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Yes, iPad Apps Can Help Your Child Learn To Read
Technology will forever present us with a stubborn conundrum: It evolves faster than our ability to figure out if it's any good for us. This is perhaps most true when it comes to children. It didn't...
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Awful Or Awesome?: This Browser Extension Clicks Every Ad To Confuse The System
What if someone told you the way to fight online advertising--and the companies who make money by tracking all your surfing habits--was to click on all the ads? That's the idea behind AdNauseam, and...
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Today in Tabs: The Descent of Goth
Healthgoth just hit the mainstream [via #ebolawave], and we've known about Spacegoth and Southgoth for a long time. But now there is Beachgoth, or apparently there has been Beachgoth for three years...
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Art Or Surveillance?
Privacy is a dying myth, systematically crumbling with every new Snowden leak. We know that technology companies and government agencies are gathering our personal data and tracking our activities,...
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The App From SAP That Will Make Women's Tennis Even More Competitive
Tennis is an emotional sport. Coaches and players argue the merits of a technique or strategy, using past experience as a guide. But until recently there was little in the way of rigorous evidence to...
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How Nara Found The Restaurant Supernodes
Nara Logics was founded in 2010 to mine the deep web and uncover relevant information for businesses to offer their customers. The company, founded by MIT neuroscientists, recently landed $7 million in...
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Why Vim, An '80s Text Editor, Is Still The UI Of Choice For Power Users
If you want to improve productivity on any piece of frequently used software there's a simple solution: ditch the mouse and use keyboard shortcuts instead.Plenty of you already know to hit control-c...
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Today in Tabs: Live From Inexpressible Island
History was made a long time ago, by the people who lived then, but occasionally some of it returns to us in the form of old things. The diary of George Murray Levick, for example, lost on Robert...
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6 Ways To Make A Legendary Haunted House From Leftover Electronics
This story contains interviews with Larry Kirchner, operator of "The Darkness"; Chris Krueger, editor of The New Hobbyist; and Jarod Reyes, web designer and Technical Content Producer at Twilio.October...
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Today in Tabs: Crash and Burn
Private companies are pioneers of space. NASA just blows stuff up. Says @FoxNews about #Antarespic.twitter.com/FFwgll8wi3- Terry McGlynn (@hormiga) October 28, 2014Forty five years ago today, on...
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The Recipe For Building A Startup Scene In Any City
Berlin has been Europe's startup darling for years. But in 2012, Stockholm, which is home to successful tech companies such as Spotify, Mojang, and Klarna, decided it wanted the title back. So they...
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4 Ways Developers Say Apple Can Improve The Mac App Store
This story contains interviews with Dan Counsell, founder of Realmac Software; Ken Case, CEO of Omni Group; and Aušra Meškauskaitė, head of marketing at Pixelmator.Last week Realmac Software released...
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Today in Tabs: Coming Out
Samsung just announced it's gay too- Hunter Walk (@hunterwalk) October 30, 2014It doesn't feel right to say that Tim Cook came out today because that implies that he was "in," somehow, before? Cook's...
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Neclumi: The Necklace That Responds To Movement And Sound
Neclumi is a "wearable projection" from Poland-based new media art and design collective PanGenerator. Using a smartphone app and a discretely tucked pocket projector, Neclumi displays responsive...
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This Man Uses Twitter To Augment His Damaged Memory
Thomas Dixon has no idea what he did yesterday. Sitting across from me at an outdoor cafe, he tries to jog his memory by doing what a lot of us do habitually: checking his iPhone.Specifically, he pulls...
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An Up-To-Date Layman's Guide To Accessing The Deep Web
If you binge-watched the second season of House of Cards, along with a reported 15% of Netflix's 44 million subscribers, you may be newly interested in the Deep Web. Slate has done a good job of...
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A Sad, Digusting Pet Machine That You Can't Tear Your Eyes From
In a dilapidated apartment complex, a handyman tinkers with a grotesque project. It's a sort of a pet--globs of thick-skinned meat, spurting wires connected to electronic equipment, plopped across a...
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How Flickr Is Learning To See What's In Your Photos
Smart as they are, computers are still as blind as a bat. It's why search engines index the web using text and why you still have to fill out those annoying captchas. But with advances in machine...
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3-D Printing The Museum Store
Starting this week anyone can download 3-D models of sculptures and artifacts from the collection of the British Museum. The models are available online in file formats that are ready to be used by any...
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Furl: The EEG-Responsive, Soft Robotics Future Of Architecture
They look like rubber tentacles. They unfurl like tongues. But these organic appendages with "air muscles" that inflate and bubble might just be the future of your office building.Furl: Soft Pneumatic...
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