It could be argued that we, as humans, learn best from our past mistakes. It could also be argued that the only way to truly live life is to sprint everywhere as fast as you can with your tie knotted around your head like it’s midnight at an open-bar wedding, yelling, “On your left! LEFT!!! I’m not even required to wear a tie for work!” …
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Gmail Now Helps Eliminate Sending Emails to the Wrong Person
Starting yesterday, another one of Gmail’s Labs features snuck their way into the email service permanently. Did you mean to send the email to Andy or Andrew? The new feature helps eliminate accidental boo-boos.
In addition, it’ll also suggest other recipients that you commonly email in conjunction with whoever you’re sending it …
White iPhone Said to Make Appearance by the End of April
The iPhone fairy has come to grant the masses a wish. According to Bloomberg BusinessWeek, industry insiders say that the seemingly mythical white iPhone will drop at the end of this month.
Last month, Apple’s Phil Schiller said so himself. Asked directly by normal person Eric Anderson, Schiller tweeted back, “The white iPhone will …
How Technology Influences the New American Family
A new Nielson report takes a look at how multicultural families across America are adapting to today’s digital landscape. This new report — pieced together with data from the U.S. Census Bureau, The Pew Research Center, and numerous other studies conducted by the global leader in data compilation — paints a revealing and colorful …
Drive Your Comfy Chair with Kinect Hack
Right, you’re saying, because tooling around in a plush La-Z-Boy has so many practical uses, but extrapolate from this Kinect hack and you might imagine all sorts of serious medical applications–say motion-controlled stairlifts, or wheelchairs that respond to twists of your head. Also, less serious ones, say trips to the fridge for a …
US Online Ad Revenue Hits New Record
Advertising skeptics might be surprised to read this: Online ad revenue topped a record $26 billion in 2010.
This figure represents a 15% increase from 2009, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers and Interactive Advertising Bureau report released Wednesday. The previous record was in 2008, when revenue reached $23.4 …
Should Twitter Beware an UberMedia Rival?
Tell folks to stop making Twitter clients (as Twitter just did) and what do they do? How about build a better Twitter.
CNN reports UberMedia may be planning to. Well, is planning to at least build a social network. And according to sources: One that’s ostensibly designed to go toe-to-toe (or tweet-to-tweet) with Twitter.
How do you …
RoboCop Glasses Can Scan 400 Faces at Once to Find Bad Guys
If you’re planning to go to some sort of crowded event in Brazil and you’re wanted by the police, you might want to stay home.
Authorities will be donning special glasses outfitted with tiny cameras that “can capture 400 facial images per second and send them to a central computer database storing up to 13 million faces,” says the …
Nintendo Rumored to be Cutting Price on Wii, New Games on the Way
Look, there’s no denying that the Wii’s been a juggernaut in the home video game market, dominating market share almost as soon it came out. But Nintendo launched the motion-control console more than four years ago, and it’s safe to assume that priving for the console will change as the device gets longer in the tooth.
So it comes as …
Kerry-McCain Online Privacy Bill: Too Weak or Too Strong?
Senators John McCain and John Kerry have introduced an online privacy bill that would require companies to inform consumers when their personal data is being collected for marketing purposes and how it’s being shared.
“The bill, if it becomes law, would require companies to tell consumers why data was being
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How Libyan Rebels Built Their Own Cellphone Network
Until recently, Libyan rebel had resorted to waving flags in order to communicate with each other in their fight against Muammar Gaddafi. Green flags signaled an advance, yellow flags signaled a retreat.
A rebel commander told the Wall Street Journal that Gaddafi “forced us back to the stone age.”
Libya’s cellphone network is under …
Who Needs Internet Explorer 9 When You Can Download IE10?
You’ve just downloaded Internet Explorer 9, gotten acquainted with its page pins and streamlined tabs and search-in-the-address-bar simplification, but lo and behold: Microsoft’s already teasing Internet Explorer 10!
“Explore a more beautiful web,” writes Microsoft, inviting you to take IE10 for a spin not next year or next …