Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablets have a lot to offer that vanilla Android tablets don’t–lower prices and a larger media selection, for example–but a huge selection of tablet-optimized apps isn’t one of them.
Still, Amazon has a …
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The Jetsons Turns 50: How the Future Looked in 1962
On Sunday, Sept. 23, 1962, Hanna-Barbera followed up its wildly successful prime-time cartoon The Flintstones with a new series about another family of a different era. TIME liked it. We said it was “silly and unpretentious, …
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Apple’s Maps Loss Could be Telenav’s Gain
When Apple announced that iOS 6 would include a new Maps app with turn-by-turn driving directions, I’ll bet that the companies behind the many third-party iOS navigation apps feared that their wares would be rendered instantly …
Five Alternatives to Apple’s iOS 6 Maps
I lived near London, England for nearly two years. I now live roughly as near London, Ontario (yes, such a place exists) from my haunts in southeast Michigan. Apple Maps, Cupertino’s new substitute for Google Maps — which no …
iPhone 5 Mania Descends on New York City
Year after year, launch after launch, Apple fans continue to show their unending fanaticism, lining up overnight – and some even for days – to get their hands on the company’s latest.
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Are You Upgrading to iOS 6? A Twitter Symposium
The shaky state of iOS 6’s maps — at least in some parts of the world — leads to an interesting question: If you already own an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad, should you hold off upgrading it in order to preserve the old …
Video: Flula Borg’s Carry Throw Ball and Sometime Foot Kick Ball Remix
I happened upon this video (which was posted to NewsFeed the other day), watched it a million times and decided its creator absolutely had to have his own remix. Enjoy!
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Kickstarter Aims to Make Gadgets Less of a Gamble
For the new dead-tree issue of TIME that comes out today, I had fun profiling Kickstarter, the highest-profile site enabling crowdfunding of creative projects. (Subscribers can read the article here.) I write about some of the …
HTC’s Windows Phones Knock the Wind Out of Nokia
Nokia is in trouble. That was my first thought when HTC announced the Windows Phone 8X and Windows Phone 8S on Wednesday.
The phones, which launch in November, look good, particularly the flagship 8X. It has an outer casing …
Project Eternity‘s Chris Avellone: Pitching Publisher-Friendly RPGs ‘Makes Me Want to Slit My Wrists’
Thanks to Kickstarter, Project Eternity is funded, and just like that, an isometric-era roleplaying game by three major “name” designers, responsible for some of the most well-thought-of RPGs in computer gaming history, will …
MinecraftEdu Teaches Students Through Virtual World-Building
A New York City school teacher has crafted a version of Minecraft for schools
Behind the Story: TIME’s Harry McCracken Discusses Kickstarter
Tech editor-at-large Harry McCracken talks about how he reported and wrote his magazine story on the increasingly popular crowdfunding website Kickstarter