Can playing Dots on your iPhone make you smarter?
Not quite, but new research reveals that the game and others like it can sharpen a few specific cognitive skills
Saturday, May 18, 2013 4:00 PM UTCPacific Standard, games
Pacific Standard, games
Not quite, but new research reveals that the game and others like it can sharpen a few specific cognitive skills
Saturday, May 18, 2013 4:00 PM UTCSeven must-have farm and garden devices you can build with your own 3D printer
Saturday, May 18, 2013 3:00 PM UTCUrban roof gardens should cut energy usage and reduce rainwater runoff. So far, the results have been unimpressive
Saturday, May 18, 2013 3:00 PM UTC 21Strongbox, co-created by the persecuted late technologist, is an open-source drop box for leaked documents
Saturday, May 18, 2013 1:00 PM UTCFrom the House Judiciary Committee hearings to #umbrellagate, a look at the week's most enduring images SLIDE SHOW
Saturday, May 18, 2013 1:00 PM UTCThe Assad-aligned hackers hit the publication with a spearphishing attack
Friday, May 17, 2013 7:55 PM UTCThe unmasking of a writer who took extraordinary advantage of online anonymity to pursue old vendettas
Friday, May 17, 2013 6:05 PM UTC 142A new report suggests that drilling for natural gas doesn't have to be an environmental disaster
Friday, May 17, 2013 4:38 PM UTCThe product director fails to allay privacy concerns with his comments about the computer headsets
Friday, May 17, 2013 1:05 PM UTCThe Taiwan-based electronics manufacturer wants to develop its own brand by introducing a line of LCD TVs VIDEO
Thursday, May 16, 2013 9:17 PM UTC 10LulzSec members in Britain receive maximum of 15 months, while hacktivist Jeremy Hammond faces life in prison here
Thursday, May 16, 2013 8:11 PM UTC 22French officials are considering a new levy on internet-connected devices to help fund cultural initiatives
Thursday, May 16, 2013 7:00 PM UTCDHS is developing a system to use classified information gleaned on vulnerabilites to protect businesses
Thursday, May 16, 2013 5:29 PM UTCA new wave of products and services will test how much we want computers to dictate our day-to-day existence
Thursday, May 16, 2013 3:40 PM UTCLargest private sector law enforcement database in the world will hold "billions" of records
Thursday, May 16, 2013 2:21 PM UTCScientists consider the development a medical breakthrough, but religious groups are considerably less enthusiastic
Thursday, May 16, 2013 12:36 PM UTCThe documents include 100 pages of emails and notes detailing the administration's response to the attack
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 9:47 PM UTCOnline games, maps and a music-streaming service are among its latest offerings
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 9:42 PM UTCScientists have discovered that they're not only shaped by surrounding moons but the planet itself
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 8:22 PM UTCAdministrators appear to have targeted one of the site's most controversial subgroups
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 5:35 PM UTC 38The Justice Department's abuse of AP phone records puts the media and truth-tellers on notice: We see everything
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 12:00 AM UTC 36The low-cost Q5 is the company's third smartphone to run the new BlackBerry 10 system
Tuesday, May 14, 2013 9:32 PM UTCMyriad Genetics has cracked the code -- and it's turning breast cancer testing into big business
Tuesday, May 14, 2013 8:52 PM UTCEXCLUSIVE: A security researcher pulls back the curtain on hacker-industrial complex
Tuesday, May 14, 2013 8:41 PM UTCPhotographer denies image analyst's claims that he edited the contrast in tragic Gaza photograph
Tuesday, May 14, 2013 5:11 PM UTC 22It's not just his fundraiser for Christie. The causes the Facebook CEO is backing suggest he's taken a right turn
Tuesday, May 14, 2013 3:33 PM UTCThe professional networking company has nearly quadrupled in value over the last two years
Monday, May 13, 2013 10:00 PM UTCJournalists react to some of their own being the object of government surveillance
Monday, May 13, 2013 9:43 PM UTC 27Officials would not say why they sought lists of incoming and outgoing phone calls
Monday, May 13, 2013 8:37 PM UTCWho needs OKCupid when YouTube can teach you how to land a date, courtesy of a 1949 instructional film VIDEO
Monday, May 13, 2013 6:11 PM UTCAllowing the sports network to buy its way free of data caps on your mobile device is a very bad idea
Monday, May 13, 2013 5:56 PM UTC 32Efforts to reduce the risk of foodborne illness are having unforeseen effects on California's biodiversity
Monday, May 13, 2013 5:45 PM UTC 12A David Bowie cover from space isn't the commander of the International Space Station's first YouTube splash VIDEO
Monday, May 13, 2013 4:00 PM UTCThe Court rejected an Indiana farmer's claim that his crops were not covered by the biotech company's patents
Monday, May 13, 2013 3:53 PM UTC 42Outbreaks of valley fever have been attributed in part to climbing temperatures in California and Arizona
Monday, May 13, 2013 3:37 PM UTCFeds refuse to confirm whether they cracked bomb plot with warrantless eavesdropping
Monday, May 13, 2013 2:06 PM UTCThe billionaire tells "60 Minutes" that he will spend most of his future working to eradicate human diseases VIDEO
Monday, May 13, 2013 1:06 PM UTCThe Treasury and the Fed are investigating claims reporters used terminals to track staff
Monday, May 13, 2013 12:30 PM UTCChris Hadfield made his own music video of "Space Oddity" from the International Space Station
Monday, May 13, 2013 11:51 AM UTCPure genius: A cure for bathroom embarrassment that conserves vital natural resources
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