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.
Using data from a variety of sources, writer Andrew Leonard points out the growing dominance of mobile computing, calling it “2012’s biggest technological transformation.”
Writer Jesse Meixsell offers reasons why, in terms of difficulty level, today’s gamers may have it a lot better than their late-20th-century predecessors.
Last summer, a bookstore in northeast London was the beneficiary of Britain’s first-ever cash mob. Begun in the US, and patterned after flash mobs, it is a growing movement designed to bring people together to support local businesses.
Writer Brian Profitt discusses what the country’s recent law requiring real names for Internet use could mean from a political and a marketing perspective.
Realizing that constant connectivity isn’t always healthy, some business have begun implementing policies designed to manage employees’ online time.
Using technology, pirates are literally cloning buildings made by famous Western architects, and have even succeeded in replicating an entire Austrian town. Reactions range from outrage to curiosity about future creative mutations.
As in the US, rural overpopulation is affecting farms and gardens all over, but implementing familiar remedies has proven to be a challenge.
Patriarch Kirill also advised clergy to choose cars that are “more modest” than the expensive ones they’re used to.
By selling rechargeable lanterns to people living in areas with little or no access to electricity, San Francisco-based d.light represents increased investor attention to “the junction between development work, renewable energy and profit-driven business.”
It’s not just for recreation: People working long hours in dreary conditions are able to keep going by using the drug. Unlike poppy and coca fields, meth labs aren’t easily spotted by satellite technology.
Stanford University researchers have succeeded in making an ultra-flexible solar cell that can be peeled off a backing and applied to any surface.
By 2015, Hyundai hopes to have its Connectivity Concept to a point where drivers can not only open their cars, but have their personal user content automatically loaded.
The US Army is requesting proposals for development of coatings and other substances that will absorb 99 percent of all light.
Gracenote, the company best known for cataloguing music data, is about to roll out a service that will enable displaying of commercials based on the viewer’s age, gender, income, and other publicly available information.
Flutter now offers its gesture-recognition technology through a Google Chrome extension that works on media sites like Netflix and Pandora.
Planetary Resources isn’t the first company formed around the mission of extracting valuable metals from the asteroid belt, but it may be the first one with some real investor belief and funding behind it.
Comet ISON was first spotted well beyond Jupiter’s orbit, which makes it fairly large. If it makes it past the sun it could light up the night sky by this time next year.
More should be done towards creating a resource file to help medical professionals evaluate whether the average person can handle space travel, say the authors of a new paper.
A newly published paper reveals that the rate at which temperatures are rising was greatly underestimated, and the results parallel those recently found in Greenland and other northern polar regions.
Launched last week, the game, called Clouds, is the newest addition to the Milky Way Project and to Zooniverse, which is home to some of the largest online citizen science endeavors.
The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 will include rules for how apps and social networks gather and use personal data from young users.
The company is testing a feature that will allow individuals can send messages to members outside of their friends network for a dollar per message.
Despite studies discrediting links between video games and gun violence, both industries have quietly benefited from product placement.
Kathmandu, the country’s capital, suffers from high levels of dust pollution. The army chief, a devoted cyclist, says the move will also encourage a healthier way of living.
As in other majority non-Christian countries such as Japan, it’s largely seen as a secular holiday. Focus is placed largely on children, with Santa Claus making the rounds as well.
In response to a growing number of visitors along with recent city ordinances restricting or eliminating on-street parking, some parking garage owners are turning to smartphone technology.
Mercadillos, or “little markets,” are stepping into the gap created between larger retailers who can’t release their stock and struggling customers looking for bargains.
Largely out of nostalgia and increased health consciousness, executives are returning to bikes as a means of transport. The ones they’re buying reflect their new status.
The site has recently purged thousands without explanation, creating controversy over what constitutes a valid review.
In the country with the highest murder rate in Europe, a movement that barely existed a year ago makes its case for liberalizing gun laws.