Good morning! Here are some of today’s interesting tech stories so far. We’ll cover a few of these throughout the day but feel free to get a head start.
After Seeing the iPad 2, Samsung Reconsiders Galaxy Tab Pricing
Link: Mashable
We may begin seeing a trend emerge with Android tablet prices. In regards to his company’s …
For those of you who think that Hulu doesn’t offer much in the way of cable programming, you can rest a little easier knowing that it’s not Hulu’s fault. Instead, according to Lauren Zalaznick, NBCUniversal’s chairman of Entertainment & Digital Networks and Integrated Media, you can blame old contracts and a lack of foresight on the …
Lasers are cool. They’re useful during presentations, can fix your eyesight, and are capable of propelling spacecraft along their solar sails. Sometimes, they even burn holes in stuff.
(More on TIME.com: 10 Technologies We Want to Steal from Harry Potter)
A team of researchers from Hong Kong and China may have discovered another …
Oh hey, childhood, early teens, high school, college, post-college and modern day memories. What are you guys all doing here?
An angel of a saint of a man on YouTube has documented the installation of Windows 1.0 followed by an upgrade to every subsequent version of Windows thereafter. He opts for Windows 2000 instead of Windows ME, …
Keeping with the complaint that nothing new is coming out of Hollywood, Alcon Entertainment is trying to bring back the Blade Runner property. The company, who produced The Blind Side, is trying to buy the film, television and ancillary franchise rights to the classic science fiction film. It’s not just prequels and sequels they’re …
A Taiwanese computer manufacturer has come up with the perfect solution to the age-old problem of computers lacking Lego-compatible cases: a case that’s built for Lego building.
The HELLO-Q machine has two USB ports on its front, and several dozen Lego-style studs for sticking Lego bricks on to. You and I both know which of these …
If you’re looking for your perfect Xbox gamer tag, you’ll have a few more options to choose from soon. Microsoft is releasing previously taken, now unused gamertags for new players to take/swap for. Instead of having to be LTStarbuck92381049 or LEW10AUNTSARBUKC, you might actually be able to get her name.
Don’t worry: They’re …
Let’s say you own an iPad!
To upgrade or not to upgrade? That is the question. And if you don’t own an iPad but you’re thinking about getting one, you may wonder what the differences are between both versions other than the sizable price gap.
Here are some of the answers:
| iPad | iPad 2 | |
| Base Price | $349 |
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War may be hell, but it turns out that promotional stunts for videogame war aren’t exactly a cakewalk, either. When THQ released thousands of red balloons into the air to promote the company’s upcoming Homefront game, it was meant to suggest South Korean attempts to send messages of hope to North Korea, the country behind the US invasion …
Since the 1920s, young people everywhere have been dropping coins into music machines, giving them the power to select the tunes that will set the mood or get the party started.
The jukebox, in turn, quickly became a cultural symbol of American entertainment, and has managed to endure through the decades. In the ’70s, Sandy and Danny …
Yes, you read the headline right–baby robots are being used to treat depressed seniors with Alzheimer’s in Japan. As strange as it might sound, some studies have shown that caring for dolls is therapeutic to depressed Alzheimer’s patients.
The babyloid, which is still a prototype, looks a bit like the strange lovechild of a robot and …
Rumors that Twitter is for sale or looking for funding are just rumors, according to co-founder Biz Stone. Google and Facebook have both been reported to be in talks to take over the company, and a recent Financial Times story had JP Morgan looking to buy 10% of Twitter stock, but Stone says that the company is too busy to think about …
