Few believed it would happen, but happen it did: Duke Nukem came back from the brink of the vaporware abyss. Gearbox–developer of addictive “RPS” Borderlands–acquired the Duke IP when 3D Realms shut its doors forever last year and set to work finishing up the decade-plus dev cycle that DNF’s been through. May 3 (U.S.) and May 6 …
A Solar-Powered iPhone? Maybe!
I know you’ve all been sitting around today, wondering just when your smartphone might be able to use solar energy to remain charged. Well, wonder no more! That sun-powered technology is finally here. Sort of.
Wysips unveiled their solar powered cell phone charger at CTIA Wireless 2011 a couple of days ago. The solar panel is made out …
Iranian Government Accused in Serious Net Attack
A hacker in Iran appears to be behind an Internet attack that almost left Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, Skype, and Yahoo vulnerable to impersonation. The attack was thwarted before anything catastrophic happened, but had it succeeded, the attacker would have been able to pass off web apps from any of those companies as the real …
Movie Shot From Space Celebrates 50 Years Since Gagarin’s Orbit
This is the trailer for First Orbit a unique new film that’s due for global release via YouTube on April 12th, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s first manned orbit of the Earth.
The 108-minute film was made by British filmmaker Chris Riley, who engaged the help of an astronaut on the International Space Station to
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Rumors of Firefox’s Death are Greatly Exaggerated
This article has been cross-posted from our partner site, Technologizer.
There’s misguided analysis out there this week (see here,here, and to some extent here for examples) on how supposedly Firefox is dead or in trouble. Better stop the presses: it sure isn’t happening yet. In the first 24 hours following the browser’s …
Make Your Own Cartoons and Slideshows on YouTube
No camera? No problem. YouTube just added a few apps for creating your own videos with animated characters and still images.
The tools are available at YouTube.com/create, and include GoAnimate, Stupeflix and XtraNormal. These tools are also available on their own websites, but the YouTube integration makes life a little easier if you …
Cool as Morning Joe: Coldest Star Yet Discovered
Next time you take a sip of coffee, consider the possibility that you could be sipping on a star.
Not just any star, and certainly not for taste or blend, but the temperature? Maybe, according to a new study that claims a star found using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and 75 light years away from us is no hotter than a sauna, cup of …
Happy Birthday OS X!
Hey, OS X! It’s March 24th! Happy birthday! Ten years since your first full release in 2001.
Wait a second, you’re ten now? Ten? But… you’re huge! I can’t believe you’ve grown so much. I remember when you were this high. No wait, this high.
Wow, OS X. You’re growing up so fast.
You were a cute kid. In the early days, when
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A Wiki History Of The World In 100 Seconds
London-based software engineer Gareth Lloyd and colleague Tom Martin created this wonderful video of the history of the world – well, of Wikipedia’s history of the world, at any rate.
It turns out that no less than 424,171 Wikipedia articles have geographical co-ordinates and dates associated with them. Cross-reference the two, and …
The In-Flight Phone is Making a Comeback [Update]
[Update: Aircell reached out to clarify that its smartphones will be for business aircraft only — executive jets and the like — and there are no plans to bring these phones to commercial airlines. Original story continues below]
If you’ve ever stared at one of those in-flight phones and wondered who the heck uses them, get ready to …
The Slow and Agonizing Death of the Landline Phone
When was the last time you used your landline phone? For many people, especially 20-somethings in the UK, the answer to that will be: “What landline?”
With cell phones now ubiquitous, and house prices so astronomically high that buying a home is beyond the means of many young couples, the idea of having a fixed phone line connecting …
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Four Ways to Make Gmail Better
For this week’s TIME.com Technologizer column, I wrote about Gmail–a service which I find both indispensable and frustrating. In that story, I didn’t account for all of Gmail’s pros and cons, though. And one major pro is that there are an array of third-party tools that teach Gmail new tricks.
Here are four of my favorites:
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