Features By Will Oremus
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'If I Had Glass'...I'd throw it at your face
What would you do if you had Google Glass? The public weighs in and the joke is on Google.
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Better, stronger, faster: How close are we to becoming cyborgs?
Science fiction loves the merger of the human body and machine. In mid-March 2013, what's the status of the merger? Will Oremus, a writer for Slate who has been working on a series about using tech to build better people, joins Marketplace Tech host David Brancaccio to explain how far we've come and where we are headed.
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Twitter and public opinion: Can't see the forest for the tweets
According to new research from the Pew Research Center, Twitter is a bad way to predict public opinion.
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Telepathic rats communicate via computer
A lab at Duke University has taken us one step closer to mind-melding, using rats.
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Mobile phone monogamy: Should unlocking your cellphone be illegal?
Should it be illegal to cut the tie between your cellphone and your phone company? An online petition says cellphone unlocking should get a second look.
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Why the Tesla-New York Times dispute doesn't matter for electric cars
The battle between Elon Musk of Tesla and the New York Times in the wake of a bad review for a test drive of the company’s car continues. But what is the real takeaway from the flap?
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Twitter buys Bluefin, gets into ad tracking
Twitter's purchase of the research company Bluefin is about gathering the sort of social media info that can be used to extract more money from advertisers.
