April 6, 2014 Making a Game Larger Than Life by AXEL GERDAU By AXEL GERDAU Frank Lee, a professor from Drexel University, and a group of colleagues recreated Tetris on a Philadelphia skyscraper to celebrate the…
April 6, 2014 Apple’s Deep Pockets: What $159 Billion Could Do by NICK BILTON By NICK BILTON The maker of iPads and iPhones has a problem that anyone would like to have: What to do with a vast…
April 6, 2014 Space Chips for the Common Man by QUENTIN HARDY By QUENTIN HARDY Satellites are quickly falling in price. In the latest turn, a Cornell student is putting into space 104 birds that he…
April 5, 2014 Technologys Man Problem by CLAIRE CAIN MILLER By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER Crude apps, patronizing behavior. For some, “bro” culture offers one explanation for why there are so few women in tech….
April 5, 2014 I Had a Nice Time With You Tonight. On the App. by JENNA WORTHAM By JENNA WORTHAM In a new app, a business model expands from connecting singles to keeping romantic partners together. Published: April 5, 2014 at…
April 5, 2014 U.S. Navy Testing More Sophisticated Pilotless Helicopters by REUTERS By REUTERS The helicopter kicked up a cloud of freshly fallen snow that partly obscured the ground below, but despite the poor visibility, it…
April 5, 2014 Apple and Samsung Fight Over Who Was the Follower by BRIAN X. CHEN By BRIAN X. CHEN As a patent trial continued, Samsung’s lawyers showed internal Apple documents to paint a picture of Apple as a fading…
April 5, 2014 Personality and Change Inflamed Mozilla Crisis by QUENTIN HARDY and NICK BILTON By QUENTIN HARDY and NICK BILTON The issues troubling Mozilla, a highly unusual tech titan, run deeper than the firestorm that led to the…
April 5, 2014 Microsoft Office for the iPad: It’s Delightfully Familiar by FARHAD MANJOO By FARHAD MANJOO If you love Microsoft Office on your desktop, you’ll love the company’s new iPad version. If you hate Office, you’ll have…
April 5, 2014 U.S. Created Cuban Twitter to Stir Unrest by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ZunZuneo — slang for a Cuban hummingbird’s tweet — was developed to be a bare-bones text messaging service to evade…