In today’s digital age, our sense of reality is often hardened by the different forms of media pelting us from every angle, especially when it comes to conflict overseas.
Danfung Dennis — an award-winning mixed-media storyteller — wanted to undue our collective numbness with an innovative new iPad app that seeks to blend …
The battle between the Kindle and Nook just took another competitive twist.
Refusing to be outdone by Amazon, Barnes & Noble has announced that readers who subscribe to the New York Times via the Nook will receive free, unlimited access to the paper’s site.
Of course, the announcement comes just one week after Kindle subscribers …
President Obama’s never been one to shun social media.
Wait, who are we kidding? We know the guy loves it (note his 2012 campaign opening on Facebook).
So his new announcement to hold a town-hall style forum on Facebook later this month should come as no surprise.
Mr. Obama will visit Facebook’s headquarters in Palo Alto, …
It’s back! The Commodore 64 computer you may fondly remember from your youth (assuming you were a youth back in the early 1980s) has returned from the place where old computers go to die, reborn as something that looks the same, but acts very different.
The outside is still deliciously two-tone brown, with huge clickety-clackety keys …
Thanks to a new app from Princeton Review, the iPad finally does something magical: it makes SAT preparation mildly amusing.
Princeton Review’s SAT Score Quest is a free iPad app that provides multiple choice questions in math, writing and critical reading. Users can draw on the right side of the screen like scratch paper and fill in …
File this under: Things I wish existed when I was struggling for a C- in statistics. A team of researchers at University of Oxford and University College London may have found a way to unnaturally boost your arithmetic skills by hooking your brain up to – get this – electrodes.
From a study that appeared in the November 23 issue …
Nikon today announced details of a brand new DSLR camera designed to appeal to keen amateurs.
The D5100 boasts a 16.2 megapixel sensor, a flip-out live preview screen, full HD video recording, and an astonishing 102,400 ISO setting, which Nikon says makes it possible to shoot black-and-white images in almost total darkness.
Quite …
Here’s some surprising news about the war in Afghanistan: 1 in every 50 troops in the country is a robot. The use of robots in combat isn’t a new thing – consider the use of bomb-disposal robots or drone planes throughout the years – but according to CNN, there are also robots that exist just to get shot at, and robots that don’t need …
Update: It looks like the International Space Station astronauts are safe, and that NASA’s declared the six-inch piece of space junk a non-threat, reports the Associated Press. Our original story follows:
It’s a piece of space debris from a destroyed Chinese weather satellite and it’s due to fly dangerously close to NASA’s …
Windows Phone 7 handsets hit U.S. shores back in November of last year and have yet to be substantially updated with new features and bug fixes.
The first big update—called “NoDo”—is apparently officially coming sooner or later, but the pre-update to that update for was supposed to be here in February, with NoDo to follow in …
Movie studios may be hoping that a new Premium Video on Demand service that will stream movies into homes 60 days after their theatrical release date will revolutionize the movie industry, but analysts aren’t so convinced. The problem: Who really wants to pay $30 for a movie rental?
It’s not just the cost that makes Piper Jaffray …
If you’re a PS3 owner experiencing slow service on the console’s PlayStation Network–or no service at all–then you could be caught up in a feud between Sony and the internet hacker gang known as Anonymous. (Should Customers Have The Right To “Hack” Their Consoles?)
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