This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Evan Narcisse, Douglas Wolk, Matt Peckham and Graeme McMillan talk about the Jimmy Olsen one-shot and the first issue of Butcher Baker, the Righteous Maker.
EVAN: The first chapter of the story collected in this week’s …
Tennis fan? Video gamer? Home-exercise buff? You want 2K Games’ Top Spin 4. Whether you’re squaring off against the computer or reaching for shots from a virtual pitcher, 2K’s pro-simulation gives you the most realistic tennis experience you’ll find off the clay, grass, or concrete.
Check out Top Spin 4 associate producer Michael …
Crowdsourcing–outsourcing using crowds–has been employed to tackle all kinds of problems, from helping SETI probe radio signals for alien life to establishing where the best burger in town can be found. But, according to a presentation from Stanford University professor Jennifer Lynn Aaker at the Web 2.0 Expo, it can also have much …
So much for the personalized news magazine. Zite, an iPad app that launched earlier this month promising to take information about your likes and dislikes from your Twitter account or Google Reader and turn out a “magazine” filled with content aimed specifically at you, has been hit with a cease-and-desist letter from legal counsel for …
Is there just a little too much internet out there for you? Trust me, I know the feeling: I can barely keep up with my Twitter feed, never mind everything else that’s out there. That’s why Summify seems like a good – if not exactly original – idea. Following the lead of apps like Flipboard and the now-legally-beleagured Zite, Summify …
QR, is already time to say goodbye? We hardly knew you!
If Google’s recent actions are any indicator, then QR codes — those “Quick Read” matrix barcodes you see on websites, products, and posters — might be going the way of the dinosaur. Last week, all QR codes mysteriously vanished from the Google Places Dashboard. Must be a …
The people have spoken, prompting Twitter to remove the QuickBar from its official iPhone app.
Added in early March, the QuickBar showed a single random trending topic–sometimes sponsored, sometimes organic–that stuck to the top of the Tweet stream. In response to user backlash, Twitter released an update that made the QuickBar …
It’s pockmarked, looks a bit like a color-leeched bowling ball, and if you didn’t know better, you might call it “the Moon.”
But it’s only Mercury, first rock from the sun, and what you’re staring at (up top) happens to be one of the first in-orbit images of its heavily-cratered, hard-pack surface.
Thank NASA’s Messenger, a space …
Google is reportedly taking drastic measures to keep Android phone makers in line, which is either good or bad news depending on how you look at it.
Bloomberg Businessweek reports that Google will withhold the latest versions of Android from phone makers who don’t play by the company’s rules. “There will be no more willy-nilly tweaks …
You founded a leading Internet domain registrar, you ran some racy Super Bowl spots, and on vacation in Zimbabwe, you shoot bull elephants. Why? Because they cause crop damage, and you wanted to take out the “problem” animals.
That’s what GoDaddy.com CEO Bob Parsons had to say after animal-rights group PETA (People for the Ethical …
“No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.”
– Paul Gallico
Also, let’s not forget that both beer and hot dogs inexplicably taste better inside a ballpark than they do anywhere else. Fact.
With the 2011 baseball season …
Just in time for opening day, Major League Baseball’s MLB.tv app for iPhone and iPad is getting a month of free, live game streams.
As with all streaming on MLB.tv, you’re limited to out-of-market games, so forget about watching your favorite team on an iPhone or iPad if they’re also playing on television in your area. In other words, …
