Technoculture

The project is called Sensors for Students, and it wants to build a sensor collection kit that includes a plate for an open-source Arduino board and Grove shield combo, along with one of a variety of parts for a number of different types of sensors, including accelerometers, electromagnetic field detectors, a color sensor, a plant watering kit (similar to one component of the Bitponics automated hydroponic garden), and many more.

We’re already building the metropolis of the future—green, wired, even helpful. Now critics are starting to ask whether we’ll really want to live there.

Will Hutton: Throughout history, economic upheaval has destroyed whole industries – and created new ones. But now, some fear automation may mean the death of mass employment.

The faces of the planet, as seen from space.

Microsoft has launched a new Xbox video games console that it claims will become the single device that users need to control TV, video games, music and entertainment in the living room.

This infographic investigates social media's expanding role in responding to natural disasters.

Sven Olaf Kamphuis is accused of global cybercrime, but Spanish police found him in a squalid flat with his name on the letterbox.

College Humor poked fun of everyone who uses social networks to see the events they're missing out on by making a trailer for a horror movie called FOMO: Fear of Missing Out starring Anna Camp.

The US government extensively monitors its citizens' internet activities, with dangerous effects on personal liberties.

WordPress received a flurry of interest at the same time as news of its acquisition by Yahoo become public.

Externally, the Kinect is more or less unchanged from its predecessor, but it's actually a very different device. It's been upgraded in a huge way, but the end result is simple: the Kinect just sees more.

Steve Wilhite, the father of Graphics Interchange Format (GIFs), has ended the heated debate on how to pronounce 'GIF' at this year's Webby Awards.

Social media has definitely changed the game for job-seekers and recruiters. Traditionally, HR recruiters placed an advertisement, sifted through the responses, and interviewed the shortlisted candidates before appointing the best interviewee with the best references. Those days are over.

Microsoft will adapt its blockbuster 'Halo' videogame franchise as a premium live action series exclusively for Xbox Live. Steven Spielberg will produce the series with gamemaker 343 Studios.

Anjan Contractor’s 3D food printer might evoke visions of the 'replicator' popularized in Star Trek, from which Captain Picard was constantly interrupting himself to order tea. And indeed Contractor’s company, Systems & Materials Research Corporation, just got a six month, $125,000 grant from NASA to create a prototype of his universal food synthesizer.

Microsoft's Xbox One home-entertainment console, available later this year, has ties to Windows 8 and Windows Azure.

Artificial intelligence expert Mark Bishop says a ban on weapons that can deploy and destroy without human intervention is vital.

A phishing attack allowed Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) activists to hack the Telegraph's Twitter feeds, reports Matt Warman.

Yahoo yesterday announced that it's bought Tumblr for $1.1 billion to communicate to millennials cool, hip, relevant, and that it understands what GIFs are. But back in the early ages of the dot com era, the company was saying that through a monthly publication called Yahoo Internet Life Magazine.

The best metaphor for Google Glass? Not jerks or junkies, but the living dead.

A cyberunit of the People’s Liberation Army in China appears to have resumed its attacks using different techniques, hitting several of the same victims it has gone after in the past.

Yahoo is paying $1.1bn for Tumblr, so let's hope it doesn't go the same way as Geocities.