the Livescribe Pulse, a computerized pen that gives handwritten notes audio support.
• Article: Taking Apart the Livescribe Pulse
Microsoft's Shiny New Toy
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Photosynth is still a work in progress. It is dazzling, but what is it for?
• Article: Microsoft's Shiny New Toy
Art Games
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Digital artists are using game technologies to create bold new works.
• Article: Art Games
Amazon Kindle
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
The online giant hopes it's created the ipod of digital books.
• Article: Amazon Kindle
Knee Power
Friday, February 08, 2008
A new human-powered generator tries to capture walking energy.
• Article: Knee Power
TR10: Reality Mining
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Sandy Pentland is using data gathered by cell phones to learn about human behavior.
• Article: TR10: Reality Mining
TR10: Offline Web Applications
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Adobe's Kevin Lynch believes that computing applications will become more powerful when they take advantage of the browser and the desktop.
• Article: TR10: Offline Web Applications
TR10: Modeling Surprise
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Combining massive quantities of data, insights into human psychology, and machine learning can help manage surprising events, says Eric Horvitz.
• Article: TR10: Modeling Surprise
Electromagnetic Railgun Blasts Off
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
A supersonic bullet is fired with a record-breaking 10 megajoules of muzzle energy.
• Article: Electromagnetic Railgun Blasts Off
The Building, Digitally Remastered
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
In this era, the rectilinear glass box has become a quaint relic of the predigital past.
• Article: The Building, Digitally Remastered
Twitter and Ambient Intimacy
Thursday, November 15, 2007
How Evan Williams helped create the new social medium of microblogging.
• Article: Twitter and Ambient Intimacy
A Smarter Web
Thursday, March 01, 2007
New technologies will make online search more intelligent--and may even lead to a "Web 3.0."
• Article: A Smarter Web
Soul of a New Mobile Machine
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
From conception to buzz, from three-way spring to soft-touch paint: inside the design of a multimedia communications gadget.
• Article: Soul of a New Mobile Machine
Touch Screens for Many Fingers
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Researchers have bigger plans for multi-touch screens than the novel interface on Apple's iPhone.
• Article: Touch Screens for Many Fingers
The Art of the Possible
Friday, September 01, 2006
Can Eric Bonabeau's Hunch Engine expand your mind?
• Article: The Art of the Possible