Technoculture

The designer of Passage, The Castle Doctrine and Diamond Trust of London, Jason Rohrer, has developed a game designed to be played by people he'll never know. Rohrer hasn't played it himself, he says, and has buried the game — designed to survive thousands of years — in the Nevada desert, making it likely that no one will ever play it.

R.bots Synergy SWAN is a telepresence robot with that works with any Android or iOS device. To make the robot work, you attach your smartphone or tablet. The device charges while its docked, and the robot interacts with the world around it.

Lego and Cartoon Network dazzle New York's iconic Times Square with a 'Star Wars' X-Wing model that took 32 builders about four months to construct.

French police have abandoned in-progress searches for missing adults and will no longer accept new search requests. Instead, families should turn to social media, the government announced.

A dedicated team of British police officers are monitoring social media around the clock in the wake of last night’s fatal attack on a soldier in the south-east of London, in order to gauge sentiment and be ready to respond.

Martin Scorsese's Hugo helped introduce many people to the wonder of automatons — i.e., mechanical people and other figures. But there's a lot more to automatons than Scorsese's film revealed, including some things you won't believe people managed to make move long, long before robots.

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.

Now you can with the next level of 3D technology – which defies gravity and lets you come squeamishly close to death.

Using CT scan, doctors modeled and printed bioplastic splint to keep airway open.

There's fresh evidence that American teenagers may be growing weary of Facebook. They don't like the fact that their parents, grandparents and other adults are also there, diluting Facebook's 'cool' factor. They complain about their friends' oversharing, and about too much 'drama' on the site. And they're increasingly flocking to other social platforms, such as Twitter.

Breaking news is no longer the preserve of established broadcasters, thanks to the camera phone and social media, writes Emily Bell.

Twitter just announced that it’s launched two-factor authentication for accounts. Two-factor authentication uses your password and an additional method to verify your identity. Google’s two-factor authentication, launched in 2010, texts a code to your mobile number when a new device or app initially accesses your account. Bank of America has a similar system. Two-factor is becoming table stakes for any online service that wants to call itself secure

If you've been dreaming of strapping on your own 'Iron Man' armor, you might have to wait a while longer. But revolutionary 'bionic exoskeletons', like the metal suit worn by comic book hero Tony Stark, might be closer than you think -- just don't expect to fly away in one.

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.