The Street View Snowmobile
Arguably the most fun method for collecting Street View imagery, the Street View Snowmobile was developed as a sort of Street View Trike for wintery weather.
Google first used the Street View …
Rare Video Game Collection Sells for $1.2 Million on eBay
This is not your average gamer’s collection. A video game collection of more than 7,000 titles was recently sold on eBay – for some $1.2 million.
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Online Blockbuster?: Tom Hanks’ ‘Electric City’ Debuts on Yahoo Today
Hanks’ 90-minute, 20-episode series is being touted as a “first-of-its-kind, 360-degree online interaction of digital, social, mobile and gaming media.”
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The Power Grid: From Rickety to Resilient
Blackouts will become more common unless we build a system that can bend but not break.
Will Amazon Take Over the World?
Amazon is poised to integrate itself in Americans’ lives in ways that no other company is capable.
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Can Google Star Marissa Mayer Save Yahoo?
Google’s 20th employee is one of Silicon Valley’s brightest stars and a ‘tireless champion’ of the user experience.
Nokia’s Lumia 900: What Went Wrong
AT&T has chopped the price of Nokia’s Lumia 900 in half, and is now selling the high-end Windows Phone for $50 with a two-year contract.
Although Nokia has downplayed the price drop, telling the New York Times that it’s “ …
10 Best (and Worst) Batman Apps for iPhone, iPad and Android
With “The Dark Knight Rises” in theaters this Friday, here’s a check of the 10 hippest (and not-so-hip) Batman-themed apps for iPhones, iPads and Android devices.
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Marissa Mayer: Yahoo!’s Utterly Surprising, Completely Logical Pick for CEO
There was a time, out here in Silicon Valley, when Marissa Mayer seemed to have as symbiotic a relationship with Google as its founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and its CEO, Eric Schmidt, did.
As the company’s 20th hire, …
Video: Equiso’s Android-on-a-Stick Turns TVs into Smart TVs for $70
Boston-based Equiso is looking to be an early Smart-TV-on-a-Stick contender with its $70 thumbdrive-sized device that plugs directly into your TVs HDMI port, turning your set into a big-screen version of Android.
Mission to Mars: 8 Amazing Tech Tools Aboard NASA’s Curiosity Rover
The true color, high-definition cameras
What fun is trundling around another planet with cutting-edge rovers if they can’t grab lovely images of it? To that end, Curiosity wields a variety of cameras, including two capable …
Can We Fix Computer Science Education in America?
The tech industry is one of the few bright spots in a dim economy. So why aren’t we teaching kids the skills they need to participate in it?