Technology News
Facebook launching project to make Internet more affordable
Reuters - 21 Aug 2013 06:40
(Reuters) - Facebook Inc's Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg has enlisted Samsung Electronics Co Ltd , Qualcomm Inc and four other companies for a project aimed at bringing Internet access to people around the world who ca...
Mark Zuckerberg wants to bring the entire world online with Internet.org
The Verge - 21 Aug 2013 05:03
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has just announced that formation of Internet.org, a group with the specific goal of helping make the internet available to the entire world. It's a partnership with a number of prominent tec...
Report: The NSA can access 75 percent of all U.S. internet traffic
GigaOM - 21 Aug 2013 05:55
According to the Wall Street Journal, the NSA's surveillance program allows it to tap into more data than it has previously admitted -- up to 75 percent of all internet traffic in the U.S., the newspaper says.
A Soft Squishy Lamp You Can Cram Anywhere (Even Under Your Head)
Gizmodo - 21 Aug 2013 21:20
No one wants to be told what they can and cannot do in their home, even when it comes to lamps. So someone has finally found a way to stick it to 'big lighting' with a lamp that you can install almost anywhere. Our deliv...
Huffington Post to end anonymous comments
GigaOM - 21 Aug 2013 16:55
Arianna Huffington said the time has come to put names to commenters -- at least on the Huffington Post.
LG Develops World's First Quad HD AH-IPS LCD Panel For Smartphones
Ubergizmo - 21 Aug 2013 06:29
LG Display is no stranger when it comes to display technologies, and they have successfully scored another world's first today with the announcement of their success in developing what they deem to be the "world's first ...
Facebook Rolls Out Embedded Posts to All Users
Mashable - 21 Aug 2013 22:48
Facebook embedded posts are now available for everyone, not just launch partners who had access to the feature when it was first announced in July Anyone using a third party website, including users who post to personal ...
Newfound Planet Has Ridiculously Short 'Year'
The Huffington Post - 21 Aug 2013 21:52I'm Hoa V. Dinh, and This Is the Story Behind Sparrow
Life Hacker - 21 Aug 2013 21:00
We love Sparrow. With its clean interface and seamless integration with Gmail, it's our favorite email client for both Mac and iPhone . The Sparrow team (who was recently acquired by Google ) managed to build something t...
Gut feelings: the future of psychiatry may be inside your stomach
The Verge - 21 Aug 2013 18:00
Her parents were running out of hope. Their teenage daughter, Mary, had been diagnosed with a severe case of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), as well as ADHD. They had dragged her to clinics around the country in an ...
LG V500 Receives FCC Approval
Ubergizmo - 21 Aug 2013 17:42
It was not too long ago when a couple of new and upcoming LG tablets were on the receiving end of Bluetooth certification, and they are the LG V500 and LG V507L. Well, at long last, has the LG V500 decided to make a pit ...
Twitter: No accounts breached in OAuth token 'hack'
CNET - 21 Aug 2013 17:31
The microblogging site says no accounts have been compromised after a hacker claims to have acquired user details by allegedly breaking into its databases.
Time to turn cause and effect on their heads
New Scientist - 21 Aug 2013 17:00
The reductionist ideas about causality that pervade science misrepresent the way things happen in the real world, argues physicist George Ellis (full text available to subscribers)
7 Hot Social Media Marketing Positions
Mashable - 21 Aug 2013 16:00
Whether you're unemployed, underemployed or looking for something more challenging, the Mashable Job Board is full of listings that will help take your career to the next level. Since 2005, Mashable has been committed to...
Microsoft offers ad-free Bing for the classroom to battle Google
Reuters - 21 Aug 2013 13:03
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Review: Logitech Harmony Hub brings universal remote control to the future
PC World - 21 Aug 2013 12:00
If you're looking to control your home entertainment system with your smartphone, you could do a lot worse than the Harmony Hub line.
Facebook bug hunter paid $10K by community, not company
ZDNet - 21 Aug 2013 09:56
With Facebook deciding not to reward a young bug hunter, others in the information security community have decided to provide him with a reward out of their own pockets.
Twitter's new Vine video service hits 40M users since January
PC World - 21 Aug 2013 09:25
Vine, the video service introduced by Twitter in January, now has 40 million registered users, it said Tuesday. The mobile service, which lets users capture and share looping videos, had over 13 million users in June. Th...
Get better photos from your smartphone | Reviewed.com
USA Today - 21 Aug 2013 07:09
A few simple steps can help you take better photos with your smartphone's camera.
Archifon Interactive Installation Uses Laser Beams To 'Play' Music
Ubergizmo - 21 Aug 2013 06:48
Don't you love it when technology starts to merge and overlap the different areas of life, be it in fashion or the arts? For those of you who happen to have a musical inclination, then you might want to check out the Arc...
Dental scanner allows researcher to sink his teeth into entrepreneurship
MIT - 21 Aug 2013 06:00
Traditionally, dentists have made dental impressions by having patients bite down on a moldable silicone material. Such impressions, however, can be messy and uncomfortable, and sometimes inaccurate. In the early 2000s, ...
UK officials justify Guardian airport detention, destruction of disk drives
The Verge - 21 Aug 2013 05:31
Following the UK government's decision to detain Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald's partner at Heathrow Airport under the auspices of a counterterrorism law, the country's Home Office is ramping up the rhetoric, sayin...