Social Media, Technology & Design

This year’s Le Web event in Paris was based around the them of the Internet of Things (IoT); the way in which objects around us will gather data and connect to controls or other machines ...

Augmented reality (AR) -- the term does not exactly jump off the tongue. But the concepts behind the technology are beginning to change what we think of ourselves, objects and the people in the world that surrounds us...

Over the past 14 years, Google has set the standard for online search. The ability to access expansive amounts of information on a global scale and deliver links full of information to our fingertips was, and is, revolutionary.

On an average day, Google crawls through 20 billion web pages, and serves 100 billion searches every month. These numbers will only continue to increase, as data increases exponentially. It’s no secret that this data overload is causing a lot of problems.
One unexpected and dramatic impact of this influx of information is that it has exposed the weaknesses of the current design of search as we know it.

“We probably need to change the name of this conference,” Twitter and Square co-founder Jack Dorsey said today from the stage of TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco. As much as we love this conference, the media — and everyone else for that matter — tends to overuse the word “disrupt” when talking about the potential change inherent in technology. It tends to be used in conjunction with “fluff” rather than the revolutionary. Hard to call the rush to be the Instagram of Video, for example, a “disruptive” charge — at least in the pure sense.

Anyone whos ever been to Wikipedia.org has probably seen their message in bright yellow across the top: "We are the small non-profit that runs the #5 website in the world.

Social media has changed the way news is gathered and reported. In this video top journalists and bloggers such as Jeff Jarvis and Chris Anderson talk about the non-stop media cycle and the impact it is having on reporting the news.

Just as media companies have had to adapt to this always-on news cycle, so do PR pros. Dealing with the media now, and getting earned media mentions, is a far cry from what it was even five years ago. It’s time to rethink your media relations strategy for 2013.

For decades the computing business has been guided by Moore’s Law, which predicts the rate of improvements in computing power. You have a different focus.

We have always been about efficiency, miles per gallon instead of top speed. That’s actually what matters. Mobile is an easy example: you know that phone is constrained because it’s battery powered

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has released a first-person game that helps showcase science with entertainment. Called A Slower Speed of Light, this visually-stimulating ...

f one were to rank a list of civilization's greatest and most elusive intellectual challenges, the problem of "decoding" ourselves -- understanding the inner workings of our minds and our brains, and how the architecture of these elements is encoded in our genome -- would surely be at the top. Yet the diverse fields that took on this challenge, from philosophy and psychology to computer science and neuroscience, have been fraught with disagreement about the right approach.

Fibre optic cable delivering revolutionary change was laid while African neighbours were booking hotels for more talking shops...

Big data could change the way we see the world.

Twitter and social networks were a key part of communications during Japan’s tsunami and earthquake disaster last year. Indeed, user numbers for Twitter and domestic site Mixi got a huge boost as those affected, seeking updates or just following events, turned to social media to keep up with developments in real-time.

The GeoDa Center for Geographical Analysis & Computation, led by ASU Regents' Professor Luc Anselin, has just released a new version of its signature software, OpenGeoDa. The software provides a user-friendly interface to implement techniques for exploratory spatial data analysis and spatial modeling. It has been used to better understand issues ranging from health care access to economic development to crime clusters. It is freely downloadable and open-source.