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| Jul 20, 2011 | San Francisco Passes Law Requiring Radiation Warnings For Cell Phones | “Cell phones cause cancer.” “No they don’t!” “Yes they do.” “No they don’t!”
Back and forth it goes, like the world’s slowest game of tennis. One study spends 6 months proving that cell phones turn you into a giant walking tumor, and anothe... |
| Jun 29, 2011 | AT&T’s hideous Facebook phone to be dubbed the Status | The idea of a “Facebook phone” isn’t a new one — it started circling around as half-joke, half-rumor over a year ago. Then it actually showed up in real life, as a button added to an otherwise normal HTC Sense phone called the Salsa, which ... |
| Jun 27, 2011 | Twitter strengthens media ties with Twitter for Newsrooms | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Twitter has always had an awkward relationship wi... |
| Apr 8, 2011 | Upper Deck Evolution Trading Cards Trade-In Cardboard For An LCD Screen | In what is either an desperate attempt to stay relevant or, well, yeah, that’s about it, Upper Deck is set to release the Evolution trading card series next week. The description trading cards is used loosely because the so-called cards are... |
| Mar 30, 2011 | Why Kleiner’s hiring of Meg Whitman is a very shrewd move | The move by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of Silicon Valley’s leading venture capital firms, to hire former eBay CEO Meg Whitman as an advisor is not an “odd” move, as VentureBeat’s Anthony Ha characterized it. It’s astute and c... |
| Mar 29, 2011 | Meg Whitman rumored to join Kleiner Perkins. Wait, what? | Updated with confirmation
Meg Whitman, the former eBay chief executive who lost her bid to become governor of California last fall, will be joining top-tier venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as a part-time adviser, according... |
| Mar 6, 2011 | In Search Of The Internet Kill Switch | The complete Internet shutdown this week in Libya involved a new way to turn off web access for an entire country. Earlier this year, the total Internet blockade in Egypt backfired and emboldened the protesters. China is well known for bloc... |
| Dec 19, 2010 | Dear Facebook, Please Return Our Social Networking Space | The following is a guest post by David Dalka. Dalka is a digital business strategist and keynote speaker who was a member of BlackRock (BLK) during its hyper-growth phase of 80 to 800 people. He is a top ten contributor to CrunchBase, strat... |
| Dec 13, 2010 | Video: EyeWriter 2.0 Eye-Tracking Hardware | You might remember a post last year about a graffiti artist, sadly paralyzed by a neural disorder, who got a second chance at creating art by using a home-brewed eye-tracking rig made by some friends and colleagues. The EyeWriter, as it was... |
| Nov 22, 2010 | WITN: Do American Investors Care about Chinese Human Rights? And Should They? | A slight format change for Why Is This News? this week: no guest, just the two of us discussing this week’s big technology stories from outside the valley.
Much to Sarah’s delight, China has been making news again – for good and ill. On the... |
| Nov 19, 2010 | Facebook Debt Collection Case Is Definitely A First | Getting tagged in a drunken photo is no longer the most embarrassing thing that can happen to you on Facebook. Earlier this year St. Petersberg resident Melanie Beacham fell $362 behind on her car payments. Her debt collection agency MarkOn... |
| Nov 4, 2010 | Dish Network Claims Hulu Will Destroy The TV Industry. So What? | Batten down the hatches, netizens! At a streaming media conference yesterday, Dish Network Vice-President of Online Content Development and Strategy, Bruce Eisen, said that sites like Hulu, which allow Internet users to watch certain televi... |
| Nov 4, 2010 | IMDb Goes Global With New iPad and iPhone Apps | Amazon-owned IMDb released a nifty iPad App earlier this year which allowed customers to access more than 1.5 million movie and TV titles with information on millions celebrities, actors, actresses, directors and crew members. The Movies an... |
| Jul 20, 2010 | Leggy disk drive stands up to avoid spills | This is pretty cute, and may even be practical. The Floppy Legs drive is a design project by Chambers Judd with little legs that detect moisture and immediately stand the drive up — instead of voiding your warranty, like normal moisture det... |
| May 5, 2010 | DIY: Wooden DSLR shoulder mount | http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=11435910&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1
DIY DSLR Wooden Shoulder Rig from Jonathan Clifford Bergqvist on Vimeo.
Most shoulder mo... |
| Apr 20, 2010 | Nielsen: Facebook ads effective for fans | Latest Nielsen report reveals ads on Facebook prove more valuable when targeting fans of a brand
Facebook users are much more likely to engage with advertising content on the social networking site if they are fans of the brand doing the ad... |
| Oct 15, 2009 | Smart Use Of Facebook By College Helps Students | Earlier this year, a study claiming that students who used Facebook had lower grades got a lot of attention, with the typical fear mongering and moral panics coming out of the woodwork. But, of course, correlation does not mean causation, a... |
| Aug 24, 2009 | Swiss privacy commissioner says “nein” to Google Street View | reader comments 59 with 35 posters participating
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| Jul 11, 2009 | OSes gone and very forgotten | In honor of Chrome OS, here BusinessInsider has collected a nice selection of obscure old operating systems that basically died on the vine.
Take BeOS, for example. Be was one of the most amazing OSes I’d ever seen, especially in about 1995... |
| Jun 20, 2009 | AOL's PoliticsDaily Quickly Surpasses Rival Politico, MediaGlow Sites Continue To Grow | AOL’s new political news and blog site, PoliticsDaily.com has surpassed rival Politico.com in unique visits in May, after being launched only a month and a half ago. According to May’s comScore results, PoliticsDaily.com received 2.4 millio... |
| Jun 17, 2009 | Samsung ships new Video Walls | Today, Samsung announced it has begun shipping its UT series of seamlessly stitchable 46" LCD monitors, the company's building blocks for JumboTron-scale displays.
Home theater enthusiasts are frequently presented with 150" and up... |
| May 26, 2009 | Twitter Jumps The Shark | Now this one really caught me off guard: Twitter is going Hollywood.
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone confirmed multiple media reports (probably re-Tweeted thousands of times) that, "Twitter plans to launch an unscripted show that will put... |
| Feb 2, 2009 | Windows 7 restricted at Georgetown University | It looks like the IT department at Georgetown isn’t too keen on Windows 7 being installed on campus computers. They claim that, “installing any beta version of software is extremely risky,” and that beta software can disable antivirus softw... |
| Jan 26, 2009 | Simpsons switching to high definition for season 20 premiere | The Simpsons has been a staple in many homes for nearly 20 years and finally, finally, the show will be broadcast in glorious high definition. Season 20 debuts on February 15 which is when the switch will be flipped and we’ll see Homer and ... |
| Jan 15, 2009 | Is breathalyzer source code fair game? | Kentucky-based CMI has come under fire on more than one occasion for not turning over the source code used in the breathalyzers that it sells to various law enforcement agencies, citing trade secrets as the reason for keeping the code under... |
| Dec 22, 2008 | Facebook Chief Privacy Officer Chris Kelly To Run For California Attorney General | Facebook Chief Privacy Officer Chris Kelly will be announcing his candidacy for the office of Attorney General of California, we’ve heard from multiple sources. He’ll be running in the 2010 election as a Democrat, and will be leaving Facebo... |
| Sep 22, 2008 | Music On microSD: I Can't Believe The Labels Fell For This | Forget buying an album on a USB stick, SanDisk just convinced the big labels to release (DRM free, thankfully) music on a 1 GB 15mm x 11mm x 1mm microSD card. And then they convinced Best Buy and Walmart to sell these things. Check out slot... |
| Aug 21, 2008 | Swany ‘g.cell’ Bluetooth-enabled snowboard gloves | Holy crap, these gloves are $500. In their defense, though, they’re the FUTURE! Made by Swany, the “g.cell” gloves have a “fully integrated Bluetooth adaptable cell phone in a totally functional ski and winter sports glove.” That almost sou... |
| Aug 4, 2008 | Foxconn Building 800,000 iPhones A Week | Foxconn, the Taiwanese electronics giant that produces the iPhone 3G for Apple, has ramped up production to 800,000 units per week, says a source close to Apple with direct knowledge of the numbers. This is “above current full capacity” and... |
| Jul 14, 2008 | Socket Sense, where have you been all my life? | Socket Sense is a power strip with plugs set at 45-degree angles. Each one expands or contracts based on the size of the thing you need to plug in. Brilliant. My current surge protector makes me sad now.
It’s $30, available here, and is goo... |
| May 28, 2008 | Toilet aboard International Space Station is broken | Whuh oh. Seems the only toilet on the ISS is busted and they can’t get a plumber out there until next week. Astronauts aboard the space station have been able to impose upon the nearby Russian Soyuz spacecraft, using its limited-capacity to... |
| Apr 24, 2008 | Hilarity: Google StreetView of kid falling off his bike | This is definitely one of the funnier things I’ve seen on the entire internet. Hop on over to Google Maps and enjoy a shot-by-shot account of a kid falling off of his bike. It almost seems like the StreetView car scared the hell out of him ... |
| Apr 9, 2008 | AOL Regroups Blogs, Launches AOL Tech Network | AOL launched what they’re calling the AOL Tech Network this evening. It’s a grouping of existing blogs – the Engadget sites, Switched, TUAW and Download Squad, under a new tech content group.
Unike AOL Games, AOL Entertainment and other sub... |
| Apr 5, 2008 | Man dies trying to extract gold from his PC | Gold digger
Credit crunch got you down? Looking for gold in all the wrong places, like, say, the innards of your computer? Don’t! Unless you want to die!
A Tulsa man died last week (news travels fast…) as a result of mercury poisoning. He w... |
| Mar 15, 2008 | System alerts you when the milk has gone bad | [photopress:badmilk.jpg,full,right]
Scientists have developed a system that detects whether or not milk has gone sour. The system’s made up of two parts, a small metal ribbon that’s placed inside milk containers and an in-store detector. Th... |
| Feb 8, 2008 | Apple is down, certainly not out with the iPhone SDK coming shortly | Those watching the tech industry have likely noticed that 2008 hasn’t been a very kind year thus far to 2007’s darling Apple. That said, with rumors swirling of an event taking place at the end of February – likely to launch the iPhone soft... |