In the movies, governments and secret agencies have spent years viewing far corners of the Earth on giant interactive displays. Truth is about to emulate fiction, as a collaboration between Google and a French government bureau is bringing Google Earth to a giant 48 screen display. The aim of the project is to give you [...]
It’s bulky, has a 480 hour battery life, and looks to be essential for playing a number of games as they were intended by the developers. We’re talking about the 3DS second thumbstick peripheral, which now has an official name, U.S. release date, and price. The 3DS Circle Pad Pro as it shall now be [...]
Update 2: Look like this is actually real. While the privacy policy and contact page may be a joke, the data is real. Update: As has been pointed out in the comments, this whole site seems to have been setup as a joke. A small link in the bottom left corner brings up a pop [...]
Were you thinking that all the hoopla about Carrier IQ was just overblown paranoia? Think again. A Freedom of Information Act request to the FBI led to the FBI inadvertantly admitting that it has, in some way, accessed the keylogging spyware. The request was (cleverly) worded in a way that even a denial of documents [...]
Ever since YouTube started getting really popular, consumers have been enjoying streaming video, and network providers have been complaining about how much bandwidth such services use. Some have even gone so far as to demand any company offering streaming media pay for use of a network. So far such demands have fallen on deaf ears, [...]
If you’re a police force, and segments of the population are so unhappy about something that they’re rioting, what do you do? Why, you invent more guns to shoot them with, of course. That’s what British police are considering, with the testing of a new laser gun that temporary blinds the eyes of anyone caught [...]
In the early days of broadcast television, it was very expensive to record everything that was broadcasted. Nowadays most studios record everything in triplicate, one on site and two backups, but in the early days tapes were wiped and recorded over and over to save money. As a result, a lot of programming from the [...]
This is great news as the previous flagship phone from Google, the Nexus S, was only available from Vodafone, whereas people who want this phone now have a choice of where to get it from.
On November 29 an Air Canada flight traveling from Toronto to Beijing had to divert to Vancouver. The reason was not a malfunction on the plane, it was two RIM executives — George Campbell and Paul Alexander — who were so drunk they never should have been on the flight in the first place. At [...]
Computer-using men everywhere be afraid. Find His Porn has launched and it threatens to expose your dirty habits to a significant other. Just launch your web browser, head over to the website, pay the $20 fee, and Find His Porn begins scouring the computer for a lascivious web history, images, and videos. Its creators claim [...]
For several weeks, all has been quiet on the iOS 5 front. Apple released iOS 5, people had battery problems, Apple released iOS 5.0.1, some people still had battery problems, then nothing. Today though Apple gave developers a second beta of iOS 5.1. The biggest change is the new ability to delete pictures from Photostream. [...]
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Wikipedia could have a total “blackout” – by blanking out every single page in the online encyclopedia, even the 1 million pages in the English version – as a protest to the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act, which is heading to the US Senate.
For those of you do-it-yourself types, this could be an interesting project for you to look into. Called MB Led, it’s a game and animation platform using blocks of LEDs that can interact with each other. Inspired by the GLiP project (Great LED Interactive Puzzle), it was developed by students at Telecom ParisTech as a [...]
The Galaxy Nexus is coming to all carriers with Optus confirming that they will also stock the phone. The carrier is the last of the major three carriers to announce that they will sell the phone – with Vodafone and Telstra already confirming they will also carry it.
