Tech

In April 2012, Korean IT News reported Apple's iPhone 5 might use Liquidmetal alloy — the rumor fizzled; the iPhone 5 shipped in aluminum that September.

April 22, 2012 · 2 min read

Exeter researchers built a 3D printer that extrudes molten chocolate layer by layer — mass-personalized confectionery, before 3D printing went mainstream.

April 9, 2012 · 1 min read

Walter Isaacson, Jobs's biographer, distilled his subject's leadership into 14 imperatives for the April 2012 Harvard Business Review. Here they are.

March 29, 2012 · 2 min read

Pune teacher Vandana Suryawanshi became the first foreign teacher — and the only Indian — selected for the US Space Foundation's teacher liaison programme.

January 30, 2012 · 1 min read

In January 2011, even Mark Zuckerberg's own Facebook page was compromised. If the founder isn't safe, what chance do the rest of us have?

December 7, 2011 · 1 min read

Mona Simpson's eulogy for her brother Steve Jobs — the intimate portrait, the family story, and those final words: Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.

November 2, 2011 · 1 min read

In a 1985 Playboy interview at 29, Steve Jobs said 'it better be damn good' — twenty years later, his Stanford address made mortality his most quoted theme.

October 6, 2011 · 1 min read

The iPhone 4S arrived in October 2011 with an A5 chip, 8MP camera and Siri — how Apple's specs stacked up against the Galaxy S II, Sensation XE and RAZR.

October 5, 2011 · 1 min read

In September 2011, Netflix apologized for its price hike — then made things worse by splitting DVD-by-mail into Qwikster. A live case study in disruption.

September 20, 2011 · 1 min read

A 2011 archive note on the dawn of bring-your-own-device: when companies were just figuring out that employees wanted work on their own phones.

September 13, 2011 · 1 min read

Google brought voice search to Chrome's address bar in 2011. Did talking to your browser ever catch on? Revisiting the feature that foreshadowed everything.

August 26, 2011 · 2 min read

Reuters reported in August 2011 that Apple's Asian suppliers were building a cheaper 8GB iPhone 4 — a play for emerging markets ahead of the iPhone 4S.

August 23, 2011 · 1 min read

Neuroscience suggests handwriting engages the brain in ways typing doesn't — from letter recognition in kids to deeper learning in older students.

June 21, 2011 · 1 min read

A Hamburg teen forgot to mark her 16th-birthday invite private on Facebook. Some 1,500 strangers showed up — and she fled her own party.

June 18, 2011 · 1 min read

Voice calls are dying and carriers know it. Why unlimited minutes aren't generosity — they're the carriers admitting the minute is obsolete.

May 16, 2011 · 1 min read

Hackers breached email-marketing giant Epsilon in April 2011, stealing data for 2,500+ clients — triggering breach notices from Chase, Citigroup and more.

April 15, 2011 · 1 min read

A Bangalore call-center firm could hire only 3 of every 100 graduates in 2011, exposing India's employability gap and the failures of its education system.

April 6, 2011 · 1 min read

In 2011, Amazon Web Services was a thrifty side bet renting servers for pennies an hour. How the cloud became Amazon's real empire.

March 14, 2011 · 1 min read

In 2011, Facebook let users rent The Dark Knight with Facebook Credits. Why social movie streaming flopped -- and what it got right too early.

March 8, 2011 · 1 min read

At Mobile World Congress 2011, Visa bet big on paying by phone. The plan, the security debate -- and how the mobile-wallet prediction played out.

February 18, 2011 · 2 min read