Why do people hate on Zuck so much? All he does is wear a goofy grin and call things awesome (even when they aren’t) and cover our magazine from time to time. He’s not so different from you or I, give or take a few billion dollars…and killing his own animals.
But I guess this next bit of news won’t exactly help his cause, as he sits …
Back in February of 2010, Google announced that it was giving up on Google Gears, its neat-but-ultimately-unsatisfying technology that helped make Web services work even when the Web wasn’t available. The company said that it made more sense to concentrate on using HTML5 technologies to build offline capabilities into its Web apps. And …
Android owners, strap yourselves in! (Especially if you’re a fan of artificially-applied Lomo filters!)
Instagram, that wildly popular iPhone photosharing app that’s now been downloaded over eight million times, will in fact be coming to Android-powered devices, as confirmed by the company’s CEO in an interview with The …
Don’t get me wrong: I hate my iPhone. I only got one after I accidentally left my Droid on a bus. So I’m not coming to you as a wide-eyed enthusiast, the sort who thinks everything that Apple makes is pure gold. I don’t play Angry Birds, I don’t have a set of bejeweled Hello Kitty cases, and every day I think wistfully of the BlackBerry …
Move over, Netflix, there might be another streaming video-on-demand company angling for your crown.
Lovefilm, the European version of Netflix that was purchased by Amazon at the start of the year, is rumored to be close to launching in new international territories, according to a recent interview with the company’s Chief Marketing …
It sounds like something from an adrenaline-pumping spy thriller. You know, like Spy Kids 3-D.
A new study from researchers at the University of California, San Diego, posits that thermal imaging cameras can be used to capture the residual heat left over from freshly pressed ATM keys. This strategy in particular holds one pretty …
Based on critical reception alone, the newest Deus Ex will likely be a hit. And that’s with good cause. Human Revolution is a great game, designed to support a variety of approaches and chock full of the kinds of nuts-and-bolts customizations that make a player’s experience feel really unique.
But it’s also a huge title and the …
For some people—like my roommates—fantasy football is as much a part of autumn as the leaves changing color.
It means lazy Sundays spent doing little more than plopping down in front of the tube, washing down Digiorno with whatever beer’s on sale that week while compulsively checking your team after every down. The dedication and …
More like artificial fun-telligence, am I right? Eggheads have been working for years—years!—to perfect chatbots to the point that real people won’t be able to tell that they’re actually conversing with software, not other humans.
The technology has come a long way, but what happens when you pair two chatbots together to converse …
Could tablets like the iPad ever replace toys like LEGOs, Erector Sets and crayons? Probably not, but startup Launchpad Toys thinks the iPad (and presumably tablets in general) has the potential to.
Okay, so the iPad’s already fairly toy-like. If you have one and kids, or you’re just a big kid (like me), you’ve probably goofed around …
Every year, people complain about EA’s Madden franchise. I know; I’ve been one of them. “It’s the same game every year. Nothing’s really different.”
But this year’s edition of the best-selling football sim actually does look significantly changed from its most recent predecessors. EA Sports developers gave us a rundown of the recent …
A war’s brewing between BlackBerry Messenger and Apple’s upcoming iMessage, and Samsung isn’t content to sit on the sidelines. The phone and tablet maker plans to launch its own mobile messaging service called “ChatON,” with the promise of supporting even its competitors’ smartphones.
Like BBM and iMessage, ChatON will let users send …