If Social Banter Counts as Reading, the Kids are All Right
Book engagement up, despite screens, apps, YouTube and streaming everything.
Book engagement up, despite screens, apps, YouTube and streaming everything.
Karma is a new online-reputation meter, which pulls in data from social and internet accounts to provide users with a trustworthiness score. Give it a go, how well are you trusted on the web?
Throw down the rope ladder, say the password and go to work.
A phone that makes phone calls. And that's it!
Huge vacuum chambers on Earth are crucial for building and testing spacecraft, so we explore further into space. The photo above is Vacuum Chamber 5, which is very special because it has the highest pumping speed of any electric propulsion test facility in the world. Read more >>
The money-transaction firm has been slammed for shady practices by authorities.
Everyone wants to watch the happenings in Westeros, and they won't wait for HBO Now
Bluetooth keyboards replaced tray linings in German KFC restaurants.
Not content with building massive new dams, railways, and cities inside its own borders, China is backing hugely ambitious infrastructure projects all over the world. The latest one sounds mental.
For Android Wear owners who were miffed at how comparatively feature rich the Apple Watch mapping app was, it seems Google is trying to make good on your loyalty.
Movies you’ve seen before carries along normally and then... BOOM a Transformer comes to destroy everyone.
The idea sounds flat-out utopian: Free internet! For everyone! Starting in the least-connected countries! Of course, there’s a catch: It's controlled by Facebook.
During a five-day “robot rodeo” this week, police and military bomb squads challenge each other’s defusing routines by practising complex and dangerous situations with their robots. Read More >>
Stephenson is also the author of the novels Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and Anathem.
Guess what’s finally built and undergoing extensive testing at Six Flags’ Fiesta Texas theme park in San Antonio? The park’s brand new Batman coaster that was teased last year.
Brian Bartlett lost his leg at 24. He now has one of the most famous prostheses in the world. Rose Eveleth meets the man who just wanted to ski again
