Some (Re)Assembly Required

From mapping to extrapolating, recontextualizing the data we've been given

"...But the same doesn't go for information in our data-choked age, right?..."

March 4, 2011 Screens Feature by Wells Dunbar

We Were Promised Jet Packs (and a Whole Lot More)

When will technology catch up to the movies?

"...who will narrow their focus to how the sexy data interfaces pictured in movies inspire their real-life counterparts and..."

March 6, 2009 Screens Feature by Josh Duty

Out With the Old ...

Upgrades, Updates and New Toys for Your PC

"...graphics, audio/video and drafting or spreadsheets, word processing and data bases? Do you play a lot of games on..."

Aug. 14, 1998 Screens Feature by John Avignone

How Safe Is Your E-Vote?

Proponents of electronic voting promise no repeat of Florida in 2000, but critics say it could be even worse

"...or Hart is difficult. Searches of Internet and Nexis databases turn up only minor reports of human error and..."

Feb. 20, 2004 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Connective Issue

Web 2.0, online gaming, but everything's in-between

"...out what's really good?On the future face of Web interface:..."

March 2, 2007 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

hellsite.austin.gov

Everything needs to be online now. Austin is a world-renowned tech capital. Why can’t the city get it right?

"...had crashed, or randomly kicked people out of its database, or confounded their attempts to register in the first..."

June 11, 2021 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

In Your Facebook

Do social networking sites strengthen communities or the class divide?

"...the intelligence agencies are probably crunching some of your data somewhere sometime. There's never been any real expectation of..."

Feb. 29, 2008 Screens Feature by Jon Lebkowsky

The Information Junkie

"...covers both Web-based resources and the traditional, proprietary research databanks like Dialog and the others I mentioned...."

Nov. 20, 1998 Screens Feature by Jon Lebkowsky

SXSW Panel Combines Brain and Computer Power Through Neurotech

The future is here and kinda terrifying

"...how recent breakthroughs broaden the horizons for brain computer interfaces (BCI)...."

March 11, 2024 SXSW Post by Madeline Duncan

Man or Machine? Circle Option C.

Digital pioneer Amber Case on cyborg anthropology

"...people into these realities," but text and good two-dimensional interfaces are enough to absorb us totally in virtual worlds...."

March 2, 2012 Screens Feature by Jon Lebkowsky

Don't Click Us, We'll Click You

How the Internet started searching us

"...Obviously, we can't wade through the mind-boggling amount of data at our fingertips without help. Hence the need for..."

March 2, 2012 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Will Austin's New Wildfire Code Be Enough?

"The risk is bad"

"...homes most in danger are those in the wildland-urban interface (WUI), because, as the CoreLogic research puts it, "Just..."

Oct. 18, 2019 News Feature by Lindsay Stafford Mader

Scanlines

The City of Lost Children

"...put him there, assisted by two CDs of multiple database searches, witness interviews, lab reports, and phone messages. A..."

Aug. 23, 1996 Screens Feature

NASA Wants You to Help Save the World

Space returns as the final frontier of Interactive programming

"...competitors to write algorithms to analyze Catalina Sky Survey data and identify the most near-Earth asteroids possible in that..."

Feb. 28, 2014 Screens Feature by Michael Agresta

The Post Man Always Saves Twice

"...five years, what is now an open market of data will likely shake down to only one, two, or..."

July 11, 1997 Screens Feature by Andy Langer

SXSW Interactive and Chamber of Commerce Name A-List Startups

A dozen local enterprises to keep an eye on

"...the entire workout what pedometers did for running. • Datafiniti wants to make the entire oeuvre of the Internet's..."

Nov. 8, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

All Access

Austin's B-Side Entertainment rethinks how to get a movie to the masses

"...cinema-nerd world at large with a free, easy-to-use Web-based interface for film festivals – announced that it would receive..."

Feb. 20, 2009 Screens Feature by Mike Kanin

Follow the Money (Online)

Texans may have a clearer idea of where (and to who) their tax dollars go, thanks to a bill heading to the Senate.

"...the House. The bill establishes the Searchable State Expenditure Database, an online tool that will allow people to search..."

May 1, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Your 15 Minutes Are Up, Mr. Gates

Top Nine Cyber Stories

"...a Network infrastructure that provides high-speed access to voice, data, and programming. Netscape merged with America Online, causing shudders..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Screens Feature by Jon Lebkowsky

Looks Matter

City Contractor Learns Appearance Is Everything

"...of the firm, the management review consisted of analyzing data collected by the City of Austin through questionnaires on..."

March 13, 1998 News Column by Kayte VanScoy

Election Day Live Coverage for Travis County

Tracking the local races

"...Texas, turning out today, this is not a super-encouraging data point for them. – Mike Clark-Madison..."

Nov. 3, 2020 News Post by the News Staff

The World of Wayfinding in Austin

How we get from here to there in our ever-changing city

"...to appreciate before post-9/11 security measures made the landside/airside interface at ABIA more impermeable, and thus more like other..."

Jan. 31, 2020 Features Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Rules for Dockless Scooters Remain in Limbo

Emergency guidelines remain in effect

"...(scooters) pertaining to lock-to requirements and API (application programming interface) data reporting were supposed to go into effect yesterday,..."

Aug. 3, 2018 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Reviving Austin's Cab Industry

ATX Co-op Taxi splits the difference between traditional taxis and ridesharing

"...put resources into a newer version of the standard MTData dispatch system. Yellow Cab, said Aruri, uses an older..."

April 28, 2017 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

What Is Colin McIntyre Building In That Shipping Container?

So it’s a sort of … lung? And it’s … resonant?

"...for it and implemented the electronic controls for modern interface – been working with a well-known acoustician and the..."

Feb. 28, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Robert Kennedy Jr. Keynoting SXSW Eco

Fall enviro conference announces first speakers, plus contests

"...California’s Spatial Analysis Lab director Annette Kim on using data to uncover the patterns of urban living;..."

Feb. 17, 2016 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Playing God – Literally

A smartphone's all you need to let loose your inner Zeus and control the action in Deus Ex Machina

"...software system that can collect the votes, analyze the data, display results in real time to both audience and..."

Dec. 26, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Legeland on TV

Sunday on KXAN, Monday on Fox 7

"......"

Feb. 20, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Life's Enriched Pageant

Good design, like good air, helps you breathe a little easier, and here are a few Austinites who are helping us all breathe easier through their work as graphic designers.

"...of like an annual report without all the financial data -- like a big brochure that explained the plan...."

Sept. 8, 2000 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Top Ten Technologies of the Century

"...8. Graphical user interface and the World Wide Web. The Internet was a..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Screens Feature by Jon Lebkowsky

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