I know the future is upon us, but there’s still something about facial recognition that creeps me out. Especially when it suggests those not-so-flattering photos of me accurately…
Soon, Facebook will be able to scan all photos posted to Facebook and suggest people to tag based on their facial features.
And though Facebook’s …
The iPad makes a nice digital cookbook, huh? But using it around messy ingredients can get downright ugly and trying to use the touchscreen when your hands are covered in whatever it is that people who know how to cook have their hands covered in is a bad, bad idea.
If only there existed a disposable protective iPad cover made …
It’s a rule: When you become a superhero, you get a city. Spider-Man swings all over Marvel Comics’ version of the Big Apple, Superman’s got Metropolis and everyone knows Gotham City is Batman’s town. In the best interpretations, the stomping grounds that heroes patrol reflect the core truths about them, and vice versa. So Batman can …
The recent World Health Organization report saying that cell phone radiation is “possibly carcinogenic” has caused a bit of a stir.
On one end of the spectrum, the report itself categorizes cell phones alongside DDT and car exhaust in terms of potential risk while on the other end, the wireless association, CTIA, says that the …
How did an image host that brought us Sad Keanu become one of the biggest sites on the web?
You probably saw it last month: A photo of President Obama stepping off a plane, wearing his usual suit, black shades and a big, sh*t-eating grin. He’s pointing at something or someone; we just don’t know what or who. But in typical meme …
China’s response to Google’s accusation that Chinese hackers broke into Gmail, the company’s free online email service, and absconded with the login details of hundreds of senior U.S. and Asian government officials, military personnel, journalists and Chinese political activists?
We didn’t do it, and your “unacceptable” attempt to …
You have Facebook friends. You have Gmail contacts. Never the two shall meet? Bah. Here’s an easy way to export your list of Facebook friends and then import them into your Gmail contacts list.
Export Using “Friends to Gmail”
Head on over to friendstogmail.com and “connect” with your Facebook account. Step through the process and …
The World Health Organization recently revealed the radiation levels emitted from common cell phones to be "possibly carcinogenic." The new findings put phones in the same category as DDT and car exhaust.
The amount of radio frequency energy that your body absorbs from your cell phone is measured by its Specific Absorption Rate, or SAR.
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Bye, Spring. Those five or six days you decided to grace us with your presence sure were nice. Hello, Summer. You are a jerk. People say they like you, but you only serve to make everything hot and uncomfortable.
We’re not going to take this lying down, Summer. Especially at night when we’re trying to sleep. And we’re going to fight …
Here’s how to use a Twitter bookmarklet with the iPad’s Safari web browser. It’s a cool trick that’ll let you quickly and easily tweet an interesting web page out to your followers directly from the browser—no need to try to hunt down a “Tweet This” button or mess around with copying and pasting the page’s link from the address …
Congratulations! You’re the owner of one of those new iPad things. You may have even heard of them here on Techland.
Now if you happen to work in an ultra productive, never-not-working office like we do at TIME Magazine, it’d probably be in your career’s best interest to get a leg up on your coworkers wherever you can.
“But how?” …
Rockstar Games has a reputation. People see the R* icon on a game box and expect chaos of the first degree. The Manhattan-based company’s pushed the boundaries of portraying sex, violence and postmodern attitudes in their best-known series like Grand Theft Auto and Manhunt, letting players turn whole cities into unpredictable petri …