Kickstarter is not a new phenomenon. People have been using the site to raise money for small projects for a while now, things like tiny independent films, music, an odd art project or two. It’s all been very charming and most of the projects are pretty limited in terms of what they’re setting out to raise. But that’s changed lately, and pretty dramatically — now the projects are becoming more big-ticket stuff. Also, good news for Dunder-Mifflin: Paper isn’t out of style.

Somewhere in Brooklyn, a company called Aereo has leased several rooms. In these rooms, the company intends to place tons and tons of little tiny antennas, each no bigger than a dime and each assigned to a customer. So instead of trying to grab all these signals with one giant antenna and streaming them out to tens of thousands of people, there are thousands of antennas and each one is like someone’s own personal antenna. Problem is, broadcasters are suing Aereo before it launches.

Today is the final day of the South by Southwest Interactive conference in Austin, Texas. And it’s the first day of the South by Southwest music conference. The convergence of these two festivals makes a lot of sense when you factor in the technology explosion going on in the music industry lately — the musicians who are incredibly tech-savvy have a real advantage these days. Also, another edition of According to a Recent Study.

Before there was Marc Zuckerberg, before there was Steve Jobs, before there was Bill Gates, there was Alan Turing. Turing was a British mathematician and logician, and he had some ideas about computers. “The entire digital world we live in can be traced in large part to his ideas,” says George Dyson, author of “Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe.” Also, another edition of Robot Roundup.

The Department of Justice is reportedly getting ready to sue Apple as well as five publishers over anti-competitive practices related to the cost of e-books. The situation dates way back to 2010. At the time, Amazon was the major player in the e-book market. Then Apple launched the first iPad and with it, Apple’s own electronic book store. That’s where things started to get interesting. Also, a new version of the classic arcade game Asteroids.

Apple’s much-anticipated update to the iPad was announced yesterday. It wasn’t called the iPad 3 or the iPad HD; it was just called the new iPad. Which isn’t to say that nothing’s changed, mind you. We rounded up opinion from some of our tech pundit pals on whether the iPad is a wow or a meh. Also, if you’re burned out on Facebook and not really feeling it for Google+ or Pinterest, there is another option: Juggalobook.

LulzSec, an offshoot of the group known as Anonymous, claimed responsibility for several high-level attacks on computer networks and always incorporated a mix of pranksterism with its hacks. The group has claimed credit for attacks on Sony, the U.S. Senate and CIA and PBS, among others. A series of busts that happened yesterday morning were allegedly a result of information provided by the head of LulzSec. But can a hacking group really have a leader?

You wouldn’t think it would be that hard for a cable provider to just put cable TV content online. Big companies like Netflix and Amazon and Hulu have made large scale video streaming work just fine.  And it’s true, the technology isn’t all that tricky — but what is tricky is the legal and financial wrangling. A few years ago, faced with the looming presence of Netflix and other video streamers, two cable giants, Comcast and Time Warner, hatched a plan to keep customers from cutting the cable.

Every time an election rolls around, you hear about some pitifully low percentage of people who actually bother to go to the polling place and cast a ballot. At the same time, one can’t help notice the decline in many bricks and mortar retail stores and the attendant growth of online shopping. So why not put two and two together here? Why not vote over the Internet? Skip all that hassle of looking up where you’re supposed to vote, getting there, parking, waiting in line. But there are also downsides to such a transition.