With new versions scheduled to be released for these two popular web browsers, many of us are rethinking where our loyalties lie. Should we go with the Google Chrome (Beta) or Mozilla Firefox 4.0? Is it worth the upgrade, or is it time to try something new? Here’s a list of the new and upgraded features to make your decision …
The Loop is reporting that sources have apparently told them about Apple’s plan to cut 32 game titles and certain hardware devices such as printers, scanners and some hard drives, to make more room in Apple’s retail stores for the new in-store personalized setup services that started in January 2011.
Before you start freaking out at …
Facebook is stepping in to help users who post messages suggesting they want to hurt themselves. The social network has partnered up with with U.K.-based Samaritans, a group focused on suicide prevention, in order to make it easer to notify professionals if someone is showing worrisome behavior.
“Through the popularity of Facebook, we …
Here at Techland, only one television program manages to tie into so many of our geeky obsessions all at once. Superheroes, mythical creatures, action figures and barely believeable sci-fi all flop onto each other on the glorious cavalcade that is The Venture Bros. Cartoon Network’s just started airing the series from the start and …
Holding your arm out straight in place for long periods of time could be a strenuous task that many of us can’t undertake without feeling a considerable amount of pain.
But for surgeons, tattoo artists and jewelers whose occupations require them to hold their limbs in weird positions, it’s part of the job. An exoskeletal arm, however, …
If you haven’t woke up feeling refreshed in who knows how long, you can blame your gadgets from ruining your slumber.
A new study by the National Sleep Foundation (NSF) shows that people are overwhelmingly using technology before sleep, which has proven to disrupt sleeping patterns. Ninety-five percent of the people surveyed admitted …
This isn’t eerie at all: Geminoid DK, in conjunction with Professor Henrik Scharfe of Aalborg University in Denmark, has created a robotic version of the associate professor that looks identical to him. If it weren’t enough that the robot looked exactly like Scharfe, it also mimics the professor’s shrugs and facial expressions.
The …
The Iditarod contenders might still follow the original 1,150 mile trail that was run a century ago, but it’s going to be a completely updated race this March 5. Now, most teams are bringing high-tech outdoors equipment including custom-made sleds with adjustable runners for different types of weather conditions and GPS devices to track …
Rigid e-readers that are too big to fit comfortably in our pockets: Be gone. A Taiwanese professor at National Tsing Hua University and two of his post-grads have figured out how to use silk as a material in flexible e-book readers, LED displays and radio-frequency identification tools, according to PC World.
“We didn’t know at first …
Being on hold can test your patience – not to mention cause you physical pain from cradling the phone between your shoulder and ear. Instead of having to listen to how important your call is to the company, try out Fastcustomer’s new app.
Fastcustomer will have that customer service representative call you, because you wait for no …
March 4, 2011 –
Jean Grey was reading minds before thinking this was even cool. [via Buzzfeed]
Somewhere out there a fully grown man in a backwards baseball cap is snickering and high fiving himself.
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For the ultimate in nerdy getaways, the National Academy of Video Game Testers and Reviewers (NAVGTR) has created a cruise just for gamers and their cosplaying friends. C3 at Sea will set sail on October 29 for a five day cruise starting in Baltimore, MD., go to the Bermuda Triangle for a Halloween Cosplay Caucus Cruise (hence the “C3”), …
