Time Inc, the publishers behind Sports Illustrated, has unveiled its digital magazine concept to the world outlining what it thinks an e-magazine should look like.
Google Zeitgeist 2009
Another year has come and gone, and as always, we’re taking a moment to look back at the happenings of 2009—the people, events and memories that made this year unique. Each year, Google examines the billions of queries that people …
Twitter Declared Most Popular English Word of 2009
The Global Language Monitor, which tracks language trends, has once again compiled and released its yearly list of the most popular words and phrases within the English language. In 2008, the #1 most popular word was “change” (referring to the …
Why Google Wave Sucks, And Why You Will Use It Anyway
Google Wave is a hot topic at the moment. The ambitious group collaboration and micro-messaging platform started rolling out in beta via an initial batch of 100,000 invitations two months ago. Many people still want invitations. Among those who’ve tried …
Do Serious Games Work? Results from Three Studies
Three studies in higher education look at whether serious games (or video games whose primary purpose is something other than entertainment, such as military training, education, physical therapy) really do change learning outcomes.
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Avatar’ Points Way to Future of Movie Games
In the new videogame based on James Cameron’s highly anticipated sci-fi flick, blue giants deliver a big green message: Greed is bad, and humans are a cancer. But behind the scenes, the parallel teams working on the movie and the …
Facebook’s Road to 350 Million Users
It’s a flabbergasting number, but even more amazing is the speed with which Facebook has managed to achieve it, trouncing its competitors, including the once mighty MySpace, in the process
Classic 1950s Science Textbooks Get a 21st-Century Update
A series of textbooks dating from the 1950s taught a generation of students that science could also be art. But research progresses and artistic methods evolve, so Wired has brought these mid-century classics up to date.
First Programmable Quantum Computer Mixes 0 And 1 – Is Awesome, Not For Sale
The future of computing is surely not OS X, or Windows, or even Linux. No, the future of the world of computing is quantum, when instead of creating a zero or one, you can get a shading of the two.…
Canada’s TV tax / Save local TV squabble explained
Both groups receive enormous subsidies to promote Canadian television (broadcasters get a ‘local programming fee’ and cable/sat operators get a state-backed monopoly that keeps foreigners out). Both want more money, and both want the other guy to collect the fee, …
On Connectivism
Leigh Blackall: “There has been a long and [barren] relationship between education and popular culture for over a century now. Education has been absent from reality for as long as I’ve been a part of it and today is no …
The Next iPhone: What can we expect?
The current hardware version, for the 3GS, is 2.1 which was announced in June 2009 so we can expect another upgrade around the same time next year in June. Although nobody knows what the new iPhone will bring here are …
10 tech trends to look out for in 2010
In the future, your mouse will cook you breakfast, computers will float in the sky and the world will be a generally more peaceful place. Until then, here are a few interesting advancements that we reckon will shape technology during …
Turkey wants to give each of its 70 million citizens an email address (and a search engine too.)
Turkey’s Informational Technology Watchdog today announced its intentions to allocate an e-mail address to each of its 70 million citizens.
Book Review: ‘Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology’
“Our fear is that social cohesion and equity inherent in the promise of public schooling will be undermined by (the Knowledge Revolution).” This fear comprises the lynchpin of the authors’ thesis: that new media technologies are changing how, where, and …