Titanoboa meets Mondo Spider! It sounds like the premise for a bad B-movie, but no, it’s all terrifyingly real, thanks to the artists and designers over at eatART.
In one corner, Titanoboa, the 35-foot electro-mechanic snake that uses its 20 aluminum vertebrae to crawl just like its flesh and blood cousins. In the other, Mondo Spider, …
Hitting newsstands shortly, TIME’s “50 Best Inventions” issue spotlights some of the most amazing new ideas and innovations from the past year. If you’re a TIME subscriber, you can already see the article online right here.
Of …
Now that Amazon’s in the tablet business with the Kindle Fire, the rumor mill is starting to make noise about a Kindle Phone to follow.
In a research note, CitiGroup’s Mark Mahaney says “we believe an Amazon Smartphone will be …
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A few other notable features of the Galaxy Nexus and Ice Cream Sandwich:
General interface tweaks. The whole Android experience just feels less convoluted. Apps such as Gmail and Google Maps haven’t changed radically, but …
How much damage can one man cause the National Aeronautics and Space Administration? If the Romanian Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism’s charges against the newly arrested Robert Butyka are to be …
Anti-piracy bills in U.S. House and Senate would block sites with infringing content, but empower the government to censor anything it deems unlawful.
While you’ll still hear the Salvation Army’s jingling bells this year, you may hear less change jangling into its red collection buckets.
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I use my AIM instant-messaging account every day, but I can’t remember the last time I used the AIM software. Instead, I use iChat, Meebo, Imo.IM, and other third-party clients that work on AIM’s network. AIM’s app itself …
Good morning and happy Thursday. Here’s what’s going on in tech so far…
Hearings held yesterday by the House Judiciary Committee about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) are being criticized for taking statements from several big players in the content industry, but only hearing counterpoint arguments from …
I also asked, somewhat cheekily, what Twitter provided that other social networks didn’t, and the overall feeling again was that 140 characters is just enough for the Twitter faithful: “The tight form of tweets both lets me …
Intel announces world’s first 1 teraflops processor—the power of a supercomputer on a single chip.
