Clouds: The Most Useful Metaphor of All Time?
In plays, poems, songs, and novels, clouds stand in for everything from bad philosophy to the many incarnations of a soul
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Cloud-Powered Facial Recognition Is Terrifying
By harnessing the vast wealth of publicly available cloud-based data, researchers are taking facial recognition technology to unprecedented levels
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10 Charts: Everything You Need to Know About the Cloud
The third and final week of our Tech202 report looks at the cloud -- our storage locker on the Internet
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Will Amazon Silk Actually Be Better Than Other Web Browsers?
Amazon's new browser sounds awesome, but can it overcome the limitations of our mobile infrastructure
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A 3-Minute Guide to Cloud Computing
"Unless you've been living under a rock, you're in the cloud," explains JESS3's quick tour of the applications and services that make up the "cloud"
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Amazon Fires Barrage at Apple: Cheap Kindle, Touch Kindle, Tablet Kindle
Amazon has positioned itself as Apple's preeminent competitor for the holiday season
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The Meaning Machine
Internet users once stalked off into the cyberfrontier looking for transcendence. The new Facebook wants you to understand your life from the comfort of its walled garden.
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Mapping the Cloud in 'Immaterials: Light Painting WiFi'
Eerie long-exposure photographs reveal the invisible wifi networks that permeate our urban environments, making the cloud available everywhere
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Mapping the Cloud in 'Immaterials: Light Painting WiFi'
Eerie long-exposure photographs reveal the invisible wifi networks that permeate our urban environments, making the cloud available everywhere
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How to Count One-Sixth of the World's Population
A software billionaire and his monumental task: create a database of the more than one billion people living in India
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The Fight Over the Future of Digital Books
A lawsuit between the Authors Guild and a host of university libraries reflects the growing tension between creators and holders of books
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The Problem With Facebook's New 'Frictionless' Sharing
Humans are social animals. We want to share little bits of our lives with our friends. But we don't want to share every single thing.
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Facebook Timeline: Putting the Auto in Autobiography
A first impression of Facebook's new Timeline tool
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Is Facebook Forever?
The last decade has seen many social-networking sites rise and fall like little empires. Will Facebook follow, or is it here to stay?
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Our Smartphones, Ourselves: An Interactive Map of the New Demographics
What do the phones we use say about who we are and the places we live? Come explore our interactive map to find out.
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9 Charts: Americans and the Social-Networking Sites They Love
Nearly 70 percent of Americans are keeping up with friends and family online. Week two of our special report examines this phenomenon.
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Visualization: Foursquare Check-ins Across the Globe
The social geolocation service Foursquare created this colorful data visualization of a week's worth of check-ins around the world.
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Visualization: Foursquare Check-ins Across the Globe
The social geolocation service Foursquare created this colorful data visualization of a week's worth of check-ins around the world.
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The Ruins of Dead Social Networks
A paean to the preservation of the BBS, the local forerunner of the modern social network
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9 Facts About the Staggering Size of Facebook
Since Facebook launched less than a decade ago, it has grown at an astonishing pace. If it were a country, it would be the third-largest in the world.
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A 1992 Take on the Birth of Social Networking
A segment from the 1992 documentary series The Machine that Changed the World looks at the early social web and its implications
