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.

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 »

Woot! 'Woot' Now Officially a Word, According to the OED

Woot! 'Woot' Now Officially a Word, According to the OED

The centenary edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary adds some common tech words to its pages and gets rid of "growlery" More »

The 10 Most Cell Phone-Loving Places on the Planet

The 10 Most Cell Phone-Loving Places on the Planet

The world loves its cell phones. In some places, the average person has more than one mobile plan. A look at where those people live. More »

Innovators Gone Wild: Patent Office Issues 8,000,000th Patent

Innovators Gone Wild: Patent Office Issues 8,000,000th Patent

It took about 80 years for the first one million patents to be issued. The last one million? That happened in just five years. More »

Musicians Embrace the iPad, Leave Sheet Music at Home

Musicians Embrace the iPad, Leave Sheet Music at Home

Audiences chuckle when performers place an iPad on the music stand, but it's no gimmick: Apple's tablet rocks for classical musicians More »

Unimate: The Story of George Devol and the First Robotic Arm

Unimate: The Story of George Devol and the First Robotic Arm

For 50 years now, George Devol's invention has been speeding up production lines at manufacturing plants from New Jersey to Japan More »

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