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Jane Pratt, founding editor of Sassy, was social media before social media existed. Today she’s launching xoJane.com , her answer to Sassy for a constantly connected generation. Sassy, the cool girl’s anti-glossy--whose winking, edgy-for-a-teen-mag coverlines (Long-Distance Romance: Sucky Or Not?; Do You Need Armpit Hair To Be a Feminist?) could easily be Twitterbait 20 years later--created the voice that informed a thousand snark-filled blogs

A breakthrough in foldable OLED screen tech means a display can be folded in half like a sheet of paper without creasing. It's no exaggeration to say this could change every mobile device's design. Foldable computer displays have been the stuff of sci-fi legend for ages, and numerous device prototypes have been designed and tested...but almost none have made the journey into a real product.

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stronger than steel or titanium -- and just as tough -- metallic glass is an ideal material for everything from cell-phone cases to aircraft parts. Now, researchers at the California Institute of Technology have developed a new technique that allows them to make metallic-glass parts utilizing the same inexpensive processes used to produce plastic parts. With this new method, they can heat a piece of metallic glass at a rate of a million degrees per second and then mold it into any shape in just a few milliseconds.

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the most difficult problems for designing mobile devices is finding a way to minimize the size of the device while simultaneously maximizing the size of the display. To get the best of both worlds, researchers from the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology in South Korea have designed and built a prototype of a seamless foldable display that folds in half without a visible crease in the middle.

We've heard a lot about the notion of a digital wallet, but the tech itself seems slow to arrive. Now one credit giant is changing all that. We've heard a lot about the notion of a digital wallet , but the tech itself seems slow to arrive apart from one or two regional experiments, and the promise of more exciting tech in the future

New phone and tablet tech means you'll never have to get up from your couch again. (And you'll save energy in other ways, too.) Google has already made its intentions to dive bomb into the energy space clear , but so far, it has left out how this relates to its Android phones

Trace gas detection, the ability to detect a scant quantity of a particular molecule -- a whiff of formaldehyde or a hint of acetone -- in a vast sea of others, underlies many important applications, from medical tests to air pollution detectors to bomb sniffers. Now, a sensor recently developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology that is hundreds of times faster and more sensitive than other similar technologies may make such detectors portable, economical and fast enough to be used everywhere.

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a step toward taking the most advanced atomic clocks on the road, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have designed and demonstrated a super-stable laser operating in a cramped, vibrating location—a minivan.

Who needs trees when you have a building that eats smog? Struggling to breathe because of the layer of smog hovering in the atmosphere above you? Alcoa has come up with a potential solution for that most unpleasant of man-made environmental issues: the smog-eating building

So much for trade secrets.

The likely Republican candidates might not be saying much about their candidacies just yet. But, as the saying goes, the medium is the message

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in the Materials Science and Technology division of the Naval Research Laboratory have recently demonstrated electrical injection, detection and precession of spin accumulation in silicon, the cornerstone material of modern device technology, at temperatures up to 225 degrees Celsius.

An Israeli firm has unveiled a tiny medical camera that is less than a millimeter wide. More importantly, the camera is disposable--which could help lower the cost of surgeries and diagnostic procedures.

No. But Chinese scientists think new nanotech filters could do a better job at blocking out badness. Conventional cigarette filters are made of cellulose--low-tech, old, but effective.

Photograph by Douglas Sonders Alec Ross Senior Adviser for Innovation, Office of the Secretary of State Washington, D.C. Ross, 39, heads the State Department’s initiative to work with technologists in the private sector. "WE HAVE TO LEVERAGE technology in service of our diplomatic and development goals.