November 3, 2015 Ford demo of car-to-car communication shows what happens when cars talk The National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration will publish recommendations in the coming weeks for new car-to-car communication. A demo in a specially tricked out 2014 Ford Taurus gives a front-seat view of how it works.
November 3, 2015 'Gaming' the system: NSA sucking data from apps like 'Angry Birds' The NSA has been spying on smartphone apps, especially popular ones like "Angry Birds" that "leak" our data. So why aren't we angry at "Angry Birds" as well as the NSA?
November 3, 2015 Here's when crowdsourcing actually works Crowdsourcing was supposed to be the Big Idea that leveraged the interconnectedness of the Internet -- but the results have been generally discouraging. Yet in one case, crowdsourcing is working. What is it?
November 3, 2015 Stop-sign camera heralds new era in surveillance Could we become a nation of digital squealers? Will technology go beyond state-sponsored surveillance of our behavior and turn us all into a society of snitches?
November 3, 2015 Apple loses e-book pricing lawsuit, but are consumers the real losers? Is it a good thing that Apple lost its battle to fix prices on e-books? Yes. Is it going to make life better for readers and publishers? No.
November 3, 2015 Could revelations about NSA spying make us less secure? No matter where the debate about freedom, democracy and the Constitution goes from here, the leaked information concerning the National Security Agency's various secret surveillance programs including Prism is going to have some immediate fallout.
November 3, 2015 Harvard snoops through professors' email, teaches new lessons in privacy Even some of the smartest people can be really dumb about technology. To wit, the recent hubbub at Harvard University over the scandalous, surreptitious searching of academia's finest's e-mails.
November 3, 2015 Tech hype vs. tech help: 3 must-have gadgets from CES 2013 Not all of CES was about gawking gadget giddiness. There was some practical news about products and services that could actually save you money -- and make your life easier too.
November 3, 2015 What I learned from Wikipedia's most popular articles of 2012 A ranking of popular 2012 Wikipedia articles in different languages offers a fascinating window on global trends around the world—and some anomalies.
November 3, 2015 Offbeat gifts for nice gamers What are the holidays without play days? And even if you can't play, at least you can give someone close to you games to play with.
