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The Internet and Things: How Manufacturing Could Get Better With a Dose of...
Tucked away in a makerspace inside a corporate office park, we found a company trying to bring the Internet age to manufacturing with machine vision. This is where augmented reality gets serious. On...
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Cellphones Skew Political Polls: Did Landlines Do the Same Thing in 1936?
The infamous Literary Digest poll of 1936 predicted Alf Landon would defeat President Roosevelt. Were telephones to blame? Kansas governor Alf Landon visits Roosevelt at the White House in 1943, seven...
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Hiring in the Digital Age
Even for twentysomethings, the job description is clear: Everyone is an editor in chief. Wired.com Not so long ago, magazine and newspaper editors knew exactly what they were looking for when hiring...
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Google News at 10: How the Algorithm Won Over the News Industry
Google's "billions of clicks" are only half of the story. In April of 2010, Eric Schmidt delivered the keynote address at the conference of the American Society of News Editors in Washington, D.C....
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The Evolution and Art of Web Design
Sometimes it's easy to take the design ideas that shape our online experience for granted, forgetting that thousands of decisions go into the look and feel of each site we use. From HTML to Flash and...
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Satellites Capture the Ground Impact of Droughts, From 2002 to Today
Ten years' worth of Earth's wetness and aridity, as observed from space While the effects of droughts reveal themselves in the short term through arid fields and withered riverbeds, their ongoing...
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The Race to Preserve History as It Happens Online
Webpages from six historical events over the last three years have disappeared faster than they could be archived. Hany M. SalahEldeen and Michael L. Nelson There is a well-known thrill that comes from...
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Today's Romance-of-Past-Technology Video
From someone I know in the high-tech world, this phone-video of the space shuttle Endeavor doing a fly-by near Moffett Field, not far from San Jose, about an hour ago. Among the things I love about...
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Scientists Discover Hints of Water in Vesta's Past
NASA's Dawn spacecraft has documented strange "pitted terrain" on the asteroid, which seems to be the result of water that has "degassed into space." NASA Right now, in the asteroid belt which lies...
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The Computerized Birder: Can Software Stop Bird Strikes on Wind Farms?
To count birds now, a guy sits in a lawn chair. Two former Indiana students want to use machine vision to generate better data that will prevent birds from being killed. There's a common association in...
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Detroit's Gleaming Start-Up Tower
The Motor City is for hardcore entrepreneurs.flickr/gilgameshWhere I live in the Bay Area, there's a certain glamour to Detroit. It's the heart of what Bruce Sterling termed "dark euphoria." "Dark...
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What the Space Program Meant
On Friday I mentioned some of the excitement across California as the space shuttle Endeavor and its 747 mother ship made low-pass fly-bys in various parts of the state. Here is how it looked from San...
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Space Shuttle Endeavour Cruises Over Los Angeles, the Hollywood Sign, and More
Built to replace the Challenger, NASA's Endeavour flew missions to space between 1992 and 2011. Now, the retired spacecraft will spend its time at the California Science Center in Los Angeles. On...
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Space Is the New Frontier of the 2012 Presidential Campaign
A Romney presidency, the candidate says, would "rebuild NASA" without more funding. NASA The decidedly human undertaking that is the 2012 presidential election has taken a cosmic turn. On Saturday, at...
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'A Space to Be an Entrepreneur and Not Feel Like You Have Leprosy Here in...
An abandoned car dealership has been transformed into a lively space for Cleveland's nerds and entrepreneurs alike. Dar Caldwell (blue sweatshirt) in BABL Media's office at Shaker LaunchHouse.One thing...
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Helping Apartment Complexes Help You
All those thousands of apartment buildings? They all need a social-media presence now. And this company wants to build them.Renter's Boom founder Lindsay Sims For many young people, searching for an...
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A Framed First Dollar for the Internet Age
Or, the most awesomely nerdy conference table ever. You know those framed dollar bills you see in some businesses that commemorate the first money they ever made? Well, this is sort of an update to...
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Bringing Innovation to the Funeral-Home Business (No, Really)
"We had more information on where to go to dinner... than we did for my cousin's funeral." eFuneral's offices are located on the 21st floor of a downtown Cleveland office building. Running late, I...
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'It Was Magnificent and Moving': More on Going Back to Space
Last week I mentioned (here and here) the bittersweet excitement in California as the space shuttle Endeavour made a farewell fly-by around the state. Now, more correspondents in California chime in...
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Climate Change Adventure: The Arctic's Melting, So These Guys Sailed Across It
With Arctic Ice reaching record lows this summer, new passages from Europe to the Pacific are opening up, even to a sailboat. Every winter, like clockwork, the sea ice that covers the Arctic thickens...
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