Technology
What Would Make You Buy a Smartwatch?
Brilliant crowdsourced ideas that just might make these new tech accessories worth it
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Technology
Wearable Tech Helps You Live in the Moment
Next-generation wearables promise to deliver real-time information that could benefit our health and the environment
Technology
The Case against Smartwatches
You can now control your phone from your wrist. But why would you ever want to?
Technology
Twitter to Release All Tweets to Scientists: A Trove of Billions of Tweets Will Be a Research Boon and An Ethical Dilemma
A trove of billions of tweets will be a research boon and an ethical dilemma
How to Photograph an Emerging Mosquito
Here is a powerful method to photograph the world’s most dangerous animal in an unusual moment of vulnerability. But first, a digression into mosquito biology.
Technology
Can Machines Produce Art that Moves Us?
This happens more often than you’d think: You tell someone you are an illustrator. They ask you a few questions and then get to what’s really on their mind: “So, do you do all your work on the computer or do you draw everything by hand?” When you respond that you do some (or all) [...]..
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Quantify Thyself, Know Thyself
Humans are gradually becoming cyborgs—and that’s a good thing
Internet Addiction: Real or Virtual Reality?
In 1995, Ivan Goldberg, a New York psychiatrist, published one of the first diagnostic tests for Internet Addiction Disorder. The criteria appeared on psycom.net, a psychiatry bulletin board, and began with an air of earnest authenticity: "A maladaptive pattern of Internet use, leading to clinically significant impairment or distress as manifested by three (or more) [...]..
Electronics
Designing Cameras That Work Like Eyes
To improve photography, engineers are designing cameras that behave more like eyes
A Look under the Hood of Online Data Visualization
Andy Kirk (of Visualising Data) recently published a clever image-driven post in which he uses automobiles to make a series of points about the practice of data visualization.
Fight over Solar Power Returns to White House Roof [Video]
The sunshine that warms Washington, D.C. is once again generating electricity for the White House. After an absence of nearly 30 years, the Obama administration has announced that a 6.3..
Developing Countries Still Far From Closing Digital Divide
The United States is not the greatest country in the world, at least when it comes to information and communication technology. Last month, the World Economic Forum released its 13th annual Global Information Technology Report, which ranks the nations of the world by their "networked readiness" - that is, how much each country can use [...]..
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Annalee Newitz: Where did io9 get its name?
Today is Annalee Newitz‘s birthday (well, it’s still today in the most relevant time zone – uh, hers not mine). Annalee has been writing about the intersection of science and technology and culture for many years...
The Quest: My Two Favorite Tricks for Searching PubMed
The short item I wrote about cancer immunotherapy quickly went viral on Monday and became the most-read article on Scientific American's website.
Technology
Tracing Photos Back to the Camera That Snapped Them
A unique camera “signature” to identify online criminals
Creativity and Technology: Closing the Perception Gap
So many people are stifled by their own preconceived beliefs about what they can and can't do. That's a shame and in our household we try hard to remove "can't" from our vocabulary. The biggest tragedy is when someone is afraid of, or steered away from, trying by stereotypes and social norms that are in a large [...]..
Technology
Outrage against the Machines
A short history of tech wrongs righted by widespread indignation
Biology
The Quest: Get the Lowdown on the Pills You're Popping
Looking up information about prescription medications used to mean thumbing through the pages of the big blue Physicians' Desk Reference (PDR), or more recently, searching the PDR website...
Biology
Oil Spill Fines Pay For Turtle-Saving LED Lights
A sea turtle’s life begins in darkness. After about 60 days of incubation inside their eggs, turtle hatchlings use a temporary tooth called a caruncle to break out of their shells...
Happy 90th Birthday, Evelyn Boyd Granville!
Evelyn Boyd Granville, the second African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics, turns 90 today (May 1, 2014). I first heard her name in a talk by Patricia Kenschaft about African American mathematicians...
