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

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

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

Will Amazon Silk Actually Be Better Than Other Web Browsers?

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"

Amazon Fires Barrage at Apple: Cheap Kindle, Touch Kindle, Tablet Kindle

The Meaning Machine

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

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

How to Count One-Sixth of the World's Population

The Fight Over the Future of Digital Books

The Problem With Facebook's New 'Frictionless' Sharing

Facebook Timeline: Putting the Auto in Autobiography

Is Facebook Forever?

Our Smartphones, Ourselves: An Interactive Map of the New Demographics

9 Charts: Americans and the Social-Networking Sites They Love

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. 

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. 

The Ruins of Dead Social Networks

9 Facts About the Staggering Size of Facebook

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

The No-Name Companies Selling More Phones Than Samsung, LG, and Apple Combined

The 1947 Paper That First Described a Cell-Phone Network

How the 'Cellular' Phone Got Its Name

The Hardware Scavengers of Ghana

If a MacBook Air Were as Inefficient as a 1991 Computer, the Battery Would Last 2.5 Seconds

Apple Yanks App Depicting the Dark Side of Your iPhone

Make an HD Mobile Display out of iPhones With Junkyard Jumbotron

A program from the MIT Media Lab empowers users to transform the cellphones, iPads, and laptops that usually isolate us into a collective viewing experience anywhere.

The First Signs of Mutiny in the Android Brigade

10 Charts: Everything You Need to Know About Mobile

We kick off our special report with a look at the cell phone industry, which is remaking our lives at home, in the office, or out on the town

Estimating the Damage to the U.S. Economy Caused by Angry Birds

The avian projectiles aren't just taking out pigs, but costing employers perhaps $1.5 billion a year

Apple's Ultimate Mobile Dominance Is In Usage, Not Units

RealBeat for iPhone and iPad

RealBeat is a mobile app for iPhone that lets you record sounds in your evironment and mix them to create music. Designed by independent developer Joerg Piringer, the app lets you record, cut, loop, and sequence sounds. 

Competition Goes Mobile: AT&T's Takeover of T-Mobile Blocked

Infographic: Apple vs. Android in China's Mobile Ad Market

BART's Cell-Service Cuts: Not Egypt, But Not Quite America Either

Square, the iPhone Credit Card Machine, Goes Mainstream