Hardware Startups: The Class of 2013 Launches at Haxlr8r
Autonomous personal drone helicopters, smart handlebars, and electrical-circuit building blocks among the products about to hit market
Lost in America: Still No Phone Service After Hurricane Sandy
In several communities, Verizon has not restored landline phone service in seven months—and may never
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Time To Make Plans For June’s National Day of Civic Hacking
They may look like block parties, but these June 1-2 hackathons around the country aim to do some real work for good.
IT Hiccups of the Week: Online Testing Problems Spread
Lingering after-effects of Chicago Options Exchange and H&R Block tech issues
IEEE Spectrum's New Web Site
Snack on content all day long or dive deep into your favorite topics
A Social Network for Emergency Notifications
Canadian start-up ePACT’s dedicated system keeps organizations connected in emergencies
Marriage by Skype
When advanced telecommunications is the only way to get you to the church on time
The Hacked Tweet That Took Down Wall Street
A rogue AP tweet roils Wall Street; algorithmic trading on machine readable news partially to blame
Intel Versus the Dwindling PC Market
Questions about the company's mobile push and its business model again take center stage
IT Hiccups of the Week: Excel Spreadsheet Error Heard Around the World
H&R Block sued over refund delays, Minnesota math test hit by server issue, and NH MMIS has problems after all
Student Startups Shine at Demo Mobile 2013
You didn’t start your first company until you graduated? Slacker!
Altia Systems Has a Fix for Low-Cost Video Conferencing
The $600 PanaCast puck may take some of the pain out of video conferencing
Literature Is Hard to Remember—Compared to Facebook
And gossip is more memorable than the evening news, according to a new study
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Demo Mobile Conference Embraces The Internet Of Things
And a Pittsburgh design lab's new tool makes it simple to connect all those things together
This Week in Cybercrime: Tax-related ID Thefts Hit 1.8M in 2012
Plus: Who is behind the South Korea cyberattack? And more warnings on infrastructure vulnerabilities
Paying for Free TV
Aereo takes broadcast TV signals and puts them on your computer, tablet, and smartphone—for a fee
Bitcoin Hits $1 Billion
The total worth of the virtual currency has reached a new high. Economists are mystified as to why
Let’s Talk About Hashtags
Twitter continues to spawn new social practices, and new words to talk about them
Basketball and Biology: A Tale of Two Social Networks
A systems biologist looks at basketball games through the prism of graph theory
Are Paywalls Working?
The successful paywall for Andrew Sullivan’s blog may have everyone rethinking free content
Authenticating Video
The Guardian Project’s software authenticates human rights videos and protects activists in the field
Comic Books Go Digital
Can Your Paper Version Do This?
Antifragile Systems
Nassim Taleb’s distinction between “robust” and “antifragile” is worth reflecting on
Chromebook Pixel: Too Much, Too Soon
The Pixel is more Chromebook than anyone needs, for more money than anyone should spend
IT Hiccups of the Week: University of Wisconsin Loses Another $1.1 Million Amid Payroll Glitches
Facebook bug shows its reach, and some Canadian student loan data breach victims hit by another miscue
Japan Looks to Taiwan to Disaster-Proof Telecom
Software and wireless experience could help realize a wireless service that bounces back
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What Comes After the Cloud? How About the Fog?
Startup Symform says its shredded, distributed cloud is more resistant to natural disasters than traditional computing clouds.
Amazon Coins: Jeff Bezos's 2013 Stimulus Bill For Kindle Fire App Developers
Amazon Coins is a worn out, useless idea for customers. But Kindle Fire app developers could profit big time.
Would You Trust a Website With Your Paycheck?
Simple.com does much of what a bank does, without bricks, mortar, or fees
UK Government Reasserts Its Right to Snoop on All Electronic Communications
Even though MI 5 spy chief says urgency of the need to do so rests on some “pretty heroic assumptions”
Stalking on Facebook Is Easier Than You Think
When your friends use Facebook apps, they compromise your privacy, too