Why Are We Still Calling Them ‘Cell Phones’?
Smartphones are phones in name only. For many of us, the green, phone-shaped icon on our home screens has become just another minor feature — like a stopwatch or a stock ticker. And for others, it’s completely irrelevant.

June 24, 2014 at 9:58PM
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These Are The Wild Radar Ships That Make Missile Defense Possible
America’s complex and costly ballistic missile defense programs regularly make the news, and although land based interceptor launch sites or AEGIS equipped Navy ships get the spotlight, few know of the small fleet of highly specialized sensor ships that have made this controversial technology possible.

June 24, 2014 at 9:58PM
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iGun
A New Jersey project to develop a so-called smart gun faces large political obstacles.

June 24, 2014 at 9:09PM
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Test Driving Harley-Davidson’s First Electric Motorcycle
It might be a neat piece of tech, but will it impress the people who actually buy motorcycles.

June 24, 2014 at 3:10PM
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How I Got My iPhone to Finally Let Me Swear
iPhone autocorrect is the most horrible thing in the world. For years, my phone has been typing “ducxking” for me when clearly I intend to type… not that. It’s easy to fix!

June 24, 2014 at 1:17PM
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Discontinued GPS Networks and the Mystery Islands That Go With Them
The more you give to a social network, the more vulnerable you are to its obsolescence.

June 24, 2014 at 12:08PM
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What’s The Future Of Pop Stardom?
We all know Justin Bieber is the pop equivalent of King Joffrey, but what if there was another way to have singing idols, and it was collaborative and open-source?

June 24, 2014 at 12:07PM
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Researchers Find and Decode the Spy Tools Governments Use to Hijack Phones
Newly uncovered components of a digital surveillance tool used by more than 60 governments worldwide provide a rare glimpse at the extensive ways law enforcement and intelligence agencies use the tool to surreptitiously record and steal data from mobile phones.

June 24, 2014 at 11:05AM
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A ‘Yo’ Is Lovely to Receive
“The app is easily the worst piece of software that I’ve ever used. If Yo. was a car, it would be totaled.”

June 24, 2014 at 8:39AM
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Supercomputer slowdown: World’s fastest system sees no new challengers
The group that measures the world’s top 500 fastest supercomputers hasn’t crowned a new champion in more than a year.

June 24, 2014 at 7:39AM
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