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Self-healing plastic mimics blood clotting
bbc.com | Article Link | by James Morgan A new plastic that "heals itself" has been designed, meaning your cracked phone screen or broken tennis racquet could mend its own wounds. The polymer...
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Tally of Cyber Extortion Attacks on Tech Companies Grows
nytimes.com | Article Link | by Nicole Perlroth Tech start-ups continue to get hit by extortion attempts from cybercriminals who aim to shut down their systems until companies pay their ransom. For...
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China Exports High-Speed Rail Technology to Turkey
nytimes.com | Article Link | by Amy Qin After having built the world’s most extensive high-speed rail network, China is now beginning to export its rail technology, starting with last week’s...
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Building the Part of Facebook No One Ever Sees
gizmodo.com | Article Link | by Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Ever since we humans gave up the nomadic life and started building homes, architecture had one goal: To make life better for humans. But now,...
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Divining reality from the hype
economist.com | Article Link OVER the past few decades it has become clear that innovation—more than inputs of capital and labour—is what drives a modern economy. In the developed world, the...
View ArticleThe Internet or Fundamentalism: Inverted Communication
by Marcus Breen, Editor of The Technology Collection There has been a near-silence about the way the Internet has enhanced the sweep of fighters through Syria and Iraq to make possible their claims...
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Why Britain Has The Best Wall Sockets On Earth
fastcodesign.com | Article Link | by John Brownlee Anyone who has traveled to the United Kingdom has probably marveled at the imperial bulk of the standard U.K. wall plug. With three chunky,...
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Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman
theguardian.com | Article Link | by Bobbie Johnson The concept of using web-based programs like Google's Gmail is "worse than stupidity", according to a leading advocate of free software. Cloud...
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The Creepy New Wave of the Internet
nybooks.com | Article Link | by Sue Halpern Every day a piece of computer code is sent to me by e-mail from a website to which I subscribe called IFTTT. Those letters stand for the phrase “if this...
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The Group That Rules the Web
newyorker.com | Article Link | by Paul Ford You might have read that, on October 28th, W3C officially recommended HTML5. And you might know that this has something to do with apps and the Web. The...
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