What's the next Facebook (or is there one)?
By John D. Sutter, CNN (CNN) - Facebook is trying to be the "forever network." When the company's hoodie-wearing CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, announced a new feature called Timeline in September, he...
View ArticleShould face-detection be used in San Francisco bars?
By John D. Sutter, CNN Check out this video from CNN affiliate KGO, which profiles an app called SceneTap. The gist is that the app works with surveillance cameras in bars to report the number of men...
View ArticleDigital avatars to guide travelers at New York airports
By John D. Sutter, CNN (CNN) - First Tupac. Now this. The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey announced this week that digital projections of "virtual customer care representatives" will...
View ArticleThe Big Idea: Should the U.S. 'airdrop' millions of phones into Syria?
By John D. Sutter, CNN (CNN) - Can communication tools stop a war? That's basically the idea one CNN commenter put forward on Monday. Responding to a story about citizen journalists in Syria, who risk...
View ArticleThe Big Idea: Facebook's minimum age should be 21
By John D. Sutter, CNN (CNN) - The U.S. legal drinking age is 21. Should Facebook have the same requirement? Plenty of people light-heartedly say the 900-million-person social network is "addictive,"...
View ArticleThe coolest tech stories of the 2012 Olympics
By John D. Sutter, CNN (CNN) - Watching the Olympics, which kick off in earnest Friday with the opening ceremony in London, is more fun when you know the stories behind the Games. No doubt, sports...
View ArticleMeet 'Mohawk Guy,' star of the Mars landing
By John D. Sutter, CNN (CNN) - Forget Rick Moranis glasses, starchy button-ups and pocket protectors. Meet the new generation at NASA: Bobak Ferdowsi, better known as "Mohawk Guy." Ferdowsi was spotted...
View ArticleVideo urges Singapore couples to make babies - like, now
By John D. Sutter, CNN (CNN) - This week's over-the-top marketing campaign is a YouTube video from Mentos that hopes to convince Singaporeans to get busy. Like literally. It asks them to "make a little...
View ArticleMicrosoft computer speaks Chinese for you - in your own voice
By John D. Sutter, CNN (CNN) - By now, everyone knows computers can talk. There's Hal. There's Watson. And, of course, there's Siri. But never before have computers been able to talk for you, in your...
View ArticleStudent turns table into an iPhone keyboard
By John D. Sutter, CNN (CNN) - Here's a new stab at a solution for that old fat-thumbs, small-phone problem: Turn your desk - or table or whatever - into a keyboard. That's what Florian Kräutli...
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