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.

Spaceport America: The Future of Space Travel

Spaceport America: The Future of Space Travel

With Space Shuttle Discovery's final launch scheduled for tomorrow, corporations are stepping up to design low-orbit vehicles More »

What You Need to Know About Wi-Fi Direct

What You Need to Know About Wi-Fi Direct

Is Wi-Fi Direct replacing regular Wi-Fi? Do I have to worry about upgrading my gadgets? More »

Going 'Off the Record' With Google Chat

Going 'Off the Record' With Google Chat

An old conversation on Google Chat came back to haunt me. Is there a way to make sure particular chats are never archived? More »

Debunking the Charlie Chaplin Time Travel Video

Debunking the Charlie Chaplin Time Travel Video

A woman at the Grauman's Chinese Theatre premiere of The Circus isn't a time traveler. She was probably just hard of hearing. More »

Old, Weird Tech: Blood for Black-and-White Films

Old, Weird Tech: Blood for Black-and-White Films

Don't have any zinc oxide in the house? Use chocolate syrup for fake blood this Halloween. It worked for Hitchcock. More »

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For America's Favorite Hacker, Bank Fraud Is Child's Play

iPad Week: Using Recipe Apps

iPad Week: Using Recipe Apps

The iPad seems perfectly suited to at-home cooking. What are the best apps for recipes and how do I use them? More »

Colorized Daguerreotype Brings Out Details, Additional People

Colorized Daguerreotype Brings Out Details, Additional People

By coloring and refining the first picture of a human known to exist, one reader calls attention to never-before-seen details More »

The Complicated History of Baseball Stitching Machines

The Complicated History of Baseball Stitching Machines

For decades, engineers have been unable to mass produce baseballs. Today, the professional ones are still hand sewn. More »

iPad Week: Previewing Files in Mail

iPad Week: Previewing Files in Mail

Why is it that I'm unable to open some files when I check email on my iPad? Does it only support certain file types? More »

iPad Week: E-Books

iPad Week: E-Books

Why are there so many different e-book readers for my iPad? How do they differ? And, which one should I use? More »

Picture of the Day: Geometric Death Frequency-141

Picture of the Day: Geometric Death Frequency-141

420,000 black balls assembled by a team of robots More »

iPad Week: Using Time Zone Support

iPad Week: Using Time Zone Support

The Time Zone Support feature on my iPad is confusing and is always changing my appointments. How do I work around this? More »

The First Photograph of a Human

The First Photograph of a Human

On the streets of Paris in 1838, a man stood still to get his boots shined long enough that he became the first person captured by daguerreotype More »

Best of the Web

The Coolest New York Tech Personalities

Picture of the Day: Tweet-o-Meter

Picture of the Day: Tweet-o-Meter

Monitoring tweets per minute from nine major cities More »

iPad Week: Setting Up Calendars

iPad Week: Setting Up Calendars

I'm a new iPad user. How do I go about setting up calendars and alerts? More »

Tech Etymology: Key Fob

Tech Etymology: Key Fob

Before remote keyless entry, fob, derived from the German word for "pocket," meant a small decorative token More »

iPad Week: Choosing a Keyboard

iPad Week: Choosing a Keyboard

I have an iPad, but it takes me too long to type out emails. Can you suggest a keyboard? More »

Picture of the Day: Obama Signs iPad

Picture of the Day: Obama Signs iPad

"I figured, 'Why not ask?'" More »

The Biggest Story in Photos

Picking up the Pieces After the Tornado in Moore, Oklahoma

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