February 18, 2014 Threes, a New Addictive Puzzle Game by NICK BILTON By NICK BILTON Threes, a new puzzle game for iOS, is beautifully designed, highly addictive and has a soundtrack that makes you feel like…
February 18, 2014 Wireless Charging: Still Plenty of Kinks in the Cord by MOLLY WOOD By MOLLY WOOD Wireless charging is promising and has been promised for several years. But it is a mess of competing standards and technologies….
February 17, 2014 Reporting From the Web’s Underbelly by NICOLE PERLROTH By NICOLE PERLROTH Brian Krebs’s widely read blog, Krebs on Security, covers a particularly dark corner of the Internet: profit-seeking cybercriminals who make billions…
February 17, 2014 Water-Cleaning Technology Could Help Farmers by TODD WOODY By TODD WOODY A project developed by WaterFX, a start-up in drought-stricken California, exploits two things the Central Valley possesses in abundance — fallow…
February 16, 2014 Disruptions: Using Addictive Games to Build Better Brains by NICK BILTON By NICK BILTON Researchers are studying the qualities that make some video games hard to put down, in order to build games that improve…
February 16, 2014 Apps to Protect Your Array of Passwords by KIT EATON By KIT EATON Five apps that allow a user to manage (and remember) passwords and keep other sensitive information safe. Published: October 17, 2013…
February 16, 2014 Photos Become Ads With New Technology by NICK WINGFIELD By NICK WINGFIELD A new technology starting to catch the attention of publishers can turn any visual element on a web page, including editorial…
February 16, 2014 Intel’s Sharp-Eyed Social Scientist by NATASHA SINGER By NATASHA SINGER Genevieve Bell, an anthropologist at Intel who leads a globe-trotting team, is trying to learn what consumers want most in their…
February 15, 2014 Another Super Bowl Ad Fest, This Time on the Cellphone by NICK WINGFIELD By NICK WINGFIELD This year, a new kind of advertising — personalized and based on physical location down to a matter of feet —…
February 15, 2014 A List of Favorites From a Man Who Knows His Apps by NICK BILTON By NICK BILTON We all have that friend who knows which new song you should buy, or the new movie you should watch, but…