Why New Tech Has Had No Impact On Classrooms
Remember when radio was going to change education in America? Of course you don’t, because people said that in the 1930’s and it didn’t come true. The same thing happened with movies and TV. Buy why?
December 2, 2014 at 05:05PM
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On File Formats, Very Briefly
The file formats that define the web range from audacious to disturbing, and an examination of their idiosyncracies offers an illuminating glimpse of history.
December 2, 2014 at 03:05PM
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‘Net Neutrality’: Why are the Bad Guys So Much Better at Naming Things?
Great names disguise terrible policies; terrible names sink great policies.
December 2, 2014 at 03:05PM
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Using Futuristic Tech To Capture The President In 3D
Thanks to complicated scanning techniques, President Obama is forever digitally immortalized. The real question is, when will Peter Jackson ask Andy Serkis to mocap some Obama-Gollum chimera.
December 2, 2014 at 02:53PM
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How 4 Mexican Immigrant Kids and Their Cheap Robot Beat MIT
Ten years ago, WIRED contributing editor Joshua Davis wrote a story about four high school students in Phoenix, Arizona — three of them undocumented immigrants from Mexico —beating MIT in an underwater robot competition. That story, La Vida Robot, has a new chapter: “Spare Parts,” starring George Lopez and Carlos PenaVega, opens in January, and Davis is publishing a book by the same title updating the kids’ story. To mark that occasion, WIRED is republishing his original story.
December 2, 2014 at 01:59PM
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More from the Sony Pictures hack: budgets, layoffs, HR scripts, and 3,800 social security numbers
Budgets, layoffs, HR scripts and 3,800 Social Security numbers.
December 2, 2014 at 12:56PM
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Building a safer Twitter
A new update makes it easier to flag abusive tweets and manage blocked accounts.
December 2, 2014 at 12:56PM
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Not Dead Yet: How Some Video Stores Are Thriving in the Age of Netflix
just because Blockbuster couldn’t keep its iconic blue awnings hanging doesn’t mean there aren’t some intrepid entrepreneurs (and diehard cinephiles) taking a cue from their digital counterparts and finding ways to not just survive in the age of Netflix, but thrive.
December 2, 2014 at 12:56PM
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Apple patents active fall protection system that shifts iPhones in midair
Apple on Tuesday was awarded a patent covering a futuristic iPhone protection system that can recognize when a phone is dropped, calculate an estimated point of impact and shift its center of gravity to avoid striking sensitive components.
December 2, 2014 at 08:54AM
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Stephen Hawking warns artificial intelligence could end mankind
“The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.”
December 2, 2014 at 08:54AM
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