Make your own Geiger counterIn the nuclear age, a radiation detector, and an app to run it are within your reach
Toews feeds trollsFighting Anonymous is impossible by design, but it’s funny to Anonymous when someone tries
How reply girl’s videos make her mounds of cash Wearing a low-cut top and commenting on viral videos wins her web traffic, and also angry comments
Selling Google’s weaknesses to the governmentFrench security firm Vupen is teaching law enforcement how to spy through Chrome
Star Trek-inspired Tricorder may be a reality by 2015The X Prize Foundation will award a $10-million prize to whomever creates the heath care device
Ira Glass’ guilt tripMike Daisey’s story on Apple didn’t fit the narrative requirements of This American Life. His contrived confession did.
Hoping for a wireless revolution in CanadaIf ever there was an industry in need of disruption, it’s Canada’s wireless sector
Apple’s iPad announcement was not magical, but fancifulTim Cook lacks Steve Jobs’ inspired word choices, but his rhetoric is equally lofty
Using homeless people as WiFi hotspotsA Texas company is selling this as a ’charitable innovation initiative’