Google needs space; rents NASA airfield
Google has signed a deal to rent NASA’s historic Moffett Federal Airfield for a minimum of 60 years, as it looks to expand its research in space exploration and robotics.

November 11, 2014 at 10:00PM
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This Device Diagnoses Hundreds of Diseases Using a Single Drop of Blood
Known as rHEALTH, the technology was developed over the course of seven years with grants from NASA, the National Institutes of Health, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It gets into the deep diagnostics of biomarkers and other internal indicators that can serve as an early warning sign of a serious ailment.

November 11, 2014 at 10:00PM
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Amazon Echo & Narcissus: A Love Story
“Alexa, could you bring me a towel?” he called out from the bathroom. “I’m not equipped to hand you fabric or paper for drying or wiping.” “How dare you question my authority!” Narcissus turned the faucet off and glanced at the tub now full with water. He gasped at his reflection staring back at him.“Wait a minute. Why, you are even more gorgeous than the person in the river! Pleased to meet you, Alexa!”

November 11, 2014 at 09:26PM
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Tristan Walker: The Visible Man
A bold entrepreneur with a radical startup. An African-American. In tech, those two phrases usually don’t go together. Enter Tristan Walker.

November 11, 2014 at 09:26PM
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Can This Man Save AOL?
David Shing, better known as Shingy, made up his own job title and role, which ranges from spokesperson to branding guru to tech oracle. He’s both widely revered and widely ridiculed — but none of that will matter if he manages to make the dial-up-era dinosaur cool again.

November 11, 2014 at 07:23PM
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Inside Alibaba’s war room on the world’s biggest online shopping day
For Alibaba’s staff, long hours fueled by Red Bull and Starbucks — there is one on the Alibaba campus, which is also home to a gym, a library, and a post office — have become the norm over the past few weeks. About 11,000 staff have been involved in the holiday’s execution.

November 11, 2014 at 06:20PM
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“Good Enough” Tanks Won WWII
Sometimes a “good enough” military technology can achieve victory over better military technologies.

November 11, 2014 at 06:20PM
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