Rebecca J. Rosen

Rebecca J. Rosen is a senior associate editor at The Atlantic. She was previously an associate editor at The Wilson Quarterly, where she spearheaded the magazine's In Essence section.

Canadian Space Robot Repairs International Space Station

Canadian Space Robot Repairs International Space Station

R2D2 may look better, but Dextre the Canadian handyman can successfully repair a circuit breaker more than 200 miles away from Earth More »

Holograms at the Heart of New Lightweight, Cheap Microscope

Holograms at the Heart of New Lightweight, Cheap Microscope

For doctors practicing in remote regions of the world, a regular microscope can be too costly and bulky to bring along More »

Fuego: A Bot That Turns the Twitter Firehose Into a Trickle

Fuego: A Bot That Turns the Twitter Firehose Into a Trickle

A new tool from the good people at Harvard's Nieman Journalism Lab can help you find the best links buried among the tweets More »

Travel Back in Time (Virtually) to Hear John Donne Preach

Travel Back in Time (Virtually) to Hear John Donne Preach

Ever wish you could visit a great moment in history? Until we figure out time travel, carefully crafted virtual journeys will have to suffice. More »

Google Considers Adding +1 Data to Its Search Method

Google Considers Adding +1 Data to Its Search Method

Google's +1 button has thus far had only a minor impact on your search results. Expect that to change soon. More »

What Do People Think About When They Think About Social Sites?

What Do People Think About When They Think About Social Sites?

A look at the words people use to describe their time spent on social-networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and MySpace More »

No Pottermore for You: Google Shuts Kids Out of Email Accounts

No Pottermore for You: Google Shuts Kids Out of Email Accounts

Many children under 13 are finding themselves locked out of their primary email accounts after trying to register for Google+ More »

Project Classroom: Transforming Our Schools for the Future

Project Classroom: Transforming Our Schools for the Future

An interview with author Cathy N. Davidson who argues that our schools need to stop training kids for a world that no longer exists More »

Your Guide to the Web's Best Hurricane-Tracking Tools

Your Guide to the Web's Best Hurricane-Tracking Tools

The Internet has a ton of neat tools for all things Hurricane Irene. Several can help you prepare, and some are just plain interesting. More »

Can You Get Treatment for Your Internet Addiction?

Can You Get Treatment for Your Internet Addiction?

Around the world, Internet-addiction treatment centers are setting up shop. But so far, it's not clear they can do anything to help. More »

Botnets! Get Your Botnets! Just $5,000!

Botnets! Get Your Botnets! Just $5,000!

It costs real money (or, at least, real stolen money) to make all that mischief. A "decent" botnet can run you thousands of dollars. More »

Google Doodle: Happy Birthday Jorge Luis Borges

Google Doodle: Happy Birthday Jorge Luis Borges

A fantastical landscape celebrates what would have been the 112th birthday of Argentina's beloved short-story writer More »

The Evidence That Google Is Plotting to Take Over Your TV

The Evidence That Google Is Plotting to Take Over Your TV

In recent weeks, clues have been popping up all over the news: The search engine giant wants a piece of the television action More »

What Do Digital Natives Need to Be Taught About Computers?

What Do Digital Natives Need to Be Taught About Computers?

Kids spend hours in front of the computer, both at home and at school. But are they learning how to be smart Internet users? More »

Google Street View Takes Its Camera to the Amazon

Google Street View Takes Its Camera to the Amazon

Get ready to explore of one of the world's most-remote regions with just a click of your mouse. No bug spray necessary. More »

Libyan Internet Showing Signs of Life

Libyan Internet Showing Signs of Life

Over the weekend, tweets, Skype calls, and emails started trickling out of the country where the Internet has been all but dead since March. More »

Attack of the Robobees! A Mechanical Bee Tests Its Wings

Attack of the Robobees! A Mechanical Bee Tests Its Wings

The humble honey bee does a little movement called the waggle dance to alert others to new food sources. Can a robot learn the boogie? More »

Robot Bee Communicates With Real Bees

Robot Bee Communicates With Real Bees

This lab footage shows a robotic bee developed by researchers at Freie Universität Berlin as it "dances" to communicate with real bees. Read more in "Attack of the Robobees! A Mechanical Bee Tests Its Wings." More »

Robotic Bee in Action

Robotic Bee in Action

Researchers at the Freie Universität Berlin have developed a robot that mimicks the dances of European honey bees. In this lab demonstration, a robotic arm controls the bee. Read more in "Attack of the Robobees! A Mechanical Bee Tests Its Wings." More »

Social Machines: Computers That Know If You're Naughty or Nice

Social Machines: Computers That Know If You're Naughty or Nice

People make snap judgments based on strangers' appearances. Now a computer program can do the same thing. More »

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