Sorry, party photographers, you’ve been replaced—by a robot. Microsoft’s new EDDIE (short for Expandable Development Discs for Innovation and Experimentation) can now roam a crowded room, focus on people’s faces and snap photos with a fancy DSLR camera.
Okay, so right now it’s more of an advanced, camera-equipped Roomba than …
Google just released the new version of its popular RSS reader, Google Reader, and the Internet is, well, not too happy about it. The online petition to bring back the old Reader currently has more than 9,000 signatures. The Twitterverse is a cacophony of Google Reader hate. At this rate, it won’t be long before angry techies are burning …
It looks like the self-checkout concept may be moving from the supermarket to your local Apple Store. MacRumors reports, through an anonymous source, that Apple is planning to update its retail store iOS app to allow people to to buy off-the-shelf items via an EasyPay device within the store, with the charges going to customers’ iTunes
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I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords. Yes, those geniuses over at Boston Dynamics have finally done it: created something even creepier than their last robot, BigDog. The Protection Ensemble Test Mannequin (a.k.a. PETMAN) is finally reporting for duty after a 13-month design phase and 17-month build phase.
The man-sized robot …
First it was child-pornography sites. Now the hacker collective known as Anonymous is going after a Mexican drug cartel.
The Zetas are one of the biggest players in Mexico’s drug war, which has resulted in about 40,000 deaths since 2006. Earlier this month, a YouTube video showed a man in a Guy Fawkes mask who claimed to speak for …
Research in Motion’s tablet, the BlackBerry PlayBook, has been overshadowed of late, which may be the reason behind the company’s latest promotion: Buy two PlayBook tablets, get one free. Yes, that’s right, tablets have now become so ubiquitous that we’re buying them in bulk.
The deal, which applies to the 16GB, 32GB and 64GB models, …
Now you can get back into your Facebook account with a little help from your friends: Facebook just announced a new feature called Trusted Friends, which uses—surprise, surprise—your social network to log you back in if you forget your password.
This is how it works: First, you pick five Facebook friends you trust. If you get …
The online deals landscape is getting pretty crowded nowadays, especially since industry giants Google and Amazon put their hats in the ring. Now Google Offers is doing what the company does best—aggregate stuff from multiple sites. The search giant is partnering with 14 smaller deal sites, including Dealfind and Gilt City, so you can …
We’re the species that visited the Moon, created countless beautiful works of art and poetry, and built skyscrapers that reached thousands of feet into the air—and everything that makes us unique can fit on three floppy disks. That’s the gist of a cool new video by Evan Anthony.
Yesterday, Anthony talked to The Atlantic about the …
Bad news for tech-loving Scots—the iPhone 4S doesn’t understand what you’re saying. Siri, Apple’s personal assistant, can recognize accents everywhere from Australia to London (and respond in-kind). It can even understand you if you speak to it in French or German.
But live in Edinburgh or Aberdeen? Sorry, you’re out of …
Can’t wait to get your hands on Motorola’s new Droid RAZR, the phone that’s so cool it doesn’t need lowercase letters or the proper amount of vowels? Then head over to Verizon’s website, as pre-ordering for the phone kicked off at 8am sharp today.
The Droid RAZR will sell for $299—if you happen to sign up for a two-year contract …
It’s true—Dropbox and HTC are teaming up to give users 5GB of free space. Starting now, anyone running Sense 3.5 will get an additional 3GB of space in their Dropbox account, on top of the free 2GB that everyone gets when signing up.
Of course, the number of people who are actually using Sense 3.5 is limited; it currently only runs on …
