If You Have a Smart Phone, Anyone Can Now Track Your Every Move
Navizon I.T.S. makes it easy to pinpoint Wi-Fi devices anywhere its listening nodes are installed.
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I’m a contributing editor at MIT Technology Review. Until recently I blogged the converging crises of the 21st century for Grist. I report for Wired and Scientific American, and I’ve got projects cooking for The BBC, The Atlantic and Smithsonian.
Lately I’ve been helping friends launch an experiment in alternate funding models for science and environment-focused media, called MajorPlanet.
In another life I was a crayfish neuroscientist specializing in functional and anatomical studies via Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
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Who Cares If Amazon Becomes an E-book Monopoly?
It's not as if the Kindle and its store aren't also vulnerable to disruption.
AT&T's Text Messaging Plans Are a Regressive Tax
The unexpected connection between carrier pricing schemes and payday loans.
A New Microchip Knows Just Where You Are, Indoors and Out
The chip achieves unprecedented accuracy by processing information from many different sensors.
RFID to Solve Ultimate Supply Chain Management Problem: The Hajj
If it's good enough for WalMart and the DoD, why not apply RFID to crowd control?
Finally, a Rom-Com for Science
Losing Control is a movie that understands the nerd heart.
Microsoft Reinvents Wi-Fi for White Spaces
Researchers show that they can make more efficient use of the airwaves than previously thought. But now Congress has to notice.
Research In Motion's Terrifying Vision of the Near Future
Concept videos from RIM show us a future in which the tyranny of the touch screen is all consuming, and, ironically, the BlackBerry has ceased to exist.
How Technology Made `Occupy Wall Street' Both Irrelevant and Ubiquitous
Who knew Skynet would be a financial, rather than a defense network?
Will E-Books Destroy the Democratizing Effects of Reading?
Could Abraham Lincoln have become president of the United States in a world in which poor children lack access to physical books?
