The (Extremely) Humble Origins of Microsoft Surface
How Steve Jobs designed the most promising product Microsoft has ever launched.
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Christopher Mims
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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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Software Better at Detecting Frustration Than Humans
And it's not because subjects have been trained to "smize".
Is Automation the Handmaiden of Inequality?
The odd coincidence of stagnating wages and a measure of productivity that excludes machines.
Five Reasons Robot Sex Partners Won't End Human Trafficking
Power, economics and the Uncanny Valley.
Why Google is Diving into Augmented Reality Now
Three insurmountable barriers have held back consumer AR - until now
RFID Enables Study of Chicken Pessimism
The smaller tracking devices become, the more applications they find.
Amoeboid Robot Navigates Without a Brain
A Japanese researcher draws inspiration from slime mold cognition
Why Only Designers Can Create New Programming Languages
Attempts to verify the utility of languages stifle innovation.
How Young Is Too Young to Learn to Code?
Scratch, Jr. is aimed at children who have yet to learn their ABCs.
Yahoo Predicts America's Political Winners
The effort combines a variety of data-driven approaches.
