Legacy Archive

Explore the hidden consequences of technology, from mental health and privacy erosion to AI risks, digital inequality, and environmental damage.

Microsoft's MIX online lab actually contains some pretty cool stuff. Take The Archivist, for example. Microsoft's newest MIX online project is still in...

Microsoft has been bragging recently, but deep down its still hurt and offended that some of you prefer Apple toys. Some leaked documents provide some...

Playlistify is one of those unfortunately rare products that does exactly what the name suggests. That's right,...

For those of you following the Google Vs. China melodrama, you know the internet giant is doing its best to walk a fine line between revolutionizing...

Lists are everywhere on the Internet and everyone seems to have an opinion about how the items are ranked therein or just all out disagree with the...

Is this you? You updated your iPhone to iOS 4 and now you’re looking to multitask -- and it isn’t working?...

The great thing about Apple's portable devices for fans of simulation games is that you can actually live more of a life while spending almost every...

Celebrities will do just about anything for an iPhone 4. While actor Jason Bateman was passionately booed as he skipped thousands of people in line at the...

For all Odin's love, Apple, slow down. You're gonna hurt all those Foxconn workers (further) with the sheer velocity of those iPhones whizzing out of the...

As 3D pushes its way ever-further into our living rooms like male bedbugs practicing traumatic insemination, we huddle in fear at the looming need to...

You've certainly been waiting for this, haven't you? Back in the day (the 20th, to be exact), I, like so many intrepid newsmen before me, slapped up the...

Remember when Google created Buzz to compete with Twitter and Facebook and um, other social tools? Remember how it basically fell flat, with Google...

Word on the street (at least where AT&T reception can be received) is that a software fix might be coming on Monday to resolve the iPhone 4 reception...

Who doesn’t want to compare their own Internet impact with their friend’s footprint? Your digital footprint will only be like a drop of rain in the...

I live in downtown Toronto, which, when last I researched the matter, is statistically the most ethnically diverse city in the world. As such, the World...

As internet folk, we probably all have at least one friend who's incurably addicted to Foursquare. I definitely do. Steve, this one's for you. Y'know...

It's a lazy Saturday, like any other. Actually, maybe some of you have busy Saturdays. Whatever. It's lazy on this end. As such, I'm about to showcase an...

For as long as the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 have been on the market together, debate has raged over which online service, Xbox Live or the Playstation...

The question on lips across the techi-world this morning has to be “Who is horse-boy?” This image was captured by a Street View car driving through...

Many of you will no doubt remember the heady, early days of YouTube. The promising new site that simplified video sharing was (and still is) all the rage,...

The 1-Bit Symphony is not a recorded album in a traditional sense, it instead adapts to create the music right in...

If you’re a left-handed iPhone 4 owner then you’re potentially one of those infuriated by the problem in which gripping the device by its lower left...

If you are a web designer then Apple’s mobile devices can help you work better, smarter -- and out of the office. Here’s six apps you really should...