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.

Internet Essentials: Comcast Joins Effort to Bridge Digital Divide

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 »

This Guy Is Already Camping at an Apple Store for an iPhone 5

This Guy Is Already Camping at an Apple Store for an iPhone 5

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 »

The New York Times' Beta620: A Public Site for New Projects

The New York Times' Beta620: A Public Site for New Projects

Over the weekend, the Times debuted Beta620, a site where early versions of new products and features can be tested by the public More »

Infographic: The Big Players in This New Era of Video Chatting

Infographic: The Big Players in This New Era of Video Chatting

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 »

Picture of the Day: NASA Launches Juno Aboard Atlas V Rocket

Picture of the Day: NASA Launches Juno Aboard Atlas V Rocket

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 Bitcoin Economy Is Collapsing With No Sign of Recovery

The Bitcoin Economy Is Collapsing With No Sign of Recovery

The problem with Bitcoins is the same thing that enthusiasts love about Bitcoins: They leave no trace. There is no fundamental value. More »

Google Doodle Commemorates Lucille Ball's 100th Birthday

Google Doodle Commemorates Lucille Ball's 100th Birthday

Powered by YouTube, Google's homepage features a vintage television set and several iconic clips from Lucy's classic 1950s sitcom More »

Old, Weird Tech: German Potato Nose-Correcting Contraption

Old, Weird Tech: German Potato Nose-Correcting Contraption

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 »

Infographic: App Store Growth Compared to McDonald's Burgers

Infographic: App Store Growth Compared to McDonald's Burgers

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 »

Video of the Day: Thin, Paper Computer With Flexible Circuits

Video of the Day: Thin, Paper Computer With Flexible Circuits

Researchers at the Queens University Human Media Lab in Ontario have developed an e-ink prototype that responds to bend gestures More »

Picture of the Day: The Moon Enceladus Shoots Water at Saturn

Picture of the Day: The Moon Enceladus Shoots Water at Saturn

Astronomers knew that Saturn's atmosphere was home to gaseous water. But they had no idea where it was coming from. Until now. More »

Where Ideas Come From: Inside Bump's Headquarters

Where Ideas Come From: Inside Bump's Headquarters

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 »

Video of the Day: iPhone App Plays Sheet Music in Real-Time

Video of the Day: iPhone App Plays Sheet Music in Real-Time

Developed by Kawai, a Japan-based instrument maker, this iPhone application uses your smartphone's camera to scan sheet notes More »

Infographic: Tracking Updates to Android's Operating System

Infographic: Tracking Updates to Android's Operating System

To keep its audience happy, Android has pushed out new iterations of its popular operating system every few months since 2009 More »

Picture of the Day: Testing NASA's Next Deep-Space Vehicle

Picture of the Day: Testing NASA's Next Deep-Space Vehicle

NASA is already working to test the capabilities of what will eventually become the agency's future Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle More »

Shark Week: Remembering Bruce, the Mechanical Shark in 'Jaws'

Shark Week: Remembering Bruce, the Mechanical Shark in 'Jaws'

The sharks were built by a legendary team overseen by mechanical effects supervisor Bob Mattey, who employed about 40 technicians More »

MuteTab Chrome Extension Shuts Off That Irritating Noise

MuteTab Chrome Extension Shuts Off That Irritating Noise

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 »

Infographic: The History of Video Advertising on YouTube

Infographic: The History of Video Advertising on YouTube

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 »

Video of the Day: The Pocket-Sized Bible That Holds Your iPhone

Video of the Day: The Pocket-Sized Bible That Holds Your iPhone

Make yourself seem a little more refined by hiding your iPhone inside of BookBook, a combined wallet and smartphone case More »

Picture of the Day: Acoustical Tests on Orion at Lockheed Martin

Picture of the Day: Acoustical Tests on Orion at Lockheed Martin

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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