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Tom Simonite, Technology Review
Beacons smaller than a person's hand fixed to a store's ceiling beam out an ultrasound signal at a frequency that can be picked up by a cell phone's microphone but not by human ears.
John Markoff, New York Times
Scientists at Rice University and Hewlett-Packard are reporting this week that they can overcome a fundamental barrier to the continued rapid miniaturization of computer memory that has been the basis for the consumer electronics revolution.
Stiart Elliott, New York Times
For decades — maybe even since computers began arriving in workplaces in the 1960s — there have been predictions that machines will be able to perform the creative tasks that usually require human beings. An agency in Paris is offering a new twist on those venerable forecasts, to make a point about the creative process.
Nick Bilton, New York Times
Stipple, a San Francisco-based start-up, is introducing a new service on Wednesday that allows online publishers to add tags to particular parts of an image with information about its contents and related links.
Tom Simonite, Technology Review
A computer chip that performs calculations using probabilities, instead of binary logic, could accelerate everything from online banking systems to the flash memory in smart phones and other gadgets.
Erica Naone, Technology Review
Watching TV has always been a social experience, although today's users are more likely to post about the big game on Twitter than to gather with family on the couch. Startups and established companies alike are developing new ways to take advantage of this social side to watching video.
Susanna G. Kim, New York Times
Nick Bilton, New York Times
It might sound like a lot of work for lunch, but as we’ve seen with the proliferation of online gaming on sites like Facebook, adding a gaming and competitive aspect to an everyday experience, like lunch, could incentivize customers to promote 4Food online.
Tom Simonite, Technology Review
The recent furor over the iPhone 4's antenna has made consumers aware of the constraints designers face when trying to build sleek, compact gadgets that also get a good connection. Researchers at Rice University have come up with a design that could make signal worries a thing of the past, and extend battery life as well. The design uses two antennas that focus their power in different directions.
Duncan Graham-Rowe, Technology Review
In 2008, responding to privacy concerns, Google started to blur the faces of people caught by car-mounted cameras and shown in its Google Street View mapping service. Researchers in California believe they have now come up with a better solution--software that automatically removes any trace that a person was in a scene.
Ina Fried, CNET
Technology Review
The world of computing could change rapidly in coming years thanks to technology that replaces the metal wiring between components with faster, more efficient fiber-optic links.
Roy Furchgott, New York Times
So now there is the Tunebug Shake, which turns a helmet into a speaker, allowing riders to wear safety gear and listen to music without blocking out other sounds.
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