When Rewind Was More Than a Button
Transport yourself back a typical scene from life in the 90s. You and your friends were just about to go bowling, and maybe catch the newest Tom Hanks movie (Forrest Gump – it got really good reviews!)...
The Sensible Approach to Sleep
Quality of sleep plays a pivotal role in determining one’s attitude, efficiency and general cynicism for the next day. Inspired by this single activity that unifies the diverse lifestyles across the globe,...
What Are You Really Paying for When You Buy a Laptop?
When looking for a new computer, choosing among the various options can be overwhelming. Should you get the new $1,300 MacBook or perhaps try a $90 Symple PC? And what do all the specs about “2.5GHz...
In Defense of Angelina Jolie
Rebecca Tang In May 2013, Angelina Jolie shocked the public with an opinion piece explaining why she chose to surgically remove both her breasts. “I have a ‘faulty’ gene, BRCA1,” she wrote, “which...
SCiO
Expanding Technological Frontiers to an Everyday Level Although modern technology already provides mankind with an almost limitless access to digital information, SCiO — a 2015 Israeli innovation that has...
The Hendo Hoverboard
CGI Brought to Life First popularized in Steven Spielberg’s Back to the Future franchise, hoverboards have endured a love-hate relationship with the public for the past three decades. There’s no denying...
The Haunted Houses of Physics
Imagine a haunted house of sorts, one with many entrances, each of which eventually leads you to a long, dark corridor. You know that the house consists of something more than empty hallways, because you can...
Defining “Normal”
Fighting Crime and Saving the Environment through Anomaly Detection A few years ago, if someone stole your credit card information, you might not know about it until you noticed that your bill was $200,000...
The Future of the Internet
Although a concept less than 50 years old, the World Wide Web has grown to become the defining technology of our era — from e-commerce and email to online education and cloud computing, Internet-based...