A new service lets you create iPad and Android tablet apps with no expertise and relatively little money.
TechnologizerApps & Web
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Google Retail Stores? Makes Sense.
Google might be planning to open standalone retail stores in the United States, where it can show off its Nexus phones and tablets, Chromebooks and other creations.
How to Check Your Facebook Privacy Settings
Facebook hasn’t said when it will roll out Graph Search more broadly. Still, it’s worth taking a few minutes to check over your profile–if only for the peace of mind that your Facebook presence is squeaky clean.
Our Most Treasured Recordings Are Dying: Congress Has a Plan to Save Them
Some of our most cherished historical recordings are in danger of being lost forever — indeed, some by George Gershwin, Judy Garland and Frank Sinatra are already goners.
Finally, a Trash Can on Wheels That Automatically Catches Your Trash
Every once in a while, a technological innovation so advanced comes along that we, as a society, might as well just take a break from trying to invent anything else for a few years.
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Bump’s New PC/Phone File Transfers: Virtual Sneakernet
The super-simple file transfer app now does two-way exchanges between computers and phones.
Android Apps Have a Shady Email-Sharing Policy, and It’s By Design
If you buy Android apps from the Google Play Store, you may be surprised to know that the developers of those apps get access to your name, e-mail address and zip code. This isn’t a new policy, and apparently it’s by design.
Steam for Linux Is Here, Valve Celebrates by Discounting Entire Catalog
Time to do a little happy dance, Linux-heads: Valve’s Steam client for Linux is finally with us, and I don’t mean the beta.
Tesla Motors Pours Cold Data on New York Times ‘Model S’ Review
Tesla Motors promised to release the logs detailing New York Times critic John Broder’s road trip in the Tesla Model S electric car. They’re finally available and, if they’re accurate, it doesn’t look good for Broder.
Finally, a Refrigerator with a Sparkling Water Dispenser — Make Your Own Soda, Too
Samsung and bubbly-water-making company SodaStream have partnered to build a 36-inch refrigerator with “the industry’s first-ever automatic sparkling water dispenser.”
Thirteen Years Later, System Shock 2 Lives Again
Mass Effect, Dead Space, BioShock, Borderlands, Fallout 3 — if you’ve played any of these modern shooters, you’ve felt the influence of System Shock 2. Now, you can actually play it.
Being Watched While You Watch TV: What’s So Creepy?
Would you bring a camera that watched you as you watched TV into your living room?