Technology
Pass On Passwords
There is no magic bullet that will secure the internet in one step, but the current password framework is broken
Brawl for Bragging Rights
It's not every day that a Harvard student gets into a brawl. However, the Harvard College Interactive Media Group wants to change that for a day. On April 24, they are holding a Super Smash Bros. Brawl tournament from 4 p.m. till 7 p.m. in the small dining room in Mather.
Nuclear Power's Dirty Legacy
Even if the government finds a big pit where we can chuck all of the nation's waste, the danger doesn't go away on any human timescale. While some radioactive substances, such as those used in medical imaging, break down in a matter of hours, the spent fuel rods from nuclear reactors will still be dangerous thousands upon thousands of years from now.
City Council Examines Website, IT
The Cambridge City Council held an informal roundtable last night to discuss improvements and modifications to the City’s website.
Project Helping Patients in India Find Care Advances in Competition
Two Harvard students who have developed a technology that connects Indian health care providers and patients via a text message ...
Startup Aims to Digitize Records
Inflection—a technology startup that owns and operates two websites that enable users to find information about other people—is headquartered in Silicon Valley, with its co-founder, Brian Monahan, still playing a leadership role as chief strategy officer.
Death of Auto-Tune
On the surface, Auto-Tune sounds like trickery, and it is to some extent. But while attempts to stop the use of technology have failed in the past, the industry’s obsession with Auto-Tune will eventually fade, and there are signs that that day is nearly here.
MIT Psychology Professor Talks About New Book
At a gathering at the Barker Center yesterday, MIT Psychology Professor Sherry Turkle—whose work has focused on the psychological impact of technology—said that despite technology’s potential to bring society together, its users often feel isolated.
Order Food Seamlessly, with the Click of a Mouse
You're in your dorm room late at night, and you're starving. You're sick of food from the Kong and Noch's, and although there are hundreds of restaurants within walking distance, the weather outside is frigid. Enter SeamlessWeb, an online service that facilitates delivery and take-out orders from nearby restaurants.
Bibliographies in a Snap
Need help with that annotated bibliography for Expos? There's an app for that.
iPads at Au Bon Pain
To help speed up the ordering process during the lunchtime rush at Au Bon Pain in Harvard Square, servers take customers' sandwich orders using iPads.
Let’s Fuel the Fire of Innovation
However great the bottom-up enthusiasm for innovation, there is a need for top-down support: greater resources, more mentorship, and most importantly, a Harvard hub.
The New Age of Dining Out
In a world of smartphones, iPads, and other quickly advancing mobile technologies, many restaurants in Harvard Square have devised innovative ways to keep up.
Facebook at Center of Egypt Protests
The co-director of Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center has called upon Facebook and Twitter to abide by a code of conduct that prioritizes user rights.
Protect Your Facebook Account
Is your Facebook profile under persistent siege? Have you spent hours erasing traces of status updates and wall posts that you definitely didn't post? Then you, like many other Harvard students, have probably had your account hacked using the popular Firesheep tool. This week Facebook began rolling out a new security setting, which, if activated, can protect your account from this type of attack. As this security setting will be released over several weeks, you may be unable to change it now. Check your "Account Security" page intermittently to see if Facebook has made this security setting available to you.
HBS Professor Slams Google’s Methods
Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Benjamin G. Edelman ’02, who this month published a study accusing Google of bias, says that the company is attempting to discredit him for his work.
Four Technologies That Sound Really Dumb In Allusions In Fiction
There are a lot of impoverished writers out there with an axe to grind against the big bad Internets.
FAS IT Warns Against Newest Mac Download
FAS IT sent out an email and text message early Thursday morning warning Mac users not to download the Mac OS X 15.6.5 update, which was released Wednesday. The new software update may face compatibility issues that may prevent Mac from re
Firesheep Exposes Web Security Concerns
Firesheep, a free plugin whose name is reminiscent of its host application Firefox, has generated considerable debate since its release on Oct. 24, potentially posing a privacy threat to Harvard’s users of social websites.
Website Asks Americans To Love Taxes
While many political pundits continue to emphasize the public’s frustration with taxation, Vanessa S. Williamson—a graduate student in government and social policy—started a website last August to take the conversation in a new direction.
Books and Bytes
Scholars at Harvard and beyond investigate how writers and readers are adapting to the digital age.