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How We Are Tracked Online

How We Are Tracked Online

The news is jam-packed with stories about online privacy, "do not track," and Internet security issues. With proposals for a...

Why the Groupon Superbowl Ads are a Symptom of a Sick Culture

Why the Groupon Superbowl Ads are a Symptom of a Sick Culture

Groupon's Superbowl ads have already generated a firestorm of controversy. The spots, which variously made light of endangered whales, rainforest...

Why The Future of Blogging Starts Now

Why The Future of Blogging Starts Now

So, once again, we are hearing about the end of blogging. This time in comes in the form of a...

Quadriplegic Earns Guinness Typing Record By Way of Mouth

Quadriplegic Earns Guinness Typing Record By Way of Mouth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1tNXWpmA5I Technology can amaze, inspire, and shock us all. In this story, though, technology helps one quadriplegic do all three....

It Could’ve Been Worse: Intel’s Billion-dollar Blunder

It Could’ve Been Worse: Intel’s Billion-dollar Blunder

You don't make it to a billion-dollar blunder without making a few mistakes along the way, or so should be...

Egypt: Why the Web is Broken (And Why We Can’t Fix it)

Egypt: Why the Web is Broken (And Why We Can’t Fix it)

The recent events in Egypt have, among other things, been inspiring, terrifying and remarkable. But though the political situation is...

Xserve: The Short Goodbye

Xserve: The Short Goodbye

In case you just can't get enough of Apple's Xserve, you'd better take some time out to order a few...

Why the Internet Kill Switch is a Really, REALLY Bad Idea

Why the Internet Kill Switch is a Really, REALLY Bad Idea

There are certain things, particularly in politics and technology, that seem to make sense on the surface. Take, for instance,...

How Technology has Changed the Tax Dynamic

How Technology has Changed the Tax Dynamic

The phrase "file your taxes" is quickly becoming obsolete. Technology is becoming the driving force behind the yearly process that...

Philips Introduces First Wireless HDMI Blu-ray Player

Philips Introduces First Wireless HDMI Blu-ray Player

Everything seems to be going wireless, and that trend was obvious at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas....

Ray Kurzweil’s Tech Predictions Have Been Eerily Accurate

Ray Kurzweil’s Tech Predictions Have Been Eerily Accurate

The Wall Street Journal called him “the restless genius." Forbes said he was “the ultimate thinking machine.” by Forbes magazine....

Google Censoring Torrent Search Suggestions: 7 Terrible Things They Don’t Censor

Google Censoring Torrent Search Suggestions: 7 Terrible Things They Don’t Censor

Google's war against torrents is being kept quiet. No announcements. No press releases. You will only find the story in...

In Defense of 3D: Why 3D is the Right Tech For Our Time

In Defense of 3D: Why 3D is the Right Tech For Our Time

It has become fashionable to bash 3D. Most recently, Roger Ebert came out and said that the case is over:...

A Private School Makes Apple iPad Usage Mandatory

A Private School Makes Apple iPad Usage Mandatory

There was a day when schools supplies consisted of backpacks, calculators, and plenty of lined paper. But at Webb School,...

Have We Reached a World of Infinite Information?

Have We Reached a World of Infinite Information?

No, but we're not far off. The acceleration of the creation and discovery of information is reaching a point that...

Verizon’s Knockout Punch: Unlimited Data for iPhone

Verizon’s Knockout Punch: Unlimited Data for iPhone

It was never quite certain when Verizon would get its hands on the iPhone, but we recently learned that it...

The State of the Internet 2010

The State of the Internet 2010

There is zero doubt that 2010 was a booming year for the Internet. Social media emerged as a driving force...

The PSP2: Five Things Sony Must Do To Make it Succeed

The PSP2: Five Things Sony Must Do To Make it Succeed

It is now all but certain that Sony will announce their next handheld video game system, the successor to the...

The Google Shakeup

The Google Shakeup

When is the best time to change CEOs if you're a major company? How about shortly after announcing fourth-quarter earnings...

Record Apple Earnings; Cupertino HQ To Be, Like, Totally Blinged Out

Record Apple Earnings; Cupertino HQ To Be, Like, Totally Blinged Out

First, let's get the numbers out of the way. For their first fiscal quarter ending on December 25, 2010, Apple...