NASA's Phoenix Mars Landing: Where To Watch On the Web
This could be must see TV: At 6 p.m. ET on Sunday, NASA begins live coverage of the Phoenix Mars Lander, as it attempts to make the first powered landing on the red planet since Viking 2 in 1976. Wat...
Resistance Is Futile
IT'S O.K. to liken Shigeru Miyamoto to Walt Disney. — When Disney died in 1966, Mr. Miyamoto was a 14-year-old schoolteacher's son living near Kyoto, Japan's ancient capital. An aspiring cartoonist...
The Importance Of A Competitive Search Market
Is Microsoft's vision to compete in search and reinvent itself as an advertising company nothing more than an attempt to get back into its familiar position as Top Gun? Should Microsoft, Google and e...
Hack a Nintendo DS to Make an Awesome Digital Sketchbook
The Nintendo DS Lite can be an excellent portable digital painting tool. It's simple and compact, pressure-sensitive, easier to view in daylight than a laptop and inconspicuous. And, when coupled wi...
TV becomes social again
Remember the term “water cooler moment”; in which a TV show generated a social buzz and was talked about by colleagues at work after broadcast? — It seems to me that there are fewer and fewer water ...
Welcome to Las Vegas - Home of the technology superpower you've never heard of
Drive a couple of blocks past the Loose Caboose and the Carburetor Shop on E. Sahara Avenue in Las Vegas, and you'll find one of the world's leading technology companies. The name of the company …
PR Secrets for Startups
Editor's Note: At a time when anyone can broadcast their opinions about your startup to the world, public relations requires a new level of engagement on the part of companies and entrepreneurs. But ...
Are Machine-Learned Models Prone to Catastrophic Errors?
A couple of days ago I had coffee with Peter Norvig. Peter is currently Director of Research at Google. For several years until recently, he was the Director of Search Quality — the key man at Googl...
Cloud Computing: So You Don't Have to Stand Still
CLOUD computing is the jargon of the moment in the technology industry. Google, I.B.M., Microsoft and Yahoo are just some of the big companies talking up the cloud, and a bunch of smaller ones are, t...
Samsung ultra-fast, cheap 256GB SSD due this year
Samsung late on Sunday promised what it says is a breakthrough in solid-state drives with the launch of its first 256GB SSD. The drive offers twice the capacity of the Korean firm's previous 128GB SS...
An Upstart Challenges the Big Web Browsers
SAN FRANCISCO — The browser, that porthole onto the broad horizon of the Web, is about to get some fancy new window dressing. — Next month, after three years of development and six months of public ...
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Seesmic: Why it's so important to just frackin' start
Loic is a good friend of mine. He's had me to Paris to speak at his wonderful events, I've had him stay at my place (and take video), and we spent some time over Thanksgiving together. I think the w...
The Day Google Erased Me From the Internet - Why I Want Microsoft to Be Competitive in Search
Update: Matt Cutts blogged and provided some insight into the process. I want to make sure people know I'm not angry with Google - I broke the rules. It was just a wakeup call for me that Google's r...