The owner of a recently stolen bicycle posted a photo of the bike thief’s priceless apology, explaining: “3 nights ago my bike was stolen. It just turned up back in my yard this morning with this note… Ain’t even mad.”
Did we mention the apology included a coupon for a free chocolate lava crunch cake from Domino’s Pizza? Sounds like a fair trade to us.
Anyone in Cambridge, Mass., who sees flashing lights or hears sirens need only log onto the police department’s Twitter account to find out what’s going on.
Bank robberies, fights, downed trees, and 15 other categories of crimes and crises get tweeted out by the Cambridge Police Department almost as they’re happening. But the manhunt for the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing on Friday tested the wisdom of the Cambridge Police Department’s Twitter strategy. The possibility of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev monitoring law enforcement activity on Twitter Friday made officials decide that it was too dangerous to post updates.
“When we got really into the thick of the manhunt, there wasn’t really a debate,” said Dan Riviello, a spokesman for the Cambridge police, about the decision to stop tweeting locations of crime reports. “We didn’t want to be providing any information that could assist this guy.”
Foreclosure activity plunged more than 60 percent across the region in the first quarter in response to rising home prices, a strengthening economy and a government assistance program that kicked in Jan. 1, a market tracker said Tuesday.
Mortgage defaults and foreclosures fell by large amounts across the state, said La Jolla-based DataQuick.
“Foreclosure starts were already trending much lower late last year because of rising home prices, a stronger labor market and the settlement agreement between the government and some lenders. But it appears last quarter’s drop was especially sharp because of a package of new state foreclosure laws,” DataQuick President John Walsh said in a statement.
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To hear someone from Google claim they don’t understand something is like hearing a fundamentalist religious believer suddenly declare he has celestial doubts.
There was something, therefore, stunningly heartwarming about Eric Schmidt’s appearance on Tuesday night’s “Colbert Report.”
In a previous appearance on the show, Google’s executive chairman had tried to be funny. This time, he allowed Colbert to be the comedian — which was a good decision.
Instead, Schmidt took the opportunity to thrust his new book “The New Digital Age” at the cool, ironic world and offer a little hope.
WASHINGTON — House Republicans are preparing for another showdown over the debt ceiling this summer.
The House Ways and Means Committee passed a bill Wednesday to protect Social Security recipients and investors in Treasury bonds if the government hits the limit of its borrowing authority.
Verizon Wireless subscribers who have been watching the delay drama unfold as both T-Mobile and Sprint have announced their Samsung Galaxy S4 launch date is getting pushed back slightly are probably waiting to hear some news of your own. Verizon recently said they’ll be launching the Samsung Galaxy S4 on Verizon this May and have even launched a sign up page for its customers to learn the latest on when it’ll be made available. Instead of announcing a delay like its competitors, Verizon has taken to its Twitter account to announce some good news for once in regards to the Galaxy S4.
No – it isn’t a release date, but it’s almost just as good as Verizon is announcing starting tomorrow, they’ll be accepting pre-orders for the Samsung Galaxy S4 on their website. Unfortunately, Verizon didn’t take this opportunity to announce when it would be expecting the Galaxy S4 to be available to its customers, but look at it this way: at least you don’t have to hear about any delays.
Waterloo-based Thalmic Labs is working on getting the MYO armband into the waiting arms of pre-order customers, which now number well above the 25,000 announced in March, Thalmic told me, making up over $4 million in total sales to date. MYO is a unique control device worn around the forearm, which measures muscle movement and electrical impulses and translates those into a control mechanism for various devies over Bluetooth.
This new video by Thalmic is a solid explainer for those curious about the engineering that goes into the MYO, and acts as a sort of general FAQ about how it works and what’s going on in terms of ongoing third-party development from the community MYO is trying to build. MYO’s official dev program is slated to come online in the coming months, and will include early access to hardware.
The new video is more about what’s going on within the company as Thalmic continues to build momentum ahead of its targeted ship date of sometime late in 2013, but the Sphero cameo is cool enough to make me slightly giddy. In case you didn’t know, the Sphero is the best dog toy ever created, and the MYO looks like it’ll make it even better in that regard.
For all the hullabaloo about Skype coming to BlackBerry 10, there wasn’t much to show at the Z10’s launch beyond a logo. We’ve got more to work with today — sort of. A preview version of Skype has indeed popped up in BlackBerry World with voice, video and instant messaging like we’ve seen on otherplatforms. However, no one in the general public can actually use it yet: the app requires BlackBerry 10.1, which won’t reach the market until the Q10 ships to Brits and Canucks. That leaves Americans and Z10 owners in the lurch for a few weeks, although they can at least see the light at the end of the VoIP tunnel.
People are going crazy for sweaters covered in prints. Some of them look really nice, but some of them are just best left as Photoshopped concepts. Pixel artist Drew Wise made several videogame designs so grown up gamers can get in on the fad too.
I really like the Triforce one, but again, this kind of design is better judged with actual pictures of the sweaters.
The Pokémon sweater will make you look like a can of Campbell’s. You can order the sweaters from Beloved Shirts for $59 (USD) each.
Monsters Inc blew more than a few minds when it premiered in 2001. Sully’s coat comprised a million rendered hairs, and Boo’s oversized pink shirt moved with such a natural flow it appeared nearly life-like to audiences. And while advances in technology during the twelve years between the original film and the prequel—premiering in June—will provide another jaw-dropping visual experience, Monsters University was no less challenging to make. More »
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