Lara Heintz
Foursquare for Pollution
Mapping data is everywhere now. If you have a smart phone or a Facebook account, you're already using it all the time. A cornucopia of data streams has become "available to the public":http://nycopendata.socrata.com/, information is pouring in through...
Hacking Is Occupying Is Hacking
The hacks of #Occupy are more than just a protest - they're changing the art of protest.
The Gadgets of #Occupy
The raid on the Occupy stronghold of Zucotti Park left "laptops smashed":http://motherboard.tv/2011/11/18/who-smashed-the-laptops-from-occupy-wall-street-inside-the-nypd-s-lost-and-found and "wifi towers":http://motherboard.tv/2011/11/21/occupy-s...
Obama's Hit The Keystone Pipeline With An Extra-Large Delay
It may sometimes seem like nothing but doom and gloom for good old Earth with things like global warming, "oil spills":http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/bp-oil-spill, and "heavy metal pollution":http://motherboard.tv/2011/11/9/ten-percent-of-china-is...
Here's Where the Internet Lives in NYC: Ben Mendelsohn On 60 Hudson Street (Q+A)
We love the Internet, but to most of us it's a megalithic behemoth of a cyber system that, despite our numerous attempts to define its boundaries, seems to keep expanding in a seemingly never-ending vacuum of digital space. This is why filmaker Ben...
We're Closer Than Ever To Being Close To Quantum Computing
The dream of a future where quantum computers are able to cipher high volumes of information simultaneously at incredible speeds--bursting through the silicon barrier--has been prolonged for decades. Today, high speed computers operate in binary and...
Occu-π: The Strange History of Counting To Pi, 3.14159265301...
The latest calculation of _pi_ required a programmer, a hacked together 48-terabyte hard drive, a lot of hours and a very patient spouse. But humans have been crunching the number Pi since people were scrawling on papyrus.
The Energy of Tomorrow Looks Like a Kite
Before co-founding Makani Power, Corwin Hardham was a kite boarder using wind to ride waves, but as an engineer, he’s using...
An Art Project That Finally Puts '90s Internet on the Map
Does anybody remember a little thing called Geocities? Society now may be an interactive media-rich metropolis, where we can simultaneously post pictures from the news on Facebook, while Twittering that we’re posting those pictures on Facebook, but...
Rat Brains Get a Cybernetic Upgrade
If you’ve ever doubted the possibility of a future crowded with Verhoeven-esque, dystopic cyborgs, think again. Scientists have made an integral step towards fulfilling one of our wildest sci-fi fantasies: they've successfully implanted an artificial...
The Most Genius Geniuses
What immediately strikes me about this year’s collection of MacArthur Fellows, aka the "Geniuses," is that they don't care much for the "genius" label. This is, of course, befitting of their "genius" status. But it's also a reflection of the surprise...