Wi-Fi plan stirs Big Brother concerns
Log-on rule would allow Google to track users' whereabouts in S.F. — Privacy advocates are raising concerns about Google Inc.'s plans to cover San Francisco with free wireless Internet access, calli...
This Boring Headline Is Written for Google
JOURNALISTS over the years have assumed they were writing their headlines and articles for two audiences — fickle readers and nitpicking editors. Today, there is a third important arbiter of their wo...
Overly Wired? There's a Word for It
WAS there gridlock before there were automobiles? Was there jet lag before there were airplanes? Who was the first person to say "I Googled it" or "he's cyberstalking me"? At what moment did a "web...
MacBook to land at last by May
April 7, 2006 - Apple has begun manufacturing its new MacBook and should have the laptop in consumer hands in the next 30-60 days, sources report. The MacBook—and it will indeed be called the MacBook...
How I'm using Amazon S3 to serve media files
As traffic to chicagocrime.org has steadily increased, I've been looking for ways to tweak the site's performance. The site runs on a rented dedicated server with Apache/mod_python, PostgreSQL and Dj...
Google buys search algorithm invented by Israeli student
Search engine giant Google recently acquired an advanced text search algorithm invented by Ori Alon, an Israeli student. Sources believe Yahoo and Microsoft were also negotiating with the University ...
One Sexy Robot
Takahashi-san, of Kyoto's Robot Garage, is already famous worldwide as the creator of a series of high performance, and beautifully styled male robots including Chroino and Manoi. So what could he do...
Take the No Windows-Booting Pledge
Mac users have a lot of strange habits. We are known to have rituals when we unpack our latest machines. We will argue passionatelyabout the virtue of one menu bar item (over whether even using menu...