Starting in early July, LaGuardia, Newark and JFK airports will put “computerized, hologram-like avatars” to work in an effort to beef up the Port Authority’s customer care program during the busy summer traveling season.
Here’s a handful of interesting tech stories from around the web for Tuesday, May 22.
Even with such a schizophrenic welcome, no one expected the series of mishaps that has marked Facebook’s IPO. Here’s a look at the contributing factors.
Google has made its $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility official. Google CEO Larry Page announced the closing of the deal in a company blog post.
The U.S. Supreme Court has decided not to hear the case of Joel Tenenbaum, who illegally downloaded music during college and now faces a $675,000 fine.
Nobody has explained what happened to a much-ballyhooed $70 million project: the arrival of an undersea fiber-optic cable promised to end Cuba’s Internet isolation and boost web capacity 3,000-fold.
New figures that show Chrome taking the lead are a big deal — until you realize that nobody agrees on browser market share.
Here’s a handful of interesting tech stories from around the web for Monday, May 21.
Microsoft’s Kinect motion sensor has revolutionary potential, but it’s pricey at $250 for the Windows version. Enter Leap, which plans to sell a more accurate motion-sensing device called the Leap Motion for just $70.
From the View-Master to the iPhone, 14 memorable gizmos that exude a style all their own.
A recently-uncovered video and an awards ceremony pay tribute to Andrew Fluegelman — programmer, editor and radical thinker.
