Amber Case & The Invisible Button

On a bone-chillingly stormy Austin Friday, I escaped into the warmth of the upmarket W Hotel and sat down for an interview with Amber Case, technology anthropologist and founder of the location platform Geoloqi. In between wolfing down a plate of gourmet macaroni cheese, Case explained her fascination

Amber Case & The Invisible Button

On a bone-chillingly stormy Austin Friday, I escaped into the warmth of the upmarket W Hotel and sat down for an interview with Amber Case, technology anthropologist and founder of the location platform Geoloqi. In between wolfing down a plate of gourmet macaroni cheese, Case explained her fascination

Marvel announces augmented reality app, exclusive digital comics at SXSW

Not content with simply doling out free digital comics to fans who favor the tangible page, Marvel is now giving readers a new reason to reach for their tablets: augmented reality. Android and iOS devices will be able to look beyond the page using Marvel AR, an Aurasma-powered app slated to launch alongside

Live Drawing SXSW: Network Effect: Building a Business Around Sharing

Dropbox is a file sharing standard many hope to emulate. Have you ever wondered about the story behind the cloud wonder, Dropbox? Drew Houston, CEO and Co-Founder, sat down to share the history of Dropbox’s early days. Two questions framed the discussion. How did you get here? How will you stay?

SXSW In A Nutshell: Homeless People As Hotspots

South By Southwest 2012 can be summarized thusly: An impossibly-named marketing company called Bartle Bogle Hegarty is doing a little human science experiment called Homeless Hotspots. It gives out 4G hotspots to homeless people along with a promotional t-shirt. The shirt doesn’t say, "I have a 4G hotspot."

IBM’s Holey Optochip transmits 1Tbps of data, is named awesomely

Be honest: was there any doubt whatsoever that something called a "Holey Optochip" would be anything short of mind-blowing? No. None. The whiz-kids over at IBM have somehow managed to transmit a staggering 1Tbps of data over a new optical chip, with the fresh prototype showing promise for ultra-high

Un programa que traduce nuestra voz a otros idiomas

Un software de investigación de Microsoft sintetiza las palabras en idiomas extranjeros, pero con una voz que suena parecida a la nuestra.

NASA’s GRAIL spacecraft begin the process of staring way too hard at the moon

NASA’s overall initiatives may be throttled, but the Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft haven’t heard of any such limitations. These guys have officially started their collection mission, orbiting the moon for the next 80-some-odd days in order to obtain a high-resolution map

How would you change the Samsung Focus S?

Samsung’s 4.3-inch Mango phone looked and felt very much like a Galaxy S II, even down to that lovely Super AMOLED Plus display and its plastic housing. It packed the same internals as the Focus Flash, excepting that it came with 16GB rather than 8GB on-board. It was perfectly likable as a handset,

3 Ways to Woo a Startup Into Hiring You

With the unemployment rate hovering at 8.3%, there’s a lot of competition for jobs. You know you’ve got the right attitude, the righ…