Though Android phone users have had the luxury of a Google+ app for weeks now, Apple just approved the iPhone version today. We can’t call it an iOS app just yet, as the app is not yet iPad-ready. And though Google+ is still in “field testing” mode and Google is continually making changes, it already [...]
Eastern Sierra video captures beautiful shots of the Milky Way
July 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
After watching photographer Jeff Chen’s amazing Eastern Sierra Time Lapse 2 video back in June, we couldn’t wait to see what he had in store for his next video. Just over a month has gone by and Chen has already graced us with his latest masterpiece: his third installment of his Eastern Sierra Time Lapse [...]
HTC infringes 2 Apple patents, could see all Android devices banned
July 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
A U.S. Trade Commission judge has dealt a potentially fatal blow to HTC and the wider Android community by ruling that the company infringes two Apple patents with its Android devices. Specifically, the judge found that HTC infringes patents 5,946,647 and 6,343,263. The first relates to receiving information that can then be used by a [...]
Google News now offers Badges to its devout readers
July 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Besides announcing its $ 9 billion quarter, Google also announced a new feature to its popular news service. For those who read a lot on Google News, there is now a sharable news badge for each topic. Starting today, in the US, you can earn Google News badges for reading what you care most about. Google is [...]
Computer masters Civilization after reading the instructions
July 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Ahh, Watson. Your performance on Jeopardy let the world know that computers were about more than just storing and processing data the way computers always have. Watson showed us all that computers were capable of thinking in very human ways, which is both an extremely exciting and mildly frightening prospect. A research group at MIT has [...]
Photovine: Google’s new photo-sharing app gets official video, rolling out this month
July 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment
On Tuesday, Google secretly launched a website for its new, “uber public” photo-sharing service, Photovine. When we looked at the webpage two days ago, there wasn’t much to see besides what looks to be an iPhone wrapped in vines. There wasn’t any more information than the general description shown above. Today, however, we were surprised to [...]
Windows Phone 7 resume draws attention, job offers
July 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Sahas Katta is an undergrad student at UC Davis studying Computer Engineering. He’s also the CEO of his own startup. This information is available thanks to his Windows Phone 7-styled resume available on his website. The WP7 look-alike resume is so attractive and well designed, it’s earned Katta a number of job offers and tons [...]
Latest PS3 model wont output HD over a component cable
July 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Whenever Sony announces a new games console hardware model it means the company has found a way to manufacture the machine for less, usually by combining or removing components. Sometimes, that also means a few features disappear like the removal of backwards compatibility with PS2 games when the 80GB console and then PS3 Slim arrived [...]
Google not rolling Orkut into Google+
July 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Remember Orkut? Well, Google certainly does, and it looks like the social blast from the internet’s past is here to stay for the time being. According to a faceless Google rep, the company has no plans at the moment to either retire Orkut or to roll its functionality into Google+ (despite the immediate success of [...]
Bungie releases classic Marathon for free on the App Store
July 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Bungie, best known for the Halo series, has released an iPad port of its old cult-classic Mac shooter Marathon on the App Store. Better yet, it’s free. The project was started by a single fan coder, Daniel Blezek. The game has been open source for some time, so it was up to him to adapt controls to [...]
