Environment The Future of Computing Requires Innovation in Energy Unless we find a new form of electronic technology that uses less energy, computing will become limited by an "energy crunch" within decades. Daisy Wang & Jared Cole
Environment The Promise of a $9 Computer For those living at or near the poverty line, the expense of a computer is out of the question. But a new low-cost device could change that and more. Rick Paulas
Environment You Sound Sad, Human Computers are getting pretty good at detecting our emotions. Nathan Collins
Environment Your Digital Photos Aren’t Built to Last Preserving digital content—and the Internet—for future generations will be a technical, political, and legal challenge. Nathan Collins
Environment When Can a Hacker Start a War? The Sony hacks raised an interesting question: At what point does a cyber attack become an act of war? Ryan Fairchild
Environment Wait, Could We Make a Computer Out of Our DNA? Related: Why would we want to? Michael White
Social Justice We Are All Internet Addicts Now—Just Don’t Call It That New research has many (on the Internet) talking about the evolutionary causes of our "addiction" to the Internet, but it's not an addiction, at least not in the way we're used to applying the label. Jared Keller