When a Health Plan Knows How You Shop
There may be a link between your Internet use and how often you end up in the emergency room. At least that’s one of the curious connections to emerge from a health care analysis project at the insurance division of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
June 30, 2014 at 6:51AM
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The Secret Little Problem With Amazon’s Fire TV
I got a little nervous that something was wrong when I go a notice from my Internet service provider, Cox Cable, saying that I had hit my monthly download cap.
June 29, 2014 at 7:48PM
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Why I Can’t Delete a Digital Moment I Don’t Even Remember
After a breakup, a half-minute-long forgotten iPhone recording takes on new meaning.
June 29, 2014 at 6:30PM
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After a Fast Start, a Fading Path Looks to Reinvent Itself, Again
In 2012, Dave Morin was a tech industry celebrity. His start-up firm, Path, was nearing the top of the iTunes App Store charts. Britney Spears and other A-listers stopped by his company’s San Francisco office. But once Ms. Spears left the building, the hard work of building a company began.
June 29, 2014 at 3:37PM
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The Rise Of The “Social Professional” Networks
Back in the mid-2000s, many espoused a theory that there would emerge social networks for different types of people. It sounds a little preposterous now, but it’s interesting to note some recent fundings of companies that could reasonably be called “LinkedIn for X.”
June 29, 2014 at 1:18PM
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Prisons are terrible, and there’s finally a way to get rid of them
Researchers have tested electronic monitoring as an alternative approach to criminal punishment — and it’s been a huge success.
June 29, 2014 at 12:16PM
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Uber Driver: Here’s How We Get Around Background Checks
Travis Kalanick, chief executive of Uber and Ayn Rand superfan, thinks regulation is for suckers, and his company has been slow to expand background checks and tighten the screening process as it ravenously expands. Surprise: people are beating Uber’s weak rules.
June 29, 2014 at 11:10AM
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Why Google Cardboard is actually a huge boost for virtual reality
The headset may be made of cardboard, but its software is anything but flimsy. Google is in the perfect spot to push virtual reality forward.
June 29, 2014 at 10:12AM
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Yup, 1-800-COLLECT is still in business-and charging massive fees
After forgetting his cell phone at home, he traveled from Las Vegas to California and had to place a call back to his home landline. So he located a payphone and found that, so strong were the company’s early ads, he still associated the 1-800-COLLECT number with reasonable collect call rates.
June 29, 2014 at 10:12AM
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NASA’s ‘flying saucer’ tests new Mars-landing technology
NASA sent a saucer-like vehicle high into the sky to test technology for a future Mars landing, but its parachute tangled when deployed and the spacecraft splashed into the Pacific Ocean.
June 29, 2014 at 10:12AM
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