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 …
Reviews & Features
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. …
‘Xenoblade Chronicles’: Up Through the Belly of the Beast
My biggest complaint about Xenoblade Chronicles for the Nintendo Wii around the 15-hour mark is its menu system. It should have been trigger-based. The way it works now, you tap a face button, then cursor around with the d-pad. …
Robot with Human Skeleton Steps Toward Artificial Intelligence
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 …
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.
Nokia Lumia 900 Review: A Solid Slab of Windows Phone
Nokia’s Lumia 900 has the makings of the ultimate tech comeback story: A once-proud mobile phone maker makes a desperate pact with Microsoft, which despite its own juggernaut status in the PC market is similarly downtrodden when …
‘Xenoblade Chronicles’: Winning Friends, Shooting Hoops and Ducking Robots
There’s a long-awaited Wii roleplaying game out this Friday that you’ll want to start thinking about now, assuming you didn’t import the English-translation version when it hit Europe and Australia last fall. It’s called …
25 Years of IBM’s OS/2: The Strange Days and Surprising Afterlife of a Legendary Operating System
Big Blue’s next-generation operating system was supposed to change everything. It didn’t. But it’s also never quite gone away
Why America Needs Apple
I was having a discussion with a few executives at a technology summit I was attending, and an interesting question was asked to me concerning what America would look like without Apple.
They asked me about this since I do …
Video: The Most Insanely Important, Mind-Blowing Tech News of the Week
Important developments concerning Apple, identity theft, Twitter and automated pizza delivery.
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