How Good, The Technology Company, Treated It’s Employees Poorly
On Sept. 4, employees of Good Technology, a mobile security start-up in Sunnyvale, Calif., awoke to discover that their company was being sold to BlackBerry, the mobile device and software maker.
December 24, 2015 at 06:24AM
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The Future of Pets
Micropigs? Dinosaur chickens? Tweeting dogs?
December 23, 2015 at 03:22PM
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The problem with self-driving cars: who controls the code?
Should autonomous vehicles be programmed to choose who they kill when they crash? And who gets access to the code that determines those decisions?
December 23, 2015 at 03:22PM
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Burying Rdio, the Music App for Men
“Today, it’s shutting down, which means that after half a decade, I have to find a new way to listen to music.”
December 23, 2015 at 01:25PM
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Ghosts in the Machine
Social media has changed the way we mourn, for the better.
December 23, 2015 at 01:25PM
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The Year Wearables Became More Than a Bad Word
“If wearables are things you can wear, are VR headsets wearables? If you put your phone in a holster on your belt, is it a wearable? For years, we didn’t have a term for the coming world in which everything we wear, own, and touch will be connected in some way. Now we don’t need one.”
December 23, 2015 at 12:27PM
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Nissan’s front-engined front-wheel drive hybrid Le Mans car is no more
It was a brave idea, but not a very good one.
December 23, 2015 at 12:27PM
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First-Person Drone Racing Is An Awesome New Sport That Will Make You Vomit
Strapping a headset to your face for a first-person view from your racing drone is something we definitely want to try, as long as there’s a bathroom nearby.
December 23, 2015 at 09:46AM
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3,200 inmates mistakenly released early in Washington
As many as 3,200 convicted offenders were mistakenly released too early from Washington state prisons because of errors in calculating good time credit, officials said Tuesday.
December 23, 2015 at 09:30AM
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The Japanese Professor Who’s Spent Three Decades Perfecting a Human Avatar
“When Susumu Tachi made his first prototype telexistence machine in 1981, he was amazed at what he saw. As he peered through the contraption, he glimpsed another version of himself from behind, looking through the very same prototype device. The effect induced a curious out-of-body sensation.”
December 23, 2015 at 08:28AM
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