The only surprise about Amazon’s move to acquire Kiva Systems for $775 million is that it didn’t come sooner. Kiva is a robotics company focused on making warehouses more efficient. Amazon spent $4.6 billion on warehouses last …
Back in my day, teenagers talked on the phone, often ones connected to long, stretchy things called cords. Today, it’s all about texting.
A new poll from the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that the average teen …
“In the last forty-eight hours I have been equated with Stephen Glass, James Frey, and Greg Mortenson,” writes Mike Daisey in his most recent blog post.
“Given the tenor of the condemnation, you would think I had concocted an …
Is it worth it to buy the paid version of an app if you can download another version for free? If you value your battery life, it very well could be.
A new study conducted by researchers at Purdue University found that 65% to …
On Friday, This American Life caused quite a stir when it announced it was retracting its report on Apple supplier Foxconn, adapted from Mikey Daisey’s one-man show “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs.” The show, broadcast …
Remember the absurdly expensive Neo Geo? It was SNK’s $650 console, released in the early ’90s with equally pricey games like Samurai Shodown and Metal Slug. Now you can relive the experience of paying way too much money for a …
The Atlantic writer Sara Marie Watson was recently surprised by a wedding ring. No, her fiancé didn’t get on one knee; it popped up on a Facebook ad over the question “How well do you know Nick Smith?”
The answer was that she …
Gmail and the iPhone travel in similar tech-savvy circles. But for whatever reason, iPhone users have never had a really great way to check their Gmail.
Sparrow — the company that makes the eponymous Mac-based email client …
You wouldn’t think a rattlesnake would be afraid of a squirrel and you’d be right — that is, unless the squirrel in question was wagging its tail. That’s what a joint research project between the University of California-Davis and San Diego State University found with the help of their friend Robosquirrel.
Okay, so Robosquirrel is …
Let’s face it, most of us waste a lot of printer paper during the course of a day. New technology from researchers at the University of Cambridge might help cut down on all of that waste by letting people reuse paper by wiping …
Good news, owners of HTC devices. You might be getting an upgrade to Android 4.0, otherwise known as Ice Cream Sandwich.
HTC just announced 16 phones that are getting the long-awaited update. The bad news is that the …
Two weeks ago, while the astronauts on the International Space Station were sound asleep, Mathieu Caron was carefully putting Dextre into place from the safety of the Canadian Space Agency’s (CSA) control center in St. Hubert, …
