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Gary Wolf, New York Times
What happens when technology can calculate and analyze every quotidian thing that happened to you today.
Eric A. Taub, New York Times
You can always find your car if you push the alarm button on your key’s remote control, which is found on most contemporary vehicles. But that only works if you’re within 10 or 20 yards of your car. How do you find your car when you’re really far away, and have no idea where you parked?
Brad Stone, New York Times
Caroline McCarthy, CNET News
Josh Lowensohn, CNET News
If you're the type of crazy that follows just about anyone on Twitter, your stream is likely filled with all manner of languages. A very easy solution is to unfollow these folks. But in the spirit of making things work, you can also just download new Firefox extension Twanslate.
Lance Whitney, CNET News
Announcing the completion of Bluetooth 4.0 at its all-hands meeting in Seattle on Tuesday, the Bluetooth SIG is touting the spec for its ability to work with low-energy devices, such as watches and health sensors. But Bluetooth 4.0 will also provide higher speeds for peripherals to communicate with mobile phones, computers, and other gadgets.
Ashlee Vance, New York Times
Drake Bennett, Boston Globe
Innovation is overrated. It's time to appreciate the power of the copycat.
Katherine Bourzac, Technology Review
Researchers at HP Labs are testing a flexible, full-color display that saves power by reflecting ambient light instead of using a backlight. The prototype display's pixels are controlled by fast-switching silicon transistors printed on top of plastic. If the technology can be commercialized, the display will compete with liquid crystal screens as well as other low-power color flexible displays in the works.
New York Times
Lance Whitney, CNET News
The software uses MRI brain scans to decipher which words you're mostly likely thinking about. In highly controlled situations, it achieves perfect scores.
Eric A. Taub, New York Times
Now a new self-publishing venture, FastPencil, promises to make book writing less lonely. At FastPencil, hopeful writers can get immediate feedback on their work — from professionals, from other writers toiling around the world, or from friends.
Stephen Shankland, CNET News
Two related projects from Mozilla and Google, each with the similar goal of bringing hardware-accelerated 3D graphics to the Web, appear to be joining forces after a change in Google tactics.
Claire Cain Miller, New York Times
A new e-commerce tool lets any blogger open an online store.
Jennifer Chu, Technology Review
Researchers at the University of Florida have engineered a smart pill with a tiny antenna and microchip that could signal when it has made it into a patient's stomach--reporting to a cell phone or computer that she has taken her medicine. Their design is the latest of several high-tech pill-reporting efforts to improve patient adherence and provide accurate reporting.
Katherine Bourzac, Technology Review
A startup company is developing a flat-panel source of x-rays that could help make the imaging technique portable.
Matt Asay, CNET News
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