5 Reasons Not to Use Google for Search
Google is pretty much everywhere. It’s in your smartphone, car, and maybe even your watch— but there’s still nothing…
16 Searches You Can Run on Wolfram Alpha That Don't Work on Google
There are all kinds of different ways to use Wolfram Alpha, and it’s often a better idea to load up the computational…
You can now search WolframAlpha for your favorite Pokémon characters
Need to know which Pokémon character has the highest special attack? Or speed greater than 80? And can you name all the…
Mathematical Proof That Growing Old Means Getting Boring
What happens when you crunch a heap of Facebook data with one of the most sophisticated computational tools in the…
These portraits were drawn with mathematical equations
WolframAlpha has compiled a growing list of portraits of iconic figures drawn by parametric functions. Some of them are…
Meet the Twitter Bot That Can Answer All Your Questions
Remember SmarterChild? That AIM bot that would answer all/most of your questions and get huffy and stop talking to you…
Wolfram Alpha Will Tell You Even More About Your Facebook Page Than You Ever Knew
Wolfram Alpha, the true know it all on the Interwebs, introduced a ridiculously detailed Facebook report complete with…
Wolfram Alpha Will Tell You Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Your Facebook Page
Go here and type "facebook report." What you get in return is a treasure trove of statistical insights about your…
Wolfram Alpha Can Tell You Where to Eat Now
Wolfram Alpha is the Swiss Army knife of cool futuristic tech. It does everything: it powers Siri, compares sports…
Wolfram Alpha Pro Arrives Tomorrow With the Power to Analyze Data and Graphics
Wolfram Alpha may or may not be one of my favorite things in tech right now. It'll spew movie times, compare NFL stats,…
Ever Wonder Where That Plane Flying Over Your Head Is Going?
You're laying on a grassy knoll, staring at clouds, thinking about puppies and wondering if Becky and/or Brian Jones…
The Difference Between Watson and Wolfram|Alpha
Stephen Wolfram explains how IBM's Jeopardy winner Watson and his own Wolfrapm|Alpha compare to each other.
Why Wolfram Alpha Not Becoming a Google Killer Turned Out to be a Good Thing
The Guardian has a great article about Wolfram Alpha and Stephen Wolfram, the genius behind it. Turns out, his dream…
The Best Apps for People Who Need To Know Everything
Yeah, sure, you probably know a lot. But there's always that movie or star constellation or post-graduate vocabulary…
WolframAlpha Arrives on Android For a Very Reasonable $2
When WolframAlpha first showed up on the iPhone last October, it spent a good six months costing $50. That was not…
How much magnesium is in 43 cubic miles of fried chicken?
One of the most powerful computational services on the web today, Wolfram Alpha, has provided the world with the…
The $50 Wolfram Alpha iPhone App Is $2 Because Now They Want People to Actually Buy It
Wolfram Alpha has decided it'd be good if people actually use the supercalculator on their phone, so its famously $50…
Wolfram Alpha Is Tired Of People Not Paying $50 Dollars For Their iPhone App
The first problem with the Wolfram Alpha iPhone app was that it cost $50. The second problem was that the site's iPhone…
Wolfram Alpha Ends Up Where It Belongs: Inside Another Search Engine
Results from Wolfram Alpha—the mathematically-inclined search engine that everybody hyperventilated about a few months…
WolframAlpha iPhone App Is a $50 Super Calculator
Even diehard WolframAlpha fans may balk slightly at the $50 asking price. Then they, like me, might balk some more as…