Tagged: Technology

A patent is filed by General Motors that would use information collected from its OnStar navigation system to personalize passing billboards to drivers.

Why the London Olympics (and every subsequent Olympic games) will ]be a showcase for the latest in sporting technology.

How laser technology is being applied to a new line of cochlear implants.

Deconstructing whistleblowers. A comic book tells the story of SNL. Tech's missing links. A simpler internet. And embedded with the reenactors.

A new app makes civic engagement something you can do anytime, from anywhere.

Internet surfers have long worried that they have insufficient control over their online privacy — despite the privacy policies many people agree to when they visit websites or use online services.

There are data to support the surfers' feelings: Online privacy policies are so cumbersome and onerous that it would take the average person about 250 working hours every year — about 30 full working days — to actually read the privacy policies of the websites they visit in a year, according to an analysis by researchers Aleecia M. McDonald and Lorrie Faith Cranor.

A new app transforms tree leaves into currency…kind of changes your mind about raking season, eh?

Before Facebook and MySpace transformed how we interact virtually, there was another kind of Internet — a 1980s network, where users connected via phone lines and communicated through simple lines of text.

And while that may sound outdated, that version of the Internet is still very much alive.

'A Lot More Elegant'

Pat McNameeking, a college student in Concord, N.H., is one champion of this throwback social network known as SDF, or Super Dimensional Fortress.

McNameeking, who goes by the handle Bulywif, connects to the Internet via an Ethernet cable threaded into his parents' basement. Telephone and cable wires are tangled around his setup.