Memory is a fickle thing. As far as my brain is concerned, I didn't exist before age three. Remembering four or five…
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Before there was random access memory, there was delay line memory. It was random in a different sense; it involved…
You're looking at a woman who resembles your mother. She moves and talks like your mother, and she's even dressed…
Imagine a format that lies somewhere between photos and video, and a device that takes that format automatically,…
All this talk about preserving digital legacies got me thinking: What about the bits we don't want to leave behind?…
Just a few years ago there were no virtual social networks, no synchronized address books, and no smartphones. But…
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It seems like something out of a movie (and hey, it is), but there's some scientific evidence that we actually carry…
We say pictures can't replace memories, but when Halley's Comet last swooped across the sky, many of us were too…
Before David Carr was my favorite NY Times columnist, he was an asshole.
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So your hard drive just died, and you didn't back it up. I'm so, so sorry. You can expect to go through the…
If you take the guts of a Blu-ray or DVD player, blow it up, and spread it across a work bench, it looks like this.…
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Nothing brings up memories as smells do. In my case, it's the smell of plastic. Thousands of little colorful…
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The size and quality of digital photographs has exploded over the last 10 years. So, we asked our friend and war…
It's easy to claim that the stuff you liked as a kid was way better than the crap kids watch today, because you…
Talking with Bill Nye the Science Guy is like meeting your favorite HS science teacher in a bar—the conversation…
The Wayback Machine offers an incredible catalog of what the web once was. But unlike that beloved Polaroid of your…
Dave Pell, on what it means to have our heads in the cloud, as he puts it:
Consciousness lost, breathing stopped, pulse gone. Someone just slipped into cardiac arrest. In order to preserve…
There's something to be said for watching a concert with your own eyes, not mediated by the lens of a camera or the…
There's little action, no sound, and the footage is grainy. But this brief clip may be the only existing video of…