Technology

Jojola would wince whenever he checked the platform.

Fifty years after it opened, Cinderella City is becoming a video game.

Such a vote wouldn’t actually create a municipal broadband component, but would give Denver the chance to pursue one.

The student-turned-reporter wants an apology.

CDOT is launching a project that will allow roads and vehicles to communicate with each other at the speed of light.

The 9News forecaster used high-level math to counter an online hater.

Eight Denver law enforcers have been investigated for misuse of social media during recent years.

A magnetic-levitation test track to be built near the nexus of I-25 and C-470 won’t be happening, despite big promises.

9News morning anchor Gary Shapiro is shutting down most of his Twitter account because it’s been taken over by trolls.

A new class action lawsuit against Facebook over a security breach last month has major Colorado connections.

This fall, it will host the country’s first grad program in space resources.

A new iPhone app allows cyclists to report objects blocking Denver’s bicycle lanes

For the last two months, the FCC has been attacking pirate radio stations in this state.

Just as Amazon compiles data about consumers’ searches and web activities to push product recommendations, the company is obtaining a shocking amount of economic, demographic and infrastructure data from the cities bidding for HQ2.

Kyle Clark, host of the 9News’ weeknightly program Next With Kyle Clark, is Denver TV’s current king of social media, as well as our pick for best local media figure to follow on Twitter in the 2017 Best of Denver issue. And our pick was more than justified by Clark tweets over the course of the year. Take a look at our ten favorites below.

We recently shared the most asked Google search questions about not just ten but twenty of Colorado’s biggest celebrities. Of course, plenty of stars from our fair state share information about themselves without being asked, by way of their Twitter accounts, including Von Miller, Ryan Tedder, Lindsey Vonn, The Lumineers and more. With 2017 winding down, we dug into their pages to find their most memorable tweets from the past twelve months. Here are our top ten picks. Count them down below.

It’s a question that most parents ponder at some point: What will your children look like? Will they be athletic, lactose intolerant? Denver-based HumanCode may hold the answers. Its BABYglimpse is a new app parents can use to determine basic traits like the color of a baby’s skin, eyes and hair, and even more complex behavioral traits — like whether a kid will be prone to problem-solving or act more confrontational.

As demonstrated by a racially charged protest gone fatally wrong in Charlottesville, Virginia, last month, white supremacists have no shame. But if they did, they’d probably be humiliated by even the slightest association with Colorado’s own Joshua Witt, who claimed to have been stabbed because of his resemblance to a neo-Nazi, only to later admit that the wound was self-inflicted.

Brian Crecente, who recently took over as editorial director for Glixel, the ambitious video-game website of Rolling Stone magazine, following impressive runs at gaming-centric Kotaku and Polygon, is easily among the most accomplished alumni of the Rocky Mountain News, which cratered in February 2009 just prior to its 150th anniversary. Even though he left the Rocky a decade ago, when editors wanted to move him from the gaming beat into a more traditional role amid widespread staff departures, he gives the paper credit for being ahead of its time when it comes to covering his favorite subject. But today, he doesn’t see many dailies giving anything other than short shrift to video games in general, despite the industry racking up an estimated $91 billion worldwide in 2016.

Westword.com is on a scroll, with an articles page redesign that introduces several innovations, including uninterrupted scrolling.

Jury selection for the Taylor Swift-DJ David Mueller trial is continuing in Denver at this writing, with national and international media operations closely monitoring developments in a story that involves dueling accounts about alleged bottom-touching prior to a June 2013 Pepsi Center concert. But this activity seems positively sluggish in comparison to the explosion of activity on Twitter, where Swift supporters are rallying under the hashtag #StayStrongTaylor.

According to a new survey conducted by Junior Achievement USA (JA), a large gap still exists between the number of boys and girls interested in pursuing STEM-related careers.