You’re Wrong About Voicemail
It is the default archive. It lets people leave a personal message without urging a response. And hearing someone’s voice will never get old, nor die out.

October 14, 2014 at 11:14AM
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Perk Up: Facebook and Apple Now Pay for Women to Freeze Eggs
With notoriously male-dominated Silicon Valley firms competing to attract top female talent, the coverage may give Apple and Facebook a leg up among the many women who devote key childbearing years to building careers.

October 14, 2014 at 10:14AM
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French Bank to Allow Sending Money With Tweets
Do people want to use Twitter to transfer money? A French bank is about to find out.

October 14, 2014 at 07:59AM
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The American Ebola Story
This is the App Store ranking history for an app called Plague Inc. It’s a game in which players design and deploy a disease into the world with the goal of infecting the entire planet. The game’s sales spiked on October 1st, immediately after the hospitalization of Thomas Duncan in Dallas. Ebola felt suddenly close for Americans, captivating our imaginations. So we downloaded an Ebola game.

October 14, 2014 at 07:59AM
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Google makes us all dumber: The neuroscience of search engines
As search engines get better, we become lazier. We’re hooked on easy answers and undervalue asking good questions.

October 14, 2014 at 02:18AM
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Google counters Facebook’s Oculus buy with $500M investment in VR startup Magic Leap
Not to be left behind by Facebook, Google is also getting into virtual reality. What Magic Leap does is not entirely clear yet, but it appears to be a highly realistic form of virtual reality or augmented reality.

October 13, 2014 at 09:51PM
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You’d be amazed to learn how much music is disappearing
Without sound archivists, we would not only lose access to early recordings of Elvis and R&B, as albums decayed and technology changed, but we’d also lose radio broadcasts from 50 years ago and oral histories of lost neighborhoods of New York City. Without archivists, we would be losing sound rapidly; instead, we’re gaining it.

October 13, 2014 at 09:51PM
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Dorian Nakamoto Is Suing Newsweek
Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto, the man Newsweek claimed was the mysterious founder of Bitcoin, has created a web page asking for donations in his fight to sue the magazine after he was allegedly “targeted and victimized by a reckless news organization.”

October 13, 2014 at 08:26PM
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Air Umbrella holds off the rain with a force field of air
Now fundraising on Kickstarter, the Air Umbrella promises to do away with those pesky metal ribs in favor of a dome of jetted air.

October 13, 2014 at 06:12PM
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Tinder, But For Small Towns
Online dating was supposed to solve the supply-demand problem of meeting people. But what if you live in a rural area?

October 13, 2014 at 06:12PM
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