Do you feel a propensity to sign up for one email domain over another? Have you noticed that most of your address book consists of people who use Google Chat or Yahoo! Messenger? Just don’t get why people would stick with one old domain over another?
Hunch looked through the stats of their users and asked them about which of the four …
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The iPad doesn’t show up at retail stores until 5pm on Friday, but the first reviews of big tech products usually break on Wednesday evenings–and so a bunch of major sites rendered their verdicts on Apple’s second-generation tablet tonight.
There are no …
The following is a guest post by Thor Muller, the co-founder and CTO of Get Satisfaction.
Years ago my mother cornered me, as she often does. “What’s going to be the next big thing?” she asked me.
“Telepathy,” I blurted. I was being cheeky, of course. But I wasn’t far off, as she now reminds me. The last decade has been a race to …
According to a UK-based psychotherapist, playing video games for two hours is like doing a line of cocaine. No, really, that’s just what he said. As in lowering your nose to a mirror lined with white powdery coca bits and inhaling.
“Spending two hours on a game station is equivalent to taking a line of cocaine in the high it produces …
Microsoft’s “Kinect” hands-free motion control peripheral for the Xbox 360 has been confirmed by Guinness World Records as the fastest-selling consumer electronics device ever.
Kinect “sold through an average of 133,333 units per day, for a total of 8 million units in its first 60 days on sale,” says Guinness. The “sold through” part …
The war between the search engines and the spammers continues, with up-and-coming Google alternative Blekko wielding the stick against over a million spam sites.
Its action is quite different to Google’s recent efforts to foil the PageRank scammers. Google ranks its results and gives each one a PageRank score. Over the years, spam …
Perhaps in an effort to whip up Apple-esque levels of pre-launch hype, Microsoft has announced that it will hold the global launch of Internet Explorer 9 at South by South West next week: Monday 14th, at 9pm Pacific time.
The first IE9 beta was released in September last year; a Release Candidate version (sort of halfway between a …
A new mobile version of Google Instant Previews is useful in ways that the desktop version never was.
The search tool will now automatically appear on Android phones running version 2.2 and up, and iPhones running iOS 4. Next to every search result, you’ll see a little magnifying glass. Tapping it takes you to a new page that shows a …
There’s a lot of music online–more than most people have time to keep up with. That’s why you’ve got us. Every week, we’ll point you toward three excellent new downloads or videos from chart-topping stars, cult favorites and unknown geniuses.
1. The new supergroup Wild Flag–Mary Timony of Helium, Janet Weiss and Carrie Brownstein of …
Want to get to the bottom of who sent you that anonymous email? Concordia University professor Benjamin Fung and his team devised a strategy to find out who the author of that unsigned note is, according to Gizmag.
Using patterns found within the email, such as typos, spellings and other idiosyncrasies, scientists can find a style …
Want to backup your PlayStation 3 save games online? Now you can, courtesy of a “cloud” data synchronization option Sony’s about to roll out exclusively for premium PlayStation Plus members. The feature should drop tomorrow with PS3 system update version 3.60.
You’ll need to shell out the annual $50 PlayStation Plus fee for the …
Time for Boxee and Roku to worry. Apple TV now streams live sports from MLB.TV and NBA League Pass. The new video sources are part of a software upgrade, released today alongside iOS 4.3.
Apple launched its revamped Apple TV in September after dismissing earlier models as a “hobby.” In addition to playing content from iTunes, the new …
