New apps that cut down on the need for doctor visits.
How the most advanced bicycles in the world are becoming lighter and faster.
Children love playing video games --why not teach them to make their own? During a morning panel at the Sandbox Summit on the campus of MIT, a speaker showed this amazing video, which highlights the winners of the 2010 National STEM Video Game Challenge. read »
On the Internet, collaboration is everywhere: 61% of the world’s web pages are served via the open source Apache software, Firefox users make up nearly a third of the web browser market, and the English version of Wikipedia is the eighth most popular site on the web. read »
The Geek Picture of the Day wants to make movies more colorful. read »
The Internet has fueled, and by some accounts may have even sparked, the wave of revolutions sweeping across the Middle East. So perhaps it's little wonder that Iran, which has always kept a tight grip on its citizens' access to the digital world, has stepped up its oppression to become the world's number one enemy of Internet freedom. read »
The Geek Picture of the Day is 51 feet long, eight feet high and weighs nearly five tons. read »
Companies that make machines to sequence DNA like to compare themselves to the personal computer industry in its early days. Part of the reason is that cost of decoding a base pair of DNA is decreasing at a speed that can only be compared to Moore's law -- the doubling of microprocessor speed every eighteen months put forward by Intel's founder. Part of the reason is that the guys who run sequencing companies idolize the early days of the PC, with a particular strain of hero worship resolved for[...] read »
Activists pushing wind and hydroelectric power. Trying to steer Web away from coal, nuclear. read »