Laundry detergent is not my regular beat. But when Procter & Gamble invited me to check out one of its secret lairs, with a PR rep touting “advanced modeling and virtual reality” within, I couldn’t resist.
Yes, the maker of …
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Two Minute Video: Lytro Camera Is Focused on Never Needing Focused
Shoot first, focus later. That’s the promise of a new point-and-shoot camera from Lytro. The rectangular gadget looks like anything but a traditional camera, which is probably a good thing since, well, this is anything but a …
Robot Shakes Hand with Astronaut on International Space Station
In space, nobody can hear you be uncivil towards someone. That’s why it’s nice to see commander Dan Burbank and Robonaut 2 shaking hands in the middle of the International Space Station.
This little bit of robo-human relations …
Here Treasure, Treasure: Uncharted Golden Abyss Review
Uncharted: Golden Abyss is Uncharted on a 5-inch screen, and that’s the worst I can say about it, despite the fact that it’s the first one not made by series creator Naughty Dog (in their stead, Sony’s SCE Bend Studio). It’s not …
PSA: Facebook Links to Whitney Houston Autopsy Video Are Bogus
In news that should shock absolutely nobody, scammers have been trying to cash in on Whitney Houston’s death. One trick: links floating around Facebook purporting to contain a video of Houston’s autopsy that “reveals a shocking …
This Amazing Coffee-Filled Robot Can Beat You at Darts
They’ve beaten us at Jeopardy, taken our manufacturing jobs and now robots are coming for the one thing many of us hold dear — the ability to win at pointless bar games. Okay, so that’s not what the universal jamming gripper is …
Forget the Vita, I Want a Real PlayStation Tablet
On Monday, Sony’s PlayStation Vita showed up for review. I unboxed the system, popped in the cartridge for Uncharted: Golden Abyss and settled on my couch for a long night of handheld gaming (or rather, about three hours of …
50 Best iPhone Apps 2012
Whether you’re looking to load up a new iPhone or simply expand your collection, here’s our 2012 list of download-deserving apps.
The Case Against Letting the U.N. Govern the Internet
All this year, and culminating in December at the World Conference on International Telecommunications in Dubai, the nations of the world will be negotiating a treaty to govern international telecommunications services between …
Sony PlayStation Vita Review: Beautiful, Expensive and Worth It
The PlayStation Vita is Sony’s biggest gamble yet — a pricey, piano-black, hockey-rink-shaped gaming handheld tricked out with dual joysticks, motion and touch controls and a gorgeous widescreen aimed unapologetically at …
How Apple Could Reinvent TV
Tim Bajarin is the president of Creative Strategies Inc., a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm in Silicon Valley.
The Windows Start Button Is Dead! Long Live the Windows Start Button!
Is Microsoft eliminating the Start button–a user-interface element that’s practically synonymous with Windows itself–from Windows 8? Last week, that was the scuttlebutt. This week, Windows superblogger Paul Thurrott says that “ …
