Everyone who owns a smartphone is well aware that the one true kryptonite of their devices is the way that it mercilessly chews through fully-charged batteries. While battery technology has come a lo...
Here’s a story for all of you out there that had parents that told you that playing video games would never make you any money. Charles Guan, a MIT grad student, successfully created a working ...
Every geek has memories of something that got them started down the path to making science and technology part of their passion. For some, it was old films like the one Ray Essen recently discovered ...
Some people read about some awesome but imaginary thing and leave it at that. Others want to make it a reality. Anyone that has ever fantasized about a working lightsaber can relate to one young man’...
Yesterday was a big day for luxury camera manufacturer Leica. The company announced some new gear and a few tweaks to their existing lineup. As far as the new cameras go, there was the X2, a follow-u...
As they always do, Microsoft will be offering customers free (or discounted) upgrades to Windows 8 in the run-up to its retail launch later this year. Those upgrades, of course, will be offered up to...
You’re probably aware that the odds are against you in a casino. Otherwise it wouldn’t be a viable business, would it? Few games of chance swing more in the house’s favor than roulette. Many lo...
In-flight WiFi is nothing new to most people, but you might not have used it on an international flight before. Trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific flights don’t have access to land-based radio to...
With all the Samsung phone announcements this week, you’d think they didn’t just have a launch event in London. But in addition to the Galaxy S3, they’ve also taken the wraps off th...
Smartphones are entirely impractical on a construction site. After all, what hope does your smartphone on a job site when it can barely survive day-to-day life without a case? For those of us who wan...
It’s said that there’s no such thing as bad press. People by nature are curious, especially when it’s something that we deem shocking; you’ve seen how quickly traffic slows at...
Another LG smartphone has popped up on the web, and surprise, surprise… it’s another rectangular black slab. This time, however, the hardware hiding inside the rather unassuming chassis o...
When the other carriers started to make a serious push to roll out LTE, it became clear that Sprint’s WiMax deployment was not the 4G people were looking for. Lets face it — Sprint is lik...
In Apple’s recent release of iPhoto for iOS the company took a major step forward in what seems to be a long time goal: they replaced Google Maps. In iPhoto, Cupertino chose to go with Open Str...
Mozilla has big plans for the Firefox interface, and they’re beginning to come together in the Nightly builds of Firefox 15. No, it’s not the massive theme overhaul you’ve seen prev...
The Instagram app is many ways a mobile imitation of old-school Polaroid instant cameras (you know, the ones that took real photos). The Instagram Socialmatic Camera brings these two worlds into an i...
Microsoft’s Bing search engine has been playing a clear second fiddle to Google since it launched in 2009. Over the last few years, Bing has been trying to emphasize its social integration as ...
The HP Direct online store is no stranger to deals. Like Dell’s SOHO and Consumer stores, there’s are always excellent sales on HP PCs, and you can find them and buy them, so long as you know where t...
OLED displays have been on most geeks’ wishlists for years. They have been right around the corner for about a decade now, and for the past year or two they have been stuck on our MP3 players, ...
Two students from Cornell University decided that they wanted to see if they could create a device that could actually measure the perception of time, rather than time itself. Inspired by the cliche ...
Microsoft is often painted as behind the times in the technology business, but on at least one count they are at the head of the pack. Microsoft has announced that beginning July 1, the entire compan...
How do you make your smartphones stand out in 2012? Well, you could try constantly cramming the latest hardware into your handsets, but everyone else is doing that, too. You can’t rely on the o...
There’s been plenty of debate over the years as to what constitutes wrongdoing when it comes to your web browser. Are files that wind up on your hard drive evidence enough, if they’re lim...
Imagine, if you would, a mobile environment in which you had complete control over how every little thing you see looks and acts. Mozilla’s Boot to Gecko (B2G) project is a mobile operating sys...
Mozilla has the web ablaze with talk about Windows RT, and not in a good way. They’ve decided it’s time to call Microsoft out for unfair treatment of third-party web browsers, and Google&...
After a devastating tsunami and earthquake shook Japan, many survivors were unable to communicate with their loved ones. Cell phone towers and cables had been destroyed, effectively cutting off acces...
Verizon has been incredibly successful with their Droid brand of Android phones. Verizon might carry many Android devices, but the Droid-branded ones receive the full force of Big Red’s marketi...
Google’s social network, the oft maligned Google+, is coming up on its one-year anniversary in just a few weeks and Mountain View is looking to give its mobile apps a fresh coat of paint in celebrati...
You might not know exactly who Richard Feynman is, but he’s probably affected your life. Feynman was a fabulously famous (in certain circles) theoretical physicist in the mid-late 20th century. He wo...
Forget that My Little Pony cake that you showed off during your last birthday bash. We’ve officially found the most epic birthday cake known to mankind in the form of Alduin the World Eater fro...
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