News 16 Heatmaps That Reveal Exactly Where People Look
05-24-2012
Gus Lubin, Kim Bhasin and Shlomo Sprung
16 Heatmaps That Reveal Exactly Where People Look
News This App Will Change Everything About Healthcare
05-24-2012
http://www.businessinsider.com, Dylan Love
HealthTap is an app available on iOS, Android, and the web that lets people ask medical questions of real doctors and get quick answers in return.
News Ex-Apple Insider: 'People Are Embarrassed By Siri'
05-24-2012
www.businessinsider.com
What are the problems with Siri? This former employee didn't say, but it probably has to do with the fact that Siri is still in beta, and has had problems like downtime, and it takes a long time to get answers.
News Sidecar App Re-Imagines Mobile Phone Calls With a Flurry of Clever Features
05-22-2012
http://www.wired.com, By Steven Levy
What do you do when your startup gets off to an OK start but not a great one? Hunker down and figure out ways to lure users? Or sweep all the junk off the desktop and start over?
News 12 Things You Never Knew You Could Do With Your iPad
05-21-2012
http://www.businessinsider.com, Dylan Love
The iPad is a more capable device than a lot of people may realize.
News Equipped With a Hot Glue Gun, New Robot Builds Its Own Custom Tools
05-21-2012
http://www.popsci.com, By Rebecca Boyle
Hot Glue Gun Bot The Hot Melt Adhesive robot can do more than climb walls, as seen here it can fashion its own tools, too.
News Nexus Smartphones: Who Wins, Who Loses if Google Launches Android 5.0 in Multiple Handsets?
05-21-2012
http://www.wired.com, By Nathan Olivarez-Giles
This fall, with the expected release of Android 5.0, Google might completely reinvent its Nexus smartphone program
News How Apple and Microsoft Armed 4,000 Patent Warheads
05-21-2012
http://www.wired.com, By Robert McMillan
In many ways, Scott Widdowson is your typical electrical engineer. Most days, when the weathers good, he bikes the 15 miles along the Ottawa River to his companys offices in the west end of the Canadian capital. Once there, he settles in for a day
News IBM Faces the Perils of "Bring Your Own Device"
05-21-2012
technologyreview.com, By Brian Bergstein
After letting its employees use their own phones and tablets for work, the company confronted a flood of insecure apps from the open Web.
News European Physicists Smash Chinese Teleportation Record
05-21-2012
http://www.technologyreview.com, kfc
The battle over distance records sets up a fascinating race to be the first to teleport to an orbiting satellite
News Unplugging These 6 Gadgets Will Cut Your Electricity Bill
05-21-2012
http://www.motherjones.com, By Kiera Butler
We all know we're supposed to unplug our technological gadgets when we're not using them, and back in the days when we only had a few home electronicsa TV here, a stereo therethat wasn't so hard to do.
News Amazon Pitching Kindle Fire Welcome-Screen Ads for $600K
05-19-2012
http://www.wired.com, By Roberto Baldwin
Whether we like it or not, advertising pays for a bunch of stuff we enjoy. Network TV, magazines and web sites that dont have multi-billion-dollar IPOs all depend on advertising dollars to make their profit margins or even survive.
News Kickstarter of the Week: A Portable Scanner for Smartphones
05-19-2012
http://www.wired.com, By Nathan Hurst
Using your smartphone to take a photo of a document is one of those things that seems like it should be easy, but just isnt. First you have to futz with the angle and the distance. Then theres the flash: on, its too bright and washed out; off, it
News Motorola Mobility smartphones face US import ban
05-19-2012
http://phys.org, AFP
A US commission sided with Microsoft by moving to ban the import of Android-powered Motorola smartphones based on patent infringement complaints by the software colossus.
News Wrinkle-traveling Clothbot makes its IEEE debut
05-19-2012
http://phys.org, by Nancy Owano
As any gathering of scientists working with robots will suggest, attempts toward perfecting techniques and outcomes of grasping and maneuvering are key issues for researchers working on climbing robots.
News What's the Next Instagram?
05-19-2012
http://www.technologyreview.com, By Rachel Metz
Ever since Facebook announced its $1 billion acquisition of the company behind the popular photo-sharing app Instagram last month, the question on every nerd's lips has been: What will be the next big thing in mobile apps?
News MK802 Android 4.0 Mini PC: At Just $74, Itty-Bitty Computer Undercuts Its Pint-Sized Rivals
05-19-2012
http://www.huffingtonpost.com, By Sara Gates
In the tech world, smaller is better.
News Night Rider
05-18-2012
http://www.wired.com, by Nathan Hurst
This thing has stealth in spades. Its matte black paint job is dressed with black decals, and there are just enough red highlights to make it mysterious. But the real stealth feature is the silent Gates carbon belt drive that replaces the typical cha
News Is Mobile Computing Good For Productivity?
05-18-2012
http://www.technologyreview.com, By Jessica Leber
Yes, of course, but things got out of hand. A quarter of executives admit to having slept with a smart phone.
News Science Fiction Barely Ahead of Space Exploration Reality
05-18-2012
http://www.space.com, by Clara Moskowitz
Science and space exploration have caught up to science fiction in many ways, producing marvels beyond the imaginings of the visionary writers of the past.
News New silicon memory chip developed
05-18-2012
http://phys.org, byUniversity College London
The first purely silicon oxide-based 'Resistive RAM' memory chip that can operate in ambient conditions opening up the possibility of new super-fast memory - has been developed by researchers at UCL.
News What Do You Make When You're Tired Of Working On The iPhone? This.
05-17-2012
http://www.businessinsider.com, Steve Kovach
Hugo Fiennes, the hardware boss behind the first four iPhones, has a brilliant new startup called Electric Imp.
News Apple Has Been Sitting On Kinect-Like Motion Control Technology For Years...
05-17-2012
http://www.businessinsider.com, Matt Lynley
Apple has actually had motion-sensing camera technology similar to the Xbox Kinect motion controller since 2005, a source familiar with the software tells us.
News Virtual World Takes on Childhood Obesity
05-16-2012
http://www.technologyreview.com, By Mya Frazier
A startup blends activity tracking with online incentives in hopes of getting kids into shape.
News Humanoid Robot Swarm Synchronised Using Quorum Sensing
05-16-2012
http://www.technologyreview.com
Proof-of-principle experiment shows how humanoid robots can co-operate on a large scale by copying the behaviour of social insects and bacterial colonies
News Verizon Is Going To Kill Your Unlimited Data Plan When You Get A 4G Phone
05-16-2012
http://www.businessinsider.com, Steve Kovach
Verizon's CFO Fran Shammo said today that the carrier will eliminate unlimited data plans when customers make the switch to a 4G phone.
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