Does the Internet feel any different today? A little less sluggish, perhaps?
Admittedly, you may think that the net is pretty zippy as is, but that’s entirely dependent on the location of your domain name server at any given browsing time—something a new partnership of multiple companies called the Global Internet Speedup Initiative …
More like artificial fun-telligence, am I right? Eggheads have been working for years—years!—to perfect chatbots to the point that real people won’t be able to tell that they’re actually conversing with software, not other humans.
The technology has come a long way, but what happens when you pair two chatbots together to converse …
Could tablets like the iPad ever replace toys like LEGOs, Erector Sets and crayons? Probably not, but startup Launchpad Toys thinks the iPad (and presumably tablets in general) has the potential to.
Okay, so the iPad’s already fairly toy-like. If you have one and kids, or you’re just a big kid (like me), you’ve probably goofed around …
Last week we reported that Facebook was set to give its privacy pages a much needed facelift.
Its goal? To better streamline the controls granted to users over who can and can’t see their content. Previously Facebook users had to navigate through an unclear array of menus to get to their privacy settings. Now, that control is inline …
[UPDATE: An Apple representative told All Things Digital that iTunes in the Cloud will not include streaming, as reported here. Users will be able to listen to a song while it’s downloading–hence Insanely Great Mac’s video of what appears to be streaming in action–but the file will need to be stored locally in order to be heard. The …
Every year, people complain about EA’s Madden franchise. I know; I’ve been one of them. “It’s the same game every year. Nothing’s really different.”
But this year’s edition of the best-selling football sim actually does look significantly changed from its most recent predecessors. EA Sports developers gave us a rundown of the recent …
A war’s brewing between BlackBerry Messenger and Apple’s upcoming iMessage, and Samsung isn’t content to sit on the sidelines. The phone and tablet maker plans to launch its own mobile messaging service called “ChatON,” with the promise of supporting even its competitors’ smartphones.
Like BBM and iMessage, ChatON will let users send …
Nope, forget about Will and Kate. Their wedding didn’t even come close. Japan, the Super Bowl, the death of Bin Laden – these stories didn’t quite cut it either. Beyoncé’s baby bump has set a new Twitter record, with 8,868 tweets per second being logged.
While I’m not exactly sure why Beyoncé has surged past the previous …
The massive file-sharing lawsuit filed against more than 20,000 pirates of last year’s movie The Expendables—one of the biggest copyright lawsuits in history—has been dropped by the plaintiff, following intervention by the judge in the case. But that doesn’t mean that anyone who torrented the movie can sleep easy just yet.
Nu …
Last week the tech world was shocked by the sudden announcement of Steve Job’s departure from Apple. I mean, here’s man who left indelible marks in nearly every corner of the industry, from computers, to mp3 players, to tablets and more.
So it’s no surprise that Apple fans were deeply affected by the news. Some penned blogs wishing …
Researchers from MIT and Princeton have developed a smartphone application called “SignalGuru” that uses the camera from a dashboard-mounted smartphone to capture images of traffic lights. Once the images are captured, they’re analyzed to detect whether the lights are green, yellow or red and then that data is passed along to other …
The pain points of traditional print edition textbooks are obvious: For starters they’re heavy, with the average physics textbook weighing in at a burdensome 3.6 pounds. They’re also expensive, especially when you factor in the average college student’s limited budget, typically costing hundreds of dollars every semester.
But the …
