You made it! Forget TGIF, TGIW. While you’re packing up and preparing to hit the road, or getting ready for a houseful of visitors, here’s what’s happening this morning in tech…
U.S. regulators are playing a game of chess with AT&T as the wireless network looks to close its $39 billion T-Mobile deal. The problem is that not everyone seems to be keen on the idea—including the FCC.
All the research in the world can’t beat millions of years of evolution. Today’s roboticists are increasingly looking to nature for inspiration, creating robots that move and behave with uncanny similarity to living animals. We’ve pulled together 10 of the most fascinating.
For one day, tablets with unique features and capabilities can be had for cheap. Here are some of the most noteworthy Black Friday tablet deals of 2011, and whether they’re worth braving the crowds and the lines.
The Boxee Box will now be able to play live TV, thanks to an app that integrates with the SlingBox, the venerable box which hooks up to your cable-TV connection and reroutes the video feed across the Internet.
Government officials looking into recent activity from LulzSec and Anonymous, be very afraid—the latter hacktivist group has posted the personal address and phone number of a U.S. Department of Justice investigator online along with 38,000 emails from his Gmail account, in retaliation for government investigations into their activities as well as the government’s response to the Occupy Wall Street movement.
You might be sick of seeing Jimmy Wales’ face by now, especially because the alignment of the image on the page can lead to some unfortunate misunderstandings. Fortunately, Taylor Buley has developed a simple way to hide Wales’ mug forever, in three easy steps.
And the crazy rollercoaster ride that is Netflix’s fortunes continues: The company announced yesterday that it has agreed to sell around $200 million in shares plus an additional $200 million in convertible bonds via private placement in an attempt to raise cash, while simultaneously revealing that it expects to spend the entirety of the next year in the red.
Wikipedia has found a welcome benefactor for its annual fundraising effort, with the foundation created by Google co-founder Sergey Brin and his wife Anne Wojcicki donating $500,000 towards its $28.3 million budget goal.
–Research firm Canalys, which today announced it’s expecting Apple to overtake HP and become the leading global PC vendor before the second half of 2012 (PCs meaning “personal computers” and thus including tablets). Also: Canalys says it expects 2011 global PC shipments (again, counting tablets) to reach 415 million, a 15% increase it attributes to a [...]
What happens to streaming music services when they have no music left to stream? That seemingly zen question may be answered if more record labels follow the lead of the more than 200 labels that have withdrawn their catalogs from services like Spotify, Napster and Rdio following the release of a study that suggests streaming music hurts music sales.
