A Football That Broadcasts Where It Is On The Field
Or, how to make goal-line technology work for American football.

June 18, 2014 at 3:12AM
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How Nest Is Already Using All That Data From Its Army of Smoke Alarms
The big news from Nest today is that Protect is back on the shelves. But lost in the shuffle is a more interesting tidbit from the company: Its first report on data culled from the alarms of hundreds of thousands of users. It’s a glimpse at how Nest (and Google) can use their army of home-based smart hardware for the better — and at just how much they could know about you some day.

June 17, 2014 at 10:02PM
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Stephen Colbert’s In-House Tech Startup Wants to Fix TV Scripts
Sure, he put the term “truthiness” into common use and broke new ground on cheesy bald eagle graphics, but it’s possible that Stephen Colbert will also leave a lasting mark in the obscure, off-camera realm of television-production software.

June 17, 2014 at 7:56PM
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Out of the 250 New Emojis You Can Use on Your Phone, There’s One Glaring Omission
The good news: In July, 250 new emojis will be added to the emojipedia. The bad news: The whiteocracy is here to stay. According to the list of new choices, not a single black or brown face will be added.

June 17, 2014 at 6:59PM
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ArnoldC, The Arnold Schwarzenegger Programming Language
Because you can never have too many meme-y programming languages, here’s Lauri Hartikka’s ArnoldC — “an imperative programming language where the basic keywords are replaced with quotes from different Schwarzenegger movies.”

June 17, 2014 at 5:54PM
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Pixel perfect: the story of eBoy
The 8-bit revolution started here.

June 17, 2014 at 4:22PM
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Cable TV boxes become 2nd biggest energy users in many homes
In the middle of the night, when most Americans are sound asleep, their lights and appliances off, a power hog is wide awake and running at nearly full throttle: the boxes that operate their cable or satellite television service.

June 17, 2014 at 4:22PM
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Data Doppelgängers and the Uncanny Valley of Personalization
Why customized ads are so creepy, even when they miss their target.

June 17, 2014 at 3:04PM
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Apple And Samsung Reportedly Headed To Common Ground
Last month, it was reported that Apple and Samsung were to call a ceasefire on patent disputes against each other. Unfortunately, the exact opposite panned out, leaving us with barely any hope that the two companies could resolve their differences. A new report from The Korea Times just might rekindle that hope.

June 17, 2014 at 3:04PM
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Is iPhone Photography Getting Better?
When most people think of iPhone photography, they think of Instagram. But not everybody is so enamored: namely, some professional photographers.

June 17, 2014 at 1:55PM
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