In a wordy article, the normally to-the-point Economist burns up 2388 words in the course of which they extrapolate on the future of the cell phone. Basically they say that phones of the future will be similar to, but much better than, the phones of today, unless of course they’re totally different in an unexpected way. See [...]

The Financial Times reports that Ken Kutaragi, Sony’s brains behind the PlayStation series of game consoles, has been kicked upstairs and that Sony Computer Entertainment is undergoing a management shuffle. In corporate-speak, the changes are described as strengthening SCE’s position on a go-forward basis, restructuring internal lines of communication in a proactive manner, as well [...]

Clockmakers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a more accurate atomic clock, one based on strontium, that ticks 430 trillion times per second. This new clock is 40000 times more accurate than the current-gen cesium clocks which lose a totally unacceptable 1 second in 20 million years.
Good work - but [...]

The Return to Abalakin by Alexander Preuss is a nice piece of computer graphics depicting life aboard a future giant torus circling the earth. Nicely done, but a bit too back-to-the-womb. Shame if one of those depicted struts ever were to fail.
Whew…thank goodness that the design was completed in time to provide a way to [...]