Internet Essentials: Comcast Joins Effort to Bridge Digital Divide
Comcast's new program will offer discounted Internet access at $9.95/month to low-income families that meet a set of requirements… More »
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.
Comcast's new program will offer discounted Internet access at $9.95/month to low-income families that meet a set of requirements… More »
Rob Shoesmith wants something. Either he wants to be the first to own an iPhone 5 or he wants to be showered in attention and gifts.… More »
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The Alive Web is something more than the static pages and events we're used to. The Alive Web is more interactive and immersive.… More »
On the afternoon of Friday, August 5, 2011, not long after NASA wrapped its lengthy Space Shuttle program, it was on to the next project… More »
The problem with Bitcoins is the same thing that enthusiasts love about Bitcoins: They leave no trace. There is no fundamental value.… More »
Powered by YouTube, Google's homepage features a vintage television set and several iconic clips from Lucy's classic 1950s sitcom… More »
Do you suffer from potato nose or duckbill nose? What you want, like the rest of us, of course, is the Greco-Roman Normal Form.… More »
Apple is on track to sell its 100 billionth app in just under six years. It took McDonald's 46 years to sell that many patties in its stores.… More »
Researchers at the Queens University Human Media Lab in Ontario have developed an e-ink prototype that responds to bend gestures… More »
Astronomers knew that Saturn's atmosphere was home to gaseous water. But they had no idea where it was coming from. Until now.… More »
To date, Bump has been installed more than 45 million times, making it the seventh most downloaded app of all time in the United States… More »
Developed by Kawai, a Japan-based instrument maker, this iPhone application uses your smartphone's camera to scan sheet notes… More »
To keep its audience happy, Android has pushed out new iterations of its popular operating system every few months since 2009… More »
NASA is already working to test the capabilities of what will eventually become the agency's future Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle… More »
The sharks were built by a legendary team overseen by mechanical effects supervisor Bob Mattey, who employed about 40 technicians… More »
I always have several tabs open, oftentimes in several windows. What's really irritating is when one of those tabs starts making noise and I have to stop what I'm doing to click through them all, one by one, to find the offender. How can I get around this?… More »
Ever since buying YouTube for $1.65 billion in 2006, Google has been struggling with how to monetize all of the video being uploaded… More »
Make yourself seem a little more refined by hiding your iPhone inside of BookBook, a combined wallet and smartphone case… More »
This photo of the Orion stack was taken inside of the Reverberant Acoustics Laboratory at Lockheed Martin's facility outside Denver… More »
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