The recession figures to tone down the flashiness of this week's International Consumer Electronics Show, but the lineup of innovative products likely will measure up to those of past years. ...more

January 6, 2009

Twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year, scientists at the National Weather Service in Ruskin keep their eyes on the skies above a 15-county stretch in West Central and Southwest Florida. And every three seconds, Dan Noah's home computer uploads to the Internet real-time atmospheric conditions as they occur in his backyard in Bloomingdale. ...more

November 21, 2007

'Super Crunchers,' by Ian Ayres (Bantam, $25) This book makes a strong argument that super crunching, the use of huge amounts of statistical data to predict an outcome, is challenging the ages-old dependence on human experience and expertise. ...more

October 7, 2007