How To Make Room For Experts In Your App
Two hundred years ago the French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace, a man famous for his pioneering work in the field of statistics, commented:“... [The] Mind that in a given instance knew all the...
View ArticleWhy Britain's New Porn Filter Is Doomed To Fail
David Cameron, Britain's prime minister, announced a number of initiatives against online pornography today, beginning with a nationwide filtering of pornographic content at the ISP level that...
View ArticleWhat Facebook Learned From Building 3,000 Apps For “Dumb” Phones
Facebook isn’t taking recent news that it’s losing subscribers sitting down. On the contrary, the social giant is trying its hand at tapping the largest market in the third world--$20 phones.Called...
View ArticleInside The Tech Stack Digg Used To Replace Google Reader
When the team at Digg learned about the impending demise of Google Reader, they knew they had to act fast--and build something killer. The resulting void would leave millions of potential users on the...
View ArticleWeird “Hologram Concerts” Allow K-Pop Artists To Transcend Space, Time
After HoloTupac’s unveiling at Coachella 2012, fears abounded of money-vacuuming Elvis and Jimi revival tours--but the real concert future, according to Korean agencies, lies with globally broadcasting...
View Article4 More Ways To Monetize Your Music--Without Spotify
The hardest part of making music is not crafting memorable melodies, but justifying the time involved by making some money. Since streaming services have proven they can't pay the bills even with...
View ArticleA Dozen Apps For The Connected, Smartphone-Wielding Musician
The question was simple, "What app(s) do you use with regards toward your music career?" The answers were unpredictable at best as a range of artists looked down at their phones and electronic devices...
View ArticleIs Siri Paving The Way For Immersive Audio Gaming?
We like the idea of experimenting with storytelling around here. We’ve tried it with slow live blogging and we’ve tried it with audio. We’ve covered holographic K-pop concerts and strategy for startup...
View ArticleWhy Your Software Should Act Like People
Have you ever gotten angry with your iPhone or given a name to your car? Sociologist Clifford Nass has spent his career investigating how people interact with technology and concluded that we...
View ArticleThis Google Glass Porno Flick Foreshadows Your Future Sex Life
Earlier this year, after Google announced Google Glass, a porn company called MiKandi immediately released the first porn app for Glass. Called Tits & Glass, it was the Instagram of homemade porn,...
View ArticleOK, Google: Does Voice Control Really Make Sense On A Smartphone?
Google's erstwhile smartphone manufacturing business Motorola Mobility is busy unveiling a bunch of new smartphones right now, but there's already one big takeaway from the three new Droid phones that...
View ArticleWhat You Learn About Google When You Buy Glass
On a Friday afternoon, as a Google Glass concierge offered me champagne, I asked him if Glass had ever appeared in his dreams. I was undergoing the Glass treatment as a friend's plus-one (or, in Google...
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Inside The Data-Driven System That Keeps The Netherlands Above Water
The white skeleton of the Maeslantkering, the massive floating water barrier protecting Rotterdam from high seas, dazzles in the sunshine. This engineering marvel is one of the largest moving...
View ArticleNYU Builds Data-Sharing Network For Scientists--But Is It Legal?
You pay for science. Your tax dollars fund the national agencies that finance research. Yet you can't see most results of the science your dollars support--from cancer treatments to robotics--without...
View ArticleFormer BitTorrent Engineer Thinks He Can Fix Your Wi-Fi--For Good
There are some user experience problems that are so glaringly obvious, so ingrained into our daily lives, that we don’t notice them until someone points them out. Connectivity is one of these problems....
View ArticleWatch This $200 3-D-Printed Robot Crack Your iPhone
You might trust your phone’s four-digit PIN to keep an Apple picker from cracking your precious smartphone, but if they’ve got $200 to blow on a 3-D-printed machine, the Robotic Reconfigurable Button...
View ArticleThree Reasons Samsung's Developer Conference Is A Good Idea, One It's Not
From October 27th to 29th this year in the halls and corridors of the Westin St. Francis Hotel the air will have a decidedly Samsungy feel, as the company's first Developer Conference unfurls across...
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Google’s Chromecast Shows The World Isn’t Ready For Truly Smart TV
Today Google unveiled the Chromecast, a USB stick-sized HDMI dongle that runs a modified version of Chrome OS and plugs into your TV, allowing you to mirror content from your computer, tablet, or...
View ArticleWow! Google’s Chromecast Is Amazingly Hackable
Today, Google announced their new Chromecast smart TV device and released a developer API alongside it. This isn’t new, as most set-top boxes have APIs for developers. What’s exciting about Chromecast...
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