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Kecia Lynn
Kecia Lynn has worked as a technical writer, editor, software developer, arts administrator, summer camp director, and television host. A graduate of Case Western Reserve University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she is currently living in Iowa City and working on her first novel.
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A small village in Spain reports that incidences of uncollected dog waste have dropped by 70 percent ever since offenders began receiving deliveries of their dogs' leftovers.
Verizon says it doesn't want to replace copper-wire lines damaged during last year's Superstorm Sandy, and AT&T hopes to turn off its entire landline network by 2020.
The Russian intelligence service has put in an order for typewriters and ribbons in hopes of avoiding Edward Snowden-type digital leaks. Writer Marc Herman notes that for the rest of us, this approach won't make much difference.
It's not just for the disabled: Recent design school graduate Gabriele Meldaikyte spent a year studying situations in which able-bodied people may find themselves with only one hand to spare.
Guess what else is as unique as your fingerprint and can be scanned using a special infrared camera? Scientists in India have created an algorithm that can analyze such scans to over 97 percent accuracy.
Scientists say their new storage method -- which consists of encoding data on self-assembled nanostructures in fused quartz using a very fast laser -- could preserve immense amounts of data long after human civilization has ended.
TouchKeys is a sensor-based system that enables a pianist to slide and wiggle their fingers just like a guitarist to produce the same types of sound effects. Unlike other systems, this one preserves the original keyboard design.