Katy Steinmetz

Katy Steinmetz is a reporter in TIME's Washington bureau. In addition to working on features for TIME and TIME.com, she contributes to TIME's Swampland, Healthland and NewsFeed blogs. She pens a weekly column on language called Wednesday Words, and acts as impresario for political columnist Joe Klein's annual road trips.

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Company Tries to Make Airport Movie Rentals Fly

Courtesy of Digiboo

Digiboo might sound like an online dating site for hip-hop enthusiasts, but it’s actually one of the latest players getting into the video market. The Santa Monica, Calif.-based company produces kiosks where people can rent or buy movies via flash drive, and the first went live at the Minneapolis airport this week.

Apple Products at the Smithsonian

The Smithsonian National Museum of American History doesn’t have a sample of every product Steve Jobs ever touched. Their concern is with the larger picture of how technology develops and what part that subplot plays in American history. Items in the science collection span from the 11th century to the 21st, and about 130 Apple-related [...]

Twitter Settles With FTC Over Privacy Complaint

The charge was serious: that Twitter on more than one occasion told consumers that the company was protecting their privacy when they, in fact, were not. Which is where the hackers come in.

Q: Which Has Shorter Shelf-Life: E-Books or Chocolate Syrup?

A. If the book in question is a library e-book from HarperCollins, you should be putting your money on Hershey’s.

Dictionary Update: Welcome to English 2.0

As our software gets updates, so does that old-fashioned gum-flappin’ language we use to describe our techy lives. To that end, Oxford Dictionaries Online has expanded their database, giving us definitions of terms from clickjacking to bloggable.

Kindle Update: Page Numbers, More Ways to (Over-)Share

Amazon is giving their Kindle a makeover with a little something old and lot of somethings new.

Community Wireless: Your Next Hot Hookup?

Municipal and community wireless gurus convened in Washington, D.C. this week — via old-fashioned chairs and, of course, Skype — to discuss the state of alternative Web networks. The events in Egypt, where citizens had their Internet snatched away in the wake of protests, gave them a good soapbox to stand on to suggest the [...]