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 …
Slickdeals.net had a minor problem: Although it’s a useful site for finding discounts on electronics, clothes, home goods and other products, most users never ventured past the front page. So a redesign for the site, which …
All Things D’s Peter Kafka is skeptical about Walmart’s new Disc to Digital service, which lets you take one or more DVDs into a Walmart store and pay a fee to unlock digital access to the same content. That lets you stream and …
A moment of silence for the print version of Encyclopaedia Britannica, the world’s longest running fact compendium, which passed away today at the ripe old age of 244. I grew up in the late 1970s with a full set my parents …
Digiboo might sound like an online dating site for hip-hop enthusiasts, but it’s actually one of the latest players getting into the video market. The Santa Monica, Calif.-based company produces kiosks where people can rent or …
I have survived my first South By Southwest panel appearance. On my Sunday-morning panel, “Arts Criticism in 140 Characters or Less,” my fellow panelists and I used far more than 140 characters at a shot to explain how social …
Yahoo’s betting that good patents trump great products, as the company sues Facebook for 10 counts of patent infringement.
The lawsuit covers messaging, privacy options, advertising, customization and, of course, social …
OMGPOP’s new game Draw Something is only five weeks old and it’s already been downloaded 20 million times. Right now it’s the number one free app for Android and the number one paid and free app for iOS.
As Business Insider …
Let me first apologize for being a couple Mass Effect 3 controversies behind the curve.
I don’t yet have an opinion about the ending to the Mass Effect 3, which some players are petitioning against, because I haven’t beaten …
Forget Rosetta Stone — researchers at Microsoft have developed a program that uses speech recognition software to translate what someone is saying into another language using a modified version of the person’s own …
AUSTIN, Texas — In many ways, South by Southwest is the ultimate laboratory for a service like Highlight, the location-based social networking startup that is quickly becoming the belle-of-the-ball at this year’s conference. …
Gowalla, which got its start at South by Southwest three years ago, has gone dark for this year’s festival. Users who try to log in to the location-based app’s homepage now get the message “Thank you for going out with Gowalla. …
