Aug 28
Aug 28
It look like something Doc Brown would be working on in his garage, but it is absolutely one of the most essential and sensitive technologies found on many military and some civilian aircraft today: The Ring Laser Gyroscope.
Aug 28
We live and die by the cord; the energy tethers are everywhere—powering our portable gadgets and stay-at-home decor—and they’re pretty much always a tangled, unsightly mess. We need them, but they’re ugly… Unless! Unless you could disguise the longuns in an artful sprawl of faux-ivy, like you lived in some kind of fantasy world where electricity came naturally from houseplants.
Aug 28
It should be a truth universally acknowledged that any man or woman using Oculus Rift will look like a dumbass . As awesome as it is to experience Oculus Rift, to everyone else, you are a crazy person with a black box strapped onto your face groping at thin air. And then I, of course, had to strap myself to some wings, stick my feet in the air, and flap my arms to Birdly—an ambitious virtual reality flying simulation.
Aug 28
Now that we have confirmation of Apple’s next iPhone event being just around the corner , it’s only a matter of days before we (very, very likely) see a bigger iPhone screen finally rounding out the bunch. Which got us thinking—what’s your ideal smartphone screen size?
Aug 28
We’ve all got memories we wish we could view less negatively. Some are trivial, like that drunken display at the office party; some are serious and create genuine psychological challenges. So far, researchers have figured out how to create false…
Aug 28
Uber’s continuing on its mission to wind up London’s black cabbies with its convenient and affordable service today, announcing it’s cutting uberX fare prices in the capital by 15 percent. The cost of UberEXEC and UberLUX tiers — both with…
Aug 28
If you didn’t think the National Football League was really serious about its new digital network, think again. A mere week after arriving on the Apple TV, NFL Now is adding Yahoo Screen to the growing list of platforms it is currently available in….
Aug 28
There’s a really, really big box sitting near the Flint Center. It’s only a bit over a week before Apple’s next event here, and a massive white structure is being worked on which will likely be unveiled in full on the 9th of September, 2014. Inside this box may very well be an environment in which the iPhone 6 can … Continue reading
Aug 28
I know that when it comes to Internet memes, there has been plenty said and done about the situation. From normal looking photos that you would never have guessed for it to end up as a meme in a hundred million years, there are some Internet meme “classics” that are worth taking note of. However, it seems that a bunch of researchers over at Indiana University have actually been given a grant to study the life cycle of memes. The size of this particular grant? We are talking about a respectable close to a $1 million figure, now how about that?
Indiana University will be on the receiving end of nearly $1 million where federal grant money is concerned, in order to have the researchers there investigate the genesis, spread, and demise of Internet memes. All four Indiana researchers will participate in a $919,917 project that is known as Truthy which will “explore why some ideas cause viral explosions while others are quickly forgotten.”
Perhaps there is a mathematical formula of sorts that is capable of figuring out just which particular meme is organic, and which ones will be glossed over. Marketing companies would most probably kill to figure out just which meme will work, and what does not.
Researchers Get $1 Million Grant To Study Internet Memes
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