Get off Facebook and learn something: Duolingo uses crowdsourcing to teach...
For all the horizons broadened by the Internet, a digital language divide still exists, and you'd be silly to think Google Translate will get you all the way across. Duolingo, a new website from Luis...
View Article'This man is an author. He writes stories.': An old-timey explanation of how...
Believe it or not, books did not always come from the mysterious ether of cyberspace to rest in our e-readers. Here’s a video from 1947 that attests to the patient and industrious workers who...
View ArticleAdding to the online bandwagon: UN declares Internet access a human right
Next time you have trouble finding a Wi-Fi signal, you can claim your rights are being violated. The United Nations Human Rights Council passed a resolution last week affirming Internet access as a...
View ArticleSessions of sweet silent swipe: Shakespeare's sonnets come to the iPad
BY ALEXANDER NAZARYAN I do not know how, or if, literature will be saved, but I have a feeling that it’s the folks like those at Touch Press who are going to do the job, if anyone will. That, at least,...
View ArticleJane Austen rises from the dead, joins Facebook – in a new online game from...
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single individual in possession of a Facebook account must be in want of social interaction: At least, that's how Jane Austen would put it if she were...
View ArticleIn My Book offers a novel way to send a greeting
Do you remember the last thing you used to mark your place in a book? Right now I’m using an expired subway ticket; before that it was probably a torn Post-It that simply read “GROCERY.” It’s a sad...
View ArticleApple now owns the page turn
Want to turn over a new leaf this winter? Well, you can forget it, — unless you own an Apple e-reading product, that is. That’s because Apple, in a patent that was granted to the California company...
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