This start-up promised 10,000 people eternal digital life-then it died
Five years ago, a start-up called Intellitar garnered massive media attention by promising its users “virtual eternity.” Unfortunately, the company itself was not immortal.
April 10, 2015 at 03:33AM
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The ‘Killer Robots’ Accountability Gap | Human Rights Watch
Fully autonomous weapons would go a step beyond existing remote-controlled drones as they would be able to select and engage targets without meaningful human control. Although they do not exist yet, the rapid movement of technology in that direction has attracted international attention and concern.
April 10, 2015 at 02:30AM
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Internet naming body moves to crack down on ‘.sucks’
The body that regulates Internet addresses is checking to see if it can crack down on a Canadian company accused of using the new “.sucks” domain name to extract exorbitant sums from celebrities and companies seeking to protect their public brands.
April 9, 2015 at 09:34PM
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Rich Teens Use Instagram, Poor Teens Facebook
Facebook remains the dominant social network in the United States, including for the kids. But a new study provides a lot of nuance about who uses what social networks and how often they use them.
April 9, 2015 at 05:26PM
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Survey says: 92 percent of software developers are men
A recent survey of more than 26,000 programmers by Stack Overflow, an online Q&A community for coders, shows that the big tech companies may actually be doing better than the programming community at large when it comes to including women.
April 9, 2015 at 01:56PM
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Secret Republicans in Silicon Valley
In the Bay Area, right-leaning programmers and software engineers often feel the need to keep their political views under wraps.
April 9, 2015 at 12:48PM
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The Tangled History of Soviet Computer Science
Condemned as a capitalist tool, the computer would help expose the USSR’s weakness.
April 9, 2015 at 12:48PM
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Stanford’s Cheap, Bendable Aluminum Battery
Not only can you bend it and have it still work, you can also put a hole right through the middle of it and it won’t catch fire like its lithium-ion counterparts.
April 9, 2015 at 11:52AM
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The definitive 12-inch MacBook review roundup
The new 12-inch MacBook is here in all its glory and we’ve gathered the best reviews from around the web for you. Is this the laptop of the future? Read on to find out!
April 9, 2015 at 11:39AM
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This Was The World’s First Attempt To Synchronize Film And Recorded Sound
This short film was a test for Edison’s “Kinetophone” project, the first attempt in history to record sound and moving image in synchronization. Although the experiment ultimately failed, by digitizing the media and using digital editing software, multi-Oscar winner Walter Murch was able to synchronize them and complete the experiment 105 years later.
April 9, 2015 at 10:56AM
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