You there. You’re important, no? Then why are your Facebook friends not giving your status updates the attention they deserve? Sure, your new and slightly-misspelled “Amercica: Tehse Colors Donut Run!” tattoo successfully drummed …
The Art of Social: Users Share Artwork on ArtStack
If you like going to museums, ArtStack may be the social platform for you. The site, which launched at the end of 2011, is a place for users to find, share, and discover art, architecture, design, and video.
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FreedomPop’s Free Mobile Data Plans: What You Need to Know
A new company called FreedomPop is offering something that seems too good to be true: 500 MB of free mobile data per month through your choice of a wireless hotspot or USB stick.
The service, which was announced last December, …
Who Cares About Neil Young’s Ultra-High Quality Music Standard?
Neil Young claims he’s going to change the way we listen to digital music by pairing a new iPod-competitive Pono music player (I see “Ponyo” — how about you?) with an audiophile-caliber music download service. The claims are …
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Paul Allen Reviews Windows 8
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen ended his day-to-day involvement in the company’s operations way back in 1983, when it was working on a new product called Windows. (It didn’t actually ship the first version until late …
Talking Tom Cat App Gets Turned into an Interactive Stuffed Animal
Do you know any children? They go nuts for the Talking Tom Cat app. If you can’t relate to a kid, just fire up the app, hand over your phone and call it a day.
The premise of the app is simple: kids (or adults) say something …
Old-Timey Scanner Rocks Vocals on ‘Somebody That I Used to Know’
Just give in. There’s no escaping Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know.”
Know how I know? Because it’s been made into a cover tune played by an old-school HP Scanjet 3C, two hard drives, auto-striking xylophone, Amiga 600 …
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Nest’s Second-Generation Thermostat: Simpler and Smarter
A little under a year ago, a started named Nest Labs announced its first product, a high-tech thermostat which learns from your usage, nudges you to conserve energy and can be remote-controlled from a smartphone, tablet or web …
Motorola Sees Room for Smaller, High-End Smartphones
With the exception of Apple’s iPhone, the smartphone market has been dominated lately by the idea that bigger is better. If you want a top-of-the-line Android smartphone, you’re practically forced to have a screen that measures …
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Are Iranian Cyberattacks Damaging American Banks?
American banks are under attack. Both the enemy’s weapon of choice and its target is the Internet, which is a headache for the institutions — many of the country’s largest — that are fending off persistent assaults on their websites, not to mention customers.
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Sony’s Super-Slim PlayStation 3: One Step Forward, One Step Back
Last week Sony released a surprise three-quel PlayStation 3 — an even slimmer, lighter rendition of its six-year-old games console. It then dropped that into a new bundle, raised the price by $20 and declared it “the ultimate …