Just a few hours after Time anointed Mark Zuckerberg "Person of the Year," Zuckerberg's company announced yet another new service that will attempt to recognize pictures of your friends based on their facial characteristics.
As brands and businesses continue to migrate their services to the growing number of smartphone users, they will want to keep the user experience that is particular to mobile phones.
A revolution is brewing in Congress that could have profound consequences for public policy and institutional performance. It is not the GOP takeover of the House.
From the launch of the iPad, to the exploding universe of applications that give the mobile web meaning, it was a game-changing year for mobile.
DNA in a test tube is prosaic: the "stuff of life" looks a lot like what emerges from a child's runny nose. But there has long been something taboo in that tube.
Like a bottle in the cosmic ocean, the Voyager will continue to drift in the vastness for many years to come, until its radioactive heart stops beeping.
I am all for thoughtful discussion -- even over compromise -- but the messages that 'net neutrality' groups are sending to the FCC read more like 'it's my way or the highway' than 'let's work together.'
I don't want to be overly dramatic here, but there are just hours left to save the Internet. Tomorrow, the FCC stops taking meetings and accepting official comments on its proposed Net Neutrality rules.
Should the FCC adopt the compromise rules at its December 21 meeting, it would enable the Commission to focus on ensuring that every American has real access to broadband and end the "digital divide".
I've always believed these companies would bend under pressure from the government, even in the US. Now, for hosting providers, that's not a theory, it's happened.
If there was one common thing linking the entrepreneurs I met at the LeWeb Technology conference, it was that uplifting, optimistic feeling of individuals taking their passions and turning them into realities.
In the second half of the 20th century, well over 40 percent of U.S. prosperity was the result of scientific and technological advances, and science and technology continue to be the key to the jobs that so many Americans need.
On Twitter, do you follow people on whose lives -- whose fundamental set of realities -- are completely different than your own? Or have you created a digital echo chamber, following people who already share your interests and already think the way you do?
NASA should not have to resort to circus acts as the price for doing science. It's in such circumstances that violence is done to process, to rigor, to integrity.
When asked to write papers on a particular topic, a class of 20 students will provide slightly different variations on work based upon the exact same set of references and sources. This hints at a serious problem for the coming generations.
In an ideal world, the WikiLeaks revelations would have ended two wars. But rather than retreating, the Pentagon became emboldened that a significant portion of its dirty laundry was aired publicly.
I return to the Apple store two weeks later -- my teeth worn down, my face prematurely aged from endless hours of sleeplessness and technological frustration -- certain that the iMac was the worst purchase I'd ever made.
For months, during the ongoing net neutrality debate, the positions of the national civil rights organizations have been largely distorted.
This is our challenge: to live consciously connected, and create a world that is as wise in inner technologies of mindfulness, wisdom and compassion as it is developed in the external technologies.
Jonathan Spalter, 2010.12.15
Michael Conniff, 2010.12.15