Rainer Hosch
On his eighth birthday, Rainer Hosch received a camera from his father, a photojournalist. The gift sparked a passion that carried Hosch from his family home in Austria to his current live-in studio in New York's ...READ»
Forgot to preorder your friend's Harry Potter tickets? Missed yet another anniversary? Today's the pseudoholiday when we pledge not to let it happen again. (We tried to find out who started this, but it seems everyone has forgotten.) ...READ»
The vast majority of tattooed people don't regret getting inked, according to recent data from Harris Interactive. But for the 16% that do, the cost of laser-removal treatments can run up to $10,000 -- a hefty price to pay for a ...READ»
For this year's world's fair, which runs until October 31, Shanghai has
set up a high-tech welcoming committee: an army of 5-foot-tall androids
named Haibao ("treasure of the sea"). The 70 million visitors expected
in town for the ...READ»
There's a wealth of data on the Internet -- 100 billion -- plus gigabytes, actually. "But if you can't find something on the first page of your Google results, it may as well not exist," says Dave McComb, who chairs this San Francisco ...READ»
"There are few things more bothersome than junk email," says conference
president Gordon Cormack. Last year, spam -- roughly 90% of all emails
-- cost businesses $130 billion in lost productivity, up 30% from 2007.
Scientists in ...READ»
Lost, the TV show, is best known for the mysterious numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42 -- which may or may not refer to characters who may or may not be "candidates" to control the island. But Lost, the pop-culture phenomenon, is better ...READ»
There's a reason computers, cell phones, and even basic remote controls come with instructions: We need to learn how to use them. Tan Le, founder and president of Emotiv Systems, an electronics company focused on brain-computer interfaces, wants to do away with the manual.READ»
Stephenie Meyer's vampire books have spawned Twilight, the $380
million-grossing movie; Twilight, the double-platinum soundtrack; and
"TwiLighT," the caps-lock-challenged Facebook group. Now rabid fans ("twi-hards") can flock to the ...READ»
Incoming! Every year, the gypsy moth, zebra mussel, and other invaders do more than $130 billion in damage to U.S. agriculture, forests, rangelands, and fisheries. Worldwide, that figure soars past $1 trillion. "Part of the problem," ...READ»
If Ad:tech's sleek Web site (ad-tech.com) doesn't convince you that it really is "the event for digital marketing" -- as its tagline boldly claims -- spend a few minutes browsing its blog, YouTube videos, Flickr pics, and Dopplr map. ...READ»
Cara Schatz wants to make one thing clear: Members of the SLA are, in
fact, special. "They work at huge companies, like McDonald's and
General Electric, and they inform C-suite decisions," says Schatz, a
conference ...READ»
Last week, our very own Dan Macsai was speculating about how to monetize the slightly-scary, balls-out phenomenon that is ChatRoulette (yes, a week before Jon Stewart even discovered the site) and now it seems someone is already ...READ»
When this league of extraordinary gentlepeople convened in Washington last spring, they were met -- as is usual for world summits now -- with a small but creative resistance. "There were about 1,500 of us," recalls Lacy MacAuley of ...READ»
To mark its first century, this Smithsonian museum in Washington is celebrating us all with the new $20.7 million, 15,000-square-foot Hall of Human Origins. Highlights will include forensically reconstructed faces of early human ...READ»
To mark its first century, this Smithsonian museum in Washington is celebrating us all with the new $20.7 million, 15,000-square-foot Hall of Human Origins. Highlights will include forensically reconstructed faces of early human ...READ»
To cope with a natural disaster, you'll probably want food, shelter,
and clothing. But what you really need, according to University of
Georgia geographer Marguerite Madden, is ... geomatics? "For a long
time, it was hard to ...READ»
Bits of Aaron Sorkin's script for the film about the founding of Facebook have bounced around the Internet for a while. We got our hands on what seems to be the almost final entire script.READ»
What's today's best search-engine strategy? "Look beyond the search engines," says What Would Google Do? author Jeff Jarvis, who will give a keynote address at this event. Traditionally, companies looking to get discovered ...READ»
Ted Murphy looks at a soda can and sees an opportunity for people to make money. And not by returning the empties to collect a nickel. Instead, the CEO of IZEA sees people snapping photos of their beverages with their iPhones and ...READ»
Sara de Freitas doesn't play around. As director of research at the Serious Games Institute (SGI) in Coventry, England, she’s a driving force behind the serious games movement, which leverages gaming tech and techniques for non-entertainment purposes, such as education, defense, and health care.READ»
