August 26, 2013

Samsung's super-fast '5G' antenna: What you need to know

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Gigabyte-per-second download speeds? Yes, please, says Chris Gayomali. If the ability to download every season of Game of Thrones in a few...
August 19, 2013

Google vs. Sweden: The linguistic war over the word 'ogooglebar'

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The lovely, bouncy word ogooglebar means "something unable to be found on a search engine." And according to Arika Okrent, Google...
August 12, 2013

Rainbows and Unicorns: A Linguistic History

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It all seems to date back to a 19th-century French book. It's not all rainbows and butterflies, you know. Or rainbows and unicorns. Or ...
August 5, 2013

How 3-D Printers Might Help Us Build a Base on the Moon

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Mankind's quest to live among the stars gets a little more realistic with the advent of 3-D printing . If humanity's longtime dre...
July 29, 2013

3-D Printing: The Next Industrial Revolution

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Three-dimensional printers make manufacturing possible at home. Could they spell the end of mass production? What is 3-D printing? It’s ...
July 22, 2013

How to Travel the World... While Working!

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Vanessa Van Edwards' 6-step roadmap to taking the "workation" of your dreams is an inspiration! Check it out... "I take ...
July 15, 2013

Is J the sexiest letter?

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It certainly seems to be featured in an inordinate number of sex-specific words! According to Bruce Price, less than 1 percent of English ...
July 8, 2013

How You Can Connect Any Two Pages on the Internet in 19 clicks or less

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A Hungarian physicist finds that the web's organizing principles aren't all that different from "six degrees of Kevin Bacon....
July 1, 2013

The 5 Best Reactions to the TIME cover story on Millennials

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Millennials like listicles , right? Millennials stopped sexting and posting selfies just long enough this week to notice something curio...
June 24, 2013

Life in the Age of Internet Addiction

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The vast majority of the American population is mildly addicted to technology. Anyone who spends their day staring at screens can speak t...
June 17, 2013

Google's Government-Snooping Data Dump: By the Numbers

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The search giant is getting swamped by warrantless requests for users' information. "It may be easier than you think for governm...
June 10, 2013

10 Acronyms with Unintended Double Meanings

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The Wisconsin Tourism Federation realized in 2009 that geek-speak had made its acronym WTF pretty laughable. In 2010, New York City'...
June 3, 2013

Do your texts make you sound old?

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Younger generations are far more adept at textspeak , a rich and subtle form of communication, according to Arika Okrent in The Week . When ...
May 27, 2013

Should you worry about the IRS reading your email?

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A new ACLU report claims the IRS has been accessing emails without a warrant. According to Keith Wagstaff, you might want to reconsider tha...
May 20, 2013

Calligraphy in the Age of Texting

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China is in the midst of a “handwriting crisis” according to Sheng Hui of Yanzhao Evening News . We already know that many adults have be...
May 13, 2013

In love with a bot

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When robots look like people or pets, says Robert Ito, it’s hard not to develop feelings for them. "The robot is smiling at me, his re...
May 6, 2013

China’s Cyberwarriors and the Pursuit of Information Dominance

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An ongoing campaign of computer attacks on the U.S. this year has been traced to China. What are the hackers after? Who has been hacked? Gov...