Apps & Web

Live Transit Alerts and Delays Get Integrated into Google Maps

If you’ve ever found yourself waiting for a bus or subway train, wondering why it hasn’t arrived at its exact scheduled time, I think I saw you dejectedly pacing around at the bus stop near my place this morning. Get with it, man! It’s the bus! And it was, like, 7:00 in the morning. That’s primetime, buddy.

Man, this guy. He was the …

Moichendising! ‘Angry Birds’ Cookbook Coming Soon

For months, you’ve been trying to help those Angry Birds protect their eggs from the mysteriously green pigs, and now you’ll finally get to find out why they wanted those eggs in the first place with the Angry Birds Cookbook.

Oh, you only think that I’m joking.

Not content with parlaying the uber-successful app into animated

Spectacular Solar Flare Impresses, May Disrupt GPS and Power Grids

It’s another startling picture of our very own Sun that might pass for a CGI still from a summer disaster flick. You know, right before our backyard star reaches across the void with fingers of fire and gobbles us up. But don’t worry, it’ll only strike us a “glancing blow,” says NASA.

The sun pitched a pretty impressive solar fit …

Incredible Photo of Space Shuttle Endeavour Docked in Space

It’s one of those shots that makes you go “holy word-I-can’t-say-here”: A space shuttle hanging from the International Space Station like a bird caught midflight, or a high diver reaching around about to leap backwards off a diving board. It’s also the first photograph of a shuttle—the very vehicle that helped assemble the space …

Skype Takes Another Hit, Drops ‘Small Number’ of Users

What goes down must eventually come back up. That would’ve been Newton’s fourth law had he lived another 284 years and been using Skype this morning.

“Skype broken for everyone?” wrote Xona Games’ game producer Matthew Doucette on Twitter this morning. I glanced up at my Mac’s menu bar. Sure enough, the dreaded X-Cloud (or …

Two Minute Video: How to Protect Your iPad While Cooking

The iPad makes a nice digital cookbook, huh? But using it around messy ingredients can get downright ugly and trying to use the touchscreen when your hands are covered in whatever it is that people who know how to cook have their hands covered in is a bad, bad idea.

If only there existed a disposable protective iPad cover made …

Look at This Dream Team: Lady Gaga and Eric Schmidt Back Social Startup

She’s the pop powerhouse dressed in those unforgettable costumes. He’s the Executive Chairman for the web’s largest search engine. Though worlds apart, Lady Gaga and Google’s Eric Schmidt now have something in common: They’re both investing in a new startup called Backplane, co-founded by Gaga’s business manager, Troy …

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