It’s Thanksgiving-week Monday, which means just three days until we’re out of here! Here’s what’s going on in tech this morning…
While Congress mulls an Internet blacklist, there are efforts underway to reengineer parts of the Net to make communications more decentralized and censorship-proof.
Exclusive: Futurist and singularity expert Ray Kurzweil will join best-selling author and TIME senior writer Lev Grossman for a special keynote conversation to be held at this spring’s South By Southwest Interactive Festival.
Is there hope for breakthroughs in battery technology, or are we doomed to need to recharge all our gadgets on a daily basis? There are several things happening that I want to highlight, along with emphasizing that more still needs to be done.
The 7-inch tablet market just got a whole lot more interesting, with the newly-released $199 Kindle Fire and the $249 Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet. So which one is best?
In the movie version of Steve Jobs’ life, the role of Apple’s late CEO and co-founder may go to George Clooney. Or Noah Wyle. Or neither, because frankly this rumor seems a bit fishy.
Scared Mario Kart 7 for the Nintendo 3DS just won’t be 3D enough? Worry not, because Nintendo recently teamed up with West Coast Customs to create the most real-life Mario Kart experience ever—they actually built physical karts from the game for the 2011 LA Auto Show.
For everyone who feels as if there are times when Congress doesn’t seem to collectively know how to do their jobs, take some comfort in the fact that this week saw the announcement of not one, but two iPad apps created specifically to make work easier for Congressional staff. And then feel slightly despondent about the need for said iPad apps in order to get Congress working properly, before moving on again.
A new study tracking the use of social media to promote small businesses in the U.S. seems like a lesson in counter-intuitive thinking; while 88% of small businesses believe that social media does or will impact their impact their business, a full 67% of those same businesses have no plans to make any additional investments in social media during 2012.
Not that you needed a survey to tell you this, but there’s a statistically good chance that someone in your family wants an iPad for the holidays.
No, it doesn’t remedy Skype’s kludgy, five-steps-backward Mac interface, but the new Skype beta for OS X (and standard version for Windows) will allow you to call Facebook friends if you so desire.
