Steam takes on Twitch with new broadcasting feature
Launching in beta today, the feature will let Steam users watch other people play games without leaving the service.

December 3, 2014 at 06:24AM
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Once Celebrated in Russia, Programmer Pavel Durov Chooses Exile
Not long ago, Mr. Durov was seen as Russia’s Mark Zuckerberg. He founded a social network, VKontakte, which is more popular in Russia than Facebook, and made a splash by publicly offering Edward Snowden a job.

Then the Kremlin tightened its grip over the Internet and President Vladimir V. Putin’s allies took control of VKontakte.

December 3, 2014 at 05:12AM
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A Brief History of Web Literacy and its Future Potential
My focus here isn’t the history of the web itself, but the history of the skills that people have thought necessary to use it. It’s a subtle, but important distinction.

December 3, 2014 at 03:39AM
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3D Printing Can Improve Face Transplants
Surgeons are using new, highly accurate 3D printers to guide face transplantation operations, making the procedures faster and improving outcome.

December 3, 2014 at 02:51AM
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High school girls build kick-ass robots
Watching the evolution of a game-changing robotics team and the young women who built it.

December 3, 2014 at 02:03AM
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What Happens When You Click A Link?
All about the process of getting from here to there.

December 2, 2014 at 10:03PM
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NTSB blames bad battery design-and bad management-in Boeing 787 fires
Bad battery design and bad engineering practices were to blame for the fire aboard a Japan Airlines Boeing 787 in Boston in 2013, according to a final report on the incident issued by the National Transportation Safety Board yesterday.

December 2, 2014 at 08:17PM
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What Happens When Spies Can Eavesdrop on Any Conversation?
Imagine having access to the all of the world’s recorded conversations, videos that people have posted to YouTube, in addition to chatter collected by random microphones in public places.

December 2, 2014 at 08:17PM
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Exclusive: Giving Stephen Hawking a voice
In 2011, Hawking sent a letter to Gordon Moore, the cofounder of Intel, saying: “My speech input is very, very slow these days. Is there any way Intel could help?”

December 2, 2014 at 07:18PM
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What Teens Think Of Social Media

December 2, 2014 at 06:21PM
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