Up to this point we’ve seen maybe 2% of augmented reality’s latent potential. For the most part, applications of the technology have ranged from utterly useless, to transparently gimmicky, to “oh hey, that’s kind of cool.”
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But now, web retailers might want to start …
What exactly is it about video games that holds so much drawing power? Last year, a staggering 500 million video games were sold throughout the world, and, despite some recent slippage earlier in May, the industry as a whole remains one of the biggest, most lucrative markets out there.
Now, a new study set to be published in a coming …
Is there a more universal #firstworldproblem than being stumped on where to eat for dinner? Sure, there are apps like UrbanSpoon, whose randomized restaurant picks take a bit of gamesmanship. And, of course, there are more democratic choices like Yelp or even City Search.
But the Achilles heel of crowdsourced reviews is that it’s …
AOL took the curtains off their newest project, a customizable iPad-only magazine dubbed Editions, yesterday. The free download allows users to cultivate content across several news fields and arranges stories into an attractive magazine format, complete with photos.
The entire presentation is quite lovely: The grid structure is …
Instagram, the popular photo sharing service for the iPhone, just announced that it’s hit 150 million photo uploads thanks in no small part to its user base of 7 million picture snappers. For perspective, that’s about 15 photos being uploaded every single second.
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Updated: A Google representative writes in:
“Thanks for covering the calling from Gmail news. Just a clarification – this is actually an expansion of the calling from Gmail feature, not an expansion of Google Voice. Call Phones from Gmail allows you to use your computer to call any phone number. Google Voice is a separate product that
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The best part about Discovery Channel’s Shark Week is hands-down the ultra-detailed, split-second slow-mos of great whites shooting out of the water like scud missiles, snatching unsuspecting seal pups between jagged rows of dagger-like teeth. It’s gruesome, terrifying and, for fairly obvious reasons, I can’t stop watching.
So during …
In a post on his Guardian blog, Martin Robbins admonishes some flimsy science in an article from the Daily Mail. The title of the article in question pretty much says it all: “Facebook and Twitter are creating a vain generation of self-obsessed people with child-like need for feedback, warns top scientist.”
The article posits that …
It’s no stretch to imagine that cyberspace will likely serve as another front in the wars of the future. But now, the Pentagon is reportedly kicking things into high gear with a new initiative which sets to track intel across social media. The program could cost up to $42 million and is currently soliciting research proposals.
The new …
The Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act of 2011 was approved Thursday in the U.S. House of Representatives, and will force internet service providers (ISPs) to keep logs of their customers for up to one year for police review.
CNET reports that the bill is intended to crack down on child pornography, and will include …
Fair warning: We’re defining “man” here in a much more nerdy way than, say, the tree-chopping, Dos Esquis-swigging sense. Here, we’ll be talking about male tweeting tendencies when computed from raw data through a field of study called sociolinguistics.
The study here was originally uncorked by Fast Company and is taken from a paper …
Most of the robots we’re vaguely familiar with are good at menial tasks, like welding car parts or assembling microchips. But that isn’t to say that what they do isn’t difficult: Those tasks require ultra-precise data to be programmed beforehand. And though there are practical applications for spatially aware technology–like the …
