Waiting On The Watch: Apple’s Unprecedented Moment
The Apple Watch launch is fraught with expectation and desire in a way no other new product from the company ever has been before.

March 6, 2015 at 08:17AM
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Autism, It’s a Hot Focus for Tech
While frequent attention to autism in the media brings light to the topic, in recent months, there has been a less well-publicized, yet emerging trend: technology companies big and small have been stepping forward to focus their resources on projects to help individuals with autism.

March 6, 2015 at 06:15AM
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State of VR
While not limited to games, with GDC on this week, VR has moved back into the news with a range of sweeping technology, gear and project reports. From games engines to new headgear, and coming off the strong content discussions at the VR special event at Sundance last month, VR remains the hot topic for gamers, geeks and VC funding.

March 5, 2015 at 11:03PM
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The Back Story of Meerkat: A Side Project That Took Off
When a user starts recording video via Meerkat, his or her Twitter followers are notified with a tweet and can click on the link to watch the video. Any comment they type appears both in the Twitter feed as a reply and on the user’s video screen. Over three days roughly 15,000 people used Meerkat, with roughly 8,000 video streams.

March 5, 2015 at 02:27PM
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One Nerd to Rule Them All
For Gabriel Leydon, the Super Bowl was a showdown. But it wasn’t between the Seahawks and the Patriots. It was between the game he developed, “Game of War: Fire Age,” and its better-known competitor, “Clash of Clans.”

March 5, 2015 at 02:27PM
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How Unsafe Was Hillary Clinton’s Secret Staff Email System?
When Hillary Clinton ditched government email in favor of a secret, personal address, it wasn’t just an affront to Obama’s vaunted transparency agenda — security experts consulted by Gawker have laid out a litany of potential threats that may have exposed her email conversations to potential interception by hackers and foreign intelligence agencies.

March 5, 2015 at 02:03PM
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This Camera Will Capture a 1,000-Year Exposure That Ends in 3015 for History’s Slowest Photo
Jonathon Keats wants to set a world record in photography that he won’t live long enough to see. Nor will his children, or his children’s children for many generations. It’s a project that won’t complete for a millennium.

Keats plans to capture the world’s slowest photograph, a 1,000-year-long exposure of of the city of Tempe, Arizona, that will be finished in the Spring of 3015.

March 5, 2015 at 01:06PM
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Cupertino Hotel Has Robot Room Service
This little trash can robot is sort of cute and he doesn’t ask a lot of dumb questions. Step it up, Marriott.

March 5, 2015 at 12:52PM
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The Failed Attempt to Destroy GPS
An axe attack in the early 1990s damaged the same network of satellites that helps you map directions today.

March 5, 2015 at 11:22AM
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Why companies have little incentive to invest in cybersecurity
The actual expenses from the recent and high-profile breaches at Sony, Target and Home Depot amount to less than 1% of each company’s annual revenues. After reimbursement from insurance and minus tax deductions, the losses are even less.

March 5, 2015 at 09:56AM
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