Google's Niantic Labs is doing a transmedia project with novelist and discredited memoirist James Frey. It's an intriguing partnership that, like Frey's books, plays fast and loose with notions of what the "truth" is.
If you want to recruit more women to your conference -- or to the ranks of your company's employees -- there's a way to do it without lowering your standards.
In Microsoft's vision of the future, Kinect sensors are everywhere: In your living room, your kitchen, at school, and even in the supermarket, above the fruit display.
And why not? The $150 motion-sensing device provides a cheap way to add gesture and voice controls to any application.