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Our (Belated) Video Tribute To The Space Shuttle Era

Going All Soft For "This Week In Bots"

BY Kit EatonFri Jul 22, 2011

Asimov wrote "a robot may not injure a human being, or through inactivity allow a human being to come to harm," but some of our robotic war machines are already challenging that. As a counterpoint, let's take a look at the lovable bots that were created to help care for us. READ»

TECHNOLOGY | Comment

How The Murdoch Email And Website Hacks Could Happen To You

BY Kit EatonFri Jul 22, 2011

Rupert Murdoch's digital properties were aggressively penetrated this week, with a website hacking and a treasure trove of corporate emails stolen. Here's how this sort of catastrophe could hit your company, and what you can do to stop it. READ»

PAINT

A Typeface Made Of Exploding (Virtual) Paint

BY Belinda LanksFri Jul 22, 2011

We’ve seen our fair share of clever typefaces, based on everything from photocopied hands to Ghandi’s rounded spectacles, but rarely have we come across a typeface with as much energy and motion as this typeface, which freezes the ... READ»

SPACE SHUTTLE

Our (Belated) Video Tribute To The Space Shuttle Era

BY John PavlusFri Jul 22, 2011

The Space Shuttle is no more. Atlantis returned safely to Earth yesterday, ending the final mission of NASA's 30-year program. The Shuttle was, as Christopher Mims aptly put it on Technology Review, "one of the most complicated pieces ... READ»

TECHNOLOGY | Comment

Think You're A Social-Media Guru? Take This Quiz

BY Jason FeiferFri Jul 22, 2011

Social-networking innovators are highly visible and post all over the place--Tom from MySpace is all up in Google+, Zuckerberg's tweeting, and so on. See if you can name that social-media heavyweight based solely on what he wrote. READ»

MOTION GRAPHICS

Paying Homage To Classic Comics With "Physical Motion Graphics" [Video]

BY John PavlusFri Jul 22, 2011

Motion-graphics designers are the magicians of modern video production: with their bag of digital tricks, they can make photos pulse and dance, give boring network logos fresh life, basically anything you can dream up. But the ... READ»

USER INTERFACE

UI Design: An All-American Product That's Changing The World

BY Rob TannenFri Jul 22, 2011

Over the July 4th holiday weekend, with patriotism and fireworks in the air, some colleagues and I began discussing the concept of American Design -- that is, the design characteristics and elements that are distinctly and ... READ»

TECHNOLOGY | Comment

What Student Blogs Say About Corporate Culture At Twitter, Intel, IBM, And Google

BY Austin CarrFri Jul 22, 2011

Intern-penned blog posts from a slew of major tech companies reveal much about their corporate culture, whether those companies like it or not. See what we've dug up from "The Intern Diaries"--and whether it makes your company look like the fun uncle or a fuddy-duddy. READ»

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY | Comment

Ocean Index: A Doomsday Clock For The World's Oceans

BY Matthew BattlesFri Jul 22, 2011

Scientists are making an effort to quantify the health of our oceans into one easy-to-read score. If that's even possible, will it actually motivate us to change our behavior?READ»

MARBELOUS

A Dining Table That Doubles As A Marble Run [Video]

BY Belinda LanksFri Jul 22, 2011

In my house, the dining table is everything but a dining table: a desk, a makeshift file cabinet, and a cat perch. Multifunctional? Sure. Fun? Maybe for the cat. Contrast that with Marbelous, a table that doubles as a big marble-maze ... READ»

TECHNOLOGY | Comment

Alleged Oslo Terrorists Claim Responsibility Via Jihadi Forums, YouTube

BY Neal UngerleiderFri Jul 22, 2011

A shadowy terrorist group called Assistants of the Global Jihad claimed responsibility for the bombing of the Norwegian Prime Minister's office and a massacre at a children's day camp via the Internet.READ»

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY | Comment

Clean Green Certified Is Like USDA Organic For Marijuana

BY Ariel SchwartzFri Jul 22, 2011

Gone are the days when you had no idea where your pot--we mean, your friend's pot--came from or how it was grown. Now the organically conscious smoker can get the cleanest, greenest weed.READ»

CONCEPTUAL ART

A Cardboard Maze Hides Sculptures About The World's Major Religions

BY Suzanne LaBarreFri Jul 22, 2011

God bless conceptual art. Only a conceptual artist would have the cheeky nerve to reduce the four major religions of the world -- religions over which wars have been fought and countless lives lost -- to a handful of inanimate ... READ»

LEADERSHIP | Comment

Thiel Fellow Ben Yu Scrapped Harvard To Climb Kilimanjaro, Revolutionize Online Price Comparisons

BY Ben YuFri Jul 22, 2011

Dropping out of Harvard to climb Kilimanjaro, visit Buddha, and pose at Giza may seem like folly. But for Ben Yu--one of the Thiel Fellows bankrolled by Facebook investor Peter Thiel--it was the only way to get out of plain old Plainsfield, Ill., and into entrepreneurship.READ»

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY | Comment

Walmart's Big Plan To Feed The Food Deserts Of The U.S.

BY Ariel SchwartzFri Jul 22, 2011

Teaming up with Michelle Obama, the discount giant is moving into neighborhoods where there are no grocery stores. Altruism or savvy business move? A little of both.READ»

LEADERSHIP | Comment

Are You A Horrible Boss? (And If So, How To Reform)

BY Robert Steven KaplanFri Jul 22, 2011

The tale of one truly awful boss--and how he transformed himself and his company for the better, as told by Harvard professor and former vice chairman of Goldman Sachs, Robert Steven Kaplan. READ»

Infographic Of The Day: Could A Tool Like This Turn Every M.D. Into Dr. House?

BY Cliff KuangFri Jul 22, 2011

When you visit the doctor complaining of a cough or stomach pain, they usually seem to know what to do: They'll ask if you have trouble breathing, or check your heart rate. But it's all a little baffling: What are they checking for? ... READ»

INNOVATION | Comment

How To Run Local Government Via Facebook

BY Neal UngerleiderFri Jul 22, 2011

A new application for Facebook and iPhones lets residents of small cities submit quality-of-life complaints without picking up the phone or waiting to see someone at City Hall. It's like a cross between 311 and FarmVille--and it works.READ»