Many Kickstarter projects are extremely impressive, but this one right here could easily claim one of the best spots considering its importance and utility in the world of smartphones and tablets. The Rhino Shield screen protector is designed to make every smartphone or tablet in the world absolutely shatter-proof. Designed by PhD candidates at Cambridge [...]
Automobile enthusiasts are perpetually on the lookout for the latest updates on electric cars, but one of these cars recently attracted the most attention when a New York Times reporter, John Broder, tested the Tesla Model S and detailed how the electric sports car under performed on the road, running out of charge and ended [...]
Shortly after the search industry received surprising news of Russia’s Yandex search engine taking over the fourth spot from Microsoft, France is now introducing their own search engine, currently available in 15 languages and in 35 countries all over the globe: Qwant.com. What makes this search engine interesting is that it pools together all search [...]
Penguins have never failed to interest humans, and in an effort to capture the daily habits, struggles, and emotions of penguins in their natural environments in three different colonies – Antarctica, Falkland Islands, and Peru’s Atacama Desert – the BBC is employing robot penguins to infiltrate each colony and record everything using a special spy [...]
In the face of all the smart watch projects on Kickstarter as well as the growing popularity of wearable devices, Apple appears set to join the bandwagon very soon. According to the WSJ, Apple is currently working on a design for a future smart watch, or a watch created to carry out smartphone functionalities. A [...]
Google+ has finally realized that, in the world of social networking, people love the familiar. So, yesterday an announcement was made by Google+’s Sean Purcell that the “Circles” icon will be replaced with the “Find People” tab. However, “Circles” is not really going away for good. Although this has been renamed to “Your circles”, it [...]
It’s a pretty common occurrence for people to leave Facebook for a time, but one father succeeded in convincing his teen daughter to quit the social network for a cash reward of $200. The father, Paul Baier who, according to his blog is VP Sustainability Consulting and Research at Groom Energy Solutions in Boston, published [...]
It was more than 10 years ago when the Roomba, iRobot’s independent robotic vacuum cleaner, revolutionized floor cleaning in a huge way. Now, the concept of autonomous vacuum cleaning is no longer limited to floors and other flat surfaces. Meet the AutoMee S robot from Takara Tomy, which is a scaled-down version of the Roomba, [...]
Something unexpected has happened in the battle for supremacy among search engines: Microsoft’s Bing no longer holds the top 4 four spot for the largest search engine worldwide, as Russia’s Yandex has surprisingly hit past Bing to claim the spot next to Yahoo, Baidu, and the number one search giant, Google. These global-wide reports came [...]
After LinkedIn surprised everyone – WallStreet especially – with their fourth-quarter figures that included $303.6 million in revenue and $11.5 million in net income, CEO Jeff Weiner has revealed to investors that LinkedIn’s core plans for 2013 will be on content marketing. In a news and analysis report published over at Cnet.com, LinkedIn made significant [...]
Yahoo and Google have always been considered as the fiercest rivals for search, but where ads are concerned an agreement has already been worked out, as revealed in a recent blog post update by Yahoo. News on a possible Yahoo-Google ad alliance first cropped up in a report by AllThingsD, through unnamed sources. According to [...]
Just a few months after Bing released its ‘Scroogled’ campaign against Google Shopping, Microsoft has released a new Scroogled campaign against Gmail this time, reports MarketingLand. According to Microsoft, Gmail is an e-mail service that invades user privacy by scanning through email messages and content for the purpose of displaying more targeted ads on the [...]
Not all robots have the ability to be smart and sneaky at the same time, but a team of researchers have been able to devise a robot endowed with the ability to move and sneak intuitively, using background noises as a cover-up. The CSIRO Autonomous Systems Laboratory, based in Brisbane, Australia, has yet to name [...]
Dell has already many announcements, on February 5, regarding its decision to go private, through a merger agreement that will make partners out of Dell’s chairman, CEO, and founder, Michael Dell and Silver Lake, a global technology investment company. In a press release published at the company’s website, Mr. Dell first spoke with the Board [...]
The number of users that access Facebook through their mobile devices clearly shows no signs of slowing down; and so the social network is purportedly at work on a mobile location tracking application set for a mid-March release date. This piece of news comes from two individuals who have close association with the plans, according [...]
After buying out TweetDeck in May 2011 for roughly $40 million, Twitter has now acquired Bluefin Labs, a social TV analytics service provider, for an undisclosed price. According to BusinessInsider.com sources, this recent acquisition is the most expensive made by Twitter to date. Acquisition price assumptions are anywhere between $50 million and $100 million considering [...]
There is a material so thin yet so strong that it beats the strength of steel by as much as 300 times. This is graphene, dubbed to be a ‘super material’ that can be used for different applications across various industries. However, the innovative uses of graphene have remained limited as no extensive studies have [...]
For the longest time, the crop circles phenomena in southern England have been considered to be no more than a prank, instigated by David Chorley and Doug Bower who confessed to have perpetrated the hoax as early as 1978. However, Tasmanian historian Greg Jeffreys is convinced on the supernatural veracity of the crop circles and [...]
There is a less-studied reason why everything just feels so hot on a concrete pavement on any given summer’s day. More than just rising temperatures, dark-colored pavements actually contribute to burning temperatures, given that dark surfaces tend to absorb almost all of the sun’s rays. This is why researchers associated with the Heat Island Group [...]
Not content with just posting an ordinary-looking resume online, and perhaps to lure in the attention of prospective clients, Philippe Dubost decided to venture out of the box in publishing his credentials online. This web product manager managed to put together a very interesting Amazon.com-themed resume that displayed all of his competencies in full detail, [...]