How One Company Is Building An Internet Connection Through The Arctic Thanks To Climate Change
Arctic Fibre has a $620 million plan: to connect London and Tokyo without touching land.

August 9, 2014 at 8:12AM
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Why IBM’s New Brainlike Chip May Be “Historic”
A chip that uses a million digital neurons and 256 million synapses may signal the beginning of a new era of more intelligent computers.

August 9, 2014 at 8:12AM
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Harvard Men Seek Perfect Computer Date
Long before Mark Zuckerberg and Christian Rudder, there was Jeff Tarr, David Crump and Vaughan Morrill, founders of “Operation Match.”

August 9, 2014 at 8:12AM
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The six tech policy problems Congress failed to fix this year
On tech issues, the partisan divide isn’t so wide. Yet nothing happened.

August 9, 2014 at 8:12AM
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Why Ebay Tells Manufacturers in China What You’re Searching For
A look into the nostalgia machine powered by big data.

August 9, 2014 at 6:09AM
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Sticky data: Why even ‘anonymized’ information can still identify you
Is there really such a thing as a truly anonymous data set in the age of big data?

August 9, 2014 at 2:21AM
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Deep As Hell With James Cameron
The trouble with making a documentary about the deepest, most remote place on the planet, five miles below the surface of the ocean, is that there really isn’t a whole lot happening down there.

August 8, 2014 at 10:30PM
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Let Slip the Tweets of War
“My fellow Americans…” mutters a Deputy State Department spokesperson before clicking post on a series of five tweets announcing new military action in Iraq.

August 8, 2014 at 7:03PM
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Antiques Roadshow Appraised My 2008 Toshiba TV
In June, “Antiques Roadshow” visited Birmingham, Alabama, my home for the last three years. I don’t own a Tiffany lamp or a 19th century Chesterfield sofa. I do, though, have a flatscreen television that’s ancient by consumer electronics standards. So that’s what I brought to be appraised.

August 8, 2014 at 2:34PM
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This Industrial-Strength Paper Cutter Makes The Most Satisfying Sound
One of the many benefits of your dad owning a printing press is being able to play with this awesome “instrument” that can totally chop your whole arm off.

August 8, 2014 at 1:20PM
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