TECH

11 Pivotal Moments in White House Technology

Presidents have long been fans of technology, even if they weren’t always early adopters.

5 People Who Built Your Computer

Untold thousands of people are responsible for the myriad components and software elements that make up your computer. Here are a few of them.

11 April Fools' Day Jokes From Google

Don't believe everything you read on April Fools' Day—especially if it's coming from Google.

Ollie the Baby Otter Robot

7 Google Projects That Have World-Changing Potential

How Your Computer Might Be Keeping You Up At Night

Scientists agree that light from your computer or mobile phone can keep you up at night, seriously disrupting your sleep schedule.

IKEA Unveiled Furniture That Charges Your Smartphone

10 Crazy Things Your Smartphone Could Do

New Computer Program Sorts Real Jackson Pollock Paintings from Fakes

Each Year's Most Popular YouTube Video

Creating a Foldable, Origami-Inspired Kayak

Experiments in Ngram Art

7 Tricks for Staying Entertained While Traveling

Whether you’re traveling for business or pleasure, it’s easier than ever to stay connected and entertained while on the road.

Stepping Out onto Chicago's 1300-Foot-High Glass Ledge

7 Predictions for the Home Entertainment Experience of 2024

7 New Robots Designed to Do Human Jobs

Will your job be taken by a robot?

17 Historical Reactions to Air Conditioning

Here’s what people thought of “colderizing,” "air chilling," “mechanical weather,” and being “cooled by refrigeration” in its early days.

11 Google Now Easter Eggs on Your Android Phone

Programmers and designers hid a number of goodies in Google Now.

New App Makes Identifying Bird Species Easy

This electronic field guide can identify 500 common North American birds with nothing but a cell phone photo.

16 Google Easter Eggs You Might Have Missed

There are various hidden Easter Eggs, jokes, and little timewasters in almost every Google web service, product, or new device.

Playing Scrabble with Victor, the Gamebot

“I have legs,” Nick says. “My head alone is twice your worth,” Victor replies. Victor likes to trash talk when he plays Scrabble. My friend Nick does, too. Only Victor is a robot. A trash-talking, Scrabble-playing robot.

11 Movies that Shaped the Digital Revolution

Hollywood is changing: Paramount Pictures no longer produces films on celluloid and Old Guard directors like Martin Scorsese are shooting their movies with digital cameras. Here’s a list of important films that helped propel Tinseltown’s controversial shi

Sensory Fiction: Read Your Books and Feel Them Too

In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, good citizens attend the feelies—movies that allow them to feel the warmth of a bear rug or the flutter of a kiss. While it might seem as if this can only exist in the fictional world of 2540, researchers at MIT’s Media

7 Ways to Improve Your Online Dating Profile With the Power of Words

Last month, Wired did a study of dating profiles with the help of OkCupid and Match.com in order to assemble some tips on writing the perfect profile. Here are seven things they discovered from crunching the numbers on the words people use in their dating

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