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New Electronic Joint Ignites E-Device Debate

Health experts worry that a Dutch delivery device marketed as the “world’s first” electronic joint may not be safe, and could potentially increase the number of U.S. drug users...

Technology Historian Crushes Internet Myths

As readers of this blog know, since 2005 I’ve been teaching at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. One of the best parts of being an academic is hanging out with cool (compared to me), young (compared to me), up-and-coming scholars, some of whom know far more about the history of science and [...]..

Car Outsides Made to Power Auto Insides

The trunk of a car, made of a new carbon composite, can also run LED lights and the dual use could help electric vehicles

Sharing Economy Sites That Don't Exist Yet—but Should

Why aren't we renting out our pools, cameras or cooking skills yet?

How Many Cell Phones Does It Take to Arouse a Supreme Court Justice’s Suspicion?

Do you promise to tell the truth on however many phones you carry?

Did Facebook's Mood Experiment Violate Research Ethics?

You can read the study itself here, plus a very comprehensive discussion of reactions to the study here. 1. If you intend to publish your research in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, you are expected to have conducted that research with the appropriate ethical oversight...

Software Finds Best Parts of Boring Video

Machine-learning researchers are developing software that automatically searches through long videos to create edited summaries, or personalized trailers. Larry Greenemeier reports

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How to Disappear from the Web

If you've ever been the victim of identity theft, or a stalker, or you just value your privacy, Tech Talker has the tools to help you ditch the digital age and remove your presence from the web...

If Poachers and Illegal Loggers Strike, This Forest Phones It In

Environmentalists are bugging rainforests with discarded smartphones to catch poachers and illegal loggers

How You Can Hide Your Smartphone Data from Thieves—and the Cops

A new software technique thwarts forensic software by making indiscernible changes in a handset’s operating system

Starbucks to Offer Wireless Caffeine for Smartphones

The coffee chain is putting wireless mobile device charging on the menu, a harbinger of cable-free communications and computing

Being There: Fun with a Remote Sensor Data Browser

Apple, Google Say "Drop That Doughnut!"

Tech companies are offering an ever-increasing number of health monitoring and promoting apps, to keep you in shape and interesting in buying more gadgets. Larry Greenemeier reports

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Quantum Computer Fails Speed Test

How hard can it be to determine whether a computer works as promised? Step one: turn it on. Step two: Try to solve some problems. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work.

World's First "Scent Message" E-Mailed from Paris to New York

A new platform allows users to mix and match 32 aromas and then tag photographs with the result

161 Bird-Watcher Apps for the iPhone--and They're All for the Birds [Slide Show]

Mobile devices promise to give bird-watchers new tools for their fieldwork, but smartphone apps for identifying these aviators are not quite ready to leave the nest

161 Bird-Watcher Apps for the iPhone—and They’re All for the Birds [Slide Show]

Mobile devices promise to give bird-watchers new tools for their fieldwork, but smartphone apps for identifying these aviators are not quite ready to leave the nest

Can Open Patents or Zippy Race Cars Spur Electric Car Sales?

Electric cars, no matter how sexy, still have a battery problem

Squiggly Lines Secure Smartphones

To protect your financial and personal data, most mobiles come with PIN-based security, biometrics or number grids that require you to retrace a particular pattern to access your device...

Microsoft Bets on Gestures to Buoy Windows Phones

Microsoft is allegedly adding Kinect-for-Xbox–like gesture recognition to the next generation of Nokia’s Lumia smartphone. Larry Greenemeier reports