I was studying the effectiveness of a head-mounted device to stop motion sickness in driverless cars when something unexpected happened. One of the participants in my experiment reported that her tinnitus had dramatically improved, she scored 100% for motion…

A long time ago— like 15 years ago— I worked at Sun Microsystems. The company was nearly dead at the time (it died a couple years later) because they didn't make anything that anyone wanted to buy anymore. So they had a lot of strange ideas about how they'd…

How to Have Sex in the 600s: A very NSFW #MedievalTwitter Thread. Archbishop Theodore gave many judgments on what sexual acts were appropriate (and not) in the late 600s in England. So...how *was* it appropriate to have sex? (Lyon, BM, MS 5128, f. 100r)

TikTok is posing a growing threat to Facebook and Instagram, which have both tried to clone its success.

The ultimate list of (almost) everything we used to create our premium Steam hit game Curious Expedition.

Language is always changing. How has technology forced it to evolve?

Goodness me, Valve actually are making a new Half-Life game. Following the weekend’s leaky rumours of Half-Life: Alyx, Valve have confirmed yup, it actually is real. They actually are making a new Half-Life, and it actually is for VR. They call Half-Life:…

One of the greatest comic book writers says it's embarrassing for adults to like superheroes.

A YouTuber who used a royalty-free track supplied by YouTube itself has had all of his videos copyright claimed by companies including SonyATV and Warner Chappell. According to the music outfits, Matt Lownes' use the use of the track 'Dreams' by Joakim Karud…

Oversaid emails you what Tech executives are saying, cutting through the BS with irreverent commentary and in-depth analysis.

Jimmy Wales says his new social network, WT:Social, now has more than 160,000 members.

Today you toil. Who knows what tomorrow brings?

After millions of games, machine learning algorithms found creative solutions and unexpected new strategies that could transfer to the real world.

President Donald Trump said patients have "been getting ripped off for years" and HHS Secretary Alex Azar said the requirements are a "revolutionary" change for the industry.

Seclusion rooms are supposed to be a last resort, but students across the state are routinely put in them for infractions as minor as spilling milk.

In this interview, Thomas Guenoux, the founder of CommitStrip, explains the creation process behind the strip and what makes developers laugh.

Last Monday a group of millionaires and billionaires took a trip to an industrial site in Lancaster, Calif. to witness the achievement of what could represent a giant leap forward in the effort to decarbonize some of the world’s most carbon intensive industries.…

Prosecutor says country will not proceed with investigation into WikiLeaks founder

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Georgetown address about free speech last month drew skeptical commentary from many quarters. But for one group of Facebook workers—its community of Chinese employees—his comments touched a particularly sensitive nerve. Zuckerberg’s…