If the Internet were to come out with it's own version of 'Monopoly,' it would be one of two things: A highlight of some of the web's greatest successes, or this...

Researchers at China's Southeast University of Nanjing have moved closer to cloaking technology by being able to alter an object's appearance on radar scopes.

What do you do when you have entirely too much time on your hands? You grab a hammer, a few nails and some wood and build a working model of M.C. Escher's "Waterfall."

Google goes for quiet comprehensiveness; Apple chooses charisma. Which strategy ensures success?

Adam Rothstein ponders hardware betas, connections between the world and the cloud, and products that aren't products, in the second post reviewing Google's Cr-48 Chrome Notebook.

Harnessing the piezoelectric effect, researchers at Cornell propose a wind-power generator that has more in common with rustling leaves than airplane rotors. Videos after the jump.

In an age of ever-more fantastic gadgets, it's becoming received wisdom that we're all cyborgs now. But as implant hacker Lepht Anonym reminds us, the original vision of the term was dangerous and feral. Videos after the jump.

Slavoj �i�ek says that Wikileaks is hated not because of the secrets it has revealed, but because it exposed the cynicism of a system that has long stopped believing in the values it imagines itself to uphold. It's a problem not only for diplomacy and governance, but for the eroding distinction between public and private life.

GOOD's Nicola Twilley wonders how the industrial analysis of qualities like texture, consistency, and juiciness will transform age-old culinary cultures, in the second in a joint series exploring the science and technology of food.

Reviewing Reality is Broken, Jane McGonigal's manifesto of gaming for a better world, Ian Bogost realizes that he likes the messy, repellent, stunning reality we've got.