Today's most fun new Glitch app is Record Player, which lets you upload a photo, then uses Google Cloud's Vision API to recognize the image and play it on...
I’m skeptical about “teach the kids to code!” as a panacea for all of society’s ills. Yet today, I’m at the White House to participate in a summit on Computer...
Much of the conversation about the shortage of technology talent in the United States focuses on how we can encourage more young people to go to college to...
For a few months, those of us who care passionately about the New York City tech community have been debating the City’s Applied Sciences NYC plan, which will...
The Donors Choose Bloggers Challenge that I wrote about a few weeks ago is almost over, and that means you only have a few days to help support the Notes for...
I’ve been a big fan of Donors Choose for some time. It’s a charity my readers may well have heard of, which helps students in public schools by letting regular...
Do you want links? Because I’ll give you some damn links, I’m not afraid of you! I’m not afraid of NOBODY! Reyhan Harmanci on the third wave of academic study...
Every four to six months, Stewart Butterfield updates his website, whether the Internet is ready or not. This time, Sylloge ruminates on John Adams’ thoughts on...
Well, technically, Zoltan Levay has the coolest job out of this world. Mr. Levay is the Imaging Resource Lead at the Space Telescope Science Institute ‘s Office...
Those who know me well know that I never really loved being in a classroom while I was in school; The whole experience, combined with my own lack of discipline...
Thanks to Matt for pointing out some wildly irresponsible journalism . I’m always amazed that editors go with these stories (and write these kinds of...