Former NBC News reporter John Hockenberry now a Distinguished Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab writes an interesting piece in the January/February Issue of Technology Review about his time at the network’s Dateline NBC. He claims that Dateline really cared about ratings and how it would mesh with the other shows on the NBC schedule. None of this is really a shock, nor is his tale of how a proposal to go......

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MTA has a $3 million subway simulator to help train subway operators. It's a replica of Lexington Avenue subway car - just in front of a movie screen. Newsday describes it as such: Operators sit in the cab and drive the subway like any other, using the same equipment on an assortment of city tracks that have been painstakingly replicated, right down to city landmarks, platform size and scowling passengers of all backgrounds. The......

What will those kids at MIT think of next? James Patten, a Ph.D. candidate in the Tangible Media Group at MIT's famed Media Lab, has created a "Corporate Fallout Detector, which "reads barcodes off of consumer products, and makes a noise similar to a gieger counter of varying intensity based on the social or environmental record of the company that produces the product. " Patten's purpose: It's difficult for consumers trace corporate actions through the......