In the future, you better not lose your Android phone. Google is teaming up with MasterCard and Citigroup to turn your Android phone into a portable wallet, allowing you to pay for purchases simply by waving your phone around.
It would basically enable Citigroup credit and debit cardholders to pay for purchases easily using NFC …
After a year of promises, media events, and touring demos, the no-glasses 3D eagle has landed. The Nintendo 3DS finally debuted in the U.S. yesterday to tales of long lines, brisk sales, and roaring launch parties.
Nintendo passed around oldie blue and red cellophane 3D glasses at an official midnight launch event in Manhattan outside …
Just like clockwork, Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference will begin in early June—June 6th to be exact. It’ll run until the 10th and cost you $1,600 if you wish to attend as a software developer.
The show is billed as an unveiling of “the future of iOS and Mac OS,” but it’s what also usually gets unveiled to kick off the yearly …
The chances are you’ve never heard of him, but without his pioneering work in the 1960s, you wouldn’t be reading this web page, because there wouldn’t be a web for you to read it on.
His name is Paul Baran, and he died yesterday aged 84.
Baran, along with Donald Davies and Leonard Kleinrock, invented one of the most fundamental …
Who’s the best person to follow on Twitter? Besides Ashton Kutcher, that is? TIME has pulled together the top 140 best Twitter feeds, so be sure to take a look and vote on who you think should be included in the ultimate Twitter showdown.
There are suggestions ranging from, of course, celebrities and comedians to technology and …
Good morning! Here’s some of this morning’s interesting tech nuggets for you to enjoy over breakfast.
Iranian hacker claims Stuxnet revenge attack
In a post on Pastebin, an anonymous Iranian hacker claims he acted alone in stealing online security certificates, and that his work was a direct response to the Stuxnet worm – which he
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According to our friends over at TechCrunch, Apple’s next major update to iOS 5 won’t happen until later this year – in the fall. Traditionally, along with the announcement of a new iPhone, updates are usually announced in the early spring and pushed for a summer release. Oh noes.
TechCrunch sources state that the iOS 5 update …
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When I watched the video interviews with three “true-life” Galaxy Tab users that Samsung showed at its CTIA event, I was observant enough to figure out (with the help of about six minutes of Google research) that two of the users were actors and the other one …
Avatar‘s record-setting success aside, few entertainment trends have attracted more skepticism than 3D. When it comes to movies, even the best instances of stereoscopic filmmaking earn only begrudging respect. And the worst examples stand out for what they are: trend-driven examples of movie studios and cineplex companies trying to cash …
Microsoft has a hit on its hands with Kinect, a motion-sensing camera for the Xbox 360, but it’s not keeping the secrets of the technology to itself.
A new video, courtesy of New Scientist (and embedded above), shows how Kinect’s camera first grabs a rough outline of the person standing in front of it, and then evaluates every pixel …
The most talked-about preview of a comic book this week has been for something that wasn’t actually intended to be a comic book and will never be published. A couple of years ago, Dean Trippe came up with an idea for a series of young adult novels: Lois Lane, Girl Reporter, about 11-year-old Lois’s adventures in investigative journalism. …
Throw this Apple rumor in the crazy pile: The company is reportedly working on a prototype television that does it all, from movies and games to DVR, apps and Facetime.
This is according to Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty, who bases her information on “checks in Asia.” If true, Huberty expects that Apple could make $4 billion for …
