From Rovio, maker of Angry Birds:
Angry Birds games have now been downloaded more than a billion times – THANK YOU to all of our incredible fans! This is only the beginning of our story, keep your eyes peeled for what’s coming up next from Rovio!
Transforming Robot Is More Than Meets the Eye, Turns into a Car
Remember when playing with Transformers took something called “imagination?” No more! Soon Transformers — err, I mean Brave Robots — will do all the work themselves.
According to the above YouTube video, this is Kenji …
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Virgin Mobile and Boost’s Not-Quite-New 4G Android Phones Make Prepaid More Palatable
When you think about it, it shouldn’t matter that much whether you pay for your wireless service after you’ve received it — as most of us do — or before you use it, as you do if you have a prepaid carrier such as Virgin Mobile …
BioShock Infinite Delayed Until February 2013 to Make the Game ‘Even Better’
You’ll have to wait a little longer to visit BioShock Infinite‘s theocratic dystopia-in-the-sky: Creative lead Ken Levine says the company has decided to push back the release to February 26, 2013 in order to “give our talented …
AT&T Looking to Simplify Home Automation and Security
Home automation might not be just for geeks anymore if AT&T can live up to its promises.
On Monday, AT&T announced “Digital Life,” the company’s plan to get into the home automation and security business. Users will be able to …
Anonymous Sabotages Virgin Media Site in Retaliation for Pirate Bay Block
It looks like Virgin Media may be the latest victim of a site takedown by Anonymous: The hacktivist group is claiming that it targeted the Internet service provider’s website in response to Virgin Media’s block of popular torrent …
Doro Makes a Smartphone for Seniors
Tech specs and fancy features take a backseat to oversized buttons and a dead-simple interface in the Doro PhoneEasy 740, a phone built with older folks in mind.
To even describe the Doro 740 as a smartphone seems like a …
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HP Introduces New Ultrabooks and Sleekbooks (But Let’s Just Call Them Notebooks, Shall We?)
HP is taking this whole Ultrabook thing pretty darn seriously. After launching the Folio business Ultrabook last November and the Envy Spectre high-end model in January, it’s back with another Folio and three additional Envy …
Robot That Connects to Neurons Could Provide Key to Understanding the Human Brain
Suhasa Kodandaramaiah was one of about 30 people on Earth who could perform something called whole-cell patch-clamping, a technique for studying the inside of a cell developed back in 1981. By hand, it is a painstaking process …
How to Create Your Own Healthy Eating Plan with Pinterest
Remember the days of cooking alongside Mom as you read the ingredients from a much-loved, oil-stained recipe book? Ah yes, the glory days (and stained recipes) will hold a nostalgic place in our hearts, but things have since …
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Android Update Delays: AT&T CEO Passes the Buck…to Google
At a Milken Institute event on May 2, an audience member asked AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson why phones are so often so slow to get the latest versions of Android. Stephenson’s response is raising eyebrows — including those of …
Move Over, Roomba: Multilingual Cocorobo Can Vacuum and Talk
Roomba is great, I guess. I mean, it can vacuum your floor while you sit on the couch watching Perfect Strangers. But can it talk to you?
Cocorobo can. It’s the new robot from Sharp that will finally allow you to become …