I knew when I bought the iPad 2 a while back that it would provide a number of uses for me, but I quickly discovered it fills more important roles in my work than I believed it would. One of those, a ...

This homework writing machine project features a DIY writing machine that uses a typical pen. It can do outline writing and digital signature or even a real text. The main system uses a 2 axis stepper ...

BY John E. Branch Jr. Where writing is concerned, the best of today’s AIs can be very, very good. But when they’re bad, they’re horrid. They’re excellent mimics. A few years ago, a text generator ...

IN June 2001, a Marietta, Ga., worker was using his feet to tamp down cardboard inside a compactor when his feet became caught in the cardboard and he was pinned inside the machine. He was unable to ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew ...

Les Perelman, a former director of undergraduate writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, sits in his wife’s office and reads aloud from his latest essay. “Privateness has not been and ...