Technology Review Feed - Mims's Bits

How the iPhone 5 Will Yet Again Fail to Eliminate Credit Cards

Mon, 23 Jul 2012 21:08:00 GMT

Near Field Communication technology has been in phones since 2006, and there's a reason it has yet to take off.

A Surprisingly Long List of Everything Smartphones Replaced

Mon, 23 Jul 2012 02:04:00 GMT

Hundreds of dollars and as many pounds of goods supplanted, thanks to a single device.

How Universal One-Click Payments Will Change Everything

Sun, 15 Jul 2012 18:47:00 GMT

Stripe presages the end of cash -- or at least, never entering credit card information again.

TED Has Competition -- From An Advertising Firm

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 20:05:00 GMT

Journalism, "amateur" content and web-only television are increasingly being created by brands themselves.

Why Are We In Denial About The Flaws of Tablets?

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 21:36:00 GMT

Publishers are beginning to figure out that an imperfect form factor means tablets aren't the be-all and end-all.

How Today's Supreme Court Decision Will Help Unleash American Innovation

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 15:32:00 GMT

Upholding Obamacare means more for the growing ranks of independent innovators than it does for any political party.

Signing Up for Google's Glasses Is Like Signing Up for a Mental Illness

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 18:57:00 GMT

Are you prepared to manage the distractions inherent in a portal to the Internet that you literally can't avoid?

The Most Important New Technology Since the Smart Phone Arrives December 2012

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 03:40:00 GMT

Even if you've seen the Leap Motion before, this is a demo you've got to watch.

By now, many of us are aware of the Leap Motion, a small, $70 gesture control system that simply plugs into any computer and, apparently, just works. If you've seen the gesture interfaces in Minority Report, you know what it does. More importantly, if you're familiar with the touch modality -- and at this point, most of us are -- the interface is entirely intuitive. It's touch, except it happens in the space in front of the screen, so you don't have to cover your window into your tech with all those unsightly smudges.

What's Wrong With Almost Every Old Media-Inspired New Media Startup

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 03:09:00 GMT

Tired theories about what it takes to succeed on the web neglect the fact that the web is no longer where media innovation happens.

Fujitsu Cracks 300,000 Year Crypto Problem in Days

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 01:48:00 GMT

Pairing-based crypto is supposed to be the basis of next-generation crytography systems.

The (Extremely) Humble Origins of Microsoft Surface

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 01:06:00 GMT

How Steve Jobs designed the most promising product Microsoft has ever launched.

DARPA Unleashes the Mother of All Geek Memes

Sat, 16 Jun 2012 15:46:00 GMT

Twitter answers the question "What technology from science fiction would you most like to see as science fact?"

Friday, the skunkworks of the U.S. military, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, asked Twitter "What technology from science fiction would you most like to see as science fact?"

How Sheer Tonnage Rendered Information Unfree

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 17:48:00 GMT

The apparent cheapness of information was only a temporary effect of the dawn of the Internet age.

Intelius, BeenVerified Aren't Keen To Give Up Your Personal Data

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 01:50:00 GMT

Privacy protection firm SafeShepherd reveals the "scummiest" of the online data brokers.

Ebooks Made of YouTube Comments Invade Amazon Kindle Store

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:27:00 GMT

"Alot was been hard" by Janetlw Bauie is a masterpiece of machine-generated unintentional comedy.

Your Appliances Are Grounded, So Why Not You?

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 22:35:00 GMT

Pseudoscientific "earthing" connects you directly to your building's electrical system.

Why LinkedIn's Password Leak Endangers Security Across The Web

Wed, 06 Jun 2012 17:10:00 GMT

Hackers can now access the many sites on which we used the same password as LinkedIn.

How the Internet Became Boring

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 16:31:00 GMT

The Internet is both a utility and a medium. Only one of these things is exciting.

Intelligence Agency Achieves "Holy Grail" of Malware Attacks

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 03:02:00 GMT

Stuxnet and Flame show that governments can weaponize what used to be the sole domain of hackers.

Flame, believed by experts to have been created by a Western intelligence agency for purposes of information gathering and espionage, has achieved what has long been called the "holy grail" for malware: replicating via Microsoft Windows' built-in update system.

How Obama Was Dangerously Naive About STUXNET and Cyberwarfare

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 14:59:00 GMT

A Times exposé suggests that the White House failed to consider how our own cyberweapons would be used against us.