A brief history of video game piracy

For as long as there has been stuff, people have wanted that stuff for free. And they've found ways to get it. Illegal ways called theft. In gaming, we use the jolly, Pugwash-evoking phrase 'piracy', but that doesn't make things any less illegal.

Dr. NakaMats: The Man Who Claims to Have Invented Nearly Everything You Love [Inventions]

# inventions It's tough to think about inventors without remembering dear Dr. NakaMats. He claims to have invented over 3,000 items—frequently while almost drowning himself—and basically thinks Thomas Edison's an uneducated wimp who quit at 1,093 inventions. More »

The End of Moore’s Law: A Love Story

Bing Gordon is a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers , where he led the firm's investments in Zynga (where he serves as Operating Director), Lockerz, and ngmoco. I worked at Intel in the late 70’s, and saw the Moore’s Law business strategy firsthand. Intel’s business depended on launching ever more powerful microprocessors, and charging high profit margins at the beginning of each ...

Collapsing Marsh Dwarfs BP Oil Blowout as Disaster

Dredging for navigation, oil drilling, and pipeline construction has ripped apart the Mississippi River delta’s fragile system of fresh and saltwater marshes

Collapsing Marsh Dwarfs BP Oil Blowout as Ecological Disaster

Claude Luke throttles down his 21- foot aluminum work boat. Off to the left, the snout of an alligator disappears near the mouth of a watery gash in the Louisiana marshland.