Kecia Lynn
Kecia Lynn has worked as a technical writer, editor, software developer, arts administrator, summer camp director, and television host. A graduate of Case Western Reserve University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she is currently living in Iowa City and working on her first novel.
The Bay Area town of Piedmont is considering installing automatic license plate readers that will capture data on every car and transmit it to an intelligence database.
This according to a Carnegie Mellon University study, which is one of the first to document the evolution of information sharing over an extended time period.
A map compiled by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance shows about 340 communities with publicly-owned Internet service networks. Interestingly, the largest of those is Chattanooga, TN.
Those who use smartphones and tablets are still expected to pay the tax — which is mandatory for all TV owners — if they’re accessing content normally found on TV.
It was only a matter of time, really: Security specialists say criminals are getting closer to large-scale distribution of viruses and other bad code onto mobile devices.
Santiago’s Espacio Siestario is the first business of its kind in a country where the traditional afternoon nap has gone the way of the rotary telephone.
Since 2010, when a local man became his country’s first competitive Olympic skier, more young people in the snowy Naltar Valley are taking advantage of training provided by the military.
The country’s electoral commission distributed over 9 million copies of a popular comic book containing pledge forms for parents to sign.
In the past 18 months, the country has added an extra tax to certain packaged foods in an attempt to curb what some see as a public health crisis.
In addition to limiting how much executives and directors can make, the new referendum includes prison time and fines for “golden parachutes” and similar bonuses.
In yet another nod to its country’s aging population, Japan’s Fujitsu presented at this week’s Mobile World Congress conference a prototype of a cane containing 21st-century technology.
Software company Opower teams with utilities to provide customers with reports showing how well they’re doing compared to their neighbors. These and other small nudges have worked to reduce costs as well as environmental impacts.
The second-largest desert city also has exceptionally high levels of humidity, which the billboard converts into water that citizens can access via a simple spigot.
The project is designed to make recycling as simple as possible by taking the sorting process out of the hands of residents and putting it into those of various companies.
Peter Gabriel and Vint Cerf are two of the people behind the proposed Interspecies Internet, a platform that is exactly what it sounds like.
The camera inside the BallCam compensates for the speed at which the ball rotates to provide a clear, wide-angle, “ball’s-eye” view.
Available for sale later this year, the Myo interprets muscle movements in the forearm and transmits them wirelessly to software-enabled devices that can understand them as commands.
MIT scientists have created a way to amplify ordinary video to reveal normally imperceptible movements, such as the pulse of blood underneath the skin. Applications range from patient monitoring to equipment surveillance to lie detection.
A team of researchers has developed a prototype battery that can stretch up to three times its size and can be recharged wirelessly.
This goes way beyond sell-by dates: Scientists have developed a plastic converter that could pave the way towards the creation of food packaging with monitoring sensors.
A new paper suggests that it’s much easier to detect oxygen in the atmospheres of planets orbiting white dwarf stars, which are dimmer than the Sun.
By 2017, over half of the almost-1,200 islands comprising the country of Maldives will come under guidelines set by two United Nations programs for preserving natural resources.
One reason, says the founder of the Inspiration Mars Foundation, is that participants are “going to need someone [they] can hug” given the length of the mission.
At a conference titled “The Present-Day Habitability of Mars” scientists discussed the possible seasonal existence of liquid water as well as the survival tactics of Antarctic microbes, among other topics.
Even low levels of certain drugs found in waterways affect fish behavior. A team of Swedish researchers have created a wastewater treatment that reduces drug residue.
This week, PatientsLikeMe announced the building of an open science platform to allow its users to measure their diseases’ progress and share it with medical researchers.
A survey by office furniture company Steelcase reveals that the influx of smartphones and tablets is changing how workers sit and how designers think about seating options.
Information firm NPD’s annual study on online music use credits the drop with the popularity of free streaming services and successful industry litigation, among other reasons.
Predictably, the suggestion of a state-imposed “porn shield” has alarmed free-speech activists, who say the move undermines the country’s liberal Scandinavian image.
Several sites report increases in the number of requests for people who can perform a wide range of personal and professional tasks remotely.