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Carson Block, who gave a SXSW Interactive talk on Saturday titled “The Great Library Swindle,” says that he’s passionate about libraries and technology. But he didn’t really need to tell his audience that. The intensity of his …
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South by Southwest Interactive may be bursting at the seams with serious Twitter users, but as far as I know, there’s only one guy here who made history on Twitter — and he came to Austin all the way from Abbottabad, Pakistan. …
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For a service that’s beloved by so many people, cloud-storage and syncing service Dropbox is surprisingly controversial. On one hand, venture capitalist (and Dropbox investor) Bill Gurley talks about the company someday being …
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In a move that I’ll bet surprised absolutely nobody, Apple has e-mailed users of its iWork.com service — a cloud-based collaborative complement to its iWork productivity apps — to alert them that it’s doing away with the …
BioWare released Mass Effect 3 on Tuesday to some pretty stellar reviews, including some from critics who weren’t huge fans of the first two games. Apparently people were buying the hype because the game sold 890,000 units in a …
I’m en route to Austin, Tex., where on Sunday I’ll be speaking on a South by Southwest panel, Arts Criticism 140 Characters at a Time, about how Twitter and other social media have affected critics. My answer, in a word: immensely.
via The Twidiot Box: How Do You Use Twitter With TV? | Entertainment | TIME.com.
Researchers have pieced together the first comprehensive map of the Titanic wreck site and debris field.
via Titanic Wreck Site Mapped for First Time Using Sonar Imaging | NewsFeed | TIME.com.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook spent much of Wednesday’s new iPad event reminding everyone in the audience of just how wildly successful the iPad has been. It was hard to accuse him of hubris, though. As Dizzy Dean said, it ain’t bragging if …
At the press site at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, one figure stood out among the crowd gathered to watch the final launch of the space shuttle Discovery last year.
via Robonaut: Celebrating NASA’s First Humanoid Robot in Space – TIME.
If done properly, a smartly built green home featuring solar power, energy-efficient appliances, and proper insulation can result in the owner facing monthly electricity bills amounting to $0, or thereabouts. Now, one homebuilder is making such “net-zero” features standard in several communities around the U.S.
via No Electricity …
Every year, a new crop of geolocation apps springs up at South by Southwest. A city swarming with techies and parties is fertile ground for developers looking to test and promote their products.
But when the crowds leave …
I’ve always believed that our number one goal when it comes to robotics should be to create real-life Rock em’ Sock ’em Robots, as dramatized in the think piece Real Steel, starring Mr. Hugh Jackman.
It appears that the …