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Nicholas Jackson

Nicholas Jackson

Nicholas Jackson is an associate editor at The Atlantic, where he oversees the Health channel. A former media aggregator for Slate, he has also worked for Encyclopaedia Britannica, Texas Monthly and other publications.

The Age of the Fax Machine Is (Finally) Coming to an End

The Age of the Fax Machine Is (Finally) Coming to an End

The facsimile machine, used to transmit documents over telephone lines, has seen little improvement since it debuted in the mid-1970s… More »

Where Ideas Come From: Inside GE Global Research's Headquarters

Where Ideas Come From: Inside GE Global Research's Headquarters

The research and development center for all of General Electric's businesses, GE Global Research is based in Niskayuna, New York… More »

The Vinci: A 7-Inch Tablet Computer Designed for Babies

The Vinci: A 7-Inch Tablet Computer Designed for Babies

The touch-screen device designed to start babies on the path to digital literacy is the latest in a long string of luxury parenting items… More »

Video of the Day: HIRO, a Robot That Learns and Acts on Its Own

Video of the Day: HIRO, a Robot That Learns and Acts on Its Own

HIRO uses a custom Self-Organizing Incremental Neural Network (SOINN) to learn from new situations and determine how to react… More »

Infographic: A Look at Mobile Internet Costs Around the World

Infographic: A Look at Mobile Internet Costs Around the World

With data usage on the rise, some mobile Internet providers across the United States are starting to do away with their unlimited plans… More »

Picture of the Day: Apple's New Grand Central Terminal Store

Picture of the Day: Apple's New Grand Central Terminal Store

The store looks similar to other Apple locations, with long wooden tables, a sea of black stools and lots of blue t-shirts and iThings… More »

Where Ideas Come From: Inside HowAboutWe's Headquarters

Where Ideas Come From: Inside HowAboutWe's Headquarters

Out of their Brooklyn office, the HowAboutWe team works to get its users off of dating websites and out on actual, real-life dates… More »

Collect All of Your Photographs in One Place With Pictarine

Collect All of Your Photographs in One Place With Pictarine

Instagram, Flickr, Twitpic, Facebook, Google+ -- my photographs are spread all over the Internet and it's difficult to remember what I uploaded and where. Is there an easy way to collect and organize all of these photos in one place?… More »

Infographic: Are Deals Sites Here to Stay or Just the Latest Craze?

Infographic: Are Deals Sites Here to Stay or Just the Latest Craze?

As daily deals sites proliferate, merchants face a tougher choice on where to promote their products. The tendency is to go with the biggest.… More »

Picture of the Day: The Layers of Rock in Mars's Gale Crater

Picture of the Day: The Layers of Rock in Mars's Gale Crater

NASA believes that the small hills at the foreground of this image could contain clues to the current water cycles on the Red Planet… More »

Video of the Day: F-16 Crashes at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Air Show

Video of the Day: F-16 Crashes at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Air Show

At the Experimental Aircraft Association's AirVenture Convention last week, an F-16 landed at 70 mph and overshot the runway… More »

Foxconn Will Replace Workers With 1 Million Robots in 3 Years

Foxconn Will Replace Workers With 1 Million Robots in 3 Years

If the world's largest manufacturer of computer components can't stop its workers from killing themselves, it will just replace them… More »

Video of the Day: Electric Car Without Any Rare Earth Elements

Video of the Day: Electric Car Without Any Rare Earth Elements

As prices for these elements continue to climb, one Tokyo University of Science professor is hoping to do away with them altogether… More »

Infographic: Android vs. Apple's iOS in Mobile Advertising

Infographic: Android vs. Apple's iOS in Mobile Advertising

Nearly 80 million Americans now own a smartphone and mobile ad revenues are expected to climb to $3 billion annually by 2015… More »

Picture of the Day: Composite Showing Sizes of Nine Asteroids

Picture of the Day: Composite Showing Sizes of Nine Asteroids

The Dawn probe, managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory but part of an international cooperative, reached Vesta… More »

Infographic: The Most Expensive Keywords in Google AdWords

Infographic: The Most Expensive Keywords in Google AdWords

Google is making about $3 billion every month from advertising, which accounts for 97 percent of its revenue over the past year… More »

Picture of the Day: Glenn Enters Friendship 7 for Historic Trip

Picture of the Day: Glenn Enters Friendship 7 for Historic Trip

When John Glenn celebrated his birthday earlier this month, NASA rereleased this photograph of the now-90-year-old astronaut… More »

Video of the Day: Researchers Demonstrate Robot Octopus

Video of the Day: Researchers Demonstrate Robot Octopus

Bioengineers in this field believe that robots based on these creatures would make far better robots than those we're currently designing… More »

Video of the Day: Is the 2012 Audi A7 a Tech-Lover's Dream Car?

Video of the Day: Is the 2012 Audi A7 a Tech-Lover's Dream Car?

Priced at just under $60,000, the new car comes equipped with enough gadgets and gizmos to make that price seem justifiable… More »

Where Ideas Come From: Inside Scoutmob's Headquarters

Where Ideas Come From: Inside Scoutmob's Headquarters

From the deals they offer to they way their decorate their office, Scoutmob has a unique voice that is found in everything they do… More »

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