technology

In 2015 California tore out 2,100 football fields of lawn as the drought deepened. Gov. Jerry Brown said daily-watered grass would be a thing of the past.

May 22, 2015 · 1 min read

Some people say Wi-Fi makes them sick. The WHO says their symptoms are real — but there is no scientific basis linking them to electromagnetic exposure.

May 21, 2015 · 2 min read

RoboDynamics' Luna — a 5-foot, open-source home robot running Ubuntu and ROS — returned in 2014 with a Kickstarter campaign at $999.

December 23, 2014 · 1 min read

In October 2014, Mark Zuckerberg visited India to address the Internet.org summit and meet PM Modi — his bid to connect the world's 5 billion offline.

October 1, 2014 · 1 min read

Leo Grand, a homeless man in NYC, chose coding lessons over $100 cash — and built his first app. The inspiring story was real, and more complicated than the

September 26, 2013 · 1 min read

Couples are wedding across continents over video chat. A 2013 NYT report traced the rise of proxy marriages — and the fraud and trafficking concerns.

March 7, 2013 · 3 min read

Engineer Shane Todd's 2012 death in Singapore sparked murder claims tied to a proposed IME–Huawei project; a 2013 inquest later ruled it a suicide.

February 27, 2013 · 3 min read

Apple's 2012 third-generation iPad brought the Retina display, A5X chip, and 4G LTE. The specs that made the iPad 2's screen look soft overnight.

March 8, 2012 · 1 min read

A 2011 guest column on cyber-revenge: when anger meets the internet, the whole world becomes your audience — and the author offers her calming mantras.

October 19, 2011 · 4 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

At 14, Suhas Gopinath founded Globals Inc from a Bangalore cyber cafe. A decade on: a multinational IT firm, a World Bank roundtable, and a WEF honor.

December 15, 2010 · 1 min read