Humans have been chatting in cyberspace with loved ones for over a decade. Now, two Japanese scientists claim they’ve developed the human touch that has been missing from online communications: the cyberhug.
The married duo of scientists, Dzmitry Tsetserukou and Alena Neviarouskaya unveiled a network of connected straps resembling a …
If you can’t decide what you want for dinner, Kraft’s new face-scanning technology might be able to help. Kraft and Intel’s new Meal Planning Solution device, which they hope to bring to a supermarket near you, uses analytics determined from your look to see which recipes you would like to make. Goodbye Grandma’s recipe box. You’ve now …
This should come as a surprise to nobody and outrage almost nobody, but “unlimited” cellular internet access doesn’t always mean unlimited and fast cellular internet access.
In light of Verizon’s recent $30-per-month unlimited data plan requirement for smartphone owners, the company has also slipped this little tidbit onto its website …
This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Graeme McMillan, Evan Narcisse and Douglas Wolk talk about DC Universe Online Legends #1 and Scenes from an Impending Marriage.
DOUGLAS: DC Universe Online was officially announced in mid-2008 (and has to have been in …
With the Super Bowl around the corner, it’s probably no surprise that people all over the US are getting excited – more surprising, perhaps, is that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement forces are amongst those most active in the run-up to the big day.
Federal officials are seizing sports-streaming websites in advance of Superbowl …
Official: Free internet porn is not illegal. Nor is it unfairly competing with porn companies who’d rather you paid for your thrills, according to a California Appeals Court, which has dismissed a case against one free site, Redtube.com, as an unfair attack on free speech.
According to plaintiff Kevin Cammarata, Redtube.com – …
Where’s TV headed? Ask Hulu CEO Jason Kilar. His company has insight from “daily interactions with users, advertisers, and content owners,” as he mentions in a recent company blog post.
What Do We Want?
In a nutshell, consumers want fewer ads, the convenience of on-demand programming available from any device, and we’ve …
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My TIME.com Technologizer column this week is about camera phones and traditional digital cameras. I love ’em both. But I’m frustrated by the fact that conventional cameras–which still take the best photos–remain some of the least Internet-savvy gadgets around. (As I say in the piece, most people still get photos off a camera and onto …
Olympian Michael Phelps likes coming in first. And come June, he’ll release the first realistic swimming video game, “Push the Limit.”
The game uses a Kinect hands-free control sensor for Xbox360 in place of a pool, and players must use proper technique to make a variety of stroke motions while standing up in order to propel their …
The idea of using your phone as a gaming device isn’t completely foreign seeing that iPhone and Android users are glued to games like Angry Birds and Doodle Jump already. Marketing a game console that’s also a phone, however, hasn’t exactly been successful in the past (see N-Gage). With Android technology, Playstation backing the games …
Municipal and community wireless gurus convened in Washington, D.C. this week — via old-fashioned chairs and, of course, Skype — to discuss the state of alternative Web networks. The events in Egypt, where citizens had their Internet snatched away in the wake of protests, gave them a good soapbox to stand on to suggest the embrace of …
For you really tech smart people out there, Google has issued a challenge for you. It’s quite simple: Hack Google Chrome Web browser successfully, and they’ll give you $20,000 cash and a Chrome CR-48.
You’ll have your work set out for you though. Last year, Google’s web browser was the only one left untouched at CanSecWest Pwn2Own …
