It’s hard not to feel gross after reading Cult of Mac’s description of Girls Around Me. For those not up-to-date on the controversy, Girls Around Me is an app from Russian developer i-Free which maps out women’s locations and …
Apps & Web
Paper, Figure, and the New Casual Creativity of iOS
I’m a terrible at drawing (see above), but that didn’t stop me from having some fun with Paper, a new drawing app for Apple’s iPad.
Paper isn’t even close to being the first iPad drawing app, nor is it the most comprehensive. …
WATCH: Autonomous Robot Band Plays the Beatles’ ‘Come Together’
Today’s non-conformist robots don’t want to work in your factories and vacuum your floors, maaan. These babies were born — or more accurately, carefully constructed in a laboratory — to rock.
First, there were the flying …
Bioware to Extend ‘Mass Effect 3’ Ending, Pacify the Mob
If you haven’t beaten Mass Effect 3 yet, you might want to wait until the summer, when BioWare and Electronic Arts will round out the game’s ending with extra scenes.
EA and developer BioWare announced that they will release …
Are You Ready for YouTube in 3D? Well, It’s Coming Anyway
It’s official: you can’t escape 3D. Right now, James Cameron’s epic disaster romance Titanic is back in theaters after 15 years. Why? Because now it’s in 3D.
So, in the age of 3D blockbusters, 3D televisions and 3D …
‘Snake’ Cellphone Game Controlled with Recorders from Music Class
I basically gave away the entire story in the headline, which is a cardinal sin as far as the fine art of “getting people to click on stuff” (technical term) is concerned, but I just can’t contain my excitement.
So Snake — …
Kevin Systrom Says Comparing Instagram to Photography Is Like ‘Comparing Twitter to Microsoft Word’
TIME talks with the Instagram co-founder about the pressure to monetize, photo snobs & why a good mobile experience is so hard to come by.
Are Personal Apps the Next Step in Celebrity Branding?
Celebrity branding is nothing new – from fragrances to underwear endorsements to charities, public figures have perfected the practice of personal branding. But amid a cultural obsession with social media, celebrities are …
Review: Amazon Instant Video on PS3 Could Be a Netflix-Killer
Sony just became the first and currently only set-top games console to offer access to Amazon’s streaming video service, which includes both movies and TV shows. Amazon Instant Video can now be accessed by downloading the latest …
A Little Girl Finds Her Voice Thanks to Threatened New iPad App
The parents of Maya, a three-year-old girl with speech problems, thought they found a solution with a tablet app called Speak for Yourself. Now a patent infringement lawsuit could put an end to it.
Next Issue Introduces Its All-You-Can-Eat Digital Magazine Smörgasbord
Next Issue Media is a startup jointly owned by some of America’s biggest publishers: Condé Nast, Hearst, Meredith, News Corp and TIME’s parent company, Time Inc. It’s been busy building and testing a newsstand/reader for digital …
Alternate Universe: Twitter Invented in the ’80s, Facebook in the ’90s
Exciting times, friends: Behold the future, as if it happened in the past – and by “future” I mean “present” instead.
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